by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt Despite your best efforts have obstacles and opposition stood between you and what you want to accomplish with your writing? They sure have for me. While reading in the book of Ezra, I noticed parallels between rebuilding the temple during Ezra’s time, and having a…

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Genesis 1:26 tells us we are created in the image of God. To grasp what this means to writers, I would like to  explore three critical points why the gift of writing is critical to reflecting a Christian worldview. This will help define the joy and…

The 2021 Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference is over, and that means we’re hard at work planning the 2020 event. As word of this conference has spread, we’re getting more and more inquiries about being a part of the faculty. We have a limited number of faculty spots available…

By Cindy Sproles @CindyDevoted I recently corresponded with a writer who told me she attended a conference where pitching your work seemed to be “the thing”, but at the same time, there were no classes to help her learn how to pitch. This greatly disturbed me because, though pitching your…

By Sue Schlesman @Sueschlesman I just came home from the Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference. I feel a little like Moses descending Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments—I’ve got a full heart and a full notebook. And I might be glowing a little. I have been decompressing emotionally and mentally…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin While I’ve been in book publishing for decades, one topic is central to our business yet something I rarely see written about or discussed: communication. Communication undergirds everything from email to print to phone calls to face to face. I believe it is infrequently highlighted because…