By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin Some days the odds of getting published seem impossible for anyone. Literary agents and editors receive several hundred pitches for books A WEEK. The sheer volume of material makes it hard to get noticed by publishing professionals. Sometimes authors don’t get published because they don’t send…

by Katherine Hutchinson-Hayes, Ed.D. @khutch0767 Daily we write even when it's unaffiliated with our author careers. We write emails, texts, school notes, social media posts, and work documents. When we sit down to write professionally, we tend to believe our work here is what counts. But suppose we took all our…

by Ane Mulligan  @AneMulligan Go back twenty years 2002. It was my first writers conference. On January 1, 2002, I had started writing a novel. New century—new career. I was a published playwright but got God’s call to write novels. I worked alone until I found an online Christian critique…

by Lynn H. Blackburn @LynnHBlackburn I recently wrote the acknowledgments section for my new release. It’s a process fraught with emotion for me because I’m terrified I’ll forget someone who provided crucial assistance and it will be a faux pax from which I can never recover. I typically take it very…

By A.C. Williams by @acw_author In July last year, I was attending the annual Realm Makers Writing Conference. It was the conference’s tenth year, so everyone went all out. We were at a large facility in New Jersey too. What we didn’t expect was to find that most of the…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson Here we are, barreling into 2023. Edwina Perkins and I are super excited to share the current list of faculty for our 2023 conference. We are still waiting to hear back from a couple of folks, so this isn't the final, set-in-stone-never-changing-list. So continue to check…