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, […]
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, […]
Today I am delighted to introduce my new virtual assistant, Kara Swanson. Whenever I’ve found myself in need of a new VA, God always sends me just the right person. And He certainly has done that with Kara! I know you’ll love getting to know her too. About You Tell us something about yourself and […]
I had the great pleasure of going to Colorado with my husband to celebrate Christmas with my family there: my parents, my younger son and his girlfriend, my sister and her kids. We all get along great, and the visit was a lot of fun. On our last full day in Colorado, a group of […]
full scholarship to a conference. This year, for the 5th annual Promising Beginnings contest, I offered a choice between two options: Full scholarship to the 2017 Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference, including meals and economy lodging or Full scholarship to the 2017 SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference, including meals and dorm lodging plus reimbursement of travel […]
With the holidays behind us, most Americans are now entering a different season. Not one of joy and cheer and peace and family fun—rather the opposite, actually. For the next three months or so, we’ll be going through our records for 2016, compiling everything we need to file our federal and state income taxes. I […]
Today it’s my pleasure to introduce Nanette Thorsen-Snipes, one of the contributing authors in 21 Days of Christmas. I hope you enjoy this holiday story of hers as much as I did. *** In December of 1976, I had been divorced for about six months, and my two young boys and I were living […]
A couple of years ago, I read an absolutely amazing book by my friend Robin Jones Gunn titled Victim of Grace. If you haven’t read it, get online right now and buy a copy. Buy multiple copies so you can give the extras as Christmas gifts. It truly is life-changing and perspective-changing! And a really […]
