The CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in any of our 16 Fiction Divisions where the author has written a series. 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 the 2023 Series Book Awards Short List to the 2022 Series Book Awards Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are the Finalists of the 2023 Series Book Awards novel competition for Genre Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

Mystery/Suspense

• Mary Seifert – Katie and Maverick Cozy Mysteries – M&M
• Jeannée Sacken – The Annie Hawkins Series – Clue
• Chuck Morgan – Crime – M&M
• Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina – Global Thriller
• Jode Millman – The Queen City Crimes Series – Clue
• Sharon Michalove – Global Security Unlimited – M&M
• Dave Lager – The Ro Delahanty Novels – Clue

 Speculative Fiction

• John J. Spearman – FitzDuncan – Ozma
• Elizabeth Woolsey – The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper – Cygnus
• C.K. Donnelly – The Kinderra Saga – Ozma
• Andrew Sweet – Reality Gradient – Cygnus
• Marieke Lexmond – The Madigan Chronicles – Ozma
• John J Spearman – Halberd – Cygnus
• Tony Johnson – The Story of Evil – Ozma

Historical Fiction

• Sophia Alexander – The Silk Trilogy – Laramie
• James Hutson-Wiley – The Sugar Merchant – Chaucer
• Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Islands Series – Hemingway
• David Fitz-Gerald – Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail – Laramie
• Alice McVeigh – Warleigh Hall Press Jane Austen Series – Goethe
• Tom Burkhalter – No Merciful War – Hemingway
• E. Alan Fleischauer – How the West was Won then Lost Annihilation – Laramie

Young Adults through Children:

• Brooks Olbrys – The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob – Little Peeps
• Laura Teste – Book of Bad Manners Series – Little Peeps
• Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The MiddleGate Books – Gertrude Warner
• AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque – Gertrude Warner
• Jodi Lea Stewart – Silki, the Girl of Many Scarves – Dante Rossetti
• McKinley Aspen – Shadows in the Wind – Dante Rossetti
• Michele Kwasniewski – The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart – Dante Rossetti

Grab Bag

• Mark A. Gibson – Hamilton Place – Somerset
• CK Van Dam – On the Dakota – Chatelaine
• Holly Brandon – Chastity Series – Somerset
• Lucinda Brant – Roxton Foundation Series – Chatelaine

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

Note: We tend to offer up to 5 First Place Blue Ribbons per division. Please be aware that this is also the case for the Series Awards! Good luck to all!

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Series Awards is:
The Curtis Jefferson Series
By Vince Bailey

Click here to see the 2022 Series Book Award Winners for Genre Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Series Book Awards for Genre Fiction. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. 

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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