by Lindsey Bracket @LindsBrac The fact of the matter is, if you’re alive, you’re going to experience disappointment. If you’re a writer, I hope you’re ready for a roller coast of ups and downs that is—to be honest—not unlike the unknown of our current global pandemic.  [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#Writing…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Dear writer, do you pray for or prey on your readers? Pray and prey are homophones. These are words that sound alike but have different meanings and different spellings. But this isn’t about grammar until we consider pray and prey are verbs. So how do these…

By Eva Marie Everson @EvaMarieEverson BRMCWC Contests Director The pandemic we know as Covid-19 or coronavirus or "that monster" has changed our lives in so many ways, one would be hard-pressed to list them all. For those of us who enjoy Christian Writers Conference Spring Season, we have, for the…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea I’m pretty sure my husband thinks that a clean furnace filter is the cure for about any ailment. When our kids were growing up, if we heard so much as a sneeze in our house, he would disappear into the basement and he wouldn’t come up until…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Finding the perfect literary agent can be a daunting task. With so many writers looking for representation and so many agents looking for the next bestselling novel, where does a writer begin? But the task isn’t impossible. With a few guidelines, a writer can navigate onto…

By Penny Reeve There is a character in my young adult novel Out of the Cages, called Purna. For the majority of the novel she does not speak. Despite being a young woman, she behaves like a child. She rocks and cowers and watches the world with wide frightened eyes.…