The 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference
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Book to Film Workshop, Thursday April 27, 2023
CAC23 April 27 – 30, 2023
LEARN FROM THE BEST
at CAC23
The 2023 CAC 2022 CIBA Ceremony. We will honor the 2022 CIBA FINALISTS and the Announcements for 1st Place and Grand Prize Winners will take place April 29, 2023.
See our announcement on our main Conference page.
Click here for a link to the schedule of all sessions
Please check back often! All information subject to change.
Multichannel Marketing
and the Business of Being a Writer
The New Era of Content Creation in All Its Forms
Honing Your Writing Craft
We have a spectacular line-up of experts in marketing, book publicity, publishing, and advanced writing craft lined up for the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference!
Hashtags: #CAC23
Headliners and Special Guests
We are excited and honored to have Maggie Marr, Atty to present and participate LIVE this year at the Chanticleer Authors Conference!
As a former ICM motion picture literary agent, Maggie Marr worked on such projects as Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, Underworld, Last First Kiss, Bourne Identity, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Game of Thrones, as well as, a host of books to film and TV projects. Her extensive background in entertainment and intellectual property law led her to found Maggie Marr Legal, a boutique intellectual property law practice dedicated to the needs of Hollywood’s creatives.
Maggie is presenting a 3-Hour workshop on Books to Film & TV: What Every Author Needs to Know
She is also presenting sessions during CAC 23 on copyright law, contracts, entertainment and publishing representation, and more.
Eric Lucas, Writer-at large
ERIC LUCAS – Travel Writer and Writer-at-Large
Eric 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.
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- Essentials of Good Writing
- How to Successfully Approach Magazine Editors
- How to Use Magazine Features as Incredibly Useful Springboards to Books
- Travel Writing Kaffeeklatsch
- Copy Writing – Editing Tips
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Reenita Maholtra Hora
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.
Sessions and Panels:
- Narrative Fiction Podcasts vs Audiobooks
- Sparking Interesting IP to expand story audiences
- Writing for Magazines & Journals to Expand Your Readership
- Marketing Tips and Tools for Authors
- Podcasting
Wellness Expert, Tana Hope
TANA HOPE – Wellness Expert
Wellness Expert Tana Hope is back due to popular demand. Learn how to optimize your health and well-being by connecting the dots of health and wellness with Tana’s in-depth knowledge of how our bio-machine operates based on the fundamental laws of the universe.
In a fast-paced, technologically advancing world, our bodies face new dangers such as electro-smog, noise pollution, and unhealthy processed foods filled with cancer-causing additives and preservatives. With Tana’s guidance, you will discover how to overcome these challenges and more to cultivate a path to optimal health, well-being, and peak performance.
Her engaging, lively presentation, and the insightful workshops will leave you with life-enhancing skills and healthy habits that you’ll want to remember. Don’t forget to bring your pen -you will want to take notes!
Tana will also offer a session on Feng Shui for Writers along with an informal session of Q & A.
Tana’s workshops include:
- Thriving in the 21st century: Learn how to not only survive thru the jungle of invisible and silent harmful agents all around us, but thrive!
- Understanding your Food: Gain insight into the harmful additives and preservatives that may be lurking in your diet.
- Healthy Habits for the Writer’s Lifestyle: Develop fundamental and beneficial life skills and habits to optimize your health.
- Exercise and Building Good Movement Habits for the Writing Life.
Tana Hope is a certified posture instructor, the author of “Healthy Habits for Desk Potatoes,” “Desk Potatoes, Don’t Be Fried,” and “To eat or Not to eat List for Fried Potatoes.”
Take control of your well-being with the expert knowledge and wisdom offered at the Chanticleer Author’s Conference. Start your journey today to optimal health and thriving in the 21st century
Lisa Spicer is the CEO of Spiral Story Media. She is an award winning producer and editor with an approach to non-fiction story telling that empowers viewers with a proactive outcome, demonstration of success, model of behavior change, or call to action.
She came to writing from her career in film and video production. Starting with PBS/Seattle, documentary unit and then Bill Nye—her work in editing won three Daytime Emmys. Spicer received screenwriting certificate with Stewart Stern at UW and has worked as a producer & editor for the award-winning Homeless in Bellingham Film Project and culminating documentary Looking for Functional Zero).
Sessions and Panels
Podcasting and Media Panel
Tips for Writing with Film in Mind – Sunday Workshop
There’s growing interest among authors in their books being optioned, transformed into a screenplay, and produced as a feature film or network series. Why don’t producers ask authors to write the scripts? How is a screenplay different than a novel or memoir? You needn’t become a screenwriter to write a story that would make a great film, but knowing how films are made in relation to the script can help you write with audio-visual storytelling in mind. This workshop will show you elements of film craft, such as shot type and sound, that are usually written into screenplays. Filmmakers borrow conventions from theater, such as mis-en-scene; knowing this can inspire your use of elements like props or costume to communicate themes. A screenplay is an engaging set of instructions for using sound and moving pictures to tell a story. What holds true for films as much as books: story rules.
Beth Bacon
Beth Bacon – Amazon Algorithm Specialist & Children’s Book Author
Beth Bacon is an award-winning author of books for young readers including The Book No One Wants To Read, I Hate Reading, Blank Space, and The Worst Book Ever. Her awards include the Library Media Connection Editor’s Choice Award, the Candlewick Award for Picture Book Writing, and the Marion Dane Bauer Award for Middle-Grade Writing. Beth is a graduate of Harvard University with her B.A. in Literature. She also has an MFA in Writing For Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is available for school readings, contact her at www.bethbaconauthor.com.
