Enter the 78th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition!

All you writers out there - don't miss out on entering the 78th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition. It's an excellent way for you to get your work out there, and you just may win a prize and help boost your writing career a bit! For more details and to enter, please visit writersdigest.com/annual. You may enter either online or by smail-mailing your entries to Writer's Digest. The entry deadline is May, 15, 2009 - coming right up! I hope you'll take advantage of this opportunity, and I look forward to hearing about your awards!

Calling All Poets-Submit Your Poems to Leap of Faith!

I'm a poet, and I know that many of you, my readers, are gifted poets, as well. I thought it would be exciting to create a collection of poetry to distribute among Leap of Faith's readers. If you have poems to submit for consideration, please e-mail them to me at marla_alupoaicei@yahoo.com! If we generate enough interest, we may be able to start our own literary journal and start attending readings together in the Frisco/Plano area and throughout the Metroplex. Let me know if you would like to participate! I look forward to reading your literary masterpieces. Blessings!

Book Expo

The Book Expo went very well! Thank you so much to all of you friends, family members, fellow authors, bloggers and others who attended the Expo and our book signings. We enjoyed chatting with you and we appreciate your support!

The Expo was a fantastic event and extremely well planned, but attendance was not as high as it could have been. Hopefully the attendance will be better in future years.

To read Mary DeMuth's excellent summary of the Expo and also to find out what she spoke about during her Christianity Today author panel on Living Christianly in a Postmodern Culture, please check out her website at relevantblog.blogspot.com.

Mary also includes a link to a VERY helpful discussion of author platform at springswriters.blogspot.com/2009/03/building-your-writers-platform.html. Check it out! If you're a writer who has not yet signed up to receive Mary's excellent newsletter and blog articles, be sure to sign up. Mary is a gifted writer and an encouraging mentor to me. Enjoy!