ATLANTA--This year I took the plunge and attended my first International Christian Retail Show (ICRS), which took place in Atlanta right after the annual conference for the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. If you're not famliar with ICRS, this is where publishers exhibit their new releases, and booksellers come to buy them for their stores. It was an exciting time, and I was privileged to do two book signings and three interviews for the new release of Faith Deployed... Again.
Just as much fun was getting to know some wonderful fellow authors. I roomed with Janet Thompson, who is an expert on mentoring, and has published several books for women including the new release: Dear God, Why Can't I Have a Baby? Janet was so much fun and such an encouragement to me. She even helped me figure out part of my novel's main character's backstory while we were brainstorming one day!
Janet Thompson and Jocelyn Green
Jocelyn Green with Tony and Penny Monetti
Of course, while I was in Atlanta, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to look into the local history since my third novel in the Civil War series is set in this fascinating city. I paid a visit to the Atlanta History Center and enjoyed the Civil War exhibits as well as a tour of a plantation-plain house built in the 1840s which survived the near-total destruction of Atlanta in 1864. It was a whirlwind trip, but very fruitful!
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