ACFW Denver 2009
In September 2009 I attended the ACFW conference in Denver, CO.
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| The hotel we stayed at was amazing. |
The hotel was so huge it had a waterfall
in the main lobby |
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| I attended a workshop led by Donald Maass, who is an amazing teacher. |
I taught a couple of workshops in 2009,
one on plotting and one on enhancing a story using the five senses |
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| I won an award for my story in the Novella anthology, A Connecticty Christmas, and here I am with agent, Tamela Hancock Muarry, holding my certificate. |
Here is me and Loree Lough, whom I’ve known for years online, and this is the first time we met in person. |
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| And afer all that fun, there’s the annual Chocolate Party. I brought chocolate Loonies. |
There was also a dinner for the Abingdon Authors, which was a lot of fun. |
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| Cynthia Ruchti and Gail Sattler |
Kim Sawyer and Gail Sattler |
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| Gail Sattler and one of my editors, Rebecca Germany of Barbour Publishing |
Author Sandra D. Bricker, one of my editors Barbara Scott of Abingdon Press, and Gail Sattler |
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| Gail Sattler and my favorite author, Debbie Macomber. Notice we are the same height. |
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| The worship team for 2009 – that’s me on the far right, with the bass guitar. |
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| The dessert at the awards banquet was amazing, they had written ACFW (the name of the writers group) in dark chocolate on a white chocolate slab, and all 550 who attended got this. |
The Denver airport felt as big as a small city. |
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| And every washroom at the airport was also a Tornado Shelter. This is why my friends Annette Irby and Dawn Kinzer are posing outside the ladies room.(see the yellow sign?) |
This is what a rainbow looks like from the air. We were all fascinated that it arced sideways from up at that altitude. |