As many Chanticleerians have learned over the years, we rarely can list our presenters six-months or even four-months, two-months in advance. Why? Because many of the experts we have had the honor and privilege of them presenting at the annual Chanticleer Authors Conferences are contingent upon us being flexible with our schedules and accommodating with their schedules.
This year is no different, especially with everything opening back up. We are thrilled to have Maggie Marr along with Eric Lucas and Reenita Mohltra Hora presenting at CAC23 as well as a few more other surprise presenters that we are awaiting confirmation.
So, please stay tuned for more info! Meanwhile, REGISTER TODAY – Seats are limited!
Book to Film Workshop – presented by Maggie Marr, Atty, Creative Representation
Maggie has negotiated deals and has worked with Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, Universal, Warner Brothers, Disney, Paramount, Hallmark Channel, Universal, BET, and Hulu.
Eric Lucas is a long-term professional writer and editor; former Associate Editor atAlaska AirlinesMagazine. His work is published in venues with millions of readers each month, around the world. He has eight books to his credit, including Michelin Travel Publications, MSN.com, and other travel guides.
He is presenting sessions at CAC23 on:
Essentials of Good Writing for Professional Contributors
How to Successfully Approach Magazine Editors
How to Use Magazine Features as Incredibly Useful Springboards to Books
Travel Writing Kaffeeklatsch
Copy Writing – Editing Tips
and more!
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, Bloomburg on-air news reporter, writer, and producer, Rolling Stone, and the Economic Times.
Reenita will present sessions on podcasting, finding your audience, how to write interesting content to expand readerships, marketing tips and tools for authors, and more.
Please do not hesitate to contact Kiffer at KBrown@ChantiReviews.com or David (Author Outreach) at DBeaumier@ChantiReviews.com with any questions or concerns.
Each one of our conferences have been very special,
but this one – but This One will be EXTRA SPECIAL!
June 23 – 26, 2022
We moved the 10th Chanticleer Authors Conference from the originally scheduled dates of April 7 – 10, 2022 to JUNE 23 – 26, 2022 so that more of you will be able to attend CAC22 In Real Life (IRL).
Because of the Covid Pandemic, the CAC 2020 and CAC 2021 had to be held virtually. We based the Zoomed operations out of the Hotel Bellwether with a few of local Chanticleerians joining us with safety protocols. It was starting to look as if CAC 2022 would also need to be held virtually also.
Additionally, crossing the border between Canada (Vancouver, B.C.) Canada and the U.S. (Bellingham, Wash.) was complicated and expensive for Canadians.
So, after doing some research, asking health experts, and tracking Covid numbers, we decided to ask the Hotel Bellwether if other dates were available to hold the conference. Fortunately, the last weekend of June was available. The rest of the summer was booked with weddings, which is wonderful! June 23 – 26, 2022!
And it is going to be our 10th Conference!We have plans to make it extra special!
Most importantly, the attendees! You are what makes this conference so special.
Learning from the experts – Learn from the Best!
Learning from each other
Networking and making new friends and connections
Our Keynote Speakers – CAC22 will feature CATHY ACE, international best-selling crime author with 2 TV shows in production.
And our SESSIONS on the Business and Marketing Side of Being an Author with the latest in Technology and Trends.
KICKSTARTER for Publishing – Explore how writers and publishers are using Kickstarter to bring new literature, audiobooks, podcasts, and more to life.
Writer’s Law School – Protecting Your Artistic Rights
TikTok & BookTok – Intro for Authors and Publishers and How to Get Started
Book to Film Sessions
Pitches and Log-lines
Alphabet Soup for Authors – SEO, AISEO, Meta Data, Keywords, & more
Branding for Authors
Long-tail Marketing for the Internet Age
Amazon Love – How to Get More
Selling Platforms – How to Reach a Global Market
Increasing Your Email List – How To
How to Hit the USA Today Bestseller List
Audio-Books for Authors – Tried and True methods without breaking the bank
How to Think like Amazon and Utilize Direct to Consumer Trends to Grow Your Audience
Elements of Effective Book Covers that SELL Your Book
and more to come!
Advanced Writing Sessions
Using Film Techniques for Fiction Writers – Camera angles, method acting for getting into a character’s pov, and creating subtext and tight dialogue
Your Brain on Writing
World Settings and Atmosphere
Creating Memorable Characters using Gert Hofstede’s Theory of Communication Dimensions
Captivating Co-Stars that add depth to your work-in-progress
Fractured Time Lines and Sustaining a Series
Five Things You Need to Know about POV
and more to come!
And this is just the start of the Sessions that CAC22 will offer.
The curriculum and quality of presenters at CACs is why the Chanticleer Authors Conference is considered to be one of the top conferences in the U.S. by Writer Magazine year after year!
Networking and Collaboration Opportunities
CAC’s KaffeeKlatches round-table discussions
Two Networking Cocktail Parties
BOOK FAIR – open to the general public on Sunday
ASK the PROs sessions – individual sign-up mini-sessions
Two Luncheons with Keynote Speakers
Live Music on Friday and Saturday Evenings with no-host bar
Evening Banquets
And much more!
And the Grand EVENING for the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Banquet and Awards Gala!
Love is in the air with Valentine’s Day, and what better way to find yourself than curling up with a good book and a warm drink. But, with the advent of romance, we thought we’d give you the chance to “date” a few of the many excellent books Chanticleer has reviewed.
Of course, now is the time that most people think about romance for Valentine’s Day like our Chatelaine Authors. Like with dating sites, the best way to improve your book’s dating profile is by submitting it for Reviews and Awards — and we have some great ones for you to look over here!
As the adage goes, don’t judge a book by it’s cover!
