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Your book could earn a place in Chanticleer Reviews Hall of Fame for 2016 Best Books. All you have to do is to enter your manuscript or published novel in these terrific contests!
Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring "mystery and mayhem", amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor. We have put the entries to the test and these are the titles that have made the first cut to the SHORT LIST.
The Chatelaine Awards discovers the best books in romantic fiction and women's fiction. The deadline for 2016 is quickly approaching.
There is an old frontier saying "A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse" and we are pretty sure that "A writer is someone with guts and a pen."
June is the perfect time to tidy up your historical fiction novel and submit it to one of our contests. In previous years all of our Historical Fiction was judged under the Chaucer awards. But we had so many entries in 2015 that we had to divide it into two novel competitions. There are too many different categories of Historical Fiction all deserving of their own contest, creating nearly impossible decisions for the judges. So, we have divided the Chaucer contest in two by a date some might consider arbitrary—1750, and named the categories the Chaucer Awards (pre-1750) and the Goethe Awards (post 1750). What is so special about 1750? 1750 is considered by many historians to be a pivotal date in the history of humankind--in both Western and Eastern history. There are several movements that shaped this new era. Prior to 1750, monarchy was the prevailing form of government. "Citizenry" (as opposed to being a "subject") was a radical new concept that was taking root due to the British Colonies in America revolting against the British monarchy. The concept that individuals were not just "subjects" of a monarchy, but humans with inalienable rights spread like wildfire throughout Europe leading, to the French Revolution. The 1750s brought about a completely new way of thinking about governance. With this came the concept of the right to own private property rather than being "entrusted" with it by royalty and subjected to the whims of the monarch granting the property. Secondly, [...]
Everyone knows April showers bring May flowers, and what better way to celebrate the blossoming of the year than by seeking submissions of books intended for young readers. This year we also celebrate the birth of a brand new award. The Dante Rossetti awards for young adult fiction have grown so large, that we had to create the new Gertrude Warner awards for middle grade fiction. Don't miss our May 31st Deadline! Dante Rossetti Awards The Dante Rossetti awards have a long and proud tradition of winners. Most recently at our Chanticleer Author Conference Awards Banquet (a Gala event held every year in April) we awarded the 2015 Dante Rossetti Grand Prize to Nikki McCormack, author of The Girl and the Clockwork Cat, a young adult steampunk novel about a feisty teenage thief thrust into a murder mystery involving a clockwork cat. We are so thrilled to award this obviously talented author at the beginning of her, no doubt, successful future in publishing. Last year, our Dante Rossetti Grand Prize was also handed out to an author at the beginning of a successful dynasty. Jesikah Sundin and her young adult cyberpunk novel Legacy: Biodome Chronicles, Book One. Jesikah not only wrote a compelling story, but also painted a picture that swept us away into this marriage of two worlds: one a "back to basics" group of pioneers living inside an experimental biodome community, and the other a futuristic world world of high tech and computers. Both of these [...]
For some March Madness is basketball, for us at Chanticleer Reviews it's that last minute rush, as Mystery Authors scramble to meet our March 31st deadline for the Mystery & Mayhem Awards (aka the M&M's). The M&M's cozy mysteries is one of our favorite categories and we have many fond memories of amazing books and authors winning M&M's. Some, like author Pamela Beason's THE ONLY WITNESS--which answers the question: "What would happen if a signing gorilla was the only witness to a terrible crime?"--taking not just taking the M&M's but also the top overall grand prize. Pam is working on creating a dynasty as she won again with her sequel THE ONLY CLUE, taking the M&M Grand Prize for 2014. And for 2015 her RACE WITH DANGER is a contender in in our Dante Rossetti awards! Our 2013 M&M Grand Prize winner Bernadette Pajer's FATAL INDUCTION: A PROFESSOR BRADSHAW MYSTERY is another favorite here in the Chanticleer office. Revolving around a race to win an electrical engineering competition in Seattle 1901, the time of Tesla! Bernadette has gone on to write four book in the series and we couldn't be happier to see the witty and entertaining Professor Bradshaw continue his escapades of electrical engineering and solving mysteries with science. Your book could earn a place in our M&M hall of fame for 2016. All you have to do is enter. What are the M&M's? Our Mystery & Mayhem Awards are the Chanticleer Reviews search [...]
Congratulations to the Finalists who were short-listed in the 2015 Mystery & Mayhem Novel Writing Competition!
Welcome to the Winners' Circle for Chanticleer International Book Awards! Semi-Finalists, First Place Category Winner, and Grand Prize Winners Swag 2018 Blue Ribbon Packages - If you live in the US your Blue Ribbon Package will be sent to you after you confirm your latest address and respond to our official notification email. If you live outside the US, order your international shipping box and be sure to reply to our official notification email. Gold Sticker Reorders - $79 per 200 stickers plus shipping. Order more gold foil GRAND PRIZE book stickers. Order more gold foil FIRST IN CATEGORY book stickers. Order more gold foil FINALIST book stickers Order more silver foil SEMI-FINALIST book stickers Order more silver foil SHORT LIST book stickers (Click the link, right-click the image, choose "save image as." The image looks like it's set against a black background, but it will actually be transparent.) 2020 Digital Winner Badges for 1st Place in Category are posted below: Cygnus 2020 Awards OZMA 2020 Awards Paranormal 2020 Awards Mystery & Mayhem 2020 Awards Clue 2020 Awards Global Thriller 2020 Awards Dante Rossetti 2020 Awards Gertrude Warner 2020 Awards Little Peeps 2020 Awards Laramie 2020 Awards Chaucer 2020 Awards Goethe 2020 Awards Hemingway 2020 Awards Somerset 2020 Awards Mark Twain 2020 Awards Chatelaine 2020 Awards Journey 2020 Awards I & I 2020 Awards Nellie Bly 2020 Awards Mind & Spirit 2020 Awards Harvey Chute 2020 Awards Hearten Awards 2020 Awards 2020 Digital Winner Badges for Grand Prize Award [...]
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