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Author: nely-cab

  • DANTE ROSSETTI SPOTLIGHT – Young Adult Novel Book Awards, #CIBAs

    DANTE ROSSETTI SPOTLIGHT – Young Adult Novel Book Awards, #CIBAs

     

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

     

    Do you have a Y/A Fiction manuscript or recently published novel?

    Enter it today in the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards! Let us decipher the best of the best. 

    If you know anything about Chanticleer International Book Awards, you know that we never stop sharing the good news and accomplishments of our authors! Never!

    What that means is we believe in book promotion, highlighting our winners, standing on our platforms, and telling the known world all about YOUR BOOK! 

    Sound good to you? 

    Enter your Y/A Fiction Novel TODAY into the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards. 

     

    The Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Fiction are named for the British painter and poet,
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti

     

    Chanticleer has chosen Dante Rossetti as the namesake of our young adult fiction awards, because of Rossetti’s strong connection to works of beauty and emotions as swift as the changing seasons. Both aspects embody what it means to be young. We feel that the sentiment expressed by the Pre-Raphaelite movement exemplifies what inspires many authors to pick up their proverbial pens to express their emotions and their observations of the visceral dynamics of living.

    Besides, he was a rock star. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an exclusive group in the mid-nineteenth century which garnered as much fame and attention as equatable to the Game of Thrones cast today.

    The Love Song by Sir Burne-Jones who was mentored and influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

     

     

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

     

    You won’t regret it – Just ask the following authors who did enter, and won!

    The 2018 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards GRAND PRIZE:

    Whispers by Yvonne Moon

    WHISPERS by Lynn Yvonne Moon

     

    2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction
    First in Category Winners

    • Climb, Run, Drown by Cheryl G. Bostrom
    • Tookan Attack by Alex Paul
    • Reality Gold by Tiffany Brooks
    • 2nd Gen by Andrea and William Vaughan
    • Change of Chaos by Jacinta Jade
    • Sneaking Out by Chuck Vance
    • Soul Sacrifice by Susan Faw   

    Here’s a little more about our Dante Rossetti … (can we claim him as our own?)

    Rossetti’s paintings, in particular, were characterized by the long and wavy hair of young women. It is this youthful beauty that has been immortalized in his work and captures the immovable spirit of adolescence which is so fraught with changing emotions. These women he painted are often quite romantic. His wife would often model for the paintings or the wives of his friends in the Brotherhood. It was rumored that Rossetti had several lovers…

    Visitors today can view Rossetti’s work at the Louvre or the Met. In addition to painting, he was also a writer. Several of his poems address emotions and feelings in all of their complexity, similar to his painted works.

    La Viuda Romana, 1874 by our fav guy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

     

     

     

     

     

    The 2017 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    SLAVE to FORTUNE  by D. J. Munro

     

    2017 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

     

    The 2016 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    SEER of SOULS by Susan Faw

     

    2016 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2015 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    The GIRL and the CLOCKWORK CAT by Nikki McCormack

     

     

    2015 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2014 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    LEGACY: Biodome Chronicles Book One by Jesikah Sundin

    2014 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2013 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    The BOREALIS GENOME by Thomas & Nancy Wise

     

     

    2013 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    Want to be a winner next year? The deadline to submit your book for the Dante Rossetti Awards is June 30, 2020. Enter here!

     

    Do your works have what it takes to make it through the CIBA judging rounds?  Submit manuscripts and published works into the Chanticleer International Book Awards – Click here for more information about The CIBAs! 

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

    The last day to submit your work is June 30, 2020. We invite you to join us, to tell us your stories, and to find out who will take home the 2019 CIBA prizes at CAC20  in September.

    The deadline for  2020 YA submissions is June 30, 2020. Grand Prize and First Place Winners for 2020 will be announced on April 18, 2021.

    Any entries received after June 30, 2020, will be entered into the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Young Adult Fiction. The Grand Prize and First Place for 2021 CIBA winners will be held on April 2022.

     As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your work deserves!  Enter today!

    The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.

    The winners will be announced at the 2019 CIBA  Awards Ceremony in September 2020, which will take place during the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference. All Semi-Finalists and First Place category winners will be recognized, the first-place winners will be whisked up on stage to receive their custom ribbon and wait to see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. It’s an exciting evening of celebrations! 

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

  • SPOTLIGHT on DANTE ROSSETTI Awards — Young Adult Fiction

    SPOTLIGHT on DANTE ROSSETTI Awards — Young Adult Fiction

    The Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult Fiction are named for the British painter and poet,
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti

     

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

     

    Do you have a Y/A Fiction manuscript or recently published novel? Enter it today in the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards! Let us decipher the best of the best. 

    If you know anything about Chanticleer International Book Awards, you know that we never stop sharing the good news and accomplishments of our authors! Never!

