By Debb Hackett @debb_hackett Whether you’ve recently returned from a conference or are excitedly planning your next trip, how you respond post-event is vital to building strong connections and maximizing the networking you did while in attendance.  Invitations to submit  These are the golden tickets, and why a lot of…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson Life happens to all of us, and with it comes times of chaos and catastrophe. It’s easy to get derailed and let our writing life come to a screeching halt. That’s never a good thing, no matter what crisis we’re dealing with—from the death of a…

By Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted Over the last two years, I’ve seen a growing number of Christian writers trying to slide over into the general market. Would you like my gut reaction? Here goes! FINALLY, Christian writers are stepping outside the church and moving into the “world.” At long last, we…

by: Shannon Redmon @shannon_redmon “But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day.” Proverbs 4:18 (NASB) When light dawns over my mountain home in Western North Carolina, the sun doesn’t pop up all at once—bright and ready like…

By Amy Bright @AmyBrightwriter Marketing is the full-time job many novelists never expected to have! Marketing, in fact, can keep authors from moving forward as they fear they’ll have to spend precious time on their marketing content instead of their fiction or devotionals or other callings. Rather than looking at…

by Ane Mulligan  @AneMulligan In preparation to publish your writing, you need to care for your skin. What, you ask? Skin care? What does that have to do with publishing or my writing for that matter? Everything, little scribe. It's all about Rhino Skin. Layer by layer, a writer must…