By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin Every summer, Peru, Indiana has a local circus to celebrate the history of the town. Students train all year for these performances. That summer one student walked the high wire on stilts. Each time the crowd gasp because he performed without a safety net. As an…

by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel I am queen of shortcuts on most things. If I can get something done faster, why would I take the longer route? But with writing, this isn’t the case. The longer route of writing, revising, preparing for release, releasing a book and all that comes with…

By Heather Kreke @HKreke I like to think of BRMCWC as Disney Parks. There are many parks, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney Paris, and etc. but it’s all Disney. BRMCWC has many parts as well. But it’s all under the BRMCWC umbrella. Conference The Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference began…

By Debb Hackett @debb_hackett Last year I recruited (with help) close to seventy-five judges for the ACFW Virginia Crown Award contest that I direct each year. Between you and me, that’s a lot of asking nicely. I’m grateful that a most authors are very receptive to humor as I beg…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin The publishing world is full of things which drop through the cracks. Your ability to use the gentle follow-up is a critical skill to acquire and use. Repeatedly in my years in publishing, I have used the gentle follow-up to keep things from getting stalled and…

By Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites When I first heard the phrase, “Query letter” I was confused and embarrassed.  I did not know what a query was or even how to pronounce it.  Google to the rescue.      The definition of query from Dictionary.com    An inquiry from a writer to…