2012 Faculty
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All writers
conferences stimulate the mind;
Marlene Bagnull's conferences challenge the heart.
She brings in a knowledgeable staff
with a zeal to encourage and help writers to move forward.
Cec Murphey
Agents & Other
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what they will be doing at the conference, and the genres agents are interested
in representing.
Rob Eagar
- WildFire Marketing
Diana Flegal
- agent, Hartline Literary Agency
William K. Jensen
- agent, William K. Jensen Literary Agency;
representative, Eagle Rock Publishers
Torry Martin
- representative, Lillenas Publishing; actor;
screenwriter; comedian; author
Barbara Scott
- agent, WordServe Literary (tentative)
Marjorie Vawter - editor,
proofreader, Shevet Writing Services; author
Kyle Waalen -
freelance editor
Rusty Wright
- representative, The Amy Foundation

Book Editors
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conference.
Marlene Bagnull - publisher &
editor, Ampelos Press; author
Cynthia Ballenger - editor, Lift Every Voice, Moody Press African American
Imprint
Tony Bonds
- editor, Legacy Press and Rainbow Publishers
(tentative)
David Fessenden - senior
editor/acquisitions, CLC Publications
C. Hope Flinchbaugh
- founder & CEO, History Maker Publishing; author
Pam Halter -
editor, Halo Publishing International; representative, Fruitbearer Publishing;
author
Eddie Jones -
editor, Christian Devotions book division; author
Steven Lawson
- senior editor, Regal Publishing Group
Nancy Lohr -
acquisition editor, JourneyForth
Jeff Nesbit
- managing director, OakTara Publishers; author
Jim Watkins
- acquisitions editor, Wesleyan Publishing House;
editorial advisor, ACW Press
Jeanette Windle
- representative, Kregal Publications

Periodical
Editors & Reps
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editorial needs, and what they
will be doing at the conference.
Bonnie Calhoun - founder and
publisher,
Christian Fiction Online Magazine; author
Terrence Clark -
editor, The Glory Cloud publications, The Voice of One Online &
Club K4C
Catherine DeVries - Editorial
Manager, David C. Cook; Managing Editor, Power for
Living; Representative Power
for Living & Echoes
Cindy Sproles
- editor, Christian Devotions; author
Jim
Watkins
- editor, Vista
Karen Whiting -
representing Enrichment: A Journal for Pentecostal Ministry, author

Authors
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for bios,
photos, and what they will be doing at the conference.
Verinda Birdsong -
columnist, Baltimore Homeless Examiner and Baltimore
Christianity Examiner; writer; singer; Bible teacher
Sue Cameron -
author, speaker, Bible teacher
Emily Chase - author of
nonfiction books for teens, humor columnist
Lynn Coleman
- best-selling author of 26 novels and novellas. Founder of American
Christian Fiction Writers
Amy Deardon -
author and publisher, scientist and skeptic who came to faith through studying
the historic circumstances surrounding the death of Jesus
Dr. Marthenia "TINA" Dupree
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Internationally
renown speaker, author, trainer, speaker coach, consultant
Robert
Liparulo -
best-selling author of thrillers, scriptwriter
Joyce Magnin - author of Bright's
Pond novels (Abingdon Press) and middle grade fiction with Zonderkidz
Bill Myers -
best-selling and award-winning author of works for children and adults,
producer
Nancy Sebastian Meyer - author, speaker, teacher, recording artist
Rick Marschall - author,
former political cartoonist,
"perhaps America's foremost authority on popular culture" (Bostonia Magazine)
Tim Shoemaker
- author of eight books who now writes and speaks full-time
to parents, men, youth, and children's ministry workers at churches and
conferences around the country
Ann Tatlock -
award-winning author
Carol Wedeven
- author, speaker, world traveler

"The conference was, by far, the most refreshing (exhausting),
information-packed three days I've ever spent."
Diane Moore
