I’m the kind of person who looks forward, not back, and the next occasion before me is the Southwest Washington Writers Conference. This one day event is scheduled for September 13th, at Centralia College. I will be there listening to great speakers, and also conducting a workshop.
Read MoreI should have kept a list—with pictures.
I mentioned earlier that one of my goals for this conference is to meet people and network. I’ve continued my practice of sitting at different tables for lunch and dinner. For today’s lunch, I sat with Jeff Gerke at a table of speculative fiction writers, including a teen working on his first novel.
Read MoreJust before the meal was served, only the seat directly across from me remained available. Moments later, a gentleman sat there. I thought he looked familiar so, I glanced at his nametag. It was Frank Peretti, one of the best-known contemporary Christian authors.
Read MoreDinner was the most interesting part of the first day of the conference.
When I say it that way it sounds like a bad thing, that the first day of the Oregon Christian Writers Summer Conference was a bust, but that isn’t so. Sometimes you meet the most interesting people around the dinner table.
Read MoreI’ll be attending writer’s conferences in both August and September.
On Monday, August 4th, I’m heading south to Portland for the Oregon Christian Writer’s Summer Conference. This four-day event is jam-packed with nearly 30 workshops, more than a dozen coaching classes, and opportunities to network with many publishers, agents, and fellow writers. I’ll be blogging, tweeting, and posting to Facebook each day of the conference.
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