Writers’ Conferences, Workshops, and Websites: Start checking writers’ groups websites early to have time to enter their contest and to prepare to attend your favorite conference or workshop.

January 28, The Friends of the Library meets at 1:30 p.m., at the Baxter County Library, Mountain Home. Please join us and watch our new library go up and forward.
February 21st Ozarks Writers League http://www.ozarkswritersleague.org
March 7 Bel Arco Writers Workshops will have a “How to Create a Bog” workshop http://belarcowritersworkshops.blogspot.com
March 13-15 Missouri Spring Retreat http://www.scbwi-mo.org
March 15-17 41st Annual Literature Festival University of Central Missouri http://library.ucmo.edu/childlit/clf
April 3-5 94th Annual Missouri Writers’ Guild Conference http://www.missouriwritersguild,org
May 15-16 Arkansas SCBWI Spring Conference http://www.arkansasscbwi.org
June 5-6 The Sixty-Fifth Annual Arkansas Writers’ Conference

Vivian Brown author of “Finding the Gold Ring” (Non-fiction) and a new mystery “Just LikeYour Mother” published by Xlibris, and “Thirsty For Love” by Tate Publishing. Vivian is a new writer to this area from California.
Debbie Ridpath Ohi wrote the book, “Writes Online Marketplace.” I am hoping Writers
Digest Books will ask her to do an update. It is a very helpful book.
http://www.debbieohi.com

Elaine Deyo is the author and illustrator of children’s books. http://meet.branson.com
Mike McArthy is a photographer who uses some of his photos to reproduce in a creative manner depicting paintings, drawings, animations and antique interpretations. http://www.photozarks.com

God has blessed me with a huge imagination filled with all my senses or is it non-sense.
A writer is always a writer – their blood flows from a pen into words, only the act of God can remove this drive or as some people would characterize - a disease of the mind – she is out of her place of what a woman is suppose to do.

Discouragement comes from the devil and encouragement comes from God.
Faith makes things possible, not easy.
Exercise daily, walk with God

Christian writers and market places: http://www.christianwriterssubinfo.synthasite.com
http://www.sallyclark.com
http://www.zonacrabtree.com
www.churchmousepublcations.com