Jacqui Clarke, financial advisor and award-winning author of Stop Worrying About Money, gives us sage advice about money management and writing in the latest Chanticleer 10-Question Interview Series.
Tax season is upon us and many of us are fighting the urge to bury our heads in the sand as we look at the costs of, well, everything. I recently interviewed Australian financier Jacqui Clarke about how she merges her business life with her writing life.
Success With Hydrangeas by Lorraine Ballato is the perfect guide for anyone wanting to upgrade their landscape with this big, beautiful flowery bush.
Springtime is the right time for planning a beautiful summer garden, and one of the most popular garden shrubs is the colorful and hearty Hydrangea. I recently reviewed Success With Hydrangeas and fell in love with this beautiful flowering shrub.
With several colors to choose from, these bountiful flowering bushes add a bright spot to anyone’s yard. They also handle weather well, so you don’t have to worry about them during turbulent spring weather.
Professional horticulturist and CIBA award-winning author Lorraine Ballato’s Success with Hydrangeas: A Gardener’s Guide offers a comprehensive collection of information and photos for one of the world’s most popular flowering plants. With her sage advice, she helps gardeners “make your hydrangeas thrive” in gardens and landscapes to share their beauty.
If you are planning on upgrading your landscape this spring, consider adding hydrangeas to your yard and help them reach their full bloom with this informative guide.
I met Marijke McCandless, author of Naked in the Now: Juicy Practices for Getting Present through my work at Chanticleer Book Reviews. She is a mindfulness coach and is one of the joyful people I’ve met. Her book, Naked in the Now, is about joyfulness and finding our way back to what brings us joy after years of focusing on everything but the things that bring us joy.
McCandless won the Mind & Spirit CIBA award from Chanticleer Book Reviews and you can check out the interview I conducted with her by clicking—
The Chanticleer Authors Conference has a great line up of guest speakers this year, including J.D. Barker, bestselling author and ghostwriter for James Patterson.
I am a lucky writer.
A year before my first novel was published, I received a job offer from Chanticleer Book Reviews. For someone whose previous career did not intercept with the publishing industry in any way, this was a fortuitous turn of events that has led me to learn by osmosis. All day I have the privilege of talking with bestselling, award-winning authors and learn from my co-workers about the publishing industry, the writing craft, and what life as an author is all about. It’s an education that I do not take lightly.
One of the most anticipated events we look forward to each year is the annual Chanticleer Authors Conference & Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA). It’s our biggest event of the year, bringing authors across the globe to learn and celebrate great books. Each author brings with them their own unique stories of how they came to be an author and what informs their work.
I’ve been writing about this year’s line of up guest speakers and I thought I’d share their remarkable stories here.
Keynote Speaker: J.D. Barker, award-winner and bestselling author who has been ghost writing for the world famous author James Patterson. His book Forsaken has gotten the attention of Stephen King and he received notes from Bram Stoker’s descendants for his novel, Dracul.
Masterclass Presenter: Christine Fairchild, Book Doctor, professional copyeditor, speechwriter and freelance reporter. Writer and editor for publications like XFiles and SciFiMall.com, and provided executive communications, marketing, branding, and press releases for corporate giants, like Microsoft, AT&T, and DHL.
Presenter: Kim Hornsby, bestselling and award-winning author and screenwriter. Her adventurous life as a scuba diver, singer, and traveler have inspired screenplays picked up by Lifetime Television and other streaming services.
Presenter: Reenita Malhotra Hora, produced content for Bloomberg and other corporate entities and her writing has been published by major media companies like The Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, The New York Times, South China Morning Post, CNN, among others.
Presenter: Tim Facciola, 2023 Chanticleer International Book Award (CIBA) Overall Grand Prize Winner and Grand Prize Winner in the Ozma division for Fantasy Fiction.
