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Continuing Sessions
Experience in-depth learning with
a master craftsman!
Each of the five sessions builds on the previous session.
Choose one continuing session for the entire conference.
In addition to the 6-1/2 hours you'll spend in a
continuing session,
GPCWC also
offers your choice of 6 hour-long workshops
from the 42 offered or four hands-on clinics.
A truly
extraordinary, life-changing experience
each and every year.
Dr. Dale McElhinney
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Book Marketing A Through
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Carmen Leal
Carmen is a
frequent and popular presenter at writers conferences nationally and
internationally and is the author of WriterSpeaker.com and You
Can Market Your Book. As her husband's caregiver for twelve years,
Carmen knows firsthand the stresses and the joys of caregiving. Out of
her experiences God birthed a ministry to families with Huntington's
disease and those in caregiving situations. She is the founder of SomeOne
Cares, a Christian caregiver conference sponsored by LifeWay, and the
author of, among others, The Twenty-Third Psalm for Caregivers,
The Twenty-Third Psalm for Those Who Grieve, and Faces of
Huntington's. Her writings have been featured in Guideposts, Focus on
the Family, Decision Magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, and numerous national
and local publications. A storyteller with a dramatic testimony, she is a
popular presenter at women's retreats, church groups, conventions, and
conferences. Her wit, humor, and poignant personal observations, coupled
with her down-to-earth style and common sense approach to dealing with
life, inspire her audiences. Through her transparency, she has the ability
to encourage and bring hope to all. Carmen lives with her family on the
island of Oahu in Hawaii.
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This continuing
session is designed to help you understand basic book marketing principles
needed to help you fulfill God's plan for your book. You'll learn from and
enjoy this fast-paced, high energy brainstorming session filled with
practical low-cost ideas, strategies, and case studies designed to get
books into the readers' hands. We'll cover distribution, book signings,
online marketing, book tours, Web sites, and much, much more. Whether
you're in the process of writing the next best-seller or you're a
multi-published author Book Marketing A Through Z is a must attend.
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From Start to Finish for
the First-Time Author |
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Kevin Wayne Johnson
http://www.writingforthelord.org
Kevin
is the author of
the nine-book series entitled Give God the Glory!, and the
contributing author to two additional titles, the recipient of twelve
literary and media awards, including 2006 and 2007 Christian Publisher of
the Year at Book Expo America, African-American Pavilion, Washington, DC,
and hosted his talk show entitled Give God the Glory! on the Voice
America Internet Talk Radio Network
and BlackTVOnLine.com, during the 2004 – 2007 seasons. He attests every
day that God uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things!
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Whether you intend to
self-publish or seek a contract with an established publisher, this
interactive workshop will help you navigate through the maze of
publishing. We'll discuss ISBN and copyright, developing the outline,
creating content, formatting/typesetting, printing options, cover designs,
marketing, promotion, cost-effective publicity, networking, event
management, maximizing sales, working with bookstores, creating your own
niche in the marketplace, Internet strategies that work, and locating book
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Get Ready, Get Going,
Get Writing, Get Published |
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Mary Tatem
Mary is the author
of six books, including best-selling The Quilt of Life. Mary’s teaching
springs from her love of people and enthusiasm for helping writers achieve
their goals. Classes laced with humor and hard-earned personal experiences
provide lively encouragement, valuable tips, and important advice for
success in publishing.
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How to find ideas, sharpen them, and
determine the best way to develop them. We'll look at the best
opportunities for beginning writers to break into print through
devotionals, fillers, articles, and personal experience stories. Learn how
to research the markets, write cover and query letters, and format and
submit manuscripts editors will publish.
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Making Your Living
as a Writer |
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Jeanette Gardner Littleton
Jeanette has written six books of her own, and has edited many others for
Barbour, Adams-Media, Tyndale, Jordan House, and others. She has also
written more than 3000 articles for all kinds of magazines, including
Today's Christian Woman, Marriage Partnership, and Live. She
has been an editor with Moody Magazine, Christianity Today Publications,
and Beacon Hill Press.
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Mark Littleton
www.marklittleton.com
Mark has written 94 books to date with many major publishers, and more
than 2000 articles in both Christian and secular magazines from
Discipleship Journal and Today's Christian to Reader's Digest and op-ed
pages in major newspapers. He believes strongly that God has invested him
with a sincere and open ministry to Christian writers.
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Have you dreamed about quitting the day job and paying your bills
entirely with your writing income? Or if a day job isn't involved,
have you wondered how to contribute a substantial amount of family income
through your literary talents? Then this workshop is for you! In it,
professional full-time writers and editors Mark and Jeanette Littleton
will give you inside tips you need to know to make it as a full-time
freelancer. They'll help you learn to keep ideas flowing, contacts
going, and contracts growing. They'll answer the questions you have, and
many you haven't thought to ask yet.
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Nangie for Beginners:
Laying a Solid Foundation for Your Fiction
Prolific, award-winning authors Nancy
Rue and Angie Hunt—affectionately dubbed Nangie—have over 40 years of
writing experience and over 200 published books between them.
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Nancy
Rue
http://www.nancyrue.com
Nancy is the best-selling author of over
100 books for
children and young people including the current top-selling Lily
Series and Sophie Series for tweens (Zonderkidz), and the 'Nama
Beach High series for teens, as well as four novels for adults. She
is a former high school teacher and theatre director, and now uses
her experience and master’s degree in education to teach workshops
for young writers and for tween and teen girls nationwide. Nancy has
an adult daughter and lives in Lebanon, Tennessee, with her husband,
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Angela Hunt
http://angelahuntbooks.com
Christy-Award winner Angela Hunt writes for readers who have learned to
expect the unexpected in novels from this versatile author. With over
three million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is the best-selling
author of more than 100 works ranging from picture books (The Tale of
Three Trees) to novels.
