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The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – CIBAs Short List
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. Looking for middle grade contests? Check out our Gertrude Warner Awards.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction Long List to the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalist. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the Semi-FInalists of the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
- Angela Yeh – A Phoenix Rises
- Shadow Bleak – Riot Shield
- B.L. Smith – The Last Golden Light
- M.J. Evans – The Sand Pounder: Love and Drama on Horseback in WWII
- Dan Rice – Dragons Walk Among Us
- Blue Spruell – TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan
- Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
- E.A. Allen – Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets
- J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
- Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
- Mark Wakely – A Friend Like Filby
- Rick Duffy – The Sigil Masters
- Glen Dahlgren – The Game of War: The Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest
- Strider K – Stone (former title: You Rock my Life)
- Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
- Jon Robinson – Sunshine and the Full Moon
- Rektok Ross – Ski Weekend
- Nancy Thorne – The Somewhere I See You Again
- Dennis D. Skirvin – The Treasure of Nonsense Woods
- Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
- Rebecca Danzenbaker – The Color of My Soul
- John Thomas Everett – Aesop’s Fox
- L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
- Shay Siegel – Fractured
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is Dallas Woodburn for The Best Week That Never Happened

Click here to see the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Award Winners for Young Adult Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Youth Reader Fiction Awards, please see the following:
- The Gertrude Warner Awards for Middle Grade Fiction
- The Little Peeps Awards for Children’s Literature
Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 10, 2022
The 2021 Ozma Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021
The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out-of-this-world fiction. These books have advanced to the Long List in the 2021 CIBAs OZMA division.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Ozma Fantasy Fiction entries to the 2021 Ozma Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Ozma Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Ozma Book Awards novel competition for Fantasy Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Joseph Riddle – The Seventh Talent
- Susannah Dawn – Battle for the Armor of God
- Jenn Lees – The Crossing. Arlan’s Pledge Book 1
- Susan Chapek – The Scarlet Mantle
- Mario Chavez – The Continuous Loop
- Kelly Brewer – Water Witch
- P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
- David Fitz-Gerald – Waking Up Lost
- PJ Devlin – The Chamber
- Laurel Anne Hill – Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846
- James Priest – Kirins: The Seer of Serone
- Clayton Marshall Adams – The Mask
- Mary K. Savarese – The Girl in the Toile Wallpaper
- Allegra Pescatore – Where Shadows Lie
- Anton Anderson – The Seekers: Soul Ties
- KC Cowan – Asa’s Redemption
- Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
- J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
- J.P. Hostetler – Around Curiosity’s Edge: Hidden Meridians
- L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
- G.L. Cramb – Druid Quest: Maegics Heir, Book 1
- Adron J. Smitley – Jinn
- Mark A. Alvarez II – Dutybound: Light Wings Epic Vol. 1
- Susan Faw – Heart of Tunise
- Taylor Fenner – Monsters & Mist
- S.J. Hartland – The Last Seer King
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Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 OZMA Awards was Christpher Russell for Rebirth: Divinity’s Twilight

Click here to see the 2020 Ozma Book Award Winners for Fantasy Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Ozma Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
November 16, 2021
The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – CIBAs Long List
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. Looking for middle grade contests? Check out our Gertrude Warner Awards.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction entries to the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Dante Rossetti Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
- K.C. Sprayberry – Sins of the Parents
- Angela Yeh – A Phoenix Rises
- Shadow Bleak – Riot Shield
- B.L. Smith – The Last Golden Light
- M.J. Evans – The Sand Pounder: Love and Drama on Horseback in WWII
- Michael Tunison – The Shadow Kingdom
- Dan Rice – Dragons Walk Among Us
- Blue Spruell – TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan
- Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
- E.A. Allen – Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets
- J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
- Glen Dahlgren – The Game of War: The Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest
- Mark Wakely – A Friend Like Filby
- Rick Duffy – The Sigil Masters
- Strider K – Stone (former title: You Rock my Life)
- Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
- Jon Robinson – Sunshine and the Full Moon
- J W Nelson – Pentagon Pirate Gang: The Secret of the Orchard
- Rektok Ross – Ski Weekend
- Nancy Thorne – The Somewhere I See You Again
- Dennis D. Skirvin – The Treasure of Nonsense Woods
- Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
- Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
- Rebecca Danzenbaker – The Color of My Soul
- John Thomas Everett – Aesop’s Fox
- L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
- Shay Siegel – Fractured
- Thomas Corrigan – The Good Life
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

