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The CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize outstanding series works in any of our 16 Divisions. The Fiction Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all of its fifteen fiction divisions: Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers, Espionage/High Stakes, Young Adult, Middle-Grade Readers, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural and Paranormal, Romance, Historical Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Series Book Awards entries to the 2021 Series Book Awards FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Series First Place Positions and the Overall SERIES Grand Prize.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 2021  CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. 

These titles are  FINALISTs in the 2021 Series Book Awards novel competition for Genre Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

Speculative Fiction Divsions

CYGNUS Book Awards for SERIES – Science Fiction

  • Black Mariah Author Collective – Black Mariah Series – Dystopian Sci-Fi Series
  • Mike Murphey – Physics, Lust and Greed – Science Fiction Time Travel

OZMA Book Awards for SERIES – Fantasy Fiction

  • AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque – Fantasy Young Adult series
  • M. K. Wiseman – The Bookminder series – Fantasy Young Adult series

Varied Divisions

Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Series – Young Adult

  • Wendy Leighton-Porter – Shadows of the Past – Middle-Grade Readers Series
  • Pamela Beason – Run for Your Life Young Adult Trilogy
  • Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve – Young Adult series

Chatelaine Book Awards for Series – Romantic Fiction

  • Lucinda Brant – Roxton Family Saga – Romantic Series
  • Janet K. Shawgo – Look For Me Series – Action / Adventure Romance Series

Mystery Divisions

Global Thriller Book Awards for Series  – High Stakes Fiction

  • Randall Krzak – The Bedlam Thriller Series – Global Thrillers
  • Domenick Venezia – Linc Malloy – Adventure series

CLUE Book Awards for Series – Thriller/Suspense

  • Kaylin McFarren – Threads Thriller/Suspense series
  • John W. Feist – The Three Heirs Thriller /Suspense series
  • Mary Deal – Sara Mason Mysteries series – Thriller/Suspense

CLUE Book Awards for Series – Crime / Police Procedural

  • Daniel J. Waters – Mickey Cleary: The Jersey Shore Series
    Chuck Morgan – Buck Taylor Crime Series

Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards for Series – Mysteries / Cozy and Not-so-Cozy

  • Suzi Weinert – Garage Sale Mystery Series 
  • Amy S. Peele – A Transplant Medical Murder Mystery series
  • Carl and Jane Bock – Arizona Borderlands Mysteries series
  • Betty Jean Craige – Witherston Murder Mystery series

Historical Divisions

Chaucer Book Awards for Series – Historical Fiction

  • Alexander Geiger – The Ptolemaios Saga- Historical Fiction series
  • Nicole Evelina – The Guinevere’s Tale Trilogy Historical series
  • N.L. Holmes – The Lord Hani Mysteries – Historical mystery  series
  • Lucinda Brant – Alec Halsey Mystery Series – Historical Detective series

    Laramie Book Awards for Series – Americana / Western Fiction

    • Will Astrike – The Knack and The Skills of Ezra Lacey – Western series
    • T P Graf – The Life and Stories of Jaime Cruz – Western series
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – JT Thomas’s Series – Western series

    Good Luck as we move onto the next round of judging!

     

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Series Awards is The Devil’s Bookkeepers – Three Books by Mark Newhouse

    Devil's Bookkeepers 3 Covers

    The Noose,  The Noose Tightens, &  The Noose Closes

    Click here to see the 2020 Series Book Award Winners for Genre Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Series Book Awards for Genre Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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