Welcome!

kathyinblue The Lord has blessed me with opportunities to work in several aspects of the Christian publishing industry. I am:

a full-time freelance editor and writing mentor/career coach
a published author and ghostwriter/collaborator, represented by Hartline Literary Agency
owner of Christian Editor Network, parent company to four organizations for freelance editors and proofreaders that I founded and directed for over ten years:
- The Christian PEN: Proofreaders and Editors Network, a professional support organization for aspiring and established editorial freelancers
- Christian Editor Connection, which matches authors, publishers, and agents with established, professional freelance editors/proofreaders (and is the sponsor of the Excellence in Editing award)
- The PEN Institute, which provides education and training for editors
- PENCON, the only annual conference for Christian freelance editors
founder and managing owner of the SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference
a speaker/teacher at writers’ conferences across the country

I am also the abundantly blessed wife of a fabulous man and mother of two terrific sons.

I hope you enjoy your visit to my website. If you have any questions or would like to communicate with me, please click here and use my contact form to get in touch with me.

Excellence in Editing award

If you wrote, edited, or published a book that was released during 2021, I hope you’ll consider entering it in Christian Editor Connection’s Excellence in Editing Award. This award celebrates books that are superbly written, well edited, and published by a Christian publisher or self-published by a Christian author. At Christian Editor Connection, we know […]

Seasons Greetings!

Now, before you get too concerned about the fact that I used the alternative to “Merry Christmas” as the title for this blog, let me explain. I’ve been pondering the idea of seasons lately. Not holidays, or summer and winter and such, but the different seasons we go through in life. Not just by age, […]

I loved agent Steve Laube’s recent blog post When Editorial Errors Matter. Steve points out that writers make mistakes. Which is why writers need editors! “An editor’s job,” he writes, “is to be the safety net and catch those tidbits that find their way into an early draft of a manuscript for any number of […]

Christian Writers Retreats

I had the great privilege of being a guest on Thomas Umstattd Jr.’s podcast, The Christian Publishing Show, talking about why those in the writing and publishing community need a writers retreat. You can listen to it on the Steve Laube Agency blog. If you need some time to get away from life, refocus on […]

Writers Retreat at Mount Hermon

Would you like to get away for a weekend at a prayer-soaked, Spirit-infused Christian conference center surrounded by stunning redwood trees, streams, and waterfalls? Make a special and powerful connection with God there? Get refreshed, rejuvenated, and recharged? Fill your tank so you can pour out in all the other things you do? Build relationships […]

Want personalized help with your nonfiction writing?

Do you have an idea for a nonfiction book but are unsure how to structure it in a way that will work? This one-on-one and small-group mentoring session will help you write an appealing first chapter and create an outline and chapter summaries for what follows. Register by July 1. First-come, first-served until we reach […]

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