Chanticleer Book Reviews

Category: Chanticleer Author Conference

  • Spotlight on Christine Fairchild- Author and Book Doctor

    CHRISTINE FAIRCHILD – Author & Book Doctor

    Christine Fairchild offers 35+ years experience as a writer, editor, and book doctor. She’s conducted celebrity interviews (XFiles, SciFiMall.com), edited for technical giants (Microsoft, Hitachi), and served as a marketing/readability specialist for consumer products (DHL, Cingular, AT&T). She now specializes in Suspense fiction and helps authors take their work, and their career, to the next level through her online workshops, classes at conferences and one-on-one book-doctoring of clients’ novels. She also writes suspense and historical fiction, so she understands the challenges authors face in their craft and the publishing industry.

    Find more of her tips & tricks at: EditorDevil.blogspot.com

    Christine will be leading sessions on:

    • Power Moves to Make Your Story UNDENIABLE
    • Look Out! He’s Behind You!  Effectively Using Suspense to Insure a Page-Turner Story
    • And more to be announced! 

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    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend.

    Find out why The 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.

     

  • Spotlight on Mark Berridge, Award Winning Author of A Fraction Stronger and Motivational Speaker

    MARK BERRIDGE – Author, Leader, and Motivational Speaker

    Mark Berridge in a superman style pose for TEDx Brisbane

    By melding his professional background with the lived experience of his personal recovery journey, Mark brings his unique insights, perspective and practical tips and strategies to every custom-curated presentation he delivers.

    Mark’s authenticity, openness, expertise and practicality profoundly impact the individuals, teams and organisations he presents to, helping them build the resilience they need to succeed in today’s challenging business environment.

    His book, A Fraction Stronger was the Grand Prize Winner for the 2022 Journey Award.

    Most recently, Mark presented at TedEx Brisbane.

    We’re excited to have him back for CAC24! Mark will be presenting two sessions for us that will focus on:

    1. Success comes in many shapes and sizes. Explore his 3 tips for amplifying it.
      • Notice how / when your goals creep.
      • Reward yourself for achieving your original goals and for re-calibrating new goals
      • Embrace and celebrate all the other gains / outcomes from your action that seem ancillary to your goals.
    2. Plan well, adapt better. Why he is firm on purpose but flexible on pathway.
      • Good preparation is a valuable foundation, but we can never see all the possibilities.
      • Action (especially when embracing uncertainty) liberates possibilities.
      • Things work, things fail. Own where you are at and make plans, take action to keep going.

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    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend.

    Find out why The 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.

  • Spotlight on Susan V. Meyers – Creative Writing Program Director, Non-Fiction Writer, and Pushcart Prize Nominee

    SUSAN V. MEYERS – Creative Writing Program Director Non-Fiction Writer and Pushcart Prize Nominee

    After growing up on a carnival route, Susan V. Meyers, PhD.,  is a professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Seattle University.

    Having received grants from Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and several arts residencies, she has been nominated for The Best American Series and several Pushcart Prizes. Her novel Failing the Trapeze won the Nilsen Award, and other work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, So to Speak, New Orleans Review, and The Minnesota Review. You can find her at susanvmeyers.com.

    Susan will present a session on Dynamic Dialogue: The Art of Subtext and Grabbing Your Reader and Not Letting Go

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    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend.

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  • Spotlight on Lucas Southworth – Award Winning Short Story Author

    LUCAS SOUTHWORTH – Award Winning Short Story Author

     

    Lucas Southworth’s book of short stories, Everyone Here Has a Gun, won the Association of Writers and Writing Program’s Grace Paley Prize. He has published stories in magazines such as the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, AGNI, Copper Nickel, and many others. He has also received Grants, fellowships, and residencies from The Maryland State Arts Council, The Truman Capote Trust, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Jentel Artist Residency Program, Monson Arts, and Arteles Creative Center in Finland. Usually, he divides his time between Baltimore and Washington, where teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland and at Seattle U.