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

Click here to see the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Award Winners for Young Adult Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Youth Reader Fiction Awards, please see the following:
- The Gertrude Warner Awards for Middle Grade Fiction
- The Little Peeps Awards for Children’s Literature
Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Authors: Cathy Ace and Robert Dugoni along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
October 25, 2021
The DEVIL PULLS the STRINGS by J. W. Zarek – Young Adult Epic Fantasy Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy Action Adventure, Young Adult Urban Fantasy

The protagonist and all-around decent guy, Boone Daniels, is in a heap of hurt in JW Zarek’s new Young Adult novel, The Devil Pulls the Strings.

One would think being plagued by an evil spirit wendigo since age six would be enough inconvenience to last a lifetime, but when Boone jousts with his best bud at a Ren Faire and accidentally deals a mortal blow, the hurt he experiences suddenly lands on a sliding scale of 1 to 1 million. And Boone Daniels becomes a millionaire, so to speak.

No ordinary guy, Boone makes a living as a handyman and swashbuckling knight at Renaissance Faires around Missouri. He’s also uniquely gifted with a form of eidetic memory coupled with synesthesia. What’s that? Simply put, synesthesia allows people to see colors and taste things when they hear music – and an eidetic memory allows folks to memorize whatever they’ve seen or heard one time. But that’s not all. Boone can time-travel, make friends with almost any feline or shapeshifter, and convince a certain immortal he’s worth more as an ally than a snack. No kidding, Baba Yaya loves human meat.

After wounding his best friend, Boone promises to fill in for him as lead vocalist in the band, The Village Idiots, for a major gig in New York City.

The gig caps off the Dragons and Nymphs Annual Charity Ball – a blood drive. (The irony of this will make readers chuckle.) After the band plays, a mysterious score of music by Niccolò Paganini will be played by the best violinist of the time, who also happens to be Boone’s fast-friend-confidant-maybe-girlfriend-we’ll-have-to-see, Sapphire Anjou. Sapphire, the French Ambassador’s daughter, has connections that tie her deeply to the Lavender and Rose Society. There’s more to these societies. The Dragons and Nymphs want nothing but destruction and chaos, while the Lavender and Rose Society maintain order and work to keep people alive. And both societies seek the magical score. You see, no one actually has the Paganini sheet music. It’s a mystery and plenty of people die and get maimed in the pursuit of the piece, but finally, just in the nick of time, Boone and Sapphire obtain it.

What’s so special about this piece of music?

It’s magic, of course! Whoever plays the Paganini score can summon anyone they want. The Dragons and Nymphs want it to summon Ambrogio, their Vampire All-Father, who now resides in Hell. One immortal wants it to free her sister, who’s been caught in a pocket universe (you’ll have to read the book to figure out what that means). And then there’s the nefarious all-around baddie, Ambrozij Sinti, humiliated as a young boy, who now seeks his revenge by using the Paganini piece to summon the Devil himself and destroy the world. The stakes are high, and there’s no time to lose.

Told in first-person by hero Boone Daniels, J. W. Zarek spins an epic fantasy with tons of action, adventure, and folklore.

His writing peppers readers with alliteration in trios, that serve to tighten phrasing to speed up action scenes, evoking visceral responses. Readers feel the panic Boone feels as the world closes in around him. Does it work? Like a charm. Almost perfect, readers will surely love this first in series, epic fantasy world and fall in love with Zarek’s leading man because of it.

Somewhere between The Librarians meets The Magicians – mixed with the flawed hero archetypes of Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden and Harold Hearne’s Atticus O’Sullivan, Zarek’s hero brings fans of the genre something new to dig their teeth into – and that’s an excellent thing. Fans will be thrilled to learn that the novel will release in Graphic Novel format soon!

The Devil Pulls the Strings won a whopping four Ribbons at the 2021 CIBA Ceremonies, a First Place Ribbon in both Ozma and Cygnus, as well as the Grand Prize in Paranormal, and the Overall Best Book of 2021 for the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards!

July 12, 2021
DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction 2020 CIBA Award Winners
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

(For Middle-Grade Fiction see our Gertrude Warner Awards, and for Early Readers and Picture Books, pleases visit our Little Peeps Awards page.)

