Check out all the ways our chapter members are learning, promoting Christian fiction, and connecting with readers!
November 2025
Hoosier Hangout
November 10
7:00-8:00 pm EST
October 2025
On October 4, ACFW Indiana chapter held their in-person meeting at the South Branch of the Kokomo Public Library. The group took a deep dive into “Constructing Short Copy and Blurbs.” Melissa LaShure showed us how she uses Claude.io, and Rebecca Reed discussed the use of AI for cleaning up dictation.
August 2025
Ronda Wells had the opportunity to present Novel Malpractice at Killer Nashville International Writer’ Conference. She also entered her partial romantic suspense novel in the Claymore Awards. The novel won Best Suspense and also third place for best book overall.
She moderated the Medical Fiction panel at Bouchercon.
March 2025
Linda Sammaritan with students at a creative writing class she taught as a guest author.
On March 21-22, Rick Barry, Beth Steury, and another author friend Julienne Lingle (non-ACFW) joined forces to sell books at the annual Indiana Homeschool Conference in Ft. Wayne. In addition to selling books, the three engaged in many conversations and made new friends, too. During the conference, popular Christian speculative author Bryan Davis dropped by their booth to chat about books and writing.
Abbey Downey found a copy of her recent release, An Unexpected Catch, at the Kokomo Public Library.
Ronda Wells sold an article to Guideposts for Veterans Day. Her first novella, The Christmas Cherub, will launch in July 2025 (inspired by the true story of the L.S. Ayre’s clock cherub, this cherub may have an interesting talent – the ability to tell true love!)
Janice Miller entered poems in 5 categories of the Poetry Society of Indiana’s spring contest and took 1st place in one of the categories.
On July 25 & 26, ACFW-Indiana’s past president Rick Barry will be joining the faculty of Taylor University’s 2-day writers conference. Regardless of whether you plan to attend this Fall’s ACFW national conference, Taylor’s inexpensive local conference can give you guidance, a healthy dose of literary inspiration, plus “writerly” fellowship to recharge your creative batteries! To learn more, here’s a link: https://taylorprofessionalwritersconference.weebly.com/faculty.html
January 2025
Linda Sammaritan participated in the Greenwood Christmas Fair and Avon Author Fair. She also celebrated seeing her books on the shelf at the Avon library!
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