The Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Romantic Fiction. The Chatelaine Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (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  from the 2024 CHATELAINE Romantic Fiction Short List to the 2024 Chatelaine Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. 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  Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Chatelaine Book Awards novel competition for Romantic Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

• Reenita M. Hora – Vermilion Harvest – Playtime at the Bagh
  
• Leslie Wibberley – The Unraveling of Emma Hill
  
• Jenn Bouchard – Considering Us
  
• John W. Feist – Edged in Purple
  
• Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman
  
• Gail Noble-Sanderson – A Cup of Revenge
  
• Davalynn Spencer – Covering Grace
• Nancy Herkness – Royal Caleva: Luis
  
• Jo Morgan Sloan – The Key
  
• Laurel Osterkamp – The Side Project
• George T. Arnold – The Heart Beneath the Badge
  
• Sonja N. Griffing – Chasing Noelle
  
• Linda Broday – Winning Maura’s Heart
  
• Melissa Collings – The False Flat
  
• Eve M. Riley – The Secret
  
• Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Day, Book Two in the Desert Hills Trilogy
  
• Karen Janowsky – Her Name Was Lola
  
• S.G. Blaise – Meddling Mages
  
• Karen Janowsky – Dear Prudence
  
• CK Van Dam – Lone Tree Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
  
• Amanda Sue Creasey – An Expected End
  

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

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner

A Sea of Glass

By Gail Avery Halverson

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Chatelaine Book Award Winners for Romantic Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic 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.

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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!