Category Archives: Fall Conference

Your Royalty Note – Special Edition

October 27, 2014Blog, Contests, Fall Conference, Newlsetterguildadmin

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Sherwood Eliot Wirt Lifetime Achievement Award

Judith Deem Dupree

SDCWG President Jennie Gillespie (left) presents the 2014 Sherwood Eliot Wirt Lifetime Achievement Award to Judith Deem Dupree at the 2014 SDCWG Writers Conference at Maranatha Chapel in San Diego, California. Judith Dupree is one of the founding members of our guild. She was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her work as an author and poet, and for her years of mentoring, teaching, and encouraging others in their writing and their faith.

Back row (left to right): Cary Boyle, Christa Kinde, Michael Mendoza, Joanne Bischof, Francine Phillips
Front row (left to right): Jenny LaBahn, Gale Nelson Bones, Viola Vazquez

2014 SDCWG Writing Awards

Congratulations to the 2014 San Diego Christian Writers Guild writing award winners!* Nancy Bayless Award For excellence in writing to Jenny LaBahn
* Best nonfiction book: Gail Bones for Living Crosswise
* Best fiction book: Joanne Bischof for My Hope is Found
* Best poem: Cary Boyll for A Summer Evening
* Fiction Book – Honorable Mention: Christa Kinde for The Broken Window

Unpublished Manuscript Contest Winners

*Unpublished Manuscript (Fiction): Veola Vazquez for Nickel Nuisance
* Unpublished Manuscript (Nonfiction): Francene Phillips for The Truth Swing
* Unpublished Manuscript-Honorable Mention: Michael Mendoza for The Hand of Vengeance

Praise Reports: If you attended the Fall conference on Friday and/or Saturday and have a praise report please post it here! We heard so many good things from the faculty and from those who attended. Share your story here and be a blessing and encouragement to others. Email info at sandiegocwg.org with subject: Conference Praise Report

Your Royalty Note – October 2014

October 14, 2014Critique Groups, Fall Conference, Newlsetter, Publishing News, Upcoming Events, Writers Quotesguildadmin

If you have news, information about an upcoming writing event or would like to share what you’re reading with the Guild, please send your information to sdcwg at yahoo dot com.

San Diego Christian Writers Guild Fall Conference: October 24-25, 2014. Maranatha Chapel, Rancho Bernardo, CA 92127 Sign up BEFORE October 22 to be guaranteed lunch!!!!

Main Stage Speakers Philip Yancey & Ellie Kay.
Sign up today at sandiegocwg.org.
Other faculty include
* Chip MacGregor (Agent, MacGregor Literary Agency)
* Barbara Nicolosi (Screenwriting)
* Brett Burner (Publisher, Lamp Post)
* Kim Bangs (Editor, Baker Publishing)
* Kathi Macias (Acquisitions, Elk Lake Publishing)
* Michale Clark (Editor, Relief: A Christian Literary Expression)
* Holy Lorincz (Agent, MacGregor Literary Agency)
* Lynn Vincent (NY Times writer)
* Susan Meissner (Award winning novelist)
* Jeff Gerke (novelist)
* Dr. David & Lisa Frisbie (Authors)
* Renee Fisher (Author)
* Cliff Albert (KOGO Radio)
* Arlene Pellicane (Author)

: Diana Taylor

Diana Taylor:
In regard to my Halloween book Halloween, Harmless Fun or Risky Business I’ve been asked to do two radio interviews.
#1 October 28 on the Debbie Chavez Show – airs via internet : www.debbiechavez.com noon PST. #2 October 30 American Family Radio Tim Wildmon 8:30 to 9 am info at www.afr.net

Reminder: The Santee Critique group will meet on Wednesday, October 1 and October 15 from 6:00-7:30 pm at the Santee Library. Contact group leader Tiffany Hanson at mprozobons at gmail dot com for more info.

