Please Join Me as I Dish

Cynthia Herron Writing 10 Comments

Today I’m the featured guest on Jill Kemerer’s blog. Please join me as I dish! I became acquainted with Jill last year as she gave me a quick lesson in Twitter 101. As well as being friends, we’re agency mates at Books and Such Literary Agency. Jill is an inspirational romance author. She’s one of those people who never met …

Still Dishing…Part 2 of ACFW Conference Impressions

Cynthia Herron Writing Conferences 16 Comments

In Wednesday’s post, I gave a brief synopsis of my overall ACFW conference impressions. Today I wanted to focus a bit more on something that’s less talked about, but something that (if truth be told) is always on our minds as we attend these types of writing events. Competition. The mere word can conjure myriad emotions. When we’re placed in a situation …

Writing Conferences: Catching the Vision

Cynthia Herron Writing Conferences 9 Comments

While preparing for writing conferences, it can be an exhilarating, albeit busy, time. Smaller, local conferences may be one to two-day events, while national writing conferences can number several hundreds of attendees or more and last over the course of five days to a full week. For any type of writing conference, there’s often much planning,  preparation, and schedule crunching that …

A Double Rainbow Kind of Week

Cynthia Herron Writing, Writing Christian Fiction 12 Comments

This week is undoubtedly going to be one of the busiest I’ve had in a while, but it’s also going to be a very exciting time, as well. For those navigating the path to publishing, we all realize that there are necessary steps in attaining our goals. I’ve mentioned these before: Become involved with local and national writing organizations. Affiliation with …

Daydream Believer

Cynthia Herron Writing 7 Comments

Many years ago, there used to be a commercial with a famous tagline.  It was “Calgon, take me away!”  I think it always centered around a woman soaking in a soothing bubble bath surrounded by a sea of–what else–bubbles! For a long time, I’d hear people actually quoting that commercial at the end of a particularly stressful day.  It was a …