Camy Tang here! The highlight of my year is always the ACFW conference in September. It’s my favorite conference for so many reasons, some of which are: 1) the friends I get to see there 2) the industry professionals I get to meet 3) the workshops 4) the nice hotel (I am SO not a “roughing it” girl. I need …
What Workshops Will You Take At ACFW Conference?
Please welcome guest blogger, Missy Tippens. Missy Tippens, here. I recently registered for the ACFW conference coming up in September. I’m really excited about all the opportunities! Especially the list of workshops. The continuing ed sessions are multi-session workshops. Among the choice of these in-depth classes are: Basic Basics for Fiction Writers—Jim and Tracie Peterson Mastering Structure, Symbols, 3-D Characters …
Media Appointments at ACFW Conference
Angela Breidenbach here. I’m the publicity officer for ACFW and honored to tell you about the media appointments, something new and different, available at our conference in Indianapolis Sep. 17-20th, 2010. In fact, I don’t know any other conferences that offer media training appointments. Adding two new types of appointments for our authors is one of the reasons American Christian …
Conference Advice from Etta Wilson & Ashley Clark
My blog posts for this week will concern the 2010 American Christian Fiction Writers Conference. For more information about the Conference, click here . Some of you who are reading this blog may have attended the Conference before, perhaps even multiple times. However, many of you, like me, have probably never attended a writing conference. I’ve been to plenty of church …
Mindy’s Top Ten Conference Tips
Angela Breidenbach, ACFW publicity officer, here: Please welcome our guest blogger today, Mindy Obenhaus. You can find her regular blog posts at www.MindyObenhaus.com or group blogging on WritingByFaith.blogspot.com. She’s also an ACFW Genesis finalist in romantic suspense and a long time ACFW member as well as our Carol Award coordinator. Mindy: I don’t know about you, but I’ve been anticipating …
Will you be there? Patti Lacy
Hopes, aspirations, dreams, coalesce into strange shapes at ACFW conferences: The square shape of the elevator–where you catch the dream agent unaware and pitch the next Great American novel. Oh, Lord, can I do this? The rectangular shape of the check-in tables. Oh, Lord, they’re looking at me funny. Can I really do this? The octagonal/nonhedronal complexities of today’s publishing world. This …
Confessions of an ACFW Conference Junkie
Angela Breidenbach, ACFW PR Officer, here: Please welcome our ACFW member guest Carla Stewart But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31 (KJV) In 2001, when God nudged me to follow my writing …
Anita Mae Draper – Friends and Dreams
Ah, September – one of my favourite times of the year. Huh? Yes, I know it’s only July 2nd because we celebrated Canada Day yesterday and it’s just 2 days before the U.S. Fourth of July festivities. But, still… September is the premiere social event of the season. To this Canadian gal, anyway. I’ve only been an ACFW member since …
This is one of my two blog posts I’ll be sharing as part of the ACFW Blog Tour promoting the upcoming national conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, in September this year. So many of those who know me know I am not one to be a wallflower at any social event. Even if I don’t know a soul, I will find …
Pam Hillman here. If you write Christian fiction and can only go to one writer’s conference this year, go to ACFW in September. It’s in Indianapolis and the dates are September 17-20, 2010. All the details can be found at the ACFW Conference pages here. Go. Browse. Salivate! lol I’ve been to every ACFW conference except 2004. And that was …