    What that means is we believe in book promotion, highlighting our winners, standing on our platforms and telling the known world all about YOUR BOOK! 

    Sound good to you? 

    Enter your Y/A Fiction Novel TODAY into the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards. 

     

     

    Chanticleer has chosen Dante Rossetti as the namesake of our young adult fiction awards, because of Rossetti’s strong connection to works of beauty and emotions as swift as the changing seasons. Both aspects embody what it means to be young. We feel that the sentiment expressed by the Pre-Raphaelite movement exemplifies what inspires many authors to pick up their proverbial pens to express their emotions and their observations of the visceral dynamics of living.

    Besides, he was a rock star. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an exclusive group in the mid-nineteenth century which garnered as much fame and attention as equatable to the Game of Thrones cast today.

    The Love Song by Sir Burne-Jones who was mentored and influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

     

     

     

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

     

    You won’t regret it – Just ask the following authors who did enter, and won!

    The 2018 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards GRAND PRIZE:

    Whispers by Yvonne Moon

    WHISPERS by Lynn Yvonne Moon

     

    2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction
    First in Category Winners

    • Climb, Run, Drown by Cheryl G. Bostrom
    • Tookan Attack by Alex Paul
    • Reality Gold by Tiffany Brooks
    • 2nd Gen by Andrea and William Vaughan
    • Change of Chaos by Jacinta Jade
    • Sneaking Out by Chuck Vance
    • Soul Sacrifice by Susan Faw   

    Here’s a little more about our Dante Rossetti … (can we claim him as our own?)

    Rossetti’s paintings, in particular, were characterized by the long and wavy hair of young women. It is this youthful beauty that has been immortalized in his work and captures the immovable spirit of adolescence which is so fraught with changing emotions. These women he painted are often quite romantic. His wife would often model for the paintings or the wives of his friends in the Brotherhood. It was rumored that Rossetti had several lovers…

    Visitors today can view Rossetti’s work at the Louvre or the Met. In addition to painting, he was also a writer. Several of his poems address emotions and feelings in all of their complexity, similar to his painted works.

    La Viuda Romana, 1874 by our fav guy, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

     

     

     

     

     

    The 2017 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    SLAVE to FORTUNE  by D. J. Munro

     

    2017 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2016 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    SEER of SOULS by Susan Faw

     

    2016 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2015 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    The GIRL and the CLOCKWORK CAT by Nikki McCormack

     

     

    2015 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2014 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    LEGACY: Biodome Chronicles Book One by Jesikah Sundin

    2014 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    The 2013 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Grand Prize:

    The BOREALIS GENOME by Thomas & Nancy Wise

     

     

     

    2013 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction First in Category Winners

     

    Want to be a winner next year? The deadline to submit your book for the Dante Rossetti Awards is June 30, 2020. Enter here!

     

    Do your works have what it takes to make it through the CIBA judging rounds?  Submit manuscripts and published works into the Chanticleer International Book Awards – Click here for more information about The CIBAs! 

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

    The last day to submit your work is June 30, 2019. We invite you to join us, to tell us your stories, and to find out who will take home the prize at CAC20 on September 5th.

    The deadline for 2019 submissions is June 30, 2020. Grand Prize and First Place Winners for 2019 will be announced on September 5th, 2020.

    Any entries received after June 30, 2019, will be entered into the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Young Adult Fiction. The Grand Prize and First Place for 2020 CIBA winners will be held on April 17, 2021.

     As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your work deserves!  Enter today!

    The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.

    The winners will be announced at the CIBA  Awards Ceremony on September 5th, 2020, which will take place during the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference. All Semi-Finalists and First Place category winners will be recognized, the first-place winners will be whisked up on stage to receive their custom ribbon and wait to see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. It’s an exciting evening of dinner, networking, and celebrations! 

     

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

  • FRUIT of MISFORTUNE (Creatura #2) by Nely Cab – Science Fiction & Fantasy/Myth & Legends/Paranormal & Urban/Folklore

    FRUIT of MISFORTUNE (Creatura #2) by Nely Cab – Science Fiction & Fantasy/Myth & Legends/Paranormal & Urban/Folklore

    Fans of YA and supernatural fiction will not be disappointed with Fruit of Misfortune, Nely Cab’s second book in her Creatura series.  It’s an adventurous romp through the paranormal with our heroine, Isis, a young woman whose destiny is intertwined with that of all humankind’s.

    Isis is in a seemingly lovely place at the start of Fruit of Misfortune, flying with her adored and adoring boyfriend, David, to Greece to spend time with his family.  Of course, all is not as it seems to be and therein lies the fun and the adventure.  Eighteen-year-old Isis is only days away from transforming into a monstrous beast, the Creatura, and needs the help of David’s family, all of them Greek deities, to halt the mutation.  They rise to the challenge by seeking out a doctor with cutting edge therapies and locating Isis’s long-lost father who knew how “special” his daughter was when she was born.  While encountering demons and monsters, Isis will wonder repeatedly if she shouldn’t make life easier, and safer, for everyone by just calling it a day and ending her life.

