Our October meeting promises to be great! Creston Mapes will be our speaker. He’s going to talk about how to make a living as a writer.

About Creston:

For almost two decades, Creston has been writing and editing
powerful marketing copy for clients such as Coca-Cola,
The Weather Channel, Focus on the Family, ABC-TV, Johnson Controls,
Chick-fil-A, Tyndale House, TNT Sports, and Oracle Corporation.

He’s edited and ghost-written a growing list of non-fiction books, and
penned three of his own contemporary suspense novels for Random House.

C R E S T O N    M A P E S
http://crestonmapes.home.mindspring.com/

Creston is an amazing author as well. Don’t miss this exciting meeting!! See you there.

A big CONGRATULATIONS goes out to our WORD members Ane Mulligan, Christy Smith and Julie Garmon. All three are finalists in the 2009 Genesis Contest sponsored by ACFW.Whoo hoo ladies!! Good luck. We’ll be cheering for you at the conference. 

Happy summer!!  It is getting hot here in Georgia and so are our WORD meetings. In May we had the great pleasure of hosting Nora St. Laurent. She thrilled us all with her stories and gave us all the inside scoop on Book Clubs. There’s a whole lot more to Book Clubs than reading books. Thanks to Nora for all her insight. We had a lot of fun.Our next meeting we welcome our President Amy Wallace as she teaches part one of a two part workshop titled Getting Your Foot In The Door. Amy normally teaches this with Cindy Woodsmall and Cindy will be joining Amy at our July meeting. This is a great opportunity for all. Amy will be discussing POV, showing verses telling and we are told to be prepared to participate!! Sounds like fun to me.Please join us.

We had a really great meeting in April with Brandt Dodson. A lot of folks came and we kept him busy with questions after his talk on characterization. It was very informative and Brandt is a very nice guy. We enjoyed having him.

This month Nora St. Laurent is joining us to talk about bookclubs. Norah is the bookclub coordinator for Lifeway and leads a number of large and thriving clubs. We are looking forward to seeing Norah and you at our next meeting.

It’s almost time for our April meeting, but before we go into what that’s all about we wanted to share about our March meeting. David Wallace came and gave us the ins and outs and ups and downs and everything else we needed to know about everything web related.  He gave us info on websites, blogs, enewsletters, book trailers and more. He was an amazing speaker and source of information. We were thrilled to have him.Please join us for our April meeting. We are pleased and excited to have author Brandt Dodson presenting a workshop on Character Development. Be sure to join us. See you there! 

2009 is upon us and we have a great year planned at WORD. We started off January with a great visit from agent Mary Beth Chappell. She answered questions, gave advice and everyone who attended had a great time.

We are not slowing down in February. We have a very special guest, Mae Nunn. Mae writes for Steeple Hill books and will be sharing her journey into publishing. Please join us for a great nice of fun, learning and fellowship.

Here are the unanimous election results from our meeting in December:

President: Amy Wallace

Vice President: Belinda Peterson

Treasurer: Cindy Woodsmall and Christy Smith

Secretary: Missy Tippens

Please be in prayer for your 2009 Board! We look forward to serving you and seeing what God has in store for us in 2009.

 Wishing each of you a Christmas filled with joy and a New Year full of hope!

 Merry Christmas!

We had a great time at our special meeting in April. Anna Destefano presented an awesome workshop on plotting and planning.  She covered a lot of aspects and we helped a WORD member define her characters in her current work-in-process. We had a great turn-out and we missed you if you couldn’t be there.

The May WORD meeting features members Missy Tippens and Belinda Peterson. They are presenting “No Love Scenes Allowed.”  This workshop will explore sensuality, emotion, faith, and creativity
in inspirational romance. We will talk about appropriate levels of
sensuality and about characters’ emotions as they discover love. We
will touch on the faith plot thread and will also talk about setting up
the story to let creativity fly.

 Please join us on Tuesday May 27th. We look forward to seeing you. 

ACFW Writers of Remarkable Design invites you to join us, Saturday, April 26, 2008 for a hands-on workshop with award-winning author Anna DeStefano!

Anna will present two of her popular workshops, Plotting Through Character and Planning and Rewriting.

OPEN TO PUBLIC!

This event will be held at Sugar Hill United Methodist Church from 10 AM to 2 PM. Cost for ACFW local group members is $8, nonmembers $10. Price includes Chick-fil-A lunch.

Please RSVP via e-mail to: treasurer@acfwword.com Email reservations must be received by April 14 and payment received by April 18 to assure lunch reservation. Late reservations and walk-ins are welcome, however lunch will not be provided. (Sorry, no refunds after April 18.)

We look forward to having you join us!

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Late registrations are welcome! 

Please send an e-mail to: treasurer@acfwword.com

Lunch will not be provided for those who register late, but feel free to bring your own. The cost of the event for those who register late will be ten dollars and can be paid at the registration table upon arrival. 

All of us at WORD hope to see you there!  

The WORD meeting for March with Ginger Garrett was an incredible time filled with tons of tips and insights on creating story structure. Ginger shared some of the stunning art she uses for inspiration and offered a plethora of ideas on finding the tools that work for each individual writer.

Not only did Ginger show up and inspire us, but she also shared about her exciting new book. To let you all in on the wonder, here’s a link to a video clip about this upcoming novel, In The Shadow of Lions.

http://www.youtube.com/GingerGarrettAuthor