Writers' Conferences Provide Face Time with Authors, Editors, and Agents

This email is from a new author and web-friend, regarding her first-ever experience at a writers' conference. If you are are seeking to break in to the world of published writers, please give her thoughts a read:

Lausanne writes:

Clearly the Lord was involved in your insistence that we get ourselves to a writer's conference ASAP. It was an excellent experience. I now plan to attend the Florida Christian Writers conference regularly since it is only 2.5 hours from Jacksonville. I will eventually branch out to others.

It will be some time yet before I or my mother have finished work to pitch but I can see the value of gaining face recognition long beforehand. By next year I hope to have my own outline and research ready so I can make use of the Novel Mentoring Track with Ken Kuhlken.

Again, thank you for your personal investment in so many aspiring writers. I suspect you'll only know the full fruit of your efforts when we've all crossed the Jordan and get to compare stories. Your consistent graciousness to my mother will be a significant beat in our plotline.

Along similar lines, Kathy writes:

Thank you for sharing your process and giving a glimpse of your creative world. The fact that you "sit" on a story and allow it to percolate before writing it is what sets your work apart from other Christian writers. And with "Lion of Babylon" you may have just created a new sub-genre…Christian Thrillers!