By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam I don’t know how your year has gone, but my year has been tested me on many levels. The summer brought us a new degree of on our knees praying. A lot. With that, I’ve lost a lot of time to write, which in turn has…

Take a peek at just some of the amazing faculty that will be attending and teaching at BRMCWC 2024!   Have you registered yet? No? Now is a great time. Also a great gift suggestion for the writer who has everything! Follow this link for more information, FAQs and ways…

By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam If you’re a writer and have articles, blog posts and the like out on the internet, it’s time to clean your face. Not literally, but have you looked at the locations you have your bio, headshot, or about me information lately? As we get ready to…

CONTEST INFORMATION The 2024 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference Contests Are OPEN!!!! (Please note that some of our rules have changed. Read these instructions carefully.)   The 2024 contests officially open on November 1, 2023. The BRMCWC contests and dessert banquet are among the many highlights of BRMCWC. Every…

By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam Years ago, I read a quote supposed to have been penned by Stephen King. It’s had me contemplating it ever since. One, because of who wrote it and two because of the power in those words, in a short sentence.   “Writers were blessed stenographers taking…

By Tammy Karasek @tickledpinktam Each January as I list my writing goals in my new planner, I write down a question on the page above the list of those goals: How will you write this year to change the world? The question may be rather rhetorical as it serves to…