Magazine Adventure
Michelle here for the third day in a row. Are you tired of me guest blogging yet, or just tired after reading about my insane life? It’s all self-inflicted, I assure you.
Anyway, I’m sharing today about my magazine venture. This mogul I’m referring to is not the snow bumps skiers pass over in the Olympics ski runs. This mogul word is a noun and defined it means a person of influence and wealth. Scrap the wealth part, but the influence definitely had to be there or I could never have pulled something this huge (like CFOM) off. Trust me there. With God’s help and plenty of ideas that He’d given me, I took off with a brainstorm of ideas for columns. In less than four weeks time I’d lined up almost 100 columnists and booked columns well into 2009. Now how did that happen?
I believe God set me up to be in the right position at the right time to recruit all of the talent needed for the mag. Since I’ve been a member of ACFW for going on 5 years now and I’ve been a Board member for 18 months, I’ve come in contact with a lot of people. But even more than that are the contacts I’ve made with authors and publishers because of my blog and book reviews. So I had a vast amount of people I could tap into and influence to get enthused about the online magazine.
I’m proud to say that I’ve not only received and edited over 30 columns for the July issue but have even processed some columns for August, Sept, Oct. and Nov. already. Tired yet? I couldn’t do any of this without a team of talented people behind me who want to promote Christian fiction as much as I do. And with Bonnie Calhoun setting up the site and Erin Brown doing technical edits, we’re operating like a smooth flowing machine…with no glitches or bumps so far. That’s how you know when something you are doing is a God-ordained thing. So why did He choose me for this huge job? I don’t know. Maybe because I was willing and had a vision for Christian fiction. I’ve been promoting it for years now. I know that when you are doing something you love it gives you energy. This magazine is like my cup of coffee. It keeps my excitement and energy level up because this mag is going to be so great! The quality is amazing. And Kelly Mortimer(whose blog I’m blogging on) is one of our regular columnists. She’s got talent. You’ll see what I mean when you read her snarky take on the industry. So check us out at http://www.christianfictiononlinemagazine.com beginning July 1, 2008!