I missed ACFW last year, but a newborn was a good excuse, right? 🙂 I’m very excited to meet up with everyone again, experience the awesome general sessions and worship time, and just soak in all I can about Christian publishing to help me be a better fiction editor. Getting to check out the Mall of America is a nice …
Author Cheryl Wyatt’s Memories
Hello! Welcome to my wing of the ACFW conference tour. Here is a link to the <A HREF=”www.acfw.com/conference”>conference page:</A> I can’t wait to see you in Minneapolis, and meet some of you for the first time! Be sure and come up to introduce yourselves. I’m going to take this opportunity to share some conference experiences I’ve had (some REALLY EMBARRASSING …
An Interview with Keynoter Angela Hunt
We are delighted that Angela Hunt will be the keynote speaker at this year’s conference. She graciously agreed to answer a few questions as we countdown toward the conference. We’re so excited to have you join us as the keynote speaker at this year’s ACFW conference. Any previews you want to give us about your topics? Hmm. I’m not sure …
Advice from Donita K. Paul
Often a conference is not what you expect it to be. You come for great classes and in addition to learning more about your craft, you forge lifelong friendships. You come to meet an editor and instead have God whisper in your ear an important essential to your Christian walk that you’ve been missing. You come to get away from …
Fear for Breakfast???
I love the smell of fear in the morning. Just kiddin’. Conference time again. I gotta tell y’all, don’t be so worried about your appointments with agents and editors. I know it’s hard to believe, but we aren’t out to get ya. Some of us are even nice. Yes, there are a few pompous people. But being pompous, they don’t …
Rebecca’s thoughts on ACFW Conference
Call me weird – I’m NOT looking forward to the ACFW conference just for the informative workshops or even the chance to pitch to editors and agents. Okay, Okay, yes, I’m excited and anxious about all of that plus everything else the conference offers. However, since my first conference in Nashville 2005, there’s been something special that has brought me …
Do not come to the ACFW conference in September
What, Rachel? Don’t come to the conference? Why? What are you saying? Hmm? You want all of the editors and agents to yourself? Sit next to Angie Hunt during dinner? Win all the awards? (yeah, right… ) Sit in the first row for Mark Mynheir’s police procedure continuing session? No! Please, I’m soooo over all of those things. I mean, …
Secrets for Making a Great Pitch
Agent Rachelle Gardner has this advice. Today is my official post for the ACFW Blog Tour. Only 78 days left until the ACFW conference! Let’s talk about those all-important agent-and-editor pitches. As one of my blog readers wrote, we can probably all agree on the “don’ts” of pitching your project. Don’t pitch in the bathroom. Don’t pitch incomplete projects. Don’t …
An Agent’s Perspective: Steve Laube
This interview was originally posted on Ronie Kendig’s blog: Craving the Supernatural. It was so good, I decided we had to have it here, too. So get ready for a look at the industry from agent Steve Laube’s perspective. —-Hey, y’all! Welcome back to Craving the Supernatural. Right now, we’re hosting my awesome and incredible agent, Steve Laube, and getting …
An Editor’s Perspective
It’s only a few months until the ACFW conference begins n Minneapolis. I am so excited by this event as I start to make a plan for how to make the best use of my time. My goals are to meet with authors already publishing with Zondervan, meet with agents that I missed at the International Christian Retailers Show (ICRS) …