Regular Conference Sessions Begin Friday, April 26, 2019

Location: Hotel Bellwether
1 Bellwether Way, Bellingham, WA 98225

• Breakout Rooms for Friday (See map on Right):
  Board Room
  Compass Room (Friday and Saturday only)
  Admiral’s Room ( Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)
  Garden Green Room (adjacent to Admiral’s Room facing the water)
• Saturday  and Sunday we will expand to the Ballroom
• Ballroom (across from main hotel) and
• Ballroom Foyer (aka the Book Room managed by Village Books

Sessions: 
Session Descriptions
Session Schedule

**Sessions are subject to change**

Registration:
Registration opens at 9:00 a.m. Friday morning in the Bellwether and continues throughout the weekend. When you arrive, please check in with Chanticleer’s registration desk inside the Hotel Bellwether’s Garden Room to receive your conference badge and information packet. You will be able to check your books into the book room when the book room staff arrives on Saturday morning.

We can’t wait to see you!

Session Descriptions:  We are updating this page as of 4/24/2019! Please keep checking back! Thanks – the Chanticleer Team

• Special Masterclasses (MC): Limited attendees, intensive hands-on workshops on Thursday, April 25, 2019
  •  Master Classes will take place at the Bellingham Yacht Club
  • Jessica Morrell will teach the morning session (9:30 a.m. – 12:30) Revisions & Editing: Secrets of The Dark Arts: 
  • Lunch will be at the Bellingham Yacht Club and is included with registration
  • J.D. Barker will teach the afternoon session (1:30 – 4:30)  Constructing and Deconstructing a Novel 
  • The BYC Lounge opens at 5 p.m.
• Storycraft, Editing, Development (SED): Tools, tips, advice for improving your craft and making your words shine. Jessica Morrell, Wendy Kendall, & Avis Adams
• Marketing, Publicity, Platform (MPP): From social media savvy to author websites and brands.
• Sales Tools & Strategies (STS): Clever promotion, timing, strategies, tools and techniques for optimal sales.
• Publishing, Production, Distribution (PPD): Form and design. Pitches. Book Blurbs. Covers. Book Design. Current publishing trends. New digital media. The Nitty Gritty —
• A Touch of Hollywood (ToH): It wouldn’t be the West coast without it.
• Networking & Fun (NetFun): Special events and networking opportunities.
• KaffeeKlatsches (KK): Informal gatherings led by some of our terrific speakers and guests in the ballroom.
• Author Panels (AP)

SESSION Listings  #CAC19

• Storycraft, Editing, Development (SED):

  • Immersive Fiction with Jessica Morrell – Thursday Morning Master Writing Craft Class – Intermediate to Advanced Levels  – 3 hours
  • Fiction Master Writing Class – with J.D. Barker Thursday Afternoon — Intermediate to Advance – 3 hours
  • Crossing Genre – J.D. Barker –
  • Memoir Writing – Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
  • How to Construct Big Ideas – Scott Steindorff
  • A Dialogue About Dialogue – Wendy Kendall & Avis Adams
  • Sculpting Unforgettable Characters – Wendy Kendall
  • Clues that Captivate — Wendy Kendall
  • How to Write an Extended Series — Michelle Cox

• • Marketing, Publicity, Platform (MPP):

    • Getting Media Attention as an Indie Author or Small Press – Allison Vrbova
    • Indie Author Book Promotion – Adam Woods 
    • Page to Stage: Inspiration, Tools and Public Speaking Tips for Writers– Betsey Graziana Fasbinder
    • Gearing Marketing Content and Collateral to Your Identified  Target Audience – Allison Vrbova
    • Making Social Media, Smart Media – Wendy Kendall

 Sales Tools & Strategies (STS):

• • Metadata Tips by Adam Woods
  • Bookseller Confidential: Covers & Shelf Talkers & POS – oh my! Books have, maybe, two or three seconds to catch a book buyers attention — professional or consumer. Find out how to make your books sell themselves. Kiffer Brown

• Publishing, Production, Distribution (PPD):

  • Audiobook Creation & Production — Chris Mottes & Martin Swanholm- 2 hour workshops
  • Beyond the Book — Entertainment, Film, and TV — Scott Steindorff
  • Nuts and Bolts – Kiffer Brown
  • Going Wide Sales Strategy – Adam Woods
  • Amazon Demystified (including KDP) – Janet Oakley

• Hollywood & Entertainment (H&E):

  • What Hollywood Wants – Scott Steindorff
  • How Storytelling is Changing – Scott Steindorff
  • Art of the Pitch – Kiffer Brown

• Writing Life (WL)

  • How to Overcome Writers’ Block with Mediation – Avanti Centrae
  • Breaking Down Daunting Tasks into Manageable Bite-Size Pieces – Cami Ostman As a psychotherapist and as a writer, Cami excels at helping people figure out what it is they REALLY have to say. Her gift is to break down the daunting tasks in life into manageable bite-sized pieces for people so they can experience success. Sunday Keynote

TIME TIME TABLE   2019

Scheduling in Progress, last updated April 24, 2019. SUBJECT TO CHANGE. As with any conference, all scheduled sessions are firm…until they are not.

Friday, April 26, 2019

Please check back we are updating the schedule daily with the latest information. Thank you, Kiffer

April 24, 2019

Regular Conference Sessions (Fri-Sun sessions) are held at the Hotel Bellwether

Saturday, April 27, 2018

Sunday, April 22, 2018