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The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Our design is inspired by books designed by the incomparable Coraline Bickford-Smith. Her simple, beautiful, and evocative designs do so much to make the book work as a visual ambassador, capturing the essence of story and compelling potential readers to pick it up, click on it, or share it with others. A well-designed cover signals professionalism, sets expectations for your genre, and serves as a powerful marketing tool to stand out in both digital and physical spaces.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring clear genres, audience, time periods, typography, and longevity across genres of Historical Fiction, Romance, Literary, Satire, Speculative Fiction, and Youth Reads.
These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 CCDA Fiction entries to the 2024 CCDA Fiction LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 CCDA Fiction Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards novel competition for Fiction Books!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- J. Shep – The December Issue
- Neal Rabin – Flat an Edgy Voyage of Accidental Discovery
- Jim Antonini – Bullets for Silverware
- Jim Antonini – The Butcher and the Butterfly
- Meredith Forde – The Protectee
- Raymond Paul Johnson – Conspiracy Ignited
- Judy Lannon – The Making of Genevieve
- Jean Rover – And Then Spring Comes
- Margaret Porter – A Change of Location
- Chuck Morgan – Resurrection the Deadly Mission
- L. J. Aldon – The Riddle of the Jeweled Cipher
- Jeff Hartman – How To Win the Nobel Peace Prize
- Chris Bennett – The Road To Revolution
- Travis Davis – One of Four
- Robert Brighton – The Phantom of Forest Lawn
- Abbe Rolnick – The Underpainting
- Marlene M. Bell – A Hush at Midnight
- Natia Khaduri – A Soldier’s Burden
- William Robert Reeves – The In-House Politician
- Ann Philipp – Grand Theft Death
- Lucinda Brant – Noble Satyr Roxton Foundation Series Book One
- Lucinda Brant – Their Graces Roxton Foundation Series Book
- Jason Farrell Michael De Weever – Secret of the Emerald Star
- J.P. Rieger – Sunscreen Shower
- Laura C. Rader – Hatfield
- Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Day Book Two in the Desert Hills Trilogy
- Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
- Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
- Dave Lager – Losses
- Mark A. Gibson – Roses in December
- Mark A. Gibson – A Song That Never Ends
- Joy Ann Ribar – The Medusa Murders
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Book of Rules
- C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle
- M.J. Evans – Coal Dust and Dreams
- Graydon Dee Hubbard – Network Apprentice Behind the Scenes in Talk Television
- Michelle Morningstar – The Space Between the Divine and the Unholy
- Michael J Bowler – Forever Boy
- R.W. Meek – The Dream Collector Book Book I Sabrine Sigmund Freud
- Lois Cahall – The Many Lives Loves of Hazel Lavery
- Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
- Shami Stovall – Time-Marked Warlock
- Strider S.R. Klusman – Luna – The Adventures of Rhone & Stone, book 2
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Who will be the First Grand Prize Winner for the Fiction CCDAs?
Stay Tuned to find out!
Click here to learn more about the Cover Design Awards.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards for Fiction.
Please click here for more information.
Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!
Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.
Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
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