    While there’s plenty of intrigue and suspense, what makes this book positively hum with energy is Cab’s genius for characterization. Sure, Isis is on a quest to save herself and, by extension, the world, but she’s also a young woman, eighteen-years-old, who loves her boyfriend but can’t help being attracted to his friend, Eros (and with a name like that, who could blame her?).  She has moments of insecurity about her looks, rails at her father for having been a dead-beat dad, makes friends with the splendidly blunt and spunky Galilea, and, oh, yeah, really misses her mom.

    The dialogue is often humorous, full of quick-witted banter.  There are references to The Exorcist, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four and Wednesday Adams. It’s easy to imagine ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ telling her friends, “I just read the coolest book about this chick named Isis.” While Isis will be very relate-able for young adult readers, she faces enough maturity issues in Book 2 to engage adult readers as well.

    What also sets this book apart from the typical paranormal adventure is the impressive detail.  Cab describes scenes in Greece with the expertise of a cultural anthropologist.  Her writing is experiential; she makes the reader see, taste, and feel.  When Isis undergoes the most bizarre of pregnancy tests, Cab manages to instill the scene with appropriately convincing details of the biological impact of the metamorphoses taking place in Isis’ body.  Likewise, the author astutely chronicles a medical doctor’s reaction to patients with the most baffling symptoms.  Such careful writing makes the pieces of her fiction fit together like an exquisite puzzle.

    The book concludes at just the right moment.  Some dire problems have been resolved while others are just beginning.  That’s fine because we don’t want to say goodbye to Isis or her boyfriend and his divine family.  We’ve come to love the whole gang and long to spend more time with them. You can do just that by starting the third book in the entertaining Creatura series.

    Being eighteen-years-old can suck. Take heart readers, it’s not as if you’re eighteen and destined to turn into a monstrous beast!  Nely Cab’s Fruit of Misfortune, Creatura #2 delivers everything you love about book one – and more. A must read for YA fans!”

    5 Star Best Book Chanticleer Reviews round silver sticker

  • CREATURA (Book 1) by Nely Cab – Do Dreams Come True? YA Paranormal #Mortal

    CREATURA (Book 1) by Nely Cab – Do Dreams Come True? YA Paranormal #Mortal

    A young girl living in Los Fresnos, Texas, whose loss of control over her dreams sets her on a long journey to discover how hundreds of years of history between gods and humans will turn her life upside down in the first book of this paranormal young adult series.

    Isis Martin, a high school junior just starting to think about college plans, is living with her single mother Claire, who separated from her father just before his death. Her biggest problems are her recent breakup with her first love Gabriel and her lack of sleep, the latter of which is caused by a recurring nightmare in which a terrifying and mysterious creature that returns every night to threaten her.

    Frustrated with the nightmare, Isis confronts the creature, who surprises her by questioning why she has intruded on his realm. He teaches her about a history between humans and gods that she doesn’t want to believe – until he forces her to by proving himself to be real by showing up at her high school.

    Everyone is intrigued by the mysterious and alluring new student, David, but Isis is more intent on getting away from him and his disturbing past. He, on the other hand, is hell-bent on figuring out how a typical girl can intrude on the divine realm in her sleep. David works against the prejudices built by hundreds of years of complicated and bloody history between the mortals and gods to try and understand Isis.

    As David and Isis work together to figure out what her dreams mean, they are impeded by his meddling family, her well-meaning but nosy mom, and her ex, Gabriel, popping up at an inopportune time.

    Cab’s first novel in her series has some of the expected elements in a typical teen paranormal romance and a few unpredictable developments. Her overarching plot about the long history between Greek gods and humans cleverly adds a new and unique twist to a familiar paranormal narrative.

    Cab’s main character, Isis, shows herself to be tough and an independent thinker early on in the novel, which makes her an easy character readers will easily identify with. But, as is common with teen paranormal romance, the roles of the characters are clearly defined. Nevertheless, their romantic narrative has a sweet nature and more than a few affectionate moments that readers will appreciate.

    An unexpected delight of the novel was the wonderful relationship between Isis and her mother, Claire. They have an amazing amount of care and adoration for each other, but they also treat each other with mutual respect and friendly nature of two gals helping each other sort through their complicated romances. The interactions between Isis and Claire provide entertaining reprieve from the rest of the plot.

    Overall, Cab uses traditional romantic narratives to appeal to avid paranormal readers, and she makes it stand out by developing an entertaining history between divine beings and mortals.

    This is our pick for young readers experiencing “Twilight” withdrawals and hungering to get their hands on a unique take on a familiar struggle between two lovers plagued by forces beyond their control.