Archive | August, 2009

Meet the Voices presents Sally Hanan. Sally is originally from Wicklow, Ireland, but managed to permanently escape the cold, wet weather with her family in 1995. The true story about being allowed into the US is that her husband got lucky with the lottery visa, but she tells people that America just couldn’t bear to be without her wit and charm. She now lives in Texas, where she is known for chumming up to people who own boats and cook rib-eye steak on the barbecue. Sally owns her own freelancing editing business and she also serves as an inner-healing ministry leader, youth pastor, lay counselor, and teacher in her home church. What is the biggest writing challenge you’ve encountered this past year–craft, career, writing life, etc? It’s extremly difficult to […]

I attended my first writer’s conference in ’97. Since I’d traveled a lot in my corporate career, arriving alone at Wheaton College didn’t overwhelm me. I got along with my roommate and soon made friends with the newly contracted DiAnn Mills. I attended Davis Bunn’s continuing sesson and soaked up every thing he taught us. But when I went to the first ACFW conference in 2002, I hated it. Rather, I hated myself in the midst of it. I felt like a goof, out of place, like I wanted to follow the “popular kids.” Oddly enough, I wasn’t without connection. I was on the conference committee. I was friends with the president. Conferences stir a lot of emotions. Many of them negative. It’s like high school all over again only […]