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Writing for Regional and Local Markets with Scott Rutherford

If you’ve wondered how to make your writing pay, you’ll want to watch this Writers Chat with Scott Rutherford, executive editor for a free mailer publication with a potential reach to over a million in various communities in Texas and Louisiana. It’s an encouraging interview, especially if you’re new to writing. As Scott Rutherford puts it, “I landed a job as an executive editor with only twelve hours of college. In my defense, nine of them were in English.”

Enjoy the inspiration!

About Scott Rutherford:

Scott Rutherford is a confirmed serial killer of Oxford commas and managing editor for Metro Leader, a family of hyper-local community monthlies in Texas and Louisiana with distribution to more than a million homes. He is currently managing papers in Lubbock, Sherman-Denison, Corpus Christi, and the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. He has previously managed and/or served as staff writer for Metro Leader papers in Shreveport, Monroe, Lake Charles and Natchitoches, Louisiana and Marshall, Texas.

Prior to coming to Metro Leader in 2014, he worked as a full-time freelance writer, editor and (occasionally) translator. He has written thousands of articles for print and online publications under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms. He has ghostwritten books you can buy at any bookstore, but he can’t tell you (much) about that.

Before that, Rutherford served as a pastor, youth pastor, and residential care worker for at-risk youth.

When he’s not writing, you can usually find him writing.

Unconfirmed rumors suggest he’s also been seen rediscovering, dusting, and playing the drums.

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Writing Devotionals from the Hard Parts of Scripture with Rachel Schmoyer

Writing devotionals brings unique challenges that thrill anyone who’s discovered the joy of digging deep into Scripture. On this Writers Chat, Rachel Schmoyer shares techniques she uses as she writes devotionals for publication and for her own personal blog, www.readthehardparts.com. Packed full of goodness!

Rachel Schmoyer is a pastor’s wife and mom of four and lives in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. She is a blogger at Read the Hard Parts.com where Christians can be encouraged and equipped to read the hard parts of Scripture. Rachel‘s devotionals have been published in several devotional magazines. She is working on a book for women to help them find the simple truth in the complex book of Revelation.

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Writers Chat is hosted live each Tuesday for an hour starting at 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET
on Zoom. Participants mute their audio and video during the filming, then we open up
the room for anyone who wishes to participate with our guests. The “After Party” is a
fifteen-minutes of off-the-record sharing and conversation.

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Taking the Next Writing Step with Callie Daruk

Ever felt like your writing career was stuck? Writer, editor, and encourager extraordinaire Callie Daruk shares how the balance between waiting and initiative has led her to a place of obedience and confidence as her platform has ballooned. Whether or not you’ve ever met Callie, you’ll want to know her better after this challenging and encouraging Writers Chat!

Callie Daruk is an award winning writer who has written articles for magazines, newspapers, websites and more. She is currently writing her memoir entitled, Shattered Expectations – It Wasn’t Supposed To Be This Way.

After thirty-two years of professing to know Christ, when the rug of life was jerked out from under her following her twins premature birth, year long hospital stay, and near death, God exposed the true condition of her heart. It was darker than she ever realized.

Callie loves spending time with her gracious husband, their three energetic boys, and encouraging others to give Christ their whole hearts.

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Writers Chat is hosted live each Tuesday for an hour starting at 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET
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fifteen-minutes of off-the-record sharing and conversation.

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When Writing and Fiction Collide with Jolina Petersheim

Jolina Petersheim attracts stories like mint draws butterflies. Enjoy this episode of Writers Chat when she shares how each of her novels have been drawn from a personal, painful yet poignant thread of real life. You won’t want to miss it!

Jolina Petersheim is the critically-acclaimed author of The Alliance, The Midwife, and The Outcast, which Library Journal called “outstanding . . . fresh and inspirational” in a starred review and named one of the best books of 2013. That book also became an ECPA, CBA, and Amazon bestseller and was featured in Huffington Post’s Fall Picks, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and the Tennessean. CBA Retailers + Resources called her second book, The Midwife, “an excellent read [that] will be hard to put down.” Booklist selected The Alliance as one of their Top 10 Inspirational Fiction Titles for 2016, and it was selected as a Christy Award finalist. Jolina’s nonfiction writing has been featured in Reader’s Digest, Writer’s Digest, and Today’s Christian Woman.

She and her husband share the same unique Amish and Mennonite heritage that originated in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but they now live in the mountains of Tennessee with their two young daughters.

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Writers Chat is hosted live each Tuesday for an hour starting at 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET
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Learning to Love the Thing You Hate with Angelene Woodard

Angelene Woodard of www.unqualifiedmom.com shares how her feelings of overwhelm have blossomed into a ministry when she accepted her limitations and moved forward anyway. In this inspiring session of Writers Chat, Angelene encourages women to embrace their weakness and discover the strength God offers through Christ. She explores blogging, platform, marketing, and sleep deprivation, so enjoy!

Angelene Woodard has been a child of God for thirty years, a wife for eighteen years, a
mother for eleven years, and a writer for three years.

She launched the brand new Unqualified Mom blog (www.unqualifiedmom.com) in September 2017. Here she offers
spiritual insight, encouragement, and dose of humor to her fellow struggling mamas.

Angelene is a charter member of Word Weavers International (Nashville TN Chapter)
and serves as their Membership Coordinator and Group Division Manager. Most recently, she
accepted the invitation to become a contributing writer for the Homeschool Super Freak website.

She lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and their three children.

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Writers Chat is hosted live each Tuesday for an hour starting at 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET
on Zoom. Participants mute their audio and video during the filming, then we open up
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fifteen-minutes of off-the-record sharing and conversation.

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Writers Chat Gift Ideas for – and from – Writers

Writers Chat Christmas Gift Ideas almostanauthor.com

You’ll enjoy our conversation discussing top gifts to give your writing friends as well as how we can use our gifts as writers to give to our loved ones!

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Writers Chat is hosted live each Tuesday for an hour starting at 10 AM CT / 11 AM ET
on Zoom. Participants mute their audio and video during the filming, then we open up
the room for anyone who wishes to participate with our guests. The “After Party” is a
fifteen-minutes of off-the-record sharing and conversation.

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