Sessions:
- Increase Your Book Sales by Targeting Online Algorithms (Alphabet Soup)
- How to Communicate with Your Graphics Designer to Get the Results that You Want!
- Book Covers
- Websites
- Book Formatting and more
- Elements of Book Cover Design – Kaffeeklatsch with Kiffer
Hannah Jacobsen
Hannah Jacobson – Founder, Book Award Pro
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- How Book Awards Promote Books
- Kaffeeklatsch – Book Awards – 411
Michelle Cox, Awarding-winning author and marketing maestro!
MICHELLE COX – Award-winning Mystery 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 the Mystery & Mayhem Award from Chanticleer and several positive 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.
Sessions:
- BookBub and Book Funnel Selling Platforms
- Increasing Your Email List and Expanding Your Readership
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- Author Branding
- Audiobooks – The 411 (And probably more).
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Spencer Ellsworth has been writing since he learned how. He is the author of the Starfire space opera trilogy from Tor and The Great Faerie Strike from Broken Eye Books, and has had fiction published in Lightspeed Magazine, F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies and many other places. He lives in Bellingham, Washington with his wife, fantasy artist Chrissy Ellsworth, and three children, and he would really like a war mammoth if you know a guy.
Dr. Charlie Robinson is an engineering Professor Emeritus at Clarkson University, a Senior Rehabilitation Research Career Scientist retired (30+ years) from the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the Founding Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, a successful writer of over $20 million in scientific grant funding, author of 200+ scientific articles, a former Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, a reviewer of major Federal research grants, an IEEE Life Fellow, and a U.N.E.S.C.O. Academician. Yet he still values his start as a West Virginia coal miner!
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.
Sessions: Story Bibles 101
From the simple to the complex, worldbuilding and story bibles go hand in hand. Learn the secrets of good notetaking and create a system that will grow with your world.
Troy Lambert, Plottr
Troy Lambert, Education Lead for PLOTTR | Mystery Author
Troy is a freelance writer, author, and editor. He’s written over 30 novels, and several works of non-fiction. He’s helped countless writers and others tell their stories.
He lives, works, and plays in the mountains of Idaho with his wife and two very talented dogs. He’s also a big fan of the Big Leboswki, as you will see, and is known to some as “the plot dude.”
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- Outlining Your Books
- Genre Specific Editing
- Pacing and Plotting
- Series Planning
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Natalie Dale, MD, is a former neurologist turned writer and medical story consultant. Her “Writer’s Guide to Medicine” series currently has two volumes published through Ranunculus Press. Volume 1: Setting & Character was released in 2021, and Volume 2: Illness & Injury recently launched in July 2022. Volume 3: A Writer’s Guide to Mental Illness is set to launch in July 2023.
Dr. Dale lectures on writing about medicine and has been invited to speak at organizations such as Sisters in Crime, Willamette Writers, and Write on the Sound. Her essays and short stories have been published through The Bump, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Wyldblood, and The Timberline Review, among others. In her spare time, Dr. Dale loves board games, hiking, and all things alpaca.
To find out more, check out her website and sign up for her newsletter. You can also follow her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
Gail Noble-Sanderson – Author
Gail enjoyed a productive and rewarding thirty-year career as a Speech-Language Pathologist providing therapy and instruction to children with special needs, later serving as the Director of Rehabilitation in a regional hospital and finally ending her career teaching at Western Washington University.
Throughout her career Gail wrote and published instructional programs for children with special needs. Ten years ago, she turned her love of writing to fiction completing the three awarding-winning historical fiction novels in her Lavender Meuse Trilogy series. She is currently writing a cozy mystery series that takes place in Wales. Gail self-publishes through her publishing house, Noble Press.
Gail and husband Terry love to travel the world including two trips to France during the research and writing of her first three books, The Lavender House in Meuse, The Passage Home to Meuse, and The Lavender Bees of Meuse. A trip to Wales is certainly on their agenda as she completes her first novel in the new cozy mystery series, “The Book of Rules”. The book’s protagonist, a young woman named Drew Davies, lives in the village of Mumbles, Wales, and works in the railway depot in Swansea, Wales. She, along with her Granda, her Nonna and a colorful cast of friends, become involved in Drew’s sleuthing as she attempts to solve the mysteries in this new series of novels.
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Janet Oakley: Award-Winning Author and Historian, and Community Leader
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. Read pick and the 2015 WILLA Silver Award, Pulpwood Queen Book Club 2016 backlist pick for February 2016.
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, Janet will present at the 2021 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards Ceremonies (The CIBAs) on Sunday evening and recognize the finalists and announce the Grand Prize winner, and perhaps the Overall Grand Prize winner on Sunday evening
KIFFER BROWN
Kiffer is the founder of Chanticleer Book Reviews and International Writing Competitions, LLC. She also specializes in curating books with the potential to become fully actualized intellectual properties.
Her addiction is finding sparkling gems that will become tomorrow’s bestsellers. She is known for her instinct in picking winners. She also acts as an independent acquisitions editor for publishers and entertainment companies. Kiffer is known for her marketing talent and networking skills. She truly loves what she does and her passion shows!