The 2022 CIBAS Short List CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction

The Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Romantic Fiction.  The Chatelaine Book Awards is a division of the 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). We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Chatelaine Romantic Fiction Long List to the 2022 Chatelaine Book Awards SHORT LIST. Short Listers below are now in competition for 2022 Chatelaine Semi-Finalists. The Semi-Finalists will compete for the Finalist positions.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALIST of the 2022 Chatelaine Book Awards novel competition for Romantic Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors on the Short List and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

• Reenita Malhotra Hora – Operation Mom
• Valerie Taylor – What’s Not True
• Evie Alexander – Kissing Games
• Tonya Ulynn Brown – The King’s Inquisitor
• Anthony R. Licata – Caesar Obsessed: Passion, Conquest, and Tragedy in Gaul
• Jacek Waliszewski – Air Boat
• Carol Van Den Hende – Orchid Blooming
• Linda Cardillo – A Place of Refuge
• KC Cowan – The Bennets: Providence & Perception
• M. I. Dugast – Ekstasis – The Return of the Sovereign Heart
• Amy Schisler – The Good Wine
• Josanna Thompson – A Maiden’s Journey
• Wendy Rich Stetson – Hometown
• Marie Jones – Those We Trust
• T.K. Conklin – Outlaw’s Redemption
• Debra Whiting Alexander – A River for Gemma
• Suzanne Smith – Lilah’s Limit
• Cinda K. Swalley – The Golden Hearts Club
• Emma Lombard – Grace on the Horizon
• Eve M. Riley – The Refusal
• S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
• Gail Meath – Agustina de Aragón
• Gail Hertzog – Crossing the Ford
• Kelly Miller – Captive Hearts
• Mary Kolles and Mary James – Cyber Nothing
• Mike Owens – It Had to Be You
• J Fremont – Magician of Light
• E.F. Dodd – Risky Restoration
• Alice McVeigh – Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation
• Joy Ross Davis – The Hit Man’s Wife
• Cheri Champagne – To Woo A Troublesome Spy
• Cheri Champagne – The Charming Spy
• Daniela Valenti – Sentinel 10: The Crystal Skull
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – The Shadow’s Secrets
• E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns

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

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 CHATELAINE Awards is:

The Long Desert Road

by Alex Sirotkin

See the full list of Chatelaine 2021 Winners here

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

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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