What we’re doing for this is just providing you some images and part of the review associated with the book, but not the book itself. If you think you’d be interested in giving it a read, feel free to click the “see more” button at the end of our review excerpt.
We do have to give a special thanks to Village Books and Paper Dreams right here in Whatcom County for inspiring us with their idea for “Blind Date with a Book,” where customers buy a book based on a review rather than knowing what it is.
Let’s look at some of the books for Valentine’s Day:
Do you like Paranormal Romance wrapped in Mystery and Family Relationships?
At first, Aura hopes that Natalie just went off with friends and didn’t bother to call. But the silence continues for more than a week. Aura jumps in her truck to search the last place Natalie’s cell phone had been used, a mountain near Somers, Montana, behind a place called the Diamond Ranch. Before she can get onto the mountain to search, Aura becomes embroiled in a darker mystery when she finds a mutilated hand near where Natalie had been staying. With the gruesome discovery, she fears that Natalie ran into more serious trouble than she had first suspected.
When a handsome sheriff’s deputy questions her, Aura feels a stirring she hasn’t ever experienced.
Dane Burke, a no-nonsense lawman, has a case to solve. He shouldn’t be thinking about the mysterious, beautiful drifter in any way except as a possible suspect. With one failed marriage and a non-existent relationship with his estranged brother, he can’t allow himself to feel anything, not even lust. Little does he know, Aura feels much the same, but for very different reasons. Aura keeps her true identity hidden: a shape-shifting nymph. As part of her supernatural nature, any man who loves her or that she loves will die. The two delve deeper into the mystery and the search for Natalie, and their feelings become impossible to deny.
Do you like Women’s Fiction that has Divorce, Romance with a splash of Literary Fiction?
In 1966, Jenny, a Mud Angel, dropped everything to fly to Florence, Italy, in search of treasures buried in mud and water after the Arno flooded. She worked tirelessly alongside her fellow Mud Angels to rescue these priceless works of art and ancient books.
For all of Lyn’s life, she heard her mother’s stories until they became mundane and commonplace. But before Jenny passe away, she gave Lyn instructions on where to find her precious journal from her time in Italy. She left a cryptic message, so when Lyn, an up-and-coming writer, has a chance to teach at a writer’s retreat in the city her mother loved, she jumps at the opportunity. Three years later, she still journeys there yearly for one month to explore Florence. With her latest book under her belt, Lyn decides to tell her mother’s story.
Do you like Historical Renaissance Fiction with a Literary Twist?
Vittoria Colonna, an Italian noblewoman and poet born in 1490, lives with grief and isolation. As an adult, she meets and forms a deep friendship with the revered painter and poet Michelangelo. This meeting forms the center point of the novel that takes readers back and forth through time. The story traces Vittoria’s life from her childhood and betrothal to her future husband Ferrante, to her later years with Michelangelo.
As a child, Vittoria leaves home for the island of Ischia. There, she lives with her betrothed Ferrante and his aunt Costanza d’Avalos.
Vittoria and Ferrante’s future union will strengthen political alliances. But will Vittoria and Ferrante happily fall in love?
Later, Vittoria becomes a widow and withdraws from public life for several years. One day, she meets Michelangelo, while he paints The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Their friendship changes each other’s lives forever.
Do you like Medieval Historical Fiction steeped in Alternate Religions with a nod to Ancient Civilizations?
Nonbelievers of the Great Mother Goddess threaten certain persecution. But Herrwn has maintained the traditional practices passed to him by his own father. As an orator in charge of repeating the legends and beliefs of his people, he knows the importance and the heavy responsibility required by his sacred office. With the decrease in believers outside of the valley, he understands the precarious position of the community and the difficult balance he must maintain.
Over the course of his long life, he has come to rely on his cousins, Olyrrwd, Chief Healer, and Ossiam, Chief Oracle, but as the years pass, his loyalties become torn when what starts as simple gibes between the two priests morphs into unspoken fear of what the other might do to gain favor with the various priestesses chosen as the Goddess Incarnate. Having lost his beloved wife and young child, Herrwn grows closer to Olyrrwd, and becomes the peacekeeper between the priests to keep what remaining family he has left.
Jack Volant, an aspiring painter and Union cavalry officer, wounded at Gettysburg, travels to Paris following the war to become a more accomplished artist. It is there that he begins a tumultuous relationship with Charlotte, a sculptor who sells her work to Empress Eugenie, wife of the Emperor, and a noted art patroness.
Jack’s younger brother Steven, while still in America, becomes embroiled in an affair with a professor’s wife. When the professor, an expert shot, learns of it, he challenges the young man to a duel. Fearing for his life, Steven changes his name and flees to Paris where he engages in the eerie occupation of unwrapping mummies in the salons attended by the elite.
All these dynamic characters, many involved in intrigue and murder, will interact in the decadent City of Light. They enjoy its ambience for only a short time, however, before war finds them once again. In 1870, the influence of the Empress, Prussian militarism and national rivalry will lead to disaster for France in the Franco Prussian war, the siege of Paris. In the chaos, Charlotte, deeply in love with Jack, waits anxiously as he attempts to save his brother and Jerome from the Prussian onslaught.
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.
Maggie has negotiated deals and has worked with Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, Universal, Warner Brothers, Disney, Paramount, Hallmark Channel, Universal, BET, and Hulu.
Eric Lucas is a long-term professional writer and editor; former Associate Editor at Alaska Airlines Magazine. His work is published in venues with millions of readers each month, around the world. He has eight books to his credit, including Michelin Travel Publications, MSN.com, and other travel guides.
REENITA MALHOTRA HORA – Podcaster & Broadcast Journalist & Contributor
