First, a huge thank you to all members and friends who have attended our Catholic Writers Guild Live Conference in the past! Your support is forever appreciated and as always, our prayer is that you found some encouragement and benefit in the growth of your writing gifts, connection to your faith and to others who live their faith each day and the increased blessings that new friends bring. We hope you can make it again this year!

Second, I am putting out a call to any member who attended a previous Live Conference and has pictures they might be willing to share. These pictures will be included in an article in the Charlotte NC Diocesen newspaper, the Catholic News Herald, promoting the upcoming Live Conference. If your picture(s) are used you will be given full credit. You can contact me through the Guild website or at membernews@catholicwritersguild.com . I need the pictures by August 8th latest – and thank you for all of your help!

Annette Tenny is a regular contributor to the Catholic News Herald, the Charlotte, NC Diocesan newspaper. She has worked with middle and high school kids in sacramental preparation as well as the 'little peanuts' in Children's Church. Annette is currently discerning becoming a Secular Franciscan and plans to begin her Lay Ministry studies in the fall of 2012. She is also working on her first non-fiction book geared to those discerning or currently in the RCIA process.