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 a fabulous literary agent, Diana Flegal with Hartline Literary Agency
co-owner of the Christian Editor Network LLC, 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 director of the SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference
director of the Mount Hermon 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.

Industry Updates

Plural Pronouns for Singular Antecedents? The AP Stylebook’s June 2019 update included a section on using plural pronouns for singular antecedents. Here are some excerpts: In most cases, a plural pronoun should agree in number with the antecedent: The children love the books their uncle gave them. They/them/their is acceptable in limited cases […]

Christian Editor Network LLC

Effective midnight on May 3, Christian Editor Network LLC went from being a three-partner business to a solely owned company … and I’m the owner! This was not something I anticipated until just a few months ago. I founded The Christian PEN in 2004, Christian Editor Connection three years later. In 2014, I launched the […]

Excellence in Editing Awards

I so enjoyed getting together with my editor friends and colleagues earlier this month at the Hotel Preston in Nashville for the sixth annual PENCON editors conference. On the last night of the conference, we announced the finalists in the 2019 Excellence in Editing Awards. This award celebrates newly released books that are superbly written, […]

Writers’ Conference in Southern California

Interested in screenwriting? Fiction? Nonfiction? Publishing? Marketing? Want to meet on-on-one with professionals in those areas? The SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference has it all. And it’s coming up next month! This year’s faculty includes keynoters Mesu Andrews and Pam Farrel, four literary agents, representatives from seventeen traditional publishing houses, two magazine publishers, five screenwriting professionals, […]

Guest Post From Carol Alwood— “The Art of Writing Fiction”

I’m thrilled to feature Carol Alwood on my blog today. Carol is one of the skilled authors on faculty for the 2019 SoCal Christian Writers Conference. I hope you enjoy her post as much as I have! — Lately I’ve been caught up in the rules of writing fiction. “Rules?” You may say, “There are no […]

Guest Post From Rusty Wright—”Resurrection Article Keeps on Going …”

“Why doesn’t somebody do something?” Ever ask that question? A few weeks before Easter in 1971, I began to wonder why no one had published an article on evidences for Jesus’ resurrection in our university newspaper, the Duke Chronicle. I was in my final year at Duke and had been following God for about three years. Our […]