The games get pretty crazy at English teachers’ parties…

Conference Faculty Additions

October 8, 2014Blog, Fall Conference, Newlsetter, Upcoming Eventsguildadmin

San Diego Christian Writers Guild Fall Conference
October 24-25, 2014
Maranatha Chapel, Rancho Bernardo, CA 92127
We’ve added even more great faculty to our Fall conference lineup! Check our web site for more details!
Faculty * Philip Yancey: Author of The Jesus I Never Knew and What’s So Amazing About Grace * Ellie Kay: National Speaker and author * Barbara Nicolosi-Harrington: Act One * Lynn Vincent: NY Times bestselling writer * Chip MacGregor: Agent, MacGregor Literary Agency * Holly Lorincz: Agent, MacGregor Literary Agency * Brett Burner: Publisher, Lamp Post. * Kim Bangs: Sr. Acquisitions Editor, Baker Publishing * Kathi Macias: Sr. VP of Acquisitions, Elk Lake Publishing * Professor Michael Clark: Fiction Editor, Relief: A Christian Literary Expression * Susan Meissner: Award-winning novelist * Jeff Gerke: Award-winning editor and novelist. * Dr. David and Lisa Frisbie: Authors * Renee Fisher: Author * Cliff Albert: KOGO Radio * Arlene Pellicane: Author
Faculty Consultations	Our 15-minute private consultations with faculty are always a highlight of our conference. If you have registered, you should have received a form and instructions on our signup process. For more info please visit our web site.
Conference Hotel	The conference hotel is the Rancho Bernardo Radisson. It is located at 11520 W. Bernardo Court, San Diego California 92127. All rooms are suites. Please ask for the special rate for those attending the San Diego Christian Writers Guild conference.
Workshops	Workshop information is now available on our web site.

Your Royalty Note – September 2014

September 9, 2014Critique Groups, Fall Conference, Newlsetter, Upcoming Eventsguildadmin

If you have news, information about an upcoming writing event or would like to share what you’re reading with the Guild, please send your information to sdcwg at yahoo dot com.

San Diego Christian Writers Guild Fall Conference: October 24-25, 2014. Maranatha Chapel, Rancho Bernardo, CA 92127 Sign up BEFORE October 1 to receive your $20 Early Bird discount!!!!

Main Stage Speakers Philip Yancey & Ellie Kay. Sign up today at sandiegocwg.org

: Diana Taylor

Diana Taylor: I’m signing my new book from Whitaker House, Halloween, Harmless Fun or Risky Business at the Rock Church bookstore on Rosecrans in Pt. Loma, Sunday October 5th 7:30 a.m to 1 pm.

Reminder: The Santee Critique group will not meet in SeptbThey resume on Wednesday, October 1 and October 15 from 6:00-7:30 pm at the Santee Library. Contact group leader Tiffany Hanson at mprozobons at gmail dot com for more info.

Can one can read too much? See what you think after reading this article by agent Steve Laube:
www.stevelaube.com/possible-read-much/

News of Note – August 2014

August 11, 2014Blog, Critique Groups, Fall Conference, Newlsetter, Publishing News, Upcoming Eventsguildadmin

If you have news, information about an upcoming writing event or would like to share what you’re reading with the Guild, please send your information to sdcwg at yahoo dot com.

San Diego Christian Writers Guild Fall Conference: October 24-25, 2014. Maranatha Chapel, Rancho Bernardo, CA 92127

Main Stage Speakers Philip Yancey & Ellie Kay. Sign up today at sandiegocwg.org

The Santee critique group will meet the third Wednesday only in August (August 20) from 6:00 – 7:30 pm at the Santee Library.

: David & Lisa Frisbie

David & Lisa Frisbie: We will be featured at this year’s edition of “Mountain Festival” at 108 E. Tehachapi Boulevard. We will meet guests and sign many of our recent books from Noon to 3 PM on Saturday, August 16th. In addition We have just signed a contract for our next book, on the topic of parenting teens. The publisher is Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City — this is our sixth book with Beacon Hill.

: Diana Taylor

Diana Taylor: Very exciting news. I’m a finalist in the Historical Fiction category for the ACFW Carol Awards. The book is Claudia, Wife of Pontius Pilate. I’ll be attending the American Christian Fiction Writers conference in St. Louis at the end of September along with my agent, Joyce Hart, who is up for Agent of the Year. Also, My new booklet, Halloween; Harmless Fun or Risky Business (Whitaker House) is just out. It’s an expose’ on all of the customs associated with Halloween and the dangers of participating for believers. Some of my own story is included. I’ve been teaching a memoirs writing class to seniors at the Clairemont Salvation Army complex and having a great time. I’m also in the process of setting up a creative writing class as a Life Group in September with Newbreak, the church that adopted our small Oasis congregation after our pastor retired

Madam Curie’s Notebook: 100 years later Marie Curie’s notebooks are still too radioactive to be handled without protection. They will continue to be until at least 3511. The physicist and chemist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields and the only person to win in multiple sciences.