The Books By the Bay Fair at Village Books
for #CAC24 will be held during the conference in collaboration with Village Books! 

The CAC24 Book Fair will look a little different this year!

We’re excited to have Village Books with us at the Sheraton this year! As always, they will be with us Saturday and Saturday night at the Awards Ceremony, so be prepared to greatly increase your TBR! However, on Sunday, we will move the public Book Fair to Village Books’ Fairhaven Location to celebrate the end of the Conference and bring your work directly to the public! We’ll have tables throughout the bookstore to present work, and authors are encouraged to walk around and see what else is happening when they aren’t signed up to table!

The Book Fair will be open to all CAC attendees and presenters!

We will promote the Book Fair on Social Media, and Facebook Events!

Interested in selling ebooks? We recommend Bookchain.ca for e-pub sales and promotions.

If you have any questions regarding the CAC24 Book Room, please contact David at DBeaumier@ChantiReviews.com

We will reply within 72 business hours of receiving your email.

Authors: If your name isn’t up here yet, it should be soon, but please reach out to David Beaumier at DBeaumier@ChantiReviews.com

 

This year’s CAC24 Book Fair will be held at

Village Books Fairhaven, Bellingham!

Village Books Fairhaven, Bellingham

Sunday, April 21st, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

A FREE and FUN FAMILY EVENT

Door Prizes and Raffles

Ongoing Activities

Plus more activities as authors join in! We invite you to check back! 

OR Meet Authors the Old Fashioned Way – stop by their tables and chat with them at the Book Fair.

* As with these crazy times, presenters, times of sessions, sessions, just about anything is may change at the last minute and without notice. We appreciate your patience and understanding. Team Chanticleer

 


Mohan Ranga Rao is the author of the internationally well received travel memoir “Inner Trek, A reluctant pilgrim in the Himalayas.” He has an engineering degree, and a master’s in business administration (MBA) from the University of Mysore. He has written over 40 blogs since 2019, apart from his book. His author’s website is https://innertrek.me/.

His first book, “Inner trek, A reluctant pilgrim in the Himalayas,” is about his trek around Mount Kailash, a holy Tibetan Mountain revered by over a billion people. What started to him as merely a challenging high-altitude trek soon became a life-changing adventure. With a blend of humour, honesty, and keen insight into the transformative power of a trek around Mount Kailash. He has narrated his journey toward a deeper understanding of the world around him. It is a true story of self-discovery at 19,000 feet.

His second book, Myopia, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning is about his life journey with his blind daughter and his struggling start-ups.

As of December 10th,2022, his book has 64 Amazon reviews with a 4.50-star rating and 62 Good read reviews with a rating of 4.52.

Mohan is 65, married to Mamatha and has has two adult children, Rachita aged 31, a PR professional and Rahul aged 26 who is doing his masters at UTA, Austin, Texas,USA. He gets up early, sees the sunrise, walks 20 miles a week, plays tennis almost daily, reads, meditates for half an hour every day, and cooks a couple of times a week.


Reenita Malhotra Hora is an award-winning screenwriter, novelist and audio producer. 

Native to Mumbai, she has many years of experience growing organizations from startups to medium-sized businesses through storytelling, creative marketing and business strategy. Reenita has written eight books (both fiction and non-fiction), two podcast series, a pilot and two feature screenplays.

As a writer she has contributed to Bloomberg, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, Asian Investor, Times of India, Rolling Stone,  Economic Times, National Geographic Kids, Cartoon Network Asia, Disney and more.   

As an on-air news reporter, writer, and producer,  she has contributed to Bloomberg, RTHK Radio 3, Monocle Radio and the BBC.

Her female-driven comedy, ‘Operation Mom’ is a Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards winner, a three category finalist for the Chanticleer International Book Awards (Dante Rosetti YA, Mark Twain – Humor/Satire, Chatelaine – Romance) and an Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize finalist. Her YA fantasy screenplay, ‘Shadow Realm’ is a Script2Comic and Launchpad Prose finalist, a Screencraft, Vail Film Festival and LA Intl Screenplay Awards quarterfinalist, and a selected nominee for the New Media Film Festival.

Passionate about the Indian narrative, her stories reflect the South Asian experience. Learn more about her projects at: http://www.reenita.com.


