The 2020 CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – the Short List for the 2020 CIBAs

The CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of  Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The Chatelaine  Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards ( The #CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, and stories that appeal especially to fans of affairs of the heart to compete in the Chatelaine Book Awards (the CIBAs). 

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards LONG LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SHORTLIST. 

• Sara Stamey – Pause
• Linda Stewart Henley – Estelle: A Novel
• Tabetha Waite – Behind a Moonlit Veil
• Lindy Miller – The Magic Ingredient
• Alexandrea Weis – The Christmas Spirit
• Mary Ting – When the Wind Chimes
• Linda Lee Graham – A Thimbleful of Honor
• Betty Codd – Abigail
• F. E. Greene – Some Place Like Home
• Gayle Woodson – After Kilimanjaro
• Rebekah N. Bryan – Jenna with the Red Pen
• Michael Aloysius O’Reilly – Romeo and Juliet Are Alive and Well in California
• R.Harrington – Veronica
• R.A.R. Clouston – Cry Savage Tears
• Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen
• Tammy Mannersly – Drawn to Him
• Beverly Allie – Where the Monarchs Dance
• Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
• Harper McDavid – Zapata
• Carol Van Den Hende – Goodbye, Orchid: To Love Her, He Had to Leave Her
• Charlene Johnson – Homecoming, Sterling Wood Series, Book 1
• Mona Sedrak – Gravity
• Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
• Holly Brandon – Life in the Chastity Zone
• Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
• Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra
• Barb Warner Deane – The Whistle Stop Canteen
• Ramcy Diek – Eagles
• Ursula Sinclair & Kassanna – Defiant in Flight
• Betsy Dudak – Wanna Bet

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic Fiction. 

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic Fiction?

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

Which of these works will advance to the Semi-Finalists positions? The excitement continues to build! 

The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Chatelaine Book Awards. Winners to be announced TBD April 2022.