The 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the DANTE ROSSETTI Grand Prize Winner were announced by Peggy Sullivan on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the DANTE ROSSETTI BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the DANTE ROSSETTI Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to all!
- Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
- Sara Hosey – Iphigenia Murphy
- Felicia Farber – Ice Queen
- Susanne Dunlap – The Paris Affair
- Dallas Woodburn – The Best Week That Never Happened
- Chynna Laird – Just Shut Up and Drive
- L.L. Eadie – Yearning for the Unattainable
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Blackberry Road
- Strider S. R. Klusman – Within Reach
- Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Book 1, Chorduroys and Too Many Boys™)
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is:

Dallas Woodburn for

The Best Week That Never Happened

The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open until the end of June. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
June 11, 2021
The 2020 Finalists for the DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction CIBAs
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test to discover the best. (For Middle Grade Fiction see our Gertrude Warner Awards, and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.)

These titles are in the running for the First Place Category Winners of the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.
- Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
- Strider S. R. Klusman – Within Reach
- B. L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
- Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
- Sara Hosey – Iphigenia Murphy
- Susanne Dunlap – The Paris Affair
- Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
- Felicia Farber – Ice Queen
- Dallas Woodburn – The Best Week That Never Happened
- Kelly Vincent – Finding Frances
- Chynna Laird – Just Shut Up and Drive
- L.L. Eadie – Yearning for the Unattainable
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Blackberry Road
- Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
- Tory Gates – Searching for Roy Buchanan
- Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
- Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Book 1, Chorduroys and Too Many Boys™)
Good Luck to All as your works compete for the FINALIST rounds of the CIBAs!

We will announce the First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2020 CIBA divisions on June 5th, 2021.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for YA Fiction. Deadline is June 30, 2021.

As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
April 28, 2021
BUT NOT FOREVER by Jan Von Schleh – Y/A Value & Virtues, Y/A Clean & Wholesome Romance, Y/A Time Travel

Like most fifteen-year-olds, Sonnet McKay loves a good adventure. Still, when she, her siblings, and cousins discover a deserted Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods outside a ghost town near Seattle, they get much more than they bargained for. In an upstairs bedroom, Sonnet inadvertently steps inside a time travel portal and is whisked away to 1895. In her place stands Emma Sweetwine, an identical doppelganger for Sonnet.

Emma’s family was prominent when Monte Cristo was a booming mine town, but life is not what it seems for the oldest of the Sweetwine children. With a mother who seems to despise her and a secret engagement, Emma’s life is oppressive and controlled – a sharp contrast to the spirited, independent Sonnet. With no idea how or why they were switched, Sonnet and Emma must quickly adjust to their new environments and rely only on their closest friends and family. But like any good story, time is running out for the girls as both of their lives rush in opposite directions. They must find a way back to their own times before their chance is gone forever.

Family, both those of birth and those of choice, is a significant theme of this novel. Sonnet has a close familial support system in her twin brother Evan, older sister Jules, cousin Niki, and best friend and cousin Lia. She has been surrounded by a loving family her entire life and spends part of each summer with her Aunt Kate, her father’s sister. Without doubt or hesitation, Evan, Jules, Niki, and Lia spring into action to both cover Sonnet’s absence and find the impossible path back to 1895. Rapp, a boy who has only known Sonnet for a day before her disappearance, is also a seamless part of the rescue brigade. This group instantly takes Emma into their embrace and makes her feel safe and loved, a first in her life. Though Sonnet has little help from Emma’s family, she quickly builds that friendship network she enjoys in her modern life. It is only with the support of the sixteen-year-old Sweetwine family nanny Kerry; Maxwell the teenage family driver; and Tor Emma’s secret betrothed, that Sonnet will hatch an escape plan. Both groups vow to take care of each girl, respectively, and help them keep the faith to make everything possible.

The difference between Sonnet and Emma will highlight the struggle and growth of women in the world. Sonnet isn’t burdened by the many stifling rules, both spoken and unspoken, that Emma must endure. Emma is forced to hide her true self, her true feelings, none so much as those she has for Tor. As an immigrant tasked with a life of menial labor, Tor should never be a part of Emma’s social circle, much less her fiancé. She has no close female friends and must remain docile and meek even when her mother demeans and abuses her. She is stifled by all who should love and support her. Sonnet, with her modern mind and outspoken nature, fights all of those restrictions and leaves Emma’s life better.

