Literary Agents
– Please visit again for bios & what they are interested in representing
- Jonathan Clements - Founder & Literary Agent, Wheelhouse Literary Group
- David Fessenden - Literary Agent, WordWise Media Services
- Diana Flegal - Literary Agent, Hartline Literary Agency
- Jim Hart - Literary Agent, Hartline Literary Agency
- Cyle Young – Literary Agent, Hartline Literary Agency
Other Professionals - Click here for bios and how they can help you
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AuthorizeMe Consulting, Coaching & Editing Services – Sharon Norris Elliott
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Celebration Web Design – Jonathan Shank
Christian Message Coach – Patricia Durgin
Christian Small Publishers Assc. (CSPA) – Sarah Bolme
F.O.C.U.S.E.D. Plans, LLC – Deanna Garlic
Logos 6 – J.B. Hixson, Ph.D.
My Book Therapy – Rachel Hauck
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Picture Kitchen Studo – Kim
The Christian Film & Television Commission™ - Dr. Ted Baehr
Writer Mentorship Program – Nancy Rue
under and Chairman, The Christian Film & Television Commission™; Publisher, MOVIEGUIDE Magazine; Author
Sarah Bolme - Director of Christian Small Publishers Association (CSPA), owner Crest Publications, Author
Megan Breedlove - Author, Speaker, Website Consultant
Patricia Durgin - Christian Message Coach
Sharon Norris Elliott - Author; AWSA Board Member; Founder/CEO of Life That Matters Ministries and AuthorizeMe Consulting, Coaching, and Editing Services
?Deanna Garlic - President / Publisher, F.O.C.U.S.E.D. Plans, LLC; StayFocusedMagazine.com
Marty Goetz - Recording Artist, Songwriter, “Modern Day Psalmist”
Rachel Hauck – Bestselling and Award-winning Author; Mentor, MyBook Therapy; ACFW Mentor of the Year and Executive Board Member
J.B. Hixson, PhD. - President, Not by Works Ministries; Representative, Logos 6
Ann Knowles - Author, Editor, Speaker, Teacher
Yvonne Ortega - Author, Certified World Class Speaking Coach
Marti Pieper - Author, Collaborative Writer, Editor
Nancy Rue - Author, Writer Mentorship Program
Angela Schans – YouTube expert
Jonathan Shank - Web Designer, Celebration Web Design by SKWD Associates, LLC
Kim Sponaugle - Artist, Founder & Owner of Picture Kitchen Studio
ector of Resources, Ransomed Heart (the ministry of John Eldridge)
- Patricia Durgin - Christian Message Coach
- ?Deanna Garlic - President / Publisher, F.O.C.U.S.E.D. Plans, LLC; StayFocusedMagazine.com
- Natalie Gillespie – Journalist, Editor, Author
- J.B. Hixson, PhD. - President, Not by Works Ministries; Representative, Logos 6
- Shawn Kuhn - Promoter, SuzyQ, a full-service author & retail development firm
- Suzanne Kuhn - SuzyQ, a full-service author & retail development firm
- Tyora Moody – Author, Literary Entrepreneur
- Marti Pieper - Author, Collaborative Writer, Editor
- Lynn Pinder – Christian Authors on Tour, The TAKE ACTION Network
- Angela Schans – YouTube expert
- Jonathan Shank - Web Designer, SKWD Associates
- Patti Shene - Lit(erally) Speak(ing), BlogTalk Radio; Writer
- Marjorie Vawter - Author; Editor, Proofreader, The Writer's Tool Editing; Assistant to Conference Director
Editors - Click here for bios and editorial needs
- Susan Baganz - Acquisitions Editor, Prism Book Group; Author
- Marlene Bagnull - Publisher/Editor, Ampelos Press; Author
- Beth Brubaker – Assistant Editor, Ruby for Women Magazine
- Terrence Clark - Founder & Chief Editor, The Glory Cloud Publications, LLC and Voice of One CNC magazine; creator of ClubK4C; Author; Cartoonist
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Erika S. Cobb - Managing Editor, CLC Publications; Writing Coach, Author
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Cheri Cowell – Owner & President of EABooks, Author, Speaker and Sidewalk Theologian
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Amy Deardon - Publisher, Taegais Publishing LLC; Author
- Catherine DeVries - Associate Publisher, Children’s Resources, David C. Cook; Representative, Power for Living; Author (unable to come)
- Scoti Domeij - Acquisitions Editor, Blackside Concepts; Author; Editor; Director, Springs Writers
- Eva Marie Everson - Managing Editor, Firefly Southern Fiction (an imprint of Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas); President, Pen In Hand, Inc. and Word Weavers International, Inc.; Director, Florida Christian Writers Conference; Vice President, Writer Enrichment, BELIEVERSTRUST & SON: Spirit Of Naples; Author
- C. Hope Flinchbaugh – Acquisitions Editor, Destiny Image Publishers; Owner, HopeEditors; Author
- Pam Halter - Editorial/Acquisitions Director, Bread and Jam; Author
- Eddie Jones – Founder and CEO of Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, Co-founder of Christian Devotions Ministries, Author
- Terri Kalfas - Publisher, Grace Publishing (unable to come)
- Marty Machowski - Executive Editor, Children’s Resources, New Growth Press; Author; Pastor
- ??Jeff McDonald - Editorial Director, Salvation Army National Publications
- Nina Newton - Senior Editor, Ruby for Women Magazine
- Gloria Penwell - Representative, AMG Publishers
- Cheryl L. Price, Ph.D. - Editorial at-Large and Administrator, Executive Editorial Board, UMI (Urban Ministries, Inc.)
- Chris Richards – Acquisitions Editor, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas; Founder WAY – Words and Youth Writers Conferences; Author
- Kathryn Ross – Publisher, Pageant Wagon Productions LLC
- Cindy Sproles - Executive Editor, Christian Devotions; Devotional & Nonfiction Acquisitions, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas; Editor, ChristianDevotions.us and DevoKids.com; Author
- Jim Watkins - Associate Acquisitions Editor, Wesleyan Publishing House; Representative, Light from the Word; Director, St. Davids Writers’ Conference; Editorial Advisor, ACW Press; Author
- Karen Whiting - Representative, Molly Green Magazine and blog, Book Fun Magazine, and Elk Lake Publishing (middle grade division); Author
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Jeanette Windle - Representative, Kregal Publications; Author; Journalist
Authors - Click here for bios
- Dr. Harold L. Arnold, Jr. - Founder of The Pursuit of Influence, Author
- Megan Breedlove - Author, Speaker, Website Consultant
- Emily Chase - Author, Speaker
- Mike Dellosso - Adjunct Professor, Creative Writing; Author
- Michael Gantt - Pastor, Blogger, Speaker, active in international ministry for over 20 years
- Debbie Hardy - Author, Speaker, Queen of Resilience
- Chris Lassiter – Author, faith and culture contributor to several magazines
- Peter Lundell - Author, Pastor
- Joyce Magnin - Author, Speaker
- Rick Marschall - Author, Historian
- ?Ava Pennington - Author, Bible Teacher, Speaker
- Nancy Rue - Author, Writer Mentorship Program
- Tim Shoemaker - Author, Speaker
My life is STILL being touched every day by the Philly conference.
I am writing more, and with a greater sense of purpose,
yet with no concern or worries about my writing
as I know God will use me and what I write
as He sees fit.
Thom Smith, 2013 conferee from NH