    Lucas will have sessions on:

    • How to Design a Smashing Screenplay: The importance of planning and outlining a story before you write
    • Key Elements of Writing the Short Story

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    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend.

    Find out why The 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.

  • Spotlight on Michelle Cox – Overall Grand Prize Winner

    MICHELLE COX – 2022 OVERALL GRAND PRIZE AUTHOR

    Michelle Cox is the author of the multiple award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series as well as “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents.  She suspects she may have once lived in the 1930s and, having yet to discover a handy time machine lying around, has resorted to writing about the era as a way of getting herself back there.

    Her work has received multiple Mystery & Mayhem and Clue Awards from Chanticleer as well as the Overall Grand Prize Award for Best Book for her book A Spying Eye, in addition to several top-rated reviews, plus many other accolades, so she might be on to something.  Unbeknownst to most, Michelle hoards board games she doesn’t have time to play and is, not surprisingly, addicted to period dramas and big band music.  Also marmalade.

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    Find out why The 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.

     

  • Spotlight on Reenita Malhotra Hora – Grand Prize Author, Podcaster, and Broadcast Journalist

    REENITA MALHOTRA HORA – Podcaster & Broadcast Journalist & Contributor

    Reenita Malhotra Hora is the CEO of Chapter by Episode Productions. She has years of experience growing organizations from startups to medium-sized businesses through storytelling, creative marketing and business strategy. Hora has also written seven books.

    She has contributed to Reuters, the South China Morning Post family section, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, Asian Investor, Times of India, Business Line, Bloomberg on-air news reporter, writer, and producer, Rolling Stone, and the Economic Times.

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    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend.

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  • Spotlight on Lisa Spicer- Producer, Editor and Writer

    LISA SPICER – Producer, Editor, Writer

    Lisa Spicer has worked in television, film, and video production for over 30 years as producer, writer, and editor. Starting in the documentary unit at KCTS/PBS Seattle, she worked there later on the Bill Nye the
    Science Guy show, earning 3 Emmys. As an independent documentary producer, she has worked in Kenya, Mexico’s Lacandon rainforest, Northern Cheyenne and Lummi Indian reservations, Boulder, Seattle, and Bellingham.

    Lisa has a BA in Broadcast Journalism and certificates in Filmmaking and Screenwriting (UW). Mid-career she earned an MA in Anthropology (WWU). Integrating anthropology into documentary, she
    co-produced Homeless in Bellingham, an award-winning web series and documentary, and served as Consulting Anthropologist for the feature documentary, Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie.

    Recently finishing an historical novel, Radio Smokva, she’s now writing about her back-to-the-land childhood and publishing a weekly series on Substack, Collective Effervescence: Research About the Counterculture.

    Lisa will lead a workshop called How to Read a Film, with a focus to enhance your fluency in the language of film. Rooted in the practice of mise-en-scene, learn how meaning is conveyed through elements such as camera angle, set design, motif (shapes), lighting, actors, sound, all of which work together in support of the narrative.

    Tips and Tools with the Screen in Mind – by Lisa G. Spicer
    • Writing for the screen or with the screen in mind, whether narrative or non-fiction (documentary) film.
      • Ex: From any story, what is selected to be scripted and filmed? How is it framed (what do we see)?
      • Ex: Screenplays are written in present tense
    • As related to writing, film borrows from theater by using elements of mis en scene and motif.
      • Ex: How do theater directors use props and costume to support the narrative?
      • Writing for film or with film in mind can be informed by the craft and how films are actually made.

    Ex: Basic camera terminology, used throughout entire process: writing, filming, editing.

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    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend.

    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend. Find out why The 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 April 19-21, 2024 at the Four Seasons By Sheraton in Bellingham, WA.

