by Tina Radcliffe Coming home from the 2012 ACFW Conference in Dallas I was reminded of the Amy Grant song, because truly my spirit was soaring on the mountain top fellowshipping with the Lord and my writer friends. A recap of conference for those who couldn’t make it this year: Breakfast Praise & Worship Squeals of delight and hugs at …
Happy Memories…Happy Writing
by Cathy Liggett This morning when I received a reminder about my scheduled date to blog, I initially thought about asking to postpone. My 90-year-old dad passed away last week and my mind has been as unfocused as a garden hose gone haywire, spraying out in all directions. But then I started thinking (and please forgive me ahead of time …
Top Ten Reasons for Going to ACFW Conference
So many good reasons come to mind as to why one should attend ACFW conferences. Here’s my TOP TEN LIST: Number 10: Memories you make. Number 9: Meeting old friends and making new ones you know by email only. Number 8: Great books available in the bookstore and the authors ready to sign them. Number 7: The wonderful Christian fellowship …
Thank you, ACFW
One of the best things I ever did in my writing life was to join ACFW in February, 2000. DiAnn Mills urged me to join a group of writers who had just organized into the ACRW, American Christian Romance Writers. She then put together two conferences held here in Houston in 2000 and 2001. I helped her with both and met Lena …
A Place Where Magic Happens
Anticipation of the annual American Christian Fiction Writers conference begins for me around January. I could name a host of reasons why I go to the ACFW conference, but many have already been mentioned by other bloggers. Here are just a few of mine: * It’s encouraging to be surrounded by people who don’t look at me oddly when I …
Comin’ home to a place I’d never been before
As the John Denver song Rocky Mountain High begins… “He was born in the summer of his twenty-seventh year, Comin’ home to a place he’d never been before…” That’s what attending the very first American Christian Romance Writers Conference in 2002 was like for me. I came home to a group of people I’d never even met before. An insane, …
A First Time Perspective circa 2003: Eileen Key
Houston, September, 2003 American Christian Romance Writers Conference I struggled from my car to the hotel entrance, my huge suitcase (with no wheels) flopping this way and that. A kind gentleman stepped forward and carried it to the reception desk. My friend and I checked in, received our key, and–by chance (ha! God-appointment)–met the gentleman and his wife in the …
A Conference Filled with the Love of Christ
It’s hard to know where to start when talking about the 2009 ACFW Conference. Besides the fact that I would be traveling back to my hometown, visiting family, and meeting up with friends, I had many more reasons to be excited about going to my first conference. As a newbie last year, I decided to head to Denver without expectations. …
Reflections of an amazing conference…
Angela Breidenbach, ACFW publicity officer, here to share ACFW member, Christy LaShae Smith’s guest post. She’s a 2009 Genesis winner and one of the new authors to watch 🙂 Take it away, Christy! Where else will you find people who share the goal of glorifying Christ and share a goal of writing? Where else can people with those same goals …
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 …