By Amy Bright @AmyBrightwriter Do you love to read fight scenes, or do you skip over them to the outcome and the rest of the book? I have to confess–I rarely make it past two to three paragraphs of many fight scenes. Sometimes they seem forced; sometimes the fights are…

By A.C. Williams by @acw_author Learning new things is one of the greatest gifts in the world. No matter what field you’re in, we are all capable of learning something new just about every day.  Conferences, like Blue Ridge and others, are a fantastic environment to learn industry tips, writing…

by Alycia W. Morales @AlyciaMorales In his book How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them, Sol Stein says, “In our not-yet acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet written stories.” When I recently read this quote, the…

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 I wanted to be clever, not practical. My goal in crafting blog post titles was to think of the snazziest title I could, even if it wasn’t search engine friendly. It took a few gentle suggestions from a blog editor for me to embrace a different…

By Cherrilynn Bisbano @bisbanowrites “She loves my book but I need to build my platform.” A conferee said after she left the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference appointment room. “Tell me about yourself,” I said. After I asked my new friend a few questions I said, “Now you can…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea The other night I was jolted out of bed by one of those monstrous thunder cracks. I think you can still see the fingernail marks on the ceiling over my bed. It was one of those rattle-the-windows, race-the-heart, vibrate-you-right-down-to-the-spirit kind of thunder explosions. I sensed people all…