In 2007, her novel The
Note was featured as a Christmas movie on the Hallmark channel.
Romantic Times Book Club presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award
in 2006. In 2006, Angie completed her Master of Biblical Studies in
Theology degree and she completed her doctorate in 2008.
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Learn how to make the most of
your natural instinct toward plot-driven or character-driven work. Nangie
offers an interactive, small group, hands-on experience in a friendly, fun,
and nonthreatening environment that will help you hone your fiction skills.
Basic plotting, basic mechanics, basic characterization, reading with an
editor’s eye, gentle critiques, and an opportunity to get your questions
answered.
Important Note:
Please email 500 words of
the opening chapter of a novel and a one-page synopsis to
mbagnull@aol.com
by July 26. In your subject
line note "GPCWC Nangie for Beginners."
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Polishing
Your Manuscript for Publication |
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Andy Scheer
Andy
is Managing Editor for the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild in
Colorado Springs, Colo. As part of the Guild’s work in training and
equipping Christian writers, Andy edits the Guild’s curricula, produces a
monthly newsletter, helps plan the Writing for the Soul conference, and
coordinates the Operation First Novel and Operation First Book writing
contests. He served for 18 years as editor with
Moody magazine in Chicago. A
journalism graduate of Colorado State University, he also studied at
Denver Seminary.
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Learn and practice the principles of self-editing from shaping the big
picture to fine-tuning the details. Includes critiques of 12 class
members’ manuscripts (first-come, first-served). For intermediate to
advanced writers.
Important Note:
Submit the first two
pages of a manuscript for adults (article, non-fiction book, short story,
or novel) as an e-mail attachment to mbagnull@aol.com.
Samples must be double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman/Times Roman with
standard margins. (For intermediate to advanced writers.)
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The
Write Way: 30 Tips & Techniques for Writing Non-fiction |
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Colonel Henry Gariepy
Most of
the colonel’s 27 books, comprising the largest corpus of published works
by a Salvation Army author, have been on devotional and Bible topics.
Since 1995, his “active retirement” has included teaching a corps Adult
Bible Class, conducting Bible study and writer’s seminars, teaching for 12
years at the Army’s School for Officer Training, and serving as a literary
consultant and instructor at annual officer institutes. He is currently
writing a single volume history of the international Salvation Army due
for release in late 2008 by Eerdmans Publishers.
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This
continuing session is packed with helpful how-to's including Richard
Foster's secret, Parallel Structure, Rewrite to Write, Redundancies, Power
Verbs, Writer's Tools, Research, Toward Publishing, and more secrets of
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Transforming
the World from the Inside Out |
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Mary E. DeMuth
http://www.marydemuth.com
http://www.wannabepublished.blogspot.com
Mary
helps people to turn their trials into triumphs. An expert in Pioneer
Parenting, Mary enables Christian parents to navigate our changing culture
when their families left no good faith examples to follow. Her parenting
books include Authentic Parenting in a
Postmodern Culture (Harvest House, 2007),
Building the Christian Family You Never
Had (WaterBrook, 2006), and
Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God
(Harvest House, 2005). Mary also inspires people to face their trials
through her real-to-life novels, including
Watching the Tree Limbs
(nominated for a Christy Award) and
Wishing on Dandelions (NavPress, 2006). She’s currently writing
three novels and a memoir for Zondervan. Mary has spoken at Mount Hermon
Christian Writers Conference, American Christian Fiction Writers
Conference, and has had the privilege of speaking around the US and Europe
about writing and faith. She is the owner of the online group, The Writers
View (1 & 2), with over 1200 members.
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You could write with an angel’s pen, but if you don’t have a firm
spiritual foundation, your words won’t resonate. You can learn every facet
of the craft, but if Jesus isn’t enlivening your heart, what sort of
eternal impact will you have? In this track, author Mary DeMuth gets
nitty-gritty about the intersection of faith and writing, how
life-changing words flow from a changed heart. Have your heart transformed
so your words transform the world.
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Writing
a Novel They Can't Put Down |
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James Scott Bell
www.JamesScottBell.com
Jim is a former
trial lawyer who now writes and speaks full time. He is the
bestselling author of Try Dying, No Legal Grounds, Presumed Guilty,
Glimpses of Paradise, Breach of Promise and several other thrillers.
He is a winner of the Christy Award for Excellence in Inspirational
Fiction, and was a fiction columnist for Writers Digest magazine.
He has written two books in the Writers' Digest series, Write Great
Fiction: Plot & Structure and
Revision & Self-Editing.
Jim has taught
writing at Pepperdine University and numerous writers conferences. He
attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied
writing with Raymond Carver. His student screenplay, Freshman Year, won a
Corwin award. He graduated with honors from the University of Southern
California Law Center, and has written over 300 articles and numerous
books for the legal profession. He has had three feature screenplays
optioned and is on the faculty of Act One, the Hollywood screenwriting
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Learn how you can write a compelling novel that
editors, agents, and readers can’t resist. Discover the best ways to find
marketable ideas, keys to compelling characters, foundations of a great
plot, tools for dazzling dialogue, methods of starting off with a bang,
how-to’s for crafting memorable scenes, and much more. Most important,
you’ll come away equipped with dozens of practical techniques you can
apply immediately to take your fiction to the next level.
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