Write His Answer

Debbie Hardy – The Queen of Resilience!  If you see her at the May 15-18 Colorado Christian Writers Conference, chances are, she’ll be wearing a tiara.

She loves this conference!  Attending for 11 years, she has been a speaker/teacher for 7 years.

Her first conference was a big challenge.  She had just begun her first book and was scared.  Marlene encouraged her to bring her first chapter.  Still she was so afraid to come alone, she convinced a friend to come with her, and Debbie paid her friend’s way!

Debbie learned two important lessons that first year.

1 – publishers and editors are people too!  And she had fun getting to know them and still does.

2 – there is a whole language to learn in the land of publishing.  So in many of her classes, she provides a vocabulary sheet with definitions to encourage new writers to jump right in.

This year she will be teaching an Early Bird workshop on Writing Devotions and doing Interviews representing ChristianDevotions.US.

Her favorite part of the conference is talking with new writers and seeing their eyes light up when they get some piece of feedback that makes them say “I can do that!”