Teaching
"More Out the Door: 12 Strategies
for Freelance Article Writers to Increase Your Output and Your Income"
at the
Colorado Christian Writers Conference ( see workshop 2-D).
NEW!
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presented at the Colorado Christian Writer's Conference May, 2009!
"More Out the Door: 12 Strategies to
Make More as an Article Freelancer" 1 hour workshop on CD. Only $10 plus
shipping.
"Setting Yourself Up to Sell Your
Book" 1 hour workshop within a 1 1/2 hour CD of class 5 of the "Adventure of
Independent Publishing" continuing session. Only $10 plus shipping.
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Dianne will be on faculty at the Colorado
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workshop: "Setting Yourself Up to Sell Your Book."
"T'was The Night Before," short
fiction in Live 12/21/08.
Dianne's story "In Good Hands,"
which appeared in Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul II, has been chosen
for the recently released book Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Best Stories
of Faith.
"Percentage of Christians
Dropping in Younger Generations" in Enrichment Journal, Winter
'09, p. 6.
"Feeling the Hostility?" in
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"Top 13
Ghost Stories in the Bible" in the 10/26/08 issue of ENCOUNTER: The Magazine, page 8.
"Bind and Gag Your Editor for NaNoWriMo" in the
October '08 issue of Christian Communicator.
"I Love To Write Day: Opportunities to Speak"
in the September 2008 issue of
Christian Communicator. Christian Communicator
"Get Involved with Youth for 'I Love To Write
Day'" in the Sept/Oct 2008 issue of Cross & Quill magazine (www.cwfi-online.org/index.html
).
Interviewed by Beth Vogt and Scoti
Domeij's blog on 4/28/08,
The Writing Road.
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Where Grace Abounds:
True Stories from Pro-Life
Pregnancy Centers
April 25,
2008:
Thank you to everyone who has sent me stories for my book! There's some exciting
things happening with the project. I'd appreciate your continued prayers. I'll
let you know when something develops...
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Me and my 2000 Kawasaki Vulcan Nomad. Since we're Star Trek fans, we named
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Currently Reading:
Call me crazy (and
this drives my beloved husband nuts), but I can't seem to read just one book at
a time. I usually have several going...
The New Rules
book has me so excited! If you have a book to market online, I highly
recommend it!
These are books I'm recommending in my workshop at
the Colorado Christian Writers Conference "More Out the Door: 12 Strategies
for Freelance Article Writers to Increase Your Output and Your Income":
I'm also meandering my way through this book and am
enjoying it immensely. Whether you've been to God's Holy Land or not, here's
your person tour. This one also rates my "highly recommended' rating:
by Eva Marie Everson and Miriam Feinberg Vamosh
Recently Read:
I'm working through this and am really enjoying it.
A good Bible study for individuals or groups. (Surprisingly ChristianBook.com
usually has the better price over Amazon.)
Read about more
BOOKS I've read and my thoughts on them on my About
Dianne page.
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My story, "In Good Hands" which was published in
Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul 2
was selected for this new book,
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Secure the Fort:
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Resources I recommend:
Robert McKee's Story contains some offensive language. However if
you can overlook that, I recommend it.
(Ampelos
Press, 2002)
