Sentences with phrase «at a writers conference where»

I'm going to be teaching at a writers conference where one of the instigators of the pogrom against me will be sitting on a panel.

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Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

If there's one thing I learned at the Muse and the Marketplace writer's conference in Boston last weekend, it's that every story is, in its essence, The Odyssey (yes, the Homer one you read in high school), and has to be about a journey in which the protagonist (in the case of the following story, that would be me) yearns for something, sets out to find it, and ends up in a different place from where she started.

Several LA - area education journalists and academics presented and moderated at the 2013 Education Writers Association national conference held last week at Stanford University, where hot topics included early childhood, teacher evaluation, and school turnarounds.

A popular presenter at writer's conferences around the country, Michael is also the co-founder of the San Francisco Writer's Conference, where he writer's conferences around the country, Michael is also the co-founder of the San Francisco Writer's Conference, where he Writer's Conference, where he blogs.

As writer Denise Barnes recently remarked to me at the Romantic Novelists Association annual conference, where I was a guest speaker, there's not that big a leap from writing themed collections of short stories to producing a novel.

Not only at writers» conferences and to writers» groups... but also to mainstream audiences where the attendees might be interested in publishing a book.

Best way for a prospect to initiate contact — Jeff Herman's Directory of Agents Visit our website where you can: review sample queries and proposals for works we've sold; query us via email (24 - hour response time); subscribe to our free publishing newsletter; submit your question to our interactive «Ask the Agent» column; read articles by well - known authors and publishing professionals; meet with us at a writers» conference where I'll be speaking.

«After working on writing a book for fourteen years, doing potentially excessive research, and becoming overwhelmed at the publishing options available on the internet, I attended the San Francisco Writers Conference, where Authority Publishing owner Stephanie Chandler was a speaker.

Well, we got the idea from a panel of authors at a Romance Writers conference where authors were talking about writing together on a series.

I had the pleasure of hosting Kristen as the keynote at the 2015 Write Stuff writers conference in Allentown, PA where I purchased her book.

I was at a writer's conference in 2011 where one of the speakers, a publishing house editor, stated in no uncertain terms that self - published authors were the dregs at the bottom of the writing pool with no talent.

Interestingly enough, I was at a writers conference in Australia (where I live) and an editor for a publishing house who also free lances told us that if publishing houses knocked back our books, to consider having them self - pubbed.

«We're at the beginning of an age where we'll be able to reach a book reading audience exponentially bigger than it was before,» Glusman told an audience of writers last month at the venerable Squaw Valley Community of Writers summer conference in a session on eBook publwriters last month at the venerable Squaw Valley Community of Writers summer conference in a session on eBook publWriters summer conference in a session on eBook publishing.

After my second year at the San Francisco Writers Conference, I have lots of ideas and insights for where to take both of my novels, how to revise my pitch, and which agents to query next.

Where else but at a conference for speculative fiction writers could you find Waldo next to the Mad Hatter, Men in Black wiping the memory of Princess Leia, and Wolverine fighting a Jedi quarterback?

I had the privilege of meeting Myra Johnson last month at the American Christian Fiction Writers conference in Denver, where she

Go to conferences like DFWcon or the Unconference where you can meet other writers at your stage (and every stage) of the process.

If you can attend a writers conference where a devotions editor is holding a workshop, jump at the chance.

I taught at a writers conference recently, where attendees were invited to submit the opening page of their manuscripts — anonymously.

It all started at the San Francisco Writers Conference in February, where the predominate message on how to get published was nearly 180 - degrees from that of last year's cConference in February, where the predominate message on how to get published was nearly 180 - degrees from that of last year's conferenceconference.

It launches next weekend at San Francisco Writers Conference, and all the writers there will get a free copy to take away and hopefully spread the word down there where, you know, they're close to film world, and they can all start taking a rights approach to theirWriters Conference, and all the writers there will get a free copy to take away and hopefully spread the word down there where, you know, they're close to film world, and they can all start taking a rights approach to theirwriters there will get a free copy to take away and hopefully spread the word down there where, you know, they're close to film world, and they can all start taking a rights approach to their books.

I can't tell you how many times my clients and attendees at conferences where I speak have told me they feel angry and frustrated because they didn't set out to be promoters — just writers.

Most recently, I had this wickedly concise exchange many times in Charleston, South Carolina, where the PubSmart writers» conference was having its inaugural run at the Francis Marion Hotel on King Street.

This book grew out of a two - day class at Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference (BRMCWC) where the attendees shared the joys and frustrations of -LSB-...]

This book grew out of a two - day class at Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference (BRMCWC) where the attendees shared the joys and frustrations of writing for the Lord.

Last weekend I was at the Central Ohio Fiction Writers conference, where I met up with TKZ regular Steve Hooley.

Writer Beware's Victoria Strauss (who will be speaking at Writer's Digest's Annual Conference in August) points out, among several flaws, that «it looks only at print, which is not where most self - publishers are succeeding.»

That's a good litmus test for you, to see if your pitch is ready to be sent out in the form of a query letter and / or to be a verbal pitch in a conference setting where many agents and editors turn up these days to meet new writers, which they truly want to do at all times.

I was at a writer's conference recently where an editor at a major publishing company confided in me.

We're winging our way out to Google I / O development conference in San Francisco (follow us on Twitter for the inside scoop), where we'll spend a couple of days deep within the Google development community, hear a couple of keynote addresses — oh, and likely get our first real look at the next major version of Android: Froyo.We asked your favorite Android Central writers and Smartphone...

The resume writers at the conference said to err on the safe side and send one anyway, even if it won't be read (which is better than not sending it and them wondering where it is!).