Sonnet makes Emma stronger, and Emma teaches Sonnet how to appreciate love in her life. In the very oppression, Sonnet finds the enjoyment of her freedom, and Emma’s liberation will create a connection to Sonnet that she can’t even imagine.

But Not Forever won the CIBA 2019 Grand Prize in the DANTE ROSSETTI Division for Y/A novels.

November 17, 2020
The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners – 2018 CIBAs
We are excited and honored to officially announce the Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Category Winners for the 2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards at the annual Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2018 Chanticleer International Book Awards ceremony. This year’s ceremony and banquet were held on Saturday, April 27th, 2019 at the Hotel Bellwether by beautiful Bellingham Bay, Wash.

We want to thank all of those who entered and participated in the 2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

Jesikah Sundin, the author of the Legacy: Biodome Chronicles the Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction (CIBAs), announced the First Place Award Winners at the Chanticleer International Book Awards Banquet and Ceremony.

PublishDrive and Hindenburg Systems awarded additional prizes to the 2018 Gertrude Warner Book Award winners. Thank you!

Congratulations to the 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
And now for the Dante Rossetti Book Awards GRAND PRIZE WINNER for Young Adult Fiction

WHISPERS by Lynn Yvonne Moon took home the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction

An email will go out to all First Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Winners with more information, the timing of awarded reviews, links to digital badges, and more before May 31st, 2019 (approximately four weeks after the awards ceremony). Please look for it in your email inbox.

When we receive the digital photographs from the Official CAC19 professional photographer, Dwayne Rogge of Photo Treehouse, we will post the Dante Rossetti Warner award winners on this page.

Click here for the link to the 2018 Dante Rossetti Semi-Finalists.

This post will be updated with photos and more information. Please do visit it again!

The deadline for submissions into the 2019 Dante Rossetti Book Awards is May 31, 2019 Midnight (PST).

Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, April 18th, 2020, for the 2019 CIBA winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

As always, please contact me directly at KBrown@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
May 5, 2019
The SEMI-FINALISTS for the 2018 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them.

These Semi-Finalists will compete for the coveted limited positions of the First Place Category Winners of the 2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards in the final rounds of judging. The First Place Category winners will automatically be entered into the Dante Rossetti GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition. The 16 CBR Grand Prize Genre Winners will compete for the CBR Overall Grand Prize for Best Book and its $1,000 purse. First Place Category and Grand Prize Awards will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 27th, 2019, Bellingham, Washington.

These titles are in the running for the limited First Place positions of the 2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction.

All Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2019 Chanticleer Authors Conference and CIBA Banquet & Ceremony.

Good luck to all in these next final rounds of judging to see which titles will move forward.

CONGRATULATIONS to SEMI-FINALISTS for the 2018 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards:
- Mara Gan – Joined
- Dan Morales – The Scouts of St. Michael Operation Archangel
- Robert Wright Jr – Unwanted
- Alexander Edlund – Keelic and the Pathfinders
- KB Shaw – From the Shadows
- Tom Edwards – The Honourable Catherine
- Carmela A. Martino – Playing by Heart
- Gina Detwiler – Forlorn
- Cheryl G. Bostrom – Climb, Run, Drown
- Alex Paul – Tookan Attack
- Lynn Yvonne Moon – Whispers
- Tiffany Brooks – Reality Gold
- Andrea and William Vaughan – 2nd Gen
- Molly Lazer – Owl Eyes: A Fairy Tale
- Jacinta Jade – Change of Chaos
- Chuck Vance – Sneaking Out
- Andrea Murray – Something New
- Susan Faw – Soul Sacrifice
- Sarah Mendivel – Sam’s Theory
- Christy Nicholas – The Enchanted Swans
- Jennifer Alsever – Ember Burning: Trinity Forest Book 1
All Short Listers and SemiFinalists will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.

Grand Prize Ribbons!

Good Luck to each of you as your works competes for the 2018 Dante Rossetti Book Awards First Place category positions and the Dante Rossetti 2018 Grand Prize.

To view the 2017 Rossetti Book Awards winners, please click here.

The Dante Rossetti Grand Prize Winner and the seven First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 27th, 2019 Chanticleer Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2019 Dante Rossetti Book Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is May 30th, 2019. Please click here for more information.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
December 2, 2018