@RamonaRichards It’s been compared to drinking from a firehose. It’s been called “graduate school in a week.” It’s intense, in-depth, and incomparable. It’s also a remarkable amount of fun. It’s the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. Five days that can change your life and your career. You will leave…

The 2019 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference is coming up fast. And we’re continuing our practice of allowing attendees to offer books for sale in our conference bookstore. This includes traditionally published books and self-published books. The fee for consigning books is 20% of the purchase price of each…

@EvaMarieEverson NOTE: Our regular Conference Prep column will post tomorrow The Selah Awards brought in a higher number of submissions this year than ever before! After months of reading by our judges, the preliminary scores are in. These scores were often so close, my heart ached that they didn’t all…

@EvaMarieEverson It’s that time again! Time to start talking about the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference contests. If you have been to BRMCWC before, you know that the awards night is one of the highlights of the conference. We dress up. We take pictures. And we hear phrases like,…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson One of the most valuable parts of attending a writing conference is the opportunity for networking. And while a lot of networking now takes place online—through social media—nothing beats meeting someone face-to-face. While meeting someone in person is good, being remembered is even better. That’s why…

@EdieMelson For those of you getting ready for the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference you may have heard about the need for a One Sheet. This tool is also known as a Pitch Sheet. It’s a one page presentation of the project you’re pitching to an editor or agent. Today I’ll be…