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"The poor do not need our compassion or our pity; they need our help. What they give to us is more than what we give to them."Wednesday morning it was up bright and early at 5:15 AM to get ready to meet the people in my party downstairs before heading over to the next hotel where we would go to holy Mass which would begin our very busy day at the conference.
My first presentation was at 10:15 AM right after the Opening Welcome from Ann Lewis and Karina Fabian of the Catholic Writer's Guild. My talk was entitled "Your Manuscript is Complete, Now What?" It was attended by many writers of manuscripts who were interested in the publishing process, hoping to be published one day. I opened with a remark that I thought it was so wonderful to begin the day with holy Mass and then a Eucharistic procession. Where else can you find that at a writer's conference? We were surely blessed!
I enjoyed the audience's company. I don't have a photo of that event at the moment, but will post one when I do receive one from the Catholic Writer's Guild.
After my first presentation I hurried over to the blogging panel which was being held right after my talk to meet up with my dear friend and fellow Catholic author (founder of Catholic Mom.Com) Lisa Hendey, as well as Mark Shea, and Karina Fabian who graciously moderated our panel. Our panel was called "Making the Most of Your Blog."
It was a lot of fun to participate with these seasoned bloggers as well as to interact with our audience.
I plan to continue to post bits and pieces of the conference in the coming days.
God bless!
I'm so glad you were a part of the conference, Donna-Marie! I really enjoyed the blog panel, too, though the answers took us in a totally different direction than I expected. I wonder if that's because you all had a purpose to your blog that went beyond just using it to sell books.
ReplyDeleteI asked Ed to send photos as soon as he could.
God bless!
Karina Fabian
www.fabianspace.com
Thank you very much, Karina! I so enjoyed the entire conference and the blogging panel too.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's great that you'll be getting the photos soon.
We'll have to talk about next year's conference at some point.
God bless you!
Donna-Marie
I'm counting the days until we can get together again! Hope our paths cross again soon - it was such a joy to share time with you!
ReplyDeleteYes, me too, Lisa! It was sheer happiness meeting you finally. God is so good! I am so looking forward to spending time with you again, God willing. I plan to post more photos from the CMN soon. One will be of us. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Donna,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad we had the chance to meet at the conference. I enjoyed your presentations (and Lisa's). I wish I could have attended more than one day of the conference -- maybe next year I can make that happen. :)
Take care and God bless!
Elena
It was wonderful to meet you, Elena! I wish that we had more time to talk. Like you said, maybe next year! It was great that you could attend though.
ReplyDeleteGod bless you!
Donna-Marie