As a first time ACFW Conference attendee, one of my initial questions about the Conference was what I should bring to be prepared for meetings with editors and agents. I’ve done some research to answer this question, and I hope you will find it helpful as a checklist, especially if this is your first conference as well. Bring a one …
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 …
Airport Navigation Indianapolis
Angela Breidenbach here with some fun tidbits about arriving and departing for ACFW conference via the open, airy Indianapolis Airport. I’ve traveled widely and found this particular airport to be friendly, accessible, entertaining, and even better comfortable! The free wi-fi worked immediately with my laptop while other airports charged fees or had super slow connections, I managed to knock out …
Are you serious about writing? Cindy Thomson
You’ve seen it mentioned on our blog many times, and I know many of you reading this are ACFW members, but for those who aren’t, I’d like to introduce you to this organization and the upcoming conference in September. ACFW stands for American Christian Fiction Writers, but not all members are writers. Some are agents, editors, and librarians–and all are …
We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program…Mindy Starns Clark
…to talk about this fall’s American Christian Fiction Writers Conference. If you’re new here: You must be wondering why today’s link for the ACFW blog tour has brought you to a website about cleaning. That’s because I’m an author of both fiction and nonfiction and it just so happens that one of the classes I’ll be teaching at the conference, …
Seven Reasons I’ll be at the ACFW Conference: Randy Ingermanson
7 Reasons I’m Going to the ACFW Conference June 7th, 2010 I registered last week for the ACFW conference in Indianapolis. The dates for the conference are September 17 to 20, 2010. ACFW stands for American Christian Fiction Writers, an organization of over 2100 writers. Why am I going to yet another conference? I can think of 7 good reasons …
Totally Worth It, Roseanna White
Totally Worth It As conference season warms up, I’m tickled to be a stop on the official ACFW Conference Blog Tour. This is the only conference I’ve had the pleasure of attending thus far, so I can’t really compare it to any others out there. But I can share my excitement and some of what I’ve taken away the two …
Is it here? Melissa Tagg
Okay, let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: I’m a little weird. (Some might want to change that to “a lot” weird – like, friends who don’t understand my love for flannel sheets – but that’s an argument for another day.) I’m a little weird because I’d rather sit around and talk storycrafting than scrapbooking (yeah, not so …