How would you like to get a copy of my Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors in mobi (Kindle) or epub (Nook and others) format … and more books for writers too … all FREE? This Monday and Tuesday, you can get my book—which has tips from multi-published authors on proofreading for typos, inconsistencies, and errors […]
I am super-excited to announce that I will be serving on faculty at this year’s International Christian Visual Media conference November 13-16 near Nashville, Tennessee. I’ll be co-teaching with the amazing Bob Saenz on the differences between writing a novel and writing a screenplay. We’ll also be on a panel of book and film industry […]
The 2019 Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference was amazing, as always! I loved watching divine appointments happening all around me throughout the conference. And reading the attendees’ evaluations afterward made my heart soar! Let me share some of those comments: “This was one of the best run conferences I’ve been to (and I’ve been to […]
As of May 3, I became the sole owner of Christian Editor Network LLC. During that transition, CEN took on a team of directors for its various divisions. Today I’d like to introduce you to one of these amazing and talented individuals. Sharon Ford is director of The Christian PEN. “The PEN,” as it’s affectionately […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
