@Tamela_Murray Congratulations! You have made a momentous effort to connect with industry professionals at Blue Ridge, and now your ties are strengthened. You’ve shared with others and learned lots about how to take your career to the next level. And then you arrived home. And then you slept. And after…

by Edie Melson @EdieMelson I’m still coming down off the high of the 2019 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference, and while not all of you were there with me, I think there’s some info here you can use. We all need to know how to prioritize our time after…

@CindyDevoted Let me be clear. There are a hundred different ways to write a devotion. Some are meant for the shorter devotions while others are meant for the longer ones, but regardless of the length, a devotion must have a couple of particular elements to make it a devotion and…

@LucindaSMcDowel Summertime and the season for….. writers conferences, book conventions and intense writing sojourns! I have discovered that each time I return to an annual event, it is helpful to use it as an intentional time of evaluation and focus. Some of us have just finished up a fabulous time…

This week we join together to talk business, learn, be inspired and so much more. I believe one of the most distinct things about the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference is that we celebrate the divinely inspired word of God. I’m not just talking about the Bible. Let me…

@ADGansky Start as close to the end as possible. –Kurt Vonnegut Some time ago, I had a student approach me to ask my opinion on something they were working on. The story opened inside a hospital with the birth of a child. I liked the idea immediately, and anticipated some…