Oncourse started my writing career. I started attending writer's conferences when I was 15. The Florida Christian Writer's conference was the first I attended.
There I met Amber, Oncourse's head editor. She offered me and my friends (who had come to the conference as well) a writing opportunity, which we quickly accepted. None of us really knew much about article writing at the time, but I think we did okay anyway.
Amber was my first official editor and gave me two more magazine articles before I started writing novels. She helped me get my foot in the door and understand what it meant to write professionally!
I got to see her again at ICRS because she wanted to do an interview with me. It was great to see her again.
That's super cool! I'd love to have writing friends to go to a conference with. And to have someone like Amber take a personal interest in you is a great opportunity... I can see it has had good results. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! Yes, her confidence in my abilities was a great encouragement to me and very helpful to furthering my writing career.
DeleteAmanda, I just want you to know that I think you're very beautiful. Every time I see a picture of you I think wow. She's so pretty. I just wanted you to know that. You also write wonderfully and I can’t wait to read NI.
ReplyDeleteWhy thank you. :) I hope you enjoy NI immensely whenever you do get a chance to read it. I really enjoyed writing some new characters in that book, especially Tresa and Aric.
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