Oregon Christian Writers Summer Conference, Day Three
The third day of the 2015 Conference required endurance.
I know I’m late with my summary of the third day of the conference, but I have two things I must tell all of you.
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Oregon Christian Writers Summer Conference, Day Two
The second day of the 2015 Conference ended with a critique session.
I started the day with the first session of a coaching class taught by authors Susan May Warren, James Rubart and Jeff Gerke.
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Oregon Christian Writers Summer Conference, Day One
The first day of the 2015 Conference started with Boot Camp.
The morning started even before the regular conference with a marketing “boot camp” taught by bestselling author Susan May Warren and Nicole Miller of Buffer.com.
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Today I spent a couple hours at the Grays Harbor Fairgrounds
It’s fair time once again and I was asked to help judge the writing competition for the Grays Harbor fair. Earlier this year I helped judge the Cascade awards for the Oregon Christian Writers conference. That was fun so, when fellow author Janice Clark asked me to help with fair judging I thought that would be fun also. I was right.
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I recently sent out my July email newsletter.
Despite my forgetfulness, there were several things in the email newsletter that I wanted all my readers to know. So, if you receive my free monthly newsletter, you’ve already heard the news below.
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All I can do is smile when Amazon tries to sell me one my own books.
This happens more often than you might think. Every few days I go and check each of my books to see if there are new reviews and to ensure everything on the page is correct and working.
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On Thursdays, I meet with my group.
I’ve attended this particular group meeting every week I’ve been in town for over a decade. While I think that is notable, the group has met for nearly twice that time.
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The editor of Backdoor Survival compares A Time to Endure to the bestseller Patriots.
It amazes me how often events in life come in pairs. A few days ago I discovered that New York Times best-selling author, and the editor of SurvivalBlog, James Wesley Rawles recommended my novel, Through Many Fires.
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James Wesley Rawles recommends my book!
I regularly visit SurvivalBlog, but somehow I missed it. For many years SurvivalBlog was the top site among preppers. While the blog has fallen to fourth place in the rankings recently, the editor, James Wesley Rawles, remains the best-known writer in the prepping field. He is also the New York Times best-selling author of the Patriots Novels.
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Like most writers, I’m an introvert.
I spend most of the day alone, in a small office, writing. The room is in my home so, my wife is near, but she leaves me to do my work. Hours can go by and the only people I talk to are the characters in my stories.
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I called Eek home for seven years.
The Yup’ik Eskimo village of Eek is 415 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska, on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The delta is about the size of the state of Louisiana, but within that delta roads are rare and people are few.
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School is out now in Eek, Alaska, and the staff has departed.
Dirk, a longtime co-worker and friend from Eek, took the slow route home. Along with his dog Katja, he visited Anchorage and Kenai and then traveled north to Delta Junction and across into the Yukon, and south to British Columbia. Then he crossed the border into the United States and Washington State.
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Back to Eek School
Traveling to Eek School is an adventure.
My return to Eek started early in the morning of May 14th. Robert, my youngest son, drove me to the Seattle-Tacoma airport. Since the Alaska Airlines flight took off at 8:00 am, we both got up way too early. The flight to Anchorage, on a regular 737, took about three hours.
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A few weeks ago, I received a call from the principal of Eek School.
Eek is a Yup’ik, Eskimo, village 415 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska. Starting in 2007, I taught in the village school for seven years. Because it is a small village of 300 people, I quickly learned the name, and backgrounds, of nearly every student.
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Backdoor Survival is a top-ranked survival and preparedness website that I have visited many times. The editor, Gaye Levy, recently interviewed me and reviewed my latest book, A Time to Endure.
The site provides lifestyle tools, tips, and resources to guide readers through the economic, political, and environmental challenges we all face. Because of my own interest in survival and prepping, I was glad to be part of their recent book festival.
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