Chanticleer Book Reviews

Discover the Shelley Awards Hall of Fame showcasing the best paranormal fiction Grand Prize Winners, from time-traveling warlocks to supernatural romance.

Newly renamed, these are the 2024 Shelley First Place Award Winners for Paranormal Fiction! Congratulations once more to these wonderful authors!

The Ozma Hall of Fame for Fantasy Fiction is here! Celebrate these incredible and varied Grand Prize Authors, and discover a new world today!

Chanticleer Interviews Author Kathryn Caraway, the 2024 CIBA Grand Prize in the Journey Division for her true crime story Unfollow Me.

The Fantasy Round Up for the 2024 Ozma Awards is here! Dive into new worlds beyond imagining with these great stories!

The Cygnus Awards Hall of Fame is here! Join us in celebrating the most recent Chanticleer Sci-Fi Grand Prize Winners and all things Speculative Fiction!

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We're delighted to celebrate the 2024 Cygnus First Place Winners! If you love sci-fi, you need to add these books to your TBR!

To celebrate Memorial Day, we've collected a list of quotes from our founding documents to recognize the democratic values our military defends throughout the year.

This Mother's Day let's explore common archetypes of mothers in literature and consider all the ways they are depicted in some of our favorite novels!

And finally, a huge congratulations to Reenita Malhotra Hora, the Overall Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 CIBAs for her exception book Vermilion Harvest: Playtime at the Bagh!

Celebrating the Non-Fiction, Shorts, Series, and brand NEW CCDA for Cover Design Winners of the 2024 CIBAs! Excellent work to all!

One more time! These are the 2024 CIBA Grand Prize Winners for fiction! We are honored to recongize these authors for their Chanticleer Int'l Book Award achievement!

The Final List of the 2024 CIBAs is here! Congratulations to these Winners for the Somerset Awards for Literary & Contemporary Fiction.

These beautiful stories will be a tear to your eye as you learn just what those around us do to overcome adversity! Join us in celebrating the Winners of the 2024 Journey Awards!

Need to really expand your TBR? Our First Place and Grand Prize Winners for the Series Book Awards are sure to be your next favorite author!

The First Place and Grand Prize Winners for the Hemingway Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction are here! Thank you for these stories told of the times of war we must never forget.

The First Place and Division Grand Prize Winners of the I&I Awards for Instruction and Insight! Get your How-To and Know-How with these amazing books!

The Hearten Winners for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction are here! We hope these incredible First Place and Grand Prize Awarded Books move you as much as they moved us!

Snuggle up with these cozy 2024 First Place and Grand Prize Winners in the M&M Awards for Mystery, Mayhem, and Cozy Mysteries.

It is our honor to present the Military and Front Line First Place and Grand Prize Winners! Thank you for these extraordinary books featuring Service to Others!

Congratulations to these authors of extraordinary Late Historical Fiction! Find your next great historical read in the Goethe First Place and Grand Prize Winners!

Learn something new from these First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the Nellie Bly Awards for Longform Journalism. Congratulations to the winners!

Congratulations to the authors of these exciting Young Adult Novels! Check out the Dante Rossetti Award Winners for your next incredible YA read today!

The inaugural 2024 Cover Design Awards CCDA Winners for Fiction are here! A huge congratulations to these wonderful titles, and thank you to everyone who submitted to this new division!

The Sharon E. Anderson, SEA Shorts Awards is here for longer prose: Essays, Novellas, and Collections! Congratulations to these First Place Winners and to the Division Grand Prize Winner!

The First Place and Grand Prize Winners in the Shelley Awards for Supernatural Fiction are here! Keep the lights on when you read these!

We've arrived at our Happily Ever After for the 2024 Chatelaine Awards for Romance Fiction! Congratulations to the First Place and Division Grand Prize Winners!

These Humor & Satire Winners will have you laughing, crying, and maybe questioning the very fabric of reality. Congratulations to all the Winners!

The 2024 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction First Place and Grand Prize Winners are here! Thank you to all who submitted, and congratulations!

The mystery is solved! Check out these amazing suspense and thriller novels from the 2024 Clue Winners! Congratulations to all!

The Ozma Award Winners are here to transport you to new realms of unexplored fantasy beyond compare! Check out these amazing reads today and congratulations to all our wonderful authors!

The annual Chanticleer Authors Conference and CIBA Awards was a great success, with learning, networking, and celebrating the best books of 2025!

The First Place and Grand Prize Winners for the Inaugural Chanticleer Cover Desgin Awards (CCDA) are here! We're so happy to celebrate these authors and thank you for joining us for this brand new division!

Find your inner balance with these Mind & Spirit Winners! Congratulations to these amazing authors and thank you to all who submitted!

The Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays here! Thank you to all authors for your brief but spectacular work!

The Laramie Winners for Americana Fiction are here! Go back to the Old West with these amazing stories and dive into US History!

Stories to read with your little ones are here with the Little Peeps WINNERS for the 2024 CIBAs! Thank you to all who submitted, and congratulations!

You'll be on the edge of your seat with the 2024 WINNERS for the Global Thriller Awards for High Stakes Suspense! Congratulations to all!

The Harvey Chute Awards for Business & Finance First Place and Grand Prize Winners are here! Huge congratulations to all, and thank you for expanding our horizons!

Kim Hornsby's adventurous path to becoming an award-winning writer has left her with a two-sided career that has taken her all the way to Hollywood!

Christine Fairchild honed her literary skills in journalism and the corporate world. She brings those skills to the Chanticleer Authors Conference.

J.D. Barker reveals his secrets to success at CAC25! Join us in welcoming this extraordinary bestselling suspense author back to the Chanticleer Authors Conference!

The Finalists for the first ever round of Chanticleer Cover Design Awards for fiction are here! Who will take home the blue ribbon and the inaugural Division Grand Prize??

CIBA Global Thriller award-winning author Ralph "Rick" Steinke takes readers deep into the world of high stakes espionage for a "edge-of-your-seat" thrill ride.

The Newest Division from the CIBAs: The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards for Fiction! Congratulations to the Long Listers who made the first cut!

Congratulations to the Shorts and Series Finalists for 2024! You've made it all the way through! We are so honored to celebrate you here, and you will be recognized at the 2025 Authors Conference on Friday!

The Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards Non-Fiction Finalists are all here! Well done to all of you for making it to this level of achievement! We are honored to have promoted you this last year!

One last time before the Conference! Let's give a round of applause for the Finalists in the 2024 starting with these incredible fiction books!

The I&I Finalists for the 2024 Instruction and Insight Book Awards are here! Congratulations to all and good luck in the final rounds!

The 2024 Harvey Chute Book Award Finalists for Business and Finance are here! Up your business game with these great books from one of the best years yet for this division!