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ACFW Conference this week

By on September 14, 2009 in Want to see a book in Action? Read the Blog-a-Book Series

But first. . . Sweet Caroline is this months Women of Faith Book Club novel! Thank you Thomas Nelson and Women of Faith! Check out my interview and other tidbits here. Now, on to the ACFW Conference. Susie and I will be meeting up in Denver tomorrow for the American Christian Fiction Writers’ Conference. We are really excited. One, to meet up with each other and all of our Voices, as well as ACFW friends. Two, to teach a Continuing Education class “Become Your Own Book Therapist.” We’ll give you all of our secrets! A conference can be an exciting as well as stressful time. Meeting old and new friends, going to be late, getting up early. Attending classes. Making editor and agent appointments. One moment thinking you’re on a […]

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MBT Interview: Thomas Nelson Senior Editor, Ami McConnell

By on September 4, 2009 in Interviews, Nurturing the Soul, Story Crafting, Want to see a book in Action? Read the Blog-a-Book Series

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

By on September 2, 2009 in Meet the Voices!

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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Character and story arc

By on August 31, 2009 in Want to see a book in Action? Read the Blog-a-Book Series

I had someone ask me about character and story arc, so I thought I’d blog on it today. A novel or story is about the journey of a character from point A to point B. The protagonist starts out his day, smiling under blue skies as he heads to work, but before noon, his entire life is turned upside down. This disaster is the launch or inciting incident of the book. Every book has to have this. Otherwise, the story meanders. What is the story about? What is the story question? You should be able to summarize in a few sentences. Even a literary novel can be summed up quickly if there is a inciting incident that sends that character on a journey. Along the way, the story and character […]

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