ACFW Foundation – Online Auction Update (Correction added)

19 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by Kara Hunt in Fiction, News & Updates, Writing Christian Fiction, Writing Inspirational Fiction

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QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS POST CAN BE DIRECTED TO ACFW Foundation Board Member LACY WILLIAMS AT lacyjwilliams@gmail.com.

Correction – *from Book Fun Magazine – a full page ad *and* ad creation valued at $400 for a total value of $1900.

We’re making great progress on organizing the spring online auction benefitting the ACFW Foundation – the 501(c)3 that is responsible for the scholarships that send members with financial hardship to conference.

Items recently added:

*Romance-ology Love Scene Critique from our own Julie Lessman

*Live Free Write Free 1-on-1 Mentoring session (30 minutes) with Allen Arnold

*Full page ad in Book Fun Magazine from The Book Club Network, including ad creation – a $400 value

And more.

*And* we have news! Family Fiction is allowing us a run a spot in one of their online newsletters. Because of this, we’d like to open a part of the online auction for READER PRIZES.

So we need those kind of donations from our published authors. Here’s some ideas:

*book basket (you ship it to the winner)

*name a character after the winning bidder

*multi-author book basket – why not get together with your chapter-mates or crit partners and offer a basket?

*”meet the author” online Skype chat for 30 minutes with winning bidder

Or anything you think a reader would be interested in bidding on. Remember it is for a great cause, to send more scholarship recipients to conference.

I NEED YOUR DONATION SUMMARIES BY FEBRUARY 28. Enter them here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kQUAiMf6seKzGmn5Oo__nw9j9mURC6v3xrZAnpAl0RA/viewform

The auction will run approximately March 15 – 31 and you will be expected to ship your prize shortly after that.

Thanks for considering giving back to ACFW in this way!

Latest Happenings Around ACFW

12 Wednesday Feb 2014

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2014 ACFW Conference, ACFW, ACFW's Carol Awards, ACFW's Genesis, ACFW's Mentor of the Year, Christian Fiction

There are several things going on around ACFW, so here’s a brief re-cap.

1. Contests: Both the Genesis Contest and Carol Awards are open for entries. Genesis is for unpublished writers with a completed manuscript, while the Carol Awards is for those who’ve had a book published in 2013 by a publisher on ACFW’s Recognized Publisher List. Entries open until March 15.

Details can be found at http://www.acfw.com/contests

2. Mentor of the Year: Nominations for ACFW’s Mentor of the Year are now
being accepted. Go to http://www.acfw.com and log-in with your user name and password, and you’ll be taken to the member home page, where you’ll see the link. Submissions accepted through February 28th. Or go directly to: http://www.acfw.com/members/mentor_2014

3. Conference Scholarships: Applications are being accepted to receive a scholarship to the 2014 ACFW conference in St. Louis, September 25-27. Questions can be directed to debraney at mac.com. The application can be found at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDNzbXBYSW5Rb2NrdkI4ZWRTT19mU2c6MA#gid=0

4. Finally, don’t miss our webinar on February 20, 2014 at 8 pm Eastern/5
pm Pacific, Henry McLaughlin will present an ACFW webinar entitled: The Voice in Your Head: Just Because You’re Hearing Voices Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Normal. To register, go to: http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=EA52DB87864C3A Space is limited.

Have a great week, Fiction With Faithers!