  • Spotlight on Diane Garland – Your WorldKeeper – Continuity Editor

    DIANE GARLAND – Your WorldKeeper – Continuity Senior Editor

     

    Diane Garland and her editorial company Your WorldKeeper, specializes in the world of continuity. Multiple USA Today best-selling and award-winning authors in various genres rely on her system of cataloging and organizing the minutiae and rules of their story worlds. Growing up as an AF Brat, Diane traveled extensively as a child, which has fueled her passion for travel and reading. She graduated from Florida State University and is a life-long learner. She, along with her husband and two cats, have recently relocated to Columbus, Ohio from the Seattle, Washington area.

    Join Diane at her sessions about the necessity, creation, and organization of a story bible along with pointers on maintaining and using it to take your author career to the next level.

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    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend.

    Find out why The 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.

  • Spotlight on Tony Jeton Selimi – Globally celebrated Author, Speaker, and Coach

    TONY JETON SELIMI – Globally celebrated author, speaker, and coach, specializes in transforming human behavior and cognition.

    Tony is committed to guiding individuals, entrepreneurs, leaders, business owners, and organizations from frustration to the pinnacles of breakthroughs, purpose, prosperity, and philanthropy. With a rich technology, business, wealth creation, and personal and professional growth and development background, he has honed distinctive methodologies that marry scientific rigor with spiritual intelligence, captivating audiences and clients worldwide.

    From a humble beginning to a towering figure of influence, Tony’s narrative is a testament to perseverance and vision. His literary contributions, including the acclaimed titles “A Path to Wisdom,” “#Loneliness,” “The Unfakeable Code®,” and “A Path to Excellence,” have left an indelible mark on countless lives. His forthcoming work, “Climb Greater Heights,” is set to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit, urging business leaders to forge a legacy of impact and benevolence.

    Tony’s acumen transcends the bounds of authorship. As a distinguished orator, he has illuminated platforms such as the UN, TEDx, and the London Business Exhibition with his profound insights into wealth generation, media mastery, and the art of strategic alliances. Celebrated with over a hundred literary accolades and featured in a myriad of media appearances, Tony stands as a beacon for authors worldwide.

    In his presentation, “Soaring on the Wings of Words: Monetizing Authorship with Tony J. Selimi’s ‘Climb Greater Heights’ Method,” Tony charts a course for authors of all echelons. He offers the blueprint that propelled his ascent from anonymity to global renown, empowering authors to harness their craft for unparalleled success. Embark on this journey with Tony and witness the alchemy of words into wealth. For more information: https://tonyselimi.com

    Tony will be presenting a two part session: Soaring on the Wings of Words: Monetizing Authorship with his “Climb Greater Heights’ Method

    You’ll hear firsthand how leveraging technology, business acumen, and strategic partnerships can catapult your work from the shadows into the spotlight.

    Join us and let Tony J. Selimi show you how to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of authorship with grace and confidence. This isn’t just a talk; it’s a call to action for all who believe in the magic of their stories and the potential of their dreams. Secure your spot and prepare to soar to greater heights on the wings of words.

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    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend.

    Find out why The 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.

  • Spotlight on Janet Oakley – Award Winning Author and Historian

    JANET OAKLEY – Award-Winning Author and Historian, and Educator

    J. L. Oakley writes historical fiction that spans the mid-19th century to WW II with characters standing up for something in their own time and place. She is an award-winning author and a recipient of the 2013 Bellingham Mayor’s Arts Award; the 2013 Chanticleer Grand Prize; the 2014 First Place Chaucer Award;  an Everybody Reads and Bellingham. When not writing, she demonstrates 19th-century folkways in the schools and at San Juan Island National Park. She also has a cat who thinks she’s editing.

    As a First in Category winner in the Goethe, Laramie, and Chatelaine Awards for Mist-chi-mas: A Novel of Captivity, the Chaucer Award for Timber Rose and The Jøssing Affair, the Hemingway Grand Prize Winner for The Quisling Factor and the OVERALL Grand Prize for her book, Tree Soldier.

    Still thinking about Registering for the Chanticleer Authors Conference?

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    We have a stellar line up of speakers for CAC24, with multiple options to attend.

    Find out why The 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.