00:09:11 Sarah Velotta: Good Morning! 00:09:38 Carlton Hughes: Good morning! Glad you're here bright and early! 00:10:01 Sarah Velotta: Thank you! So blessed to be here! 00:11:34 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Good morning - Joni here. My email is joni@jonivance.com. Working on website and other social media. Would love to hear from you and will connect on social media in the next few months. 00:11:41 Suzanne Baginskie: Good Morning. I have no webcam and Couldn't get the sound to work. 00:12:00 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: As you Sarah, I feel so blessed to join you from across the ocean in Toulouse France. God’s family worldwide ! 00:12:16 Sarah Velotta: Wow! So glad to have you from France! 00:13:01 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Suzanne, I don't know what to do to help other than perhaps sign out of the conference completely, then reboot (not just restart) your PC and start clean. Hope that works. 00:13:34 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: I love to hear it all fresh again even though I'm not a newbie. 00:14:56 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Getting a rattle as you are speaking, Carlton. 00:15:16 Sarah Velotta: I’m getting a lot of feedback on Mr. Carlton. 00:15:29 Becca the Short Weidel: same here right after he started to share his screen 00:16:29 Kentucky Christian Writers Conference Conference 1: Better for me. Everyone else did that fix it? Nod if it worked 00:16:43 Becca the Short Weidel: yeah that fixed it 00:16:44 Kentucky Christian Writers Conference Conference 1: Great! Awesome 00:17:09 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Sound great now. Thanks. 00:18:14 Kentucky Christian Writers Conference Conference 1: Suzanne. If you are still having an issue with Zoom, I can work with you one on one to resolve it. We can test your audio etc. 00:18:25 Kentucky Christian Writers Conference Conference 1: Can you see and hear Carlton? 00:20:03 Sarah Velotta: I love that! Hadn’t thought about praying for this. 00:23:43 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: Then it is the landscape for the six Laura Frantz novels I got to read in France… lovely 00:23:58 Christy Fuller: Harlan County proud! :) 00:25:37 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: The Jerry B Jenkins ! 00:29:45 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Physical distance, spiritually connected. 00:30:57 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: I have to pray that God gives me the words He wants me to write. Was reminded of Habakkuk 2:2-3 this morning. 00:32:03 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: Thank you Joni 00:32:32 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: I try to listen and take as many notes as I can. Be in the chat and connect. Then listen to the recordings later. I know I can't take it all in at this moment. 00:34:54 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Can't wait to listen to all of the recordings. So thankful we can watch them for the next 6 months. 00:35:36 Leah: You look like you could be a woman's romance author. 00:35:49 Sarah Velotta: I’m just a few week’s old in writer’s age. When you say take a class, do you mean a college class? Sorry if this is a silly question. 00:36:31 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Think he means classes for writers - at a conference, or online. 00:37:23 noraspinaio: Sarah, he's talking about at conferences. I'm sure he or someone else would have some great advice for you on where to learn so very much. 00:37:39 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: College classes on writing are good, too. But get a huge variety at conferences and at different websites with experienced pros in the published industry. 00:37:58 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: Especially living so far in European, Queries and Proposals are the only way to reach out to agents & editors 00:39:42 Christy Fuller: So sanitary! lol 00:41:33 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Recommend a one-sentence hook statement. Then another with 2-3 sentences, then another that is about 4-5 sentences. That way, if you say it in one sentence and the person says, "tell me more", you can give a slightly longer description, etc. 00:41:59 Kentucky Christian Writers Conference Conference 1: The key to a good pitch is they must be specific 00:42:33 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: Perfect peace that my good Sheperd leads all in His due time 00:43:35 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Agree. Look at the back cover of books that are in the genre you are writing. Try to model your pitch in a similar fashion. Have to be able to say it in about 30 seconds to a minute tops. 00:44:44 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: I have to pray for God to help me with my emotions after a conference. Coming down from the high and feeling the absence of my writer peeps is very intense. That's why I try to connect as much as I can during a conference. 00:45:14 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: A safe place to open our hearts about what we filled called to, thank you 00:45:40 Kentucky Christian Writers Conference Conference 1: Girl meets boy. Can they find love?=not a good pitch. Good pitch = something like: Young single mom Jane meets Bill who lost his family in a fire. Bill struggles with survival guilt while Jane has trust issues. 00:46:57 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: I sometimes get overwhelmed as to what to do next. Have to ask God what part of the craft/business I need to work on next. 00:47:18 Gareth Carter: Where is the best place to find an editor? 00:48:39 Sarah Velotta: How essential is it to have an agent? 00:48:58 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Here's my current pitch: The connection between two plane crashes twenty years apart catapults NTSB investigator Marie Garrison from a crash investigation into a case of multiple murders, and when her father is arrested, she must confront her past and the real killers to save him. 00:49:23 Becca the Short Weidel: when is the right time to start pursuing an agent? 00:49:28 Gareth Carter: Ha ha 00:49:30 Leah: That's what I do editing wise. 00:49:53 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: Europeans aren’t in the ACW… so glad to be amongst you today as a bilingual author 00:50:17 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: ACFW, Word Weavers, blueridgeconference.com, KCWC - all good sources that have FB and other groups of writers you can connect with. 00:50:28 noraspinaio: Have you ever found really good beta readers at conferences? (Excuse the ly word. 00:50:48 Sarah Velotta: Where’s the best place to find information on how to find an agent? 00:51:21 Gareth Carter: ha ha 00:51:40 Carol: I 2nd the Word Weavers @joni vance suggested. Great place to find critique partners and support. Lots of local groups. 00:52:00 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: Thanks Joni, I’ve been following the serious writers chat for three months so that Rhonda Dragomir led me to be here today, connections indeed, I am grateful to Jesus drawing the focus line 00:53:57 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: MOOCs are brilliant, I followed many from New Zealand in children writing and Australian for plotting, settings, characters… 00:55:30 Susan M'Chelle Brannock: Novel Academy 00:55:58 Leah: I was at a writer's conference and an agent approached me, saying she enjoyed my work and wanted to represent me. How do I handle a situation like that where I know the person isn't being honest and is only trying to get my business? 00:56:12 Susan M'Chelle Brannock: Susan May Warren’s MBT Novel Academy 00:56:22 Susan M'Chelle Brannock: That’s the whole name :-) 00:56:32 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: My Book Therapy is also known as Novel Academy. Here is link: https://novel.academy/ 00:56:56 Susan M'Chelle Brannock: It’s excellent. 00:57:00 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: I've been a member for about 4.5 years. And it is a wonderful place to learn the craft and get help. 00:57:49 Sherry Palmer: is there a registry of local Christian Writers groups? 00:57:54 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: And writing coach/editor is more of a paid relationship. 00:58:26 Gareth Carter: Yes I saw that - thank you 00:58:38 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: Which blog is it, Greg ? 01:00:50 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: How to choose, every conference is so relevant, grateful for the 6 months… 01:01:15 Gareth Carter: Thank you! 01:01:21 Joni Vance...joni@jonivance.com: Thanks, Carlton and Gregg. :-) 01:01:26 Susan M'Chelle Brannock: Thank you for everything! This conference is a blessing. 01:01:34 Isabelle-Louisa Robert Bartolo-Treyborac: Then you have family in France 01:01:38 Leah: Thanks Carl and Gregg! 01:01:40 Carol: Looking forward to catching the replay for the first half. thank you. 01:02:19 Kentucky Christian Writers Conference Conference 1: https://kychristianwriters.com/2020-writers-conferences 01:02:28 Carlton Hughes: almostanauthor.com