Find A Speaker

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Find a speaker for live and virtual events. Click on the photos of each speaker and get to know who they are, what they write, and a larger sampling of the topics you might enjoy hearing at your next event. These professional speakers will bless you. You’ll notice many of us have our top 3 topics listed, but we’re all able to customize a talk to fit your audience needs. — Angela Breidenbach, CAN president. 1) Mouse over photos to see names and topics. Author/speakers states are listed for local events in the photo caption. However, most will travel. 2)…

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Author Members

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Agers-Brooks, Anita Arrington, Candy Atkins, Narelle Avey, Sydney Baehr, Dr. Ted Banks, Marlene Barker, Dianne Beach, Shelly Beery, Karin Belk, Twila Benson, Joan C. Bly, Janet Chester Boeshaar, Andrea (Facebook assist) Bowman, Crystal Brant, Ginny Dent Breidenbach, Angela (CAN president, Pacific NW Regional Coordinator) Breslin, Kate Brownley, Margaret Burkard, Linore Callentine, Dr. Lainna Cassel, Kathy  Couchman, Judy Cowell, Cheri Cunningham, Peggy Currie, Robin Daly, Jane DeArmond, Deborah Demirkova-Harper, Ceitci Dennis, Jeanne (Pinterest coordinator) Dooley, Lena Nelson Dena Dyer Eckles, Janet Perez (Prayer team, Munce article asst. coordinator) Farrel, Pam (Blog asst. coordinator) Ferrell, Miralee Fessenden, Dave Finger, Catherine Florea, Jesse Fox, Grace  Franklin, Darlene (Though…

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A Writer’s "Take My Life"

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Take my life, and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands, and let them move at the impulse of Thy love. Take my intellect, and use every power as Thou shalt choose. Take my keyboard, and my screen; my desk and office chair, My pages, sentences, and words, my flittings here and there, My focus and my flow, my pacings up and down, My insecurities and fears, my grins, my groans, my frowns. 

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"Brilliance in a bottle"

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Hello! And a very Merry Christmas to you! Maureen Pratt here for my monthly blog which, this year, just happens to fall a couple of days after one of my favorite holidays – you guessed it – Christmas! What I especially love about Christmas is that we get to bring out many of our dearly-held traditions. Whether it’s in baking, decorating, music, or Scripture study "what was old is new again" as we celebrate the Season. How does this relate to writing? Well, it reminds me that sometimes I miss "old" traditions of the authorial kind. Writing long-hand, for example,…

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