@KatyKauffman28 Cindy laughed with the other writers around the table. At least I’m not the only one, she thought. Many of them were also newbies—anxious newbies—at the Blue Ridge conference. She looked at her phone to check the time and noticed that she hadn’t heard her alarm above the roar…

@BisbanoWrites The church is filled with many personality types with different levels of brokenness. We all process information differently, filtered by past experience, hurts, pains, and joys. As authors we desire our writing to point people to Christ. He is the ultimate healer and He will use our words to…

@LindsBrac Last month, we discussed the Enneagram as a tool for building authentic (and flawed) characters. I am by no means a psychologist or an expert, but I have found that a general understanding of this ancient personality-typing tool helps me build better characters. When I wrote my first novel…

Can you see it in her piercing hazel eyes? The ones fixed on something in front of her while her fingers skim the edge of the rearview mirror? What’s her story? Is she a poignant memoir? Is she an action packed romantic suspense novel? Is she an inspiring non-fiction read?…

We have an App for That and IT’S LIVE! The featured picture for this post is the homepage of the app. Today I’m going to give you a tour of the Blue Ridge Conference app to help you get familiar with all it can to do make your conference experience…

@LisaCarter27 Ten years ago, God put it on my heart to get serious about this secret dream of writing I’d had since I was a child. In fact, He compelled me to take the stories swirling in my imagination and write them down. Thus far, God has blessed me with the…