Chanticleer Book Reviews

The M&M Awards for your Cozy and Not-so-Cozy Mysteries are here to cause a little mayhem with these impressive Semi-Finalist Authors!

Celebrate the 7th Day of Christmas with Chanticleer's 7 Non-Fiction Divisions! From overcoming adversity to business insights, truth matters now more than ever!

The world is at stake for the Global Thrillers Semi-Finalists Congratulations to all who made the list, and good luck as the Finalists approach!

With so many authors choosing to create audiobooks in their own voice, we wanted to bring you six tips to help you create an amazing audiobook for your readers.

The Semi-Finals for the Clue Awards in Thriller/Suspense are here! Like the tension at the end of a book, the lists are coming fast, and not everyone will survive!

Just like these the 12 Days of Christmas's five golden rings, writers often find supportive communities to help them become stronger writers!

Here's the 2025 Short List for the Military and Front Line CIBAs! Congratulations to all who made it and best of luck with the next stages of judging!

With so many marketing options available to authors today, finding the right strategies will help you zero in on the tactics you need to get your book noticed.

The third day of Christmas brings how Pulling quotes from a Chanticleer Editorial Review to use on your traditional and digital marketing allows you to connect with potential readers multiple times along with a discount code for reviews, and a dispatch from Kiffer.

One the Second Day of Christmas we are excited to celebrate two new CBIA categories—Cover Design for Fiction and Cover Design for Nonfiction.

The first of the 12 Days of Christmas Discount Codes along with ideas for your new year of writing along with good cheer and a special note from Kiffer and Andy! Happy Holidays to You from the Chanticleer Team!

The Semi-Finalists for the 2025 Shelley Awards are here! Enjoy these Paranormal reads as we stand on the precipice of spooky season!

The Semi-Finalists for the 2025 Ozma Awards for Fantasy are here! This is a great year for Fantasy Fiction in the CIBAs, and these books reflect it!

The 2025 Cygnus Semi-Finalists are here! The competition this year is out of this world, and we can tell that several divisions are going to be down to the wire!

Join us in the Wild West and celebrate the 2025 Laramie Short List for Americana Fiction! Congratulations to these authors for making the cut!

The Short List for the 2025 Chaucer Awards are here! Go back in time and find your next great early historical fiction read!

The 2025 Hearten Short List is here! Find your next non-fiction read that will uplift and inspire your life as the days get shorter!

The Short List for the 2026 Hemingway Awards for Contemporary Wartime Fiction is here! This division was a must-have after so much quality material came into the Goethe Awards!

One of the most competitive Chanticleer Divisions, the Goethe Awards features Late Historical Fiction from around the world. Good luck to these Short Listers!

The Series Book Awards Longn List is hot off the presses! Join us in welcoming these authors to the 2025 CIBAs and wish them luck as we move onto the Short List!

The Journey Short List is here! We are floored by the quality and level of difficulty in the decision making process already! Good luck to all on the Semi-Finals!

The first installment of the Collections & Anthologies Long List is here! Congratulations to these authors for making the first cut! We're glad to have you here!

The last of the Long Lists are here! It's Short Lists all the way down after this! Congratulations to these authors who made the first cut for the Somerset Book Awards!

Chanticleer's annual "Thank Goodness I'm Not a Turkey" Cyber Sale is here—don't be a turkey and miss out on this great sale!

Love is in the crisp autumn air as we dive into the Chatelaine Long List for 2025! Congratulations to these authors of romance and women's fiction, and good luck as the competition heats up!

Ready to learn something new? Start with these I&I Long List titles presenting the latest in Instruction and Insight for Non-Fiction.

Join us on a spiritual journey as we announce Long List for the 2025 Mind and Spirit Book Awards for Enlightenment and Well-Being in Non-Fiction.

The SEA Short Story Awards Short List for Novellas, Short Stories, and Essays are here! We are proud to have this rebranded division!

The Dante Rossetti Long List for Young Adult Fiction is here! Congratulations to all authors who made it, and good luck on the next round of judging!

Books for Middle Graders are more important than ever. The excitement builds with the CIBA Announcement with the 2025 Gertrude Warner CIBAs Long List!

The 2025 Little Peeps Long List is here! We're delighted to have these wonderful children's and picture books!

Five Days Remain to enter the CIBAs! The Series, Collections and Anthologies, Nellie Bly, and Military and Front Line Awards await!

The world is at stake for the Global Thrillers Short List! Congratulations to all who made the list, and good luck as we move onto the next rounds of judging!

The M&M Awards for your Cozy and Not-so-Cozy Mysteries are here to cause a little mayhem with this impressive Short List of authors!

Ten Days remain to submit to these three Fiction Divisions! The Somerset, Chatelaine and Humor and Satire Awards await!

It's here! The Clue Short List has arrived in time for your spooky season reads! Keep the light on while you read these books!

It is our great pleasure to promote all 28 Divisions of the CIBAs, finishing with the Somerset Hall of Fame. Congratulations to these Grand Prize Winners, and to all the authors who advance in the CIBAs!

The Humor and Satire Awards are here to make you laugh, think, and reconsider your position in the world! Add these Grand Prize Winners to your TBR today!

The celebration continues! Give it up for these great literary fiction works that took home First Place in the 2024 Somerset Awards!

All aboard! We're delighted to celebrate, once more, the 2024 First Place Winners for the Humor and Satire Awards.

Spotlighting one of the oldest and most respected of the CIBAs! Check out these incredible literary fiction books that we've recently reviewed!

The Humor & Satire Awards encompass everything from the obvious stories that make us laugh, the the much more subtle stories that make us rethink the shape of the world.

The Chatelaine Awards Hall of Fame is here, celebrating 5 years of Grand Prize Winners, including our newest addition, Jo Morgan Sloan for their book The Key!

The Short List of the CCDAs for Fiction is here! Check out some of these great Cover Designs, and good luck to the authors as we move to the next round!

The Short List for the CCDAs in Non-Fiction are already here! Next up in this cover design division is straight to the Finalist list! Good luck!

We're here to celebrate the First Place Winners from the 2024 Chatelaine Awards for Romance Fiction! Don't let love pass you by this fall, and check out one of these great books today!

The Long List for the 2025 Hemingway Awards for Contemporary Wartime Fiction is here! This division was a must-have after so much quality material came into the Goethe Awards!

One of the most competitive Chanticleer Divisions, the Goethe Awards features Late Historical Fiction from around the world. Good luck to these Long Listers!

As the CIBAs come to a close, we're delighted to spotlight the Chatelaine Awards for Romance Fiction, one of the bestselling genres on the market!

Join us in the Historical Old West and celebrate the 2025 Laramie Long List for Americana Fiction! Congratulations to these authors for making the first cut!

The First of the Historical Divisions is here with the 2025 Chaucer Long List for Early Historical Fiction! Get ready to be taken back in time!