By Til Turner Literature is filled with powerful settings, such as forests, seas, deserts, islands and cathedrals. But no setting is more ubiquitous than the house. Yes, home is a familiar location loaded with memories, anxieties, successes and failures. It is the shelter of family values and often the location for coming of age. For…
Debb Hackett / Guest Post Speaker: Using Your Voice to Market Your WordsQuarterly Meeting, May 1, 2021 As writer’s, we often hear about the importance of our voice, our writer’s voice. There are seminars and workshops at almost every conference I’ve attended helping attendees to find these voices, or develop them. Clearly, this is an…
Guest Blog: Hallee BridgemanWebinar Speaker: Building Your Email List, 4/13/2021 In my opinion, newsletters are one of the most important marketing tools available to authors. The reason is that the people who sign up for your newsletter are the ones who are saying, “Yes, I want to hear from this person and I’m interested in…
Member Blog: Jenn Soehnlin Social media can feel overwhelming and can also make you feel like you’re spending hours of time trying to understand and grow your social media accounts and not focusing on the thing you want to do most as a writer – write. But it is still important to use social media…
Guest Blog: JP Robinson, Webinar Speaker, 3/9/2021 FEBRUARY 22, 2021 When I was 14 I faced homelessness as my family went through an unexpected financial crisis.* At the time, I didn’t understand the intricacies of mortgages and repossession but I did understand that my mother was crying and my father was being strong for both…
Guest Blog from Stephen W. Hiemstra In prayer, we communicate with God. The form and expectations of our prayer is shaped by our theology. In fact, I have found prayer to be the most theological written form. Theological Variants Prayer takes many forms. I have a neighbor who believes prayer is primarily happy talk that…
Guest Blog Michele Chynoweth Writer’s Questions Panel, 2/6/2021 (CCWF Quarterly Meeting) Are you a writer who desires to serve God yet also wants to write a novel that’s down-to-earth, edgy, racy, raw…REAL? But are you concerned that it may not fit in either the Christian or secular worlds? Have you been told (as I was…
Guest Blog, Amy Deardon, Webinar Speaker 1/6/2021 Hi Everyone! I’m really looking forward to e-meeting you at Capital Christian Writers Fellowship where I’ll be talking January 6th on how to become happily self-published. Today, though, since I was graciously invited to blog as an introduction and I don’t want to repeat myself in a few…
Guest Blog from Stephanie Buckwalter, 11/11 Webinar Speaker Writers write. Good writers read. And I’m not talking about Twitter and your favorite blog. I’m talking about the classics. Read them. Study them. Analyze them. As you learn how the classics are put together, you learn to see the structure of good writing. Here are a…
Guest Blog from Preslaysa Williams, 10/31 Quarterly Meeting Speaker Origins and Definition of Own Voices The Own Voices movement began when children’s literature author, Corinne Davis, created a hashtag of the same name. Corinne wanted to emphasize the importance of Own Voices in children’s literature because, despite the rallying cry for diversity in the Kidlit…
