This picture was taken at the conference as well. The woman on the left is Christie Atherton, the leader of our Evansville critique group. Like Kristi, she is a person with a lot of talent and working hard at her craft. Standing with her is a woman from her online critique group. Yes-- Christie is in two critique groups. She also writes for the Evansville Courier & Press and goes to school.
Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of Aimee Blume : ( We roomed together at the Embassy suites where the conference was held. She is a feature writer for the Evansville Courier, a musician (plays the bag pipes), a chef, a teacher, and writer of fantasy fiction. I didn't get a picture of her because while everyone was socializing Friday night, she was up in the room working on an article. I intend to rectify that one of these days soon! Oh yeah, she also rescues animals!
Between these women, the book "Writing the Breakout Novel" by Donald Maass, reading in the genre I write, learning from the experts at conferences, and working on grammar and punctuation, I should finish editing my manuscript one of these days and I'll be darn happy about it because when I say finish I mean I'll like it myself.
