Melissa Tagg!! Tuesdays with Cully She thought she knew him better than anyone. Now she wishes she didn’t. Genre: Contemporary Romance Congratulations Melissa! We are so proud of you! The 2011 Awards open January 21, 2011. More information on the Frasier Awards…
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Five days until the ACFW conference. I can’t wait! Before we get started, if you are going and you would like to attend the MBT Pizza Party/Frasier Awards, there are still tickets available at the door. It is $25, first come, first serve. It’s going to be fun. Chip has something special planned, and Jeane Wynn is going to give you some fabulous tools for the care and feeding of readers even before you are published. And, I have something fun up my sleeve. I promise, this is not your average awards ceremony! Now…let’s talk about how we’re going to behave at while pitching at conference, huh? Of course, we’re there to work and learn, to fellowship and hopefully to have some fun. But when we’re pitching, it’s important to lay some […]
Read the RestPitch Practice (or getting ready to PITCH at the ACFW conference!)
It’s conference time! I’ll never forget the first ACFW conference I attended. About 100 of us met in Kansas City for the first ACFW event, and it felt like a family reunion. I met my editor for the first time (I’d sold a book while living overseas) and…I pitched a series. Which I sold—with Susan Downs: The Heirs of Anton. I was scared to death. I sat down opposite the editor and she, very kind but also business-like, said, “What do you have for me?” Open mouth. Wait. Is there anything in there? I think I fumbled out my first line, something lame like, “I have a Russian suspense series I think you’ll like.” Great pitch, Suz. And then I realized . . . […]
Read the RestThoughts from last year’s Storycrafter’s Retreat
[A word from Susie: About 9 months ago, I birthed a new…idea! I really wanted to help a handful of serious writers dive into their stories and mentor them through the process of writing a great book. God blessed me with an amazing and dedicated first group of women who not only loved fiction but were willing to roll up their sleeves and work hard. Nine months later, most of them have finished their novels and moved onto the next ones. A handful of them are finalists in either the Genesis or Frasier, and quite a few are planning on pitching their novel at ACFW. After the retreat, they started a support group within MBT Club Voices to encourage each other which has now spilled out into […]
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