Below is the list of July new releases from ACFW members as reported to ACFW’s Fiction Finder site. Congrats to all the authors who have books coming out this month! More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW FictionFinder website. Dandelion Summer by Lisa Wingate — General Fiction from Penguin Praise. J. Norman, recently widowed, aging …
Join Anne Mateer at ACFW
I rewrote this post five times. Why? Because I had such a hard time deciding what part of the ACFW Conference or my experiences to highlight! So here’s a run down of some of the reasons I’m excited to head to St. Louis in September: In the past 5 years that I’ve been a member of ACFW, and after having …
Join me at ACFW
Today I want to put in my plug for a little something called the American Christian Writer’s conference. This year it is September 22-25 in St. Louis, MO. If you’re interested in writing Christian fiction, you should definitely consider going. Honestly, when I think of the many great classes I’ve sat through, I think even secular writers would love this …
ACFW Conference … Meet me there!
I first thought about writing in 1993. A friend from church, Cindy Martinusen told me about her aspirations to become a novelist. My first thought was … Real people do that? She invited me to attend Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference with her. I was new as new can be. I was also 22-years-old and pregnant with my third child, …
ACFW — Wonderfully Strange
The 2010 American Christian Fiction Writers Conference in Indianapolis was my first experience in attending a writing conference of any type. It was big. It was a little scary. It was a little strange. I didn’t KNOW any of these people. But I went anyway. I caught a ride in Louisville with two total strangers. OK, they were strange (pun …
ACFW Conference Makes the Grade
As a mom with three teens, one thing I’m very cognizant of is my children’s grades. I know very well the excellence my kids are capable of, and their grades are one indicator of how hard they work. Plus, those grades give me a reason to give my children a well deserved, “Great Job!” Which is exactly what I want …
ACFW Volunteer Spotlight
Mindy Obenhaus is this week’s volunteer spotlight. She is the coordinator for the Carol Awards. She has to find judges for the contest (5 per entry), people to head each category, answer questions about the contest, make announcements about the contest, troubleshoot problems that arise, write press releases for the finalists and make sure the category coordinators have the correct …
ACFW Conference Blog – Two Posts Today
First post is from Rachel Smith Fernandes: This year’s conference in St. Louis will be my fifth conference. I guess I’m somewhat of a seasoned professional. Or not. Like many other writers I’m an introvert. The prospect of attending my first conference was both exciting and terrifying. I’d made friends through the email loop and blogging, but what if I …
ACFW Conference Blog
Ashley Clark shares some wonderful conference advice in today’s post: Remember that high school feeling of getting caught talking in class? Maybe it wasn’t your fault. Maybe your friend in the seat beside you wanted to cheat, and you were actually saying, “No, I will not give you my answers,” but all the teacher heard was your mumbling, and next …
ACFW Volunteer Spotlight
This week we are highlighting Camy Tang. She has been the coordinator for the Genesis Contest for years. This requires a lot of work, recruiting judges, people to oversee each of the categories, sending the entries to the right person, troubleshooting when problems arise and sending out press releases about the finalists. She has filled in where needed and volunteered …