Missy Tippens ~ First Post Jitters

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Missy Tippens is on The Seekers Blog today.
I also just found out that her book, due for release in February, titled Her Unlikely Family, is up on Amazon now.

Write or Die ~ Camy Tang

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Camy Tang writes about how entering contests helped her to find an editor and get PUBLISHED on the Seekerville blog today.

CAUTION: HORMONE FREE ZONE

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Julie Lessman is one of my Seeker buddys. I actually got to have a three hours breakfast with her when her life brought her to Omaha a week ago. She's posting today on The Seekers Blog. Her first book, A Passion Most Pure is coming January First. Buy it on Amazon now.

Life in the Midst of Writing

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Michelle Gregory interviewed me today about Petticoat Ranch for her blog 'Life in the Midst of Writing.' This title above is a link to her site and that interview.



Michelle Gregory

Author Janet Dean Learning from Contests

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Janet Dean, a fellow Seeker talks about her road to publication and how it led down the rocky road of entering contests.
Click this blog's title.

I met my agent Les Stobbe for the first time

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This picture was taken at the ACFW Conference in Dallas in September
L - R back row. Sue Duffy, my agent Les Stobbe, Beverly Varnado and me, Mary Connealy
Terri Gillespie in front. She sent me this pictures. Thanks Terri.

Also check out what's going on in Seekerville.
http://seekerville.blogspot.com/

Contest Road ~ Part #2

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Well, I won The Noble Theme contest and also placed third. I got a lot of requests at the conference to send in my book. I also got a really simple request from Cathy Marie Hake an author I didn’t know. She asked me to send her my first three chapters. She just wanted to see how I wrote.
I also had an agent looking at my work before this conference. He hadn’t offered to represent me, but he had expressed interest. When I emailed him to tell him I’d won the contest and tell him I received about fifteen requests from agents and editors for maybe five different books, he offered me a contract, so I got an agent, which is almost as hard as getting a book sold.
Cathy Marie Hake also kept in touch. She said she thought I was ‘ready’. No editor had yet seen that light, but Cathy’s encouragement kept me hoping. Plus, by this time, I had about twelve books and I’d had so many rejections I had a hide like a rhino, so submitting work didn’t even faze me.
Okay, well maybe I crawled under my computer desk and sucked my thumb for a day or two every time I got one but other than that I was fine.
Just before the next year’s conference, Cathy Marie Hake told me she wanted to pitch my name to write a book as part of a three book series set in historical Alaska. I worked on a proposal and talked on the phone with Cathy a lot before the 2005 conference.
Every year at the conference the acquiring editor for Heartsong Presents gives a contract to an unpublished author. I was so hopeful! I knew there was a chance it could be me. The Heartsong editor said someone else’s name and there’s only one, so okay, I’ve been rejected before. I kind of expect it.
And then she said, “And this year we’re giving two contracts to first time authors. We’re offering a contract to Mary Connealy.” I get chills saying that! It was a wonderful, thrilling shocking moment. I had to go up and get the contract, in front of 350 other writers, all clapping. A great, great moment in my life.
And it happened as a direct result of contests…and ten years of hard work of course.

The Seekers

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I wrote a blog today about how entering contests was a big part of the equation that led me to publication. Click on the title of this post 'The Seekers' above or go to:
http://seekerville.blogspot.com/

Karen Cooper

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I lured a friend to my daughter's wedding and found out about this whole other life she's living since she used to live next door to me.
So Karen is painting...this picture a woman with a book, I love it.
And I'm writing. And we're finding out a thousand things we need to catch up on.
Go to her blog, too, which you can find through her website in the title link above.




“There are but three fundamental colors---red, yellow, and blue.” Vincent van Gogh

"And if Vincent said it then it must be true!? So I go with it, but I go with it because I like it that way. Three primaries, with maybe a daub of violet, and a bit of green, that which some people would call a limited palette. For me, it’s all that’s needed to make a painting that feels fresh and alive. And that’s where I need to be at this space in my life.



I paint with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas. Occasionally I do ‘color sketches’ on paper which sometimes end up at exhibit as matted paintings. I do not make reproductions of any of my paintings, so each one that you look at is a unique rendering of my point of view." --Karen Cooper

My Brother Don's Article Published

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The Link in the title will take you to an article written by my brother Pastor Donald Moore. Don is an Evangelical Free pastor in Omaha., His article is about ways to fund medical care in America.
It's on www.helium.com. He's on the home page today, October 8. but I don't know how often they change the home page.
The picture of Don and me, is from my daughter Shelly's wedding...I cut the whole rest of my family out except Don and me. That was kind of mean. I'll include the rest of the gang another time.

Josie and Matt's Wedding

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At the ACFW Booksigning

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At the ACFW Booksigning in Dallas, Texas. I sat next to Colleen Coble who is a mega-successful author. It was fun to get to know her better.
I got my picture from Myra Johnson--a good friend--and if you click on the link above it'll take you to Myra's blog and she's written some wonderful, touching thoughts about her experience at the conference.

Home from the Conference!!!

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I had a wonderful time last week at the ACFW Conference in DAllas. I'm exhausted and overwhelmed and glad to be home. But I loved it.
The link above takes you to the ACFW website. This organization is the reason I finally figured out how to get a book published and I'm incredibly grateful to it.
Plus, just spending four days with 450 Christian Women Writers is just a beatufiul, fun experience.

Gatewood Family

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My Mother-in-law Marybelle had this picture out today. She's been going through some old stuff. So I asked if I could have it. The littlest girl in the picture is my friend Janell. The link in this blog's title will take you to her blog.

This is her family. I suppose they all have this picture already, but I thought they might get a kick out of it anyway.

Janell is one of two people on earth who can ask about my brothers and sisters--there are eight of us--and actually know what I'm talking about, who I'm talking about and care what I say. And I can do that with her. That's a different and precious kind of friendshaip when you have those roots with someone.

Anyway, looking at this picture made me smile and I thought I'd try and lure HER bloggers over to see it. Maybe it'll make them smile, too.

Written on the back of this photo is:
Myrna 21
Bob 16
Mick 18
Sue 19
Shirley 11
Janell 7

Omaha Lit Fest

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Saturday Sep 15, 2007
at 10:00 AM


Where::
W. Dale Clark Library - Downtown Omaha
14th and Farnam
Omaha, NE 68101
United States

Booksigning In Dallas

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Do you love Christian fiction? Then join us for the ACFW booksigning on September 22nd from 1:30-2:30 at the Dallas Addison Quorum Marriott, 14901 Dallas Parkway, Dallas. Click on the picture below to see the flier. Hope you can join us!

Sushi for One?

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Sushi for One?
by Camy Tang


Camy Tang's debut novel Sushi for One? is a hilareous, high energy, fast paced read.
I loved the sass and the frustration of poor harrassed Lex the OSFC (Oldest Single Female Cousin).
But what sets this book apart from lots of fun reads is the Asian flavor Camy brings to the story. It brings a touch of the exotic, takes you away to this best-of-both-worlds American-Asian family and brings the book to life in a way few authors I've read can do.
I had a great time with Sushi for One? I highly recommend it.