Day 9 Wanda Dyson as she finalizes appointments Heb. 4:16–Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Father, we come to you today in prayer for Wanda Dyson, our editors and agents appointment coordinator. We thank you for her tireless work …
Forty Days of Prayer-Day 27: Sydney Zech, Conference Coordinator
1 Thessalonians 1:3a–Constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love . . . You are our God and Father. We join hearts as part of Your family and the ACFW family to pray for our conference coordinator, Sydney Zech. May Sydney’s work be produced through her faith in You. May she be prompted to work out of love for You and for us. …
Forty Days of Prayer: Day 30 – For the Agents
Psalm 143:8a–Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning; for I trust in You. Father, we worship and praise your name. You are a holy God willing and able to answer our prayers. We are thankful for our courage, strength, and abilities that come from You. We pray Your blessing upon the agents attending conference. Supply them with patience, compassion, …
It was a sticky hot September day in Dallas, Texas, as I shuttled with other writers from DFW Airport to our conference headquarters in a hotel van. As we crawled through a mass of Lexus and Mercedes sedans, the fanciest SUVs I’d ever seen, two well-known authors chatted about their latest works in progress and compared notes about a recent …
Why ACFW is always on my schedule
Here are Rusty Shelton’s thoughts on the conference. Rusty is with Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists and a regular attendee at the conference. I started going to the ACFW conference three years ago and it has become one of my favorite events. When I initially made the decision to start attending the conference, it was partly due to the fact …
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 …
American Christian Fiction Writers Conference
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Way back in September 2002, long before my days as an acquisitions editor with Barbour Publishing, I traveled to Kansas City, Missouri to attend the very first conference of what was then the American Christian Romance Writers organization–now known as American Christian Fiction Writers or ACFW. I’ve not missed an ACFW conference since. At that inaugural …
Once Upon a Writer…
Once Upon A Time… in 1998 there was a semi-young woman. . .okay, a woman of 30. . .who had written a book. She knew other Christian writers existed, and even found some author web pages on the Internet. She had so many questions she wanted to ask them about writing. No one where she lived knew much about writing, …
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 …
My 5th conference, and my 1st booksigning!
There is a lot for me to celebrate this year. Hi, this is Michelle Sutton, and I’m thrilled to say that I haven’t missed a conference since Denver, 2004, when we were still ACRW. I’ve made it a priority to work hard in this biz and both ACFW and the conferences have helped me get where I am today. I’m …