I’ve been privileged to work with some wonderful editors in the CBA. For the past four years, I’ve been under the tutelage of Thomas Nelson’s Senior Acquisitions Editor, Ami McConnell. She’s such a gift to me as a writer and story teller, helping me hone my skill and art, but by being my champion. When I sold my first 2 books to TNI, the ACFW Conference was in Nashville that year, home of country music and Thomas Nelson. The conference hotel was right across from the fiction (then West Bow) offices! Ami had just given birth to her third child, a beautiful girl. Even though she was on maternity leave, she took time to meet with me, picking me up from the hotel, driving me to coffee, and spending a […]
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Meet the Voices: Sandra Orchard
Meet the Voices presents Sandra van den Bogerd who writes as Sandra Orchard! Sandra began writing fiction five years ago and queried Steeple Hill after completing her first novel. She was thrilled to receive a request for the full manuscript, and disappointed to learn it didn’t have enough romance. She set out to find other publishers and discovered Write!Canada, an annual conference for Christian writers in her home province of Ontario. Author Linda Hall critiqued her first three chapters and recommended her to an agent and she was off! Four years and four novels later, she’s made lots of wonderful friends, learned tons, let her first agent go, had one story get as far as acquisitions, and on July 18th received the 2009 Daphne DuMaurier Award of Excellence in Mystery/Suspense. […]
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