I'm writing to everyone who did not take advantage of the member discount for CWCO2024. Did you know Guild dues are $40 for a year, and members get a $20 discount on the online conference and a $40 discount on the live one? (The live conference is i...

Hi, folks,Pardon the mass email, but there are nearly 200 CWG members whose dues expired in 2023—and you’re on this list!I’m hoping it’s just an oversight. Life gets busy and the website doesn’t always send reminders like it should. If so, please cli...

Hello, former Guildies!We’re reaching out to our former members from the early years of the Guild.Do you remember those days when the Guild was young and we thought we'd become a force for Catholic writers? We're doing it! We've launched probably a h...

Hello, former Guildies!We’re reaching out to our former members. We know there are plenty of reasons for dropping out of the Catholic Writers Guild. Maybe finances got hard. Maybe you’ve been too busy to write. Or maybe the Guild wasn’t really meetin...

Thanks to everyone who filled out the newsletter survey for me. I also got some very sweet emails. I love you guys!Amelia--email me!First--using a random number generator, Amelia was chosen as the winner of the book drawing. Amelia, your name is not...

NOTE: Deadline extended to October 1, 2024, for publication in 2025. I’m compiling a collection of stories on how God inspires our writing and our writing lives. It’s directed primarily toward Catholic writers and has a combination of saints, first-h...

As the year comes to an end and I think about all the stories that are still in my head, I was inspired to write this song. Rena Shannon, a fellow member of the Catholic Writers Guild, and I were talking about having too many characters telling us th...

Hi, all, I got a little behind in this storyline because Lt Tonio Cruz decided he needed a couple of stories, himself. One is on Vella. It’s a play off of Gamesters of Triskelion and should not be missed! The other one takes Smokey and the Bandit and...

Hooray for Zombie Humor! The second Neeta Lyffe book, I Left My Brains in San Francisco, is out again. Zombie problem? Call Neeta Lyffe, Zombie Exterminator–but not this weekend. On vacation at an exterminator’s convention, she’s looking to relax, ha...

My husband and I were listening to “Chemical Worker’s Song” by Great Big Sea, and we joked that it would be hilarious to rewrite it for Star Trek redshirts. The...

Being alone to think hadn’t done Todd any more good than it had for the past four days. His mind kept whirling in circles and bumping up against impossible scen...

Ellie sat blinking at the door, her body immobile and her mind racing with a hundred thoughts. What just happened? It wasn’t fair! She hadn’t wanted to talk ton...