Strider lives in Washington’s Puget Sound with his wife Pam. He writes Young Adult and Dystopian fiction, using the story to teach as well as entertain. Twenty five years as a firefighter/EMT, and dozens more as a general contractor, landscape contractor, designer, business owner, big game guide, ski instructor, sword fighter, and whatever else got him outdoors, his personal knowledge and feel of the subject matter shows in the telling, as each story emerges in intricate detail.

“It’s all in the feel, but having been there helps,” his words of wisdom when it comes to telling a good story.


 

Michael Cooper immigrated to Israel in 1966, lived in Jerusalem during the last year the city was divided between Israel and Jordan, and graduated from Tel Aviv University Medical School. Now a pediatric cardiologist, he returns frequently to the region for medical missions, serving Palestinian children who lack access to care. His historical fiction is set in the Holy Land; in 1290, The Rabbi’s Knight, finalist for the 2014 CIBA Chaucer Award; in 1948, Foxes in the Vineyard grand prize winner of 2011 SFWC Indie Publishing Contest, in 1914 – Wages of Empire finalist for 2022 CIBA Rossetti & Hemingway Awards http://michaeljcooper.net/


Gail grew up Ohio moving to northern California in her early twenties. Her daughters Laura and Michelle were born in Salinas, CA, and when they were very young, they moved to Charlotte, NC and later north to Urbana, MD. One more move took them to the beautiful Pacific Northwest where Gail and her family have lived for the last 35 years.

Throughout her career as a Speech-Language Pathologist, 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.


Michelle Cox is the author of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, a mystery/romance saga set in the 1930s Chicago often described as “Downton Abbey Meets Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.”  To date, the series has won over sixty international awards and has received positive reviews from Library Journal (starred), Booklist (starred), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and various media outlets, such as Popsugar, Buzzfeed, Redbook, Elle, Brit&Co., Bustle, Culturalist, Working Mother, and many others.

Cox also pens the wildly popular, “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a weekly blog chronicling the lives of Chicago’s forgotten residents.  She lives in the northern suburbs of Chicago with her husband and three children and is hard at work on her next novel.


History nerd and garden enthusiast, award-winning author J.L. Oakley writes historical fiction spanning the mid-19th century to WW II with characters standing up for something in their own time and place. Her writing has been recognized with a 2013 Bellingham Mayor’s Arts Award, the Chanticleer Grand Prize for Tree Soldier and Goethe Grand Prize for The Jøssing Affair, the 2018 Will Rogers Silver Medallion and 2018 WILLA Silver Awards for Mist-chi-mas: A Novel of Captivity. The Quisling Factor won the 2020 Hemingway Grand Prize. When not writing, she demonstrates 19th century folkways and weaves.


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FAQs about Books By the Bay Book Fair at Village Books

General Questions:

Q: When will the book room be open? 

The Book Room will open around 10 a.m. Saturday at the Sheraton. Books will be taken from the Sheraton to Village Books if they were checked in on Saturday. Other books can be dropped off at Village Books by 12:30pm at the earliest.

Q: Where will the Book Room be located?

The book room will be in the combination Fairhaven Ballroom at the Sheraton on Saturday, and move to Village Books on Sunday to best interact with the community.

Q: When will the Festival activities be (signings, readings, meet the author, drawings, and prizes)?

The Book Fair activities will be happening from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday.

 

If you are a reader, we encourage you to follow your favorite author on Twitter, Facebook, become a subscriber to their blog. Authors are delighted to connect with their readers!

Author Specific Questions:

Q: How will sales be handled?

Books will be available for purchase through Village Books according to the agreement signed by the author.

Q: How do I sign my book up for Books By the Bay at Village Books?

Authors must register for the full conference to be eligible to have their books in the book room, and we will send out instructions for how to sign up with Village Books by mid-March. You will be given explicit instructions on consigning your books with Village Books. Most authors will bring or ship their own books, for those who must go through a publisher, it is possible to have Village Books order them.

Q: Does this mean leftover books will go to Village Books to be sold after Books by the Bay at Village Books?

Village Books is in no way signing up to carry your books in their store–that is a separate process which they will gladly discuss with you. Those books left after Books by the Bay at Village Books are the author’s responsibility. If the author does not make arrangements to take them away, they will be disposed of with no compensation.

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