I’m honored to share this insightful post from Frank Ball with you all. The SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference in June was a delightful time and I hope to see many of you again next year… What is Writer’s Block? Merriam-Webster calls writer’s block “a psychological inhibition preventing a writer from proceeding with a piece.” While that definition is […]
I’m honored to share this fantastic post from Aurora Gregory with you all. The SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference last month was a wonderful time and I hope to see many of you again next year… I’m a writer and I love to write but I don’t necessarily consider myself an author. Even though I co-authored a book, I don’t […]
As a professional editor for the past twenty years, I’m always looking up guidelines in the industry-standard resources—which, for published books, is The Chicago Manual of Style and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. So much of writing is subjective, up to author and publisher preference as well as educated guesswork as to what will be most effective […]
The second annual SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference was amazing. A LOT went into the preparation for it, but I had an incredible planning team who voluntarily gave of their time and talents to make this happen. And wow, did God ever bless it! I’m having a great time reading the comments posted on the Facebook […]
I am so grateful to my dear, sweet friend Sandra Barela, who runs Celebrate Lit Publishing & Publicity, for doing a series of blog tours for my Fiction Lover’s Devotional series. Last month, she sent preview copies of the fourth book, 21 Days of Joy: Stories that Celebrate Mom, to her reviewers. Sandy’s blog tours […]
The SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference is less than a month away! June 21-23. This will be our second year, and we’re back at Biola University. Our first conference last summer was amazing. God majorly blessed the attendees in so many ways. I’m super-excited to see what He does this year! We have an awesome faculty, […]
This guest post by my friend Judy Hagey is a cute wrap-up of the PENCON conference I attended a few weeks ago… Last weekend I attended my second PENCON – Proofreaders and Editors Network Conference. Billed as the only such conference for editors in Christian publishing, the conference is an opportunity to network and hone […]
It is my pleasure to share this post from Aurora Gregory with you all. A writers’ conference is also a fantastic way to network, and you will get to meet Aurora and so many other wonderful people at the SoCal Christian Writers’ Conference next month… Networking is one of those marketing activities (yes, it is a marketing […]
