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Christian Writers Fellowship International
is a multi-service ministry to Christians in publishing. For 30 years we
have encouraged and equipped writers to minister to readers with writing
of the highest biblical and professional standards. We encourage them to make
Jesus Christ - His love and gift of salvation - the centerpiece of every
writing, teaching, and speaking opportunity. We urge them to use their writing
and speaking gifts to do their part in fulfilling the Great Commission.
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gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
ROMANS 10:18, NIV |

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Cross
& Quill
The Christian Writers Newsletter:
Our
organizational newsletter is produced bimonthly and features profiles of
writers and editors, how-to articles, inspiration, market news, conference
news, and many other features. Each issue of Cross & Quill features
a professional member of the CWFI Family. To request a sample issue, click
on the button marked "Cross & Quill" on the left hand margin of this
page.
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Donna
Clark Goodrich is
a free-lance writer, editor, and proofreader. A native of Jackson,
Michigan, she moved to Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 20 to work as
secretary to the book editor at the Nazarene
Publishing House.
Typing a term paper for a seminary student led to her meeting her husband,
Gary, whom she married in 1960. Now residents of Mesa, Arizona, they have
three children and two granddaughters. Donna began the annual Arizona
Christian Writers Seminar
in 1982 which she led for seven years. She has also been instrumental in
helping to form Christian writers clubs in many cities. The author of 20
books and over 700 articles and short stories, she is a frequent
instructor at Christian writers conferences across the United States. Her
latest book is the story of Dave
Clark,
her nephew and recent winner of the “ASCAP Living Legend Award.” Her
greatest love is working with beginning writers and helping them to spread
the gospel through the printed page. Donna is on FaceBook
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Plus ...
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What's
a Writer to Do?
by Sandy Brooks
Suggestions for making changes and adjustments we need to make to keep writing and selling during these challenging times in Christian publishing.
Questions for the Christian Blogger
by
Tammy Hensel
A reality check for Christian writers who want to spread their message through blogging.
Reprints and Rewrites
by
Nan Snipes
Nan gives advice on how to successfully sell and resell your manuscripts.
Block
by
LeAnne Benfield Martin
A haiku on writer's block.
A Vicious Circle
by
Sheryl L. Nelms
A poem on perseverance.
Fuzzy Fiction
by
Jeanne Zornes
Jeanne gives advice on how to make your fiction writing clear and powerful.
Making Sense of Twitter, Part 1
by Kay Hall
A two part series on how to make the best use of Twitter.
Announcing . . .
Linda Gilden is the new director for Writing at the Ranch (formerly Glorieta Christian Writers Conference). Get all the details of who, what, when, where and why on the powerful conference.
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MarketLines
by Jan White
Jan shares the latest on how the Christian marketplace is changing.
Writing Rainbows!
by
Melanie Rigney
A devotional thought on what makes a good manuscript from an editor's viewpoint.
Just Goes to Show . . .
by
Katherine Douglas
A humorous anecdote on the trials and tribulations of writers.
Should I Get an Agent?
by
Dave Fessenden
Dave offers words of advice to writers looking for the most promising way to get published.
Finding Local Writing Work
by
Debra Christian
Advice on how to make extra money by offering to do writing jobs for local companies and ministries.
You Can Write Short, Short Stories
by
Marjorie Flathers
Suggestions for writing fiction for the juvenile market.
The Mudskippers: A Critique Squad
by
Jean Matthew Hall
Jean shares how her local writers group encourages and equips writers in the group.
How to Make Money Selling Your Recipes
by
Suzan Weiner
Suzan shares a quick and easy way for writers to earn extra money in both the secular and Christian marketplace.
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In addition to receiving hardcopies of
Cross & Quill for one year, your benefits of full CWFI membership will include...
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Help with Writing Skills: The introductory letter
and elective sheet that comes with your first issue of Cross & Quill
allows you to choose from a wide selection of instructional and how-to
materials that will encourage and equip you in your writing career. Whether
you are a beginning writer or well-published author we have materials that
will meet your needs. Some show you the basics like how to prepare, format,
and submit your manuscripts. Others teach you the business side of writing
such as studying contracts, writing queries and cover letters, keeping
records, tracking manuscripts, and many other tasks unique to writers.
One
on one help: Through our critique service,
market consultation service, and online access to the CWFI office we give
individual help and attention to you and your writing career.
Books
Direct: To view our wide variety of books
for writers, visit our Books
Direct page where you can choose from hundreds of how-to books and
have them delivered right to your door.
Member Books:
We help our authors promote their books to an international audience by
featuring them on our
Member
Books page. This is a free service to the CWFI Family.
Connections:
On our
Connections
page, we help you connect with Christian writers and groups near you. We
offer help to group leaders by referring potential members from our database
and by giving them free publicity in Cross & Quill. This is
also a free service to members.
CWFI
Family Email Conference: Writers from a
wide variety of experience levels, editors, conference directors, and others
in the publishing industry from all over the world join in online fellowship.
We share information, experiences, prayer needs, and other support vital
to the writing life. This is a free service to CWFI members and subscribers
to Cross & Quill.
Help with
contracts: We provide members with samples
of book contracts that will answer many of their simple questions.
The CWFI staff can provide answers to many simple questions about contracts.
For more complex questions we can refer you to a good copyright lawyer.
Referrals
when writing, editing, and teaching opportunities arise:
Often editors and other individuals in Christian publishing need to find
good writers, teachers, and editors. We help editors, publishers, and others
"Connect" with professionals who can meet those needs.
Agents:
We offer help and advice to our members for sifting through the complexities
of finding and hiring any agent: guidelines for studying agent contracts;
telling you what to look for and what to look out for; other things you
need to know about agents and agenting. As an introduction to this subject
click on the Cross
& Quill link. Scroll down to "Recent articles in Cross &
Quill." Then click on "This Side of the Desk." This article will familiarize
you with the subject of agents.


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