Dishing About the 2011 ACFW Conference…from a First Time Attendee's POV

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Today I thought I’d dish about the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) conference I recently attended in St. Louis. The conference dates were officially from 09/22/11 thru 09/25/11, though many attendees began arriving on the evening of Wednesday, 09/21. There’s just too much information to sum up in one post, so I may dish up some more of the scoop in …

Writing Conferences: Catching the Vision

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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 …