June Meeting: Clopton's Exciting Proposals

Debra Clopton will join us on June 14th to discuss how to make proposals exciting

Come to LaHacienda Ranch Restaurant

5250 Hwy 121
Colleyville, Tx.

(Between Hall-Johnson and Glade on the north-bound service road)

Time: 11:00 - 1:00pm

Award winning author Debra Clopton hit the ground running in 2005 with the release of her first book THE TROUBLE WITH LACY BROWN published by Steeple Hill Love Inspired. It was a Golden Heart finalist and won the Faith Hope and Love Inspirational Readers Choice award for 2006. Since then her subsequent books have won several awards and nominations including The Writers Guild Award, The Barclay Gold Award and her 2006 book NO PLACE LIKE HOME was a proud finalist in ACFW BOTY contest for short contemporary in 2007. Most recently her book DREAM A LITTLE DREAM was named one of the recipients of a Holt Medallion Award of Merritt in romantic comedy for 2008.

A prolific author Debra has created a unique world filled with characters readers don't want to give up. A place created especially to make readers join in on the fun—and sometimes the trials and tribulations...but always a place where readers can forget their own worries and spend a relaxing few hours in the company of their friends of Mule Hollow.

Debra is known for her unique voice, her humor and the ability to weave in relevant issues while still leaving her readers with a smile. She has 3 books scheduled for release in 2008 NEXT DOOR DADDY (Jan 08) HER BABY DREAMS (April 08) and THE COWBOY TAKES A BRIDE (July 08) she has 4 books on the horizon for 2009...all are continuing her series set in Mule Hollow. Her editor on all of her books is ACFW Editor of the Year Krista Stroever who she credits with sharing her vision for Mule Hollow.

You can visit her website at http://www.debraclopton.com/

May Member News

Many of our member's have been hard at work. Here's a sampling of what some of them have been up to:

• Check out Janice's new website. See sidebar and click on Janice Olson.
• Lisa Buffalo has two new articles out. You can read them by following these links:

"Where is the control?"
http://www.thechristianpulse.com/index.php/20080501572/Faith/Faith-Articles/Where-is-the-control.html

"Excuse me God, can we talk?"
http://www.thechristianpulse.com/index.php/20080501571/Faith/Faith-Articles/Excuse-me-God-can-we-talk.html

• Lena Dooley always has interesting interviews on her blog. Check it out by clicking her name on the side bar. Writer's are sure to find interesting tidbits there.
• Our president, Dawn Samaniego, is now moved and getting settled into her new home.
• We have three finalist in the Genesis Contest: Lynne Gentry, Jane Thornton, who finaled twice, and Janice Olson. Be sure to give them a big congrats when you see them.

I hope to be able to post more news in the future. This is promising to be a great year!

May Events

Janice Thompson May Visit

DFW Ready Writers will host Janice Thompson for a two-hour writing seminar.

Saturday, May 10, from 11:00 am - 2:00 PM

La Hacienda Ranch restaurant

5250 Hwy 121

Colleyville

$10 charge at the door (This price does not include the cost of your lunch.)

Topics:

Have Yourself a Cozy Little Mystery

Writing a Novel Using 12 Plot Shots

A booksigning will follow the seminar.

Janice Thompson is a Christian freelance author of novels, non-fiction books, magazine articles and musical comedies for the stage. Her latest releases (Mommy-to-Be AND Bride-to-Be) were co-authored with her oldest daughter, Randi. Janice has currently published over thirty books. She lives in the Houston area, where the heat and humidity tend to reign, regardless of the season.

April Meeting

April 12 Meeting- Review of the Early Bird Session

Four of our esteemed member's of DFW Ready Writer's will be presenting what they learned during the 2007 ACFW Conference Early Bird Session. Come hear the different perspective from these wonderful ladies.

Meeting begins at 11:00 at the La Hacienda Ranch in Grapevine.
We will have lunch before the speakers begin.

The restaurant is located on the service road between Hall-Johnson and Glade on the southbound side of Hwy 121.

Meeting ends promptly at 1:00 pm.




Lee Carver

Lee Carver has retired from her globe-trotting life as the wife of a senior vice president of the world’s largest bank. She and her husband have served as volunteer missionaries for the past six years, where he was a bush pilot in the Brazilian Amazon. Lee ran their home as a free missionary guesthouse.

Lee lived in six foreign countries and studied nine languages. She has taught biology and chemistry, served as volunteer church musician, and is a potter.

The Carvers moved to Texas in November, 2006, to care for his parents and enjoy their extended family.

Janice Olson
Janice Olson writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Her devotionals appear regularly in Journeys in Faith weekly e-devotionals and she is currently working on a daily devotional book and a suspense novel. She received the NTCW 2007 Best of Conference Award in Children’s Fiction, September 2007, and her short story My First Tea was published in Chicken Soup for the Tea Lover’s Soul in October 2007. Janice is an active member of ACFW, SCBWI, TXLA, RWA, and Historian for DFW Ready Writers. Though she enjoys writing mystery/suspense, her ultimate aspiration is to inspire others to reach higher heights and greater faith in God through her writing and teaching.

PacJac Carroll
Patricia (PacJac) Carroll has been writing for more years than she’d like to admit. But in 2006, she became serious about writing as a career and calling. A member of ACFW and DFW Ready Writers, she also attends a weekly critique group in the home of multi-published author Lena Nelson Dooley. She also attended the ACFW conference in 2006 and 2007.
Patricia loves to write, travel, and laugh. She has completed one historical romance and is currently working on a contemporary romance. She enjoys the writing process and has many more unfinished stories waiting impatiently in line to be written.

Margo Carmichael

Margo Carmichael writes suspense.
She acted as charter president 2005-06 of local chapter of American Christian Fiction Writers, DFW Ready Writers.

Her passions are reading and acting (she’s played in M*A*SH, background in “Walker, Texas Ranger,” and “Jaws III”). She has also played Constanza in “Enchanted April.”

Margo loves painting, writing, piano and art. She grew up in Florida and has traveled to Paris, Tokyo, London, Scotland and Israel.
The more I study the Bible, the more I see our awesome God's hand in my life.

March Meeting with Martha Rogers