Chanticleer Authors Conference 2016: A Photo Recap

The Bellwether is one of the most beautiful places to stay, right on Bellingham Bay!

Kiffer Brown was ready to lead us through the weekend

Kaffee Klastches were a relaxed way to learn from fellow authos

Kiffer and Diane Sillan Isaacs led a Kaffee Klastche about everything from intellectual property to publishing

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Panel is always a blast

The Authors on Amazon panel offered their tips and insights into having success on the worlds biggest ebook platform

Robert Dugoni is one of our most popular speakers

We even had terrific turnouts for readings

Pam Binder dialogued about….dialogue

Nicole Evelina was having a great time, and she didn’t even know she was the Overall Grand Prize Winner yet!

Mike Hartner gets the Chanticleer Award for all round great guy. And his books are just as terrific as he is!

William Kenower taught us about social media an writing with confidence

Jennifer Karchmer taught about writing like a journalist

Diane Sillan Isaacs taught about pitches, loglines and intellectual property

Diane Garland is the master of continuity editing

Fox Deatry taught us to be disruptive!

Conference attendees had a lot to learn

They learned from our terrific speakers

They learned from each other

They learned about publishing and distribution

They learned about marketing and sales strategies

And then they relaxed at the end of the day with their new friends

Cocktail hour was our favorite hour

And the luncheons were terrific too

Robert Dugoni went into overtime on his Keynote speech, but nobody seemed to mind

The Book Fair sold a lot of books!

Books were piled high, almost everyone who attended had something in the book room

Piles and piles of books

Thanks to Village Books and Paul Hanson for staffing the book room!

It was tough to choose from so many terrific and award winning books

Award winning authors were on hand to sign books

Some authors had a lot of ribbons!

Everyone wanted their picture taken with our “special guest”

Sherlock was happy to volunteer himself to be raffled off

Everyone wanted their picture taken with him. Shari Stauch from Where Writers Win and Kiffer Brown aren’t letting him get away

Jacquie Rogers and Honey Beaulieu both wanted a dance

A lot of “Characters” attend #CAC

Our Intern Lacey (normally hiding behind the camera) even had her turn

Pamela Beason in the middle of a handsome sandwich with Sherlock and Robert Dugoni

Media Magic Maker Amanda Hagarty takes her turn

Sean Dwyer made a new chum

Janey Shawgo even bought him a drink

Who is taller, Richard Mann or Sherlock?

Sharon Anderson photo bombing Sherlock

Everybody bought tickets for their chance to bring him home

 Things may have gotten a little crazy during the Big Hair Makeovers….

The first to volunteer for Big Hair was our captain Kiffer Bown

Kiffer’s hairspray advice: Keep your mouth closed and cover your wine

Things are starting to really take shape…a big swirling mass…kinda like our conference a week before it started…

Glamor Queens

Loving every minute of it

More authors volunteer for Big Hair: Sean Dwyer & Jacquie Rogers.

We celebrated a lot of 1st place Category winners!

We had ribbons

And more ribbons

Fox Deatry and Kiffer Brown were our co-emcees for the evening

Corey Knutsen: Cygnus Awards

John Yarrow: Cygnus Awards

James Wells: Cygnus Awards

Cygnus 2015 Blue Ribbon Winners

Grant Harper Reid: Journey 2015 Blue Ribbon Winner

Cherie O’Boyle: M&M Awards

Lonna Enox: M&M and Clue Awards

Kate Vale: M&M Awards

Jennifer Mueller: M&M Awards

Wendy Delaney: M&M Awards

Michael Scheffel: M&M and Clue

Marian Exall: Clue Awards

KJ Klemme: Clue Awards

M&M 2015 Blue Ribbon Winners

Clue 2015 Blue Ribbon Winners

James Conroyd Martin: Chaucer Awards

Nicole Evelina: Chaucer & Chatelaine Awards

Kaylin McFarren: Chatelaine Awards

Mary Ann Henry: Chatelaine Awards

Chaucer 2015 Blue Ribbon Awards

Chatelaine 2015 Blue Ribbon Awards

Sara Dahmen: Laramie 2015 Blue Ribbon Award Winner

Nikki McCormack: Dante Rossetti Award Winner

Pamela Beason: Dante Rossetti Award Winner

Dante Rossetti 2015 Blue Ribbon Award Winners

KJ McPike: Paranormal Awards

Dr. Gail Siler, Phd: Paranormal Awards

Paranormal 2015 Blue Ribbon Winners

Caitlyn Hicks: Somerset Awards

Judith Kirscht: Somerset Awards

Gary Grossman: Somerset Awards

Our 2015 Winners!

And then we celebrated the Grand Prize winners from each genre:

Grand Prize Ribbons!

James R. Wells Awarded the Cygnus Grand Prize for THE GREAT SYMMETRY

Nikki McCormack awarded Dante Rossetti Grand Prize for THE GIRL AND THE CLOCKWORK CAT

Sara Dahmen awarded Laramie Grand Prize for DR. KINNEY’S HOUSEKEEPER

Nicole Evelina awarded Chatelaine Grand Prize for DAUGHTER OF DESTINY

Lonna Enox awarded Clue Grand Prize for BLODD RELATIONS

Grant Harper Reid awarded the Journey Grand Prize for RHYTHM FOR SALE

Wendy Delaney awarded Mystery & Mayhem Grand Prize for THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARTY

And then came the final announcement of our Overall Grand Prize Winner!

The audience waited in rapt silence….

Gregory Phillips, last year’s winner, opened the envelope with co-emcee’s Kiffer Brown and Fox Deatry…

Announcing Nicole Evelina’s DAUGHTER OF DESTINY as the Chanticleer 2015 Best Book and Overall Grand Prize Winner

Nicole proudly displayed her Overall Grand Prize Ribbon

Nicole won a LOT of ribbons that night, two blue ribbons, one Grand Prize, and one Overall Grand Prize

Chanticleers 2015 Best Book: DAUGHTER OF DESTINY

And the best thing about #CAC16: we fooled you all into thinking we are tidy and organized!

The #CAC16 Aftermath – Our Chanticleer office on Monday after you all went home!