Working with Ingram, Selling on Amazon, Pitching, the Art of Subtext, Podcasting, and more! Learn from the Best at CAC24!

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🌷 Happy Spring to our Northern Hemisphere Chanticleerians! 🌷

🍂Happy Fall to our Southern Hemisphere Chanticleerians! 🍁

This time of year is the time for the

Annual Chanticleer Authors Conference

CAC24!

and the highly anticipated

Chanticleer International Book Awards Banquet and Ceremony!

When we start seeing tulips and daffodils coming up with snow geese and Trumpeter swans flying across the sky, we know that it is time for the annual Chanticleer Authors Conference here in Bellingham, Wash. Did I tell you how much I love this time of year in the Pacific Northwest? These photos were taken about a 15 minute drive south from here.

But I digress.

We are here to discuss Working with Ingram, Selling on Amazon, Pitching, the Art of Subtext, Podcasting, and more for #seriousAuthors!

These are just a few of the sessions that CAC 24 is offering in just a few short weeks!

Be sure to check out CAC’s Master Classes!

Incorporating Mystery and Suspense Techniques Into Any Genre–Fiction OR Memoir with D.D. Black
Writing the Hollywood Adaptation Master Class Workshop with Kim Hornsby

Story Telling / Writing Craft

Dynamic Dialogue: The Art of Subtext
Grabbing the Reader’s Interest and Not Letting Go – Techniques and Strategies
Writing the Short Story
Look Out! He’s Behind You!
Power Moves to Make Your Story UNDENIABLE
Women’s Fiction Writing
Get to Know Your Characters – A new perspective
Incorporating the Mystery Genre Into Any Genre – Master Class
Pacing and Plotting
Series Planning

AI, ChatGPT, Alphabet Soup, and the Future of Publishing

CHAT GPT
AI intro Visuals – Creating Cover Ideations & Story Telling Collateral
Alphabet Soup – SEO, Metadata, Tagging, ISBNs, and more

Marketing

Working with Ingram
Marketing for Indie Authors
Multi-Author Anthologies – the Why and How You Should Do Them
How to market your work, yourself, be seen by producers, execs, studios. How to get a Lit Manager or Agent and if you need one.
Pitching
How to Promote Your Works like a Book Publicist
Series: Creating and Developing a Series. Why You Should and How Panel
Going Wide—Selling Your Books Internationally
Selling On Amazon – How to Up Your Game
Getting Your Books into Libraries – Panel
Multi-Author Anthologies – the WHY and HOW for your Book Marketing Strategy

Book to Film Sessions

Writing the Hollywood Adaption – Masterclass – Thursday
Learn the Power of Pitch Decks, Log Lines, and Quick Pitches
From Novel to Production – The Story of Dream Jumper’s Promise
How to Write the “TV Movie”
Marketing for Screen Writers
How to Read a Film (so you can write a Book to Film work)
How to Design a Smashing Screenplay: The Importance of Planning and Outlining a Story Before Your Write

Writing Life

The Five Best Pieces of Advice I Ignored – D.D. Black
Healthy Habits for the Writing Life – Tana Hope
Do’s and Don’ts for Book Events – Paul Hanson & Chloe Hovind

Social Media Platforms and Expanding Your Readership and Building Your Author Brand

Intro to TikTok
Intro to REELS
Podcasting
Audiobooks
Crowdsourcing as a Marketing Tool
LIVE Podcast Interview with Kim Hornsby on the True Fiction Podcast hosted by Reenita Malhotra Hora
LIVE Podcast Interview with D.D. Black on Author in the Headlights hosted by Strider Klusman
Increasing Your Email List and Expanding Your Readership – Tips and Tools that Work!

With more sessions added weekly.

Learn from the Best

Below are just a few members of CAC24’s faculty. For the most up-to-date list with more information on each faculty member, please visit this page: https://www.chantireviews.com/chanticleer-conference/chanticleer-authors-conference-presenters-and-faculty/

Please check back often as we continuously update the CAC pages.

Susan V. Meyers – Creative Writing Program Director at Seattle University and Pushcart Prize and Best American Series Nominee. Her novel Failing the Trapeze won the Nilsen Award.

Nicole J. Persun is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author with a master’s degree in Creative Writing & Instruction. Nicole has written and published in multiple genres, most recently book club fiction under the pen name Jennifer Gold.

Kim Hornsby is a USA Today and Amazon Bestselling Author along with being a sold, multi-optioned, and produced screenwriter. Her Chanticleer Paranormal Book Awards winning novel, The Dream Jumper’s Promise, is in development with plans to film in late 2024. We are excited for her Romcom Christmas movie, Christmas in Crystal Creek, that is slated for filming in 24/25.

D.D. Black’s Thomas Austin Crime Thrillers series has garnered more than 30,000 Amazon reviews and have earned the #1 Best Seller in Mystery Series. Ranked #1 in Traditional Detective Mysteries in Books and Kindle Store. Previously, he wrote thrillers under the name A.C. Fuller, including The Alex Vane Media Thrillers, The Ameritocracy Series, and The Crime Beat. Altogether, he’s written and published over thirty books.

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.