The Perfect Christmas Gift
for aspiring writers!

$49 EARLY BIRD THROUGH 12/31/2019
NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS!
NICK HARRISON
Literary agent with WordServe Literary, Nick is the author of twelve books, including Magnificent Prayer , Power in the Promises , and four books in the One-Minute® Prayer series. For fifteen years Nick served as a senior editor at Harvest House Publishers, acquiring both fiction and nonfiction. Nick has a long history of championing new and unpublished writers. He and his wife, Beverly, are the parents of three grown daughters and grandparents to two boys and two girls.
CINDI MCMENAMIN
Cindi McMenamin is an award-winning writer and national speaker who helps women and couples strengthen their relationship with God and one another. She is the author of 17 books (all from Harvest House Publishers), including When Women Walk Alone (more than 130,000 copies sold), When God Sees Your Tears, and When Couples Walk Together (co-authored with her husband, Hugh, a pastor). Cindi has appeared on hundreds of national TV and radio shows, inspiring women to let God meet their emotional needs, grow stronger through their alone times, and pursue their dreams with boldness. Now a certified Writing Coach, Cindi is helping aspiring writers become published authors, which she’s done in her “spare time” for the past 15 years. She and Hugh live in San Diego County and have an adult daughter. MORE ABOUT CINDY!
10 AMAZING WORKSHOPS
JENNIFER THOMPSON
PERSONAL BRANDING AND THE THREE PILLARS OF SUCCESSFUL BOOK MARKETING
Jeniffer Thompson is a personal branding expert and digital marketing strategist with more than 20 years experience in the publishing industry. She is an award-winning publisher, author, and speaker who is passionate about delivering strategy-rich content and actionable tools that educate and empower authors. MORE ABOUT JENNIFFER!
JOEL RYAN
THE ART OF THE PITCH:
 HOW TO GRAB THEM WITH JUST A FEW WORDS
UNDERSTANDING PERSPECTIVE AND POINT OF VIEW:
THE ART OF WRITING GREAT FICTION
Joel Ryan has worn many hats in the arts and specializes in writing for children and young adults, receiving his MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Before returning to children’s and young adult fiction, Joel was a script reader in Hollywood and core trainer for Disney’s Youth Education Series, where he helped develop and oversee interactive educational programs on leadership, story, and marketing. He has also spent time writing for the church, creating immersive theatrical content for youth groups and Vacation Bible Schools and is currently a contributing writer for Crosswalk and Christianity.com. Joel has a passion for helping young writers find their voice and unlock their stories, and when he’s not working on his own fiction, he teaches writing and communications at Life Pacific University.
B.J TAYLOR
WRITING PERSONAL EXPERIENCE STORIES THAT SELL
WRITING FOR GUIDEPOSTS
B.J. Taylor represents four magazines: Guideposts, Angels on Earth , Mysterious Ways , and All Creatures . She has sold more than forty stories to Chicken Soup for the Soul and two dozen to the Guideposts family of magazines. She has compiled her teaching at conferences across the United States into a book titled Writing True Stories: Using the Winning Formula P MS to a T. She won a spot at the Guideposts Writers Workshop in 2004, is an award-winning author, and has published numerous articles in Writer’s Digest, Romantic Homes, Victorian Homes, John Gray’s Mars and Venus in Love, and many other publications. MORE ABOUT B.J.!
BRAE WYCKOFF
WRITING FOR CHILDREN

Brae Wyckoff is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed author, born and raised in San Diego, CA. He has been married to his beautiful wife, Jill, since 1993, and they have three children and six wonderful grandchildren.
Brae is currently the Director of Kingdom Writers Association based in San Diego where he is working with writers of all levels to encourage and empower them to pursue their calling as authors. Brae hosts monthly writers’ gatherings with published and unpublished writers to strengthen and spur them on in their passion for MORE ABOUT BRAE!
MARNI FREEDMAN
PLOTTING MAGIC
MEMOIR WRITING 101
Marni Freedman (BFA, LMFT) is a produced, published, and award-winning writer. She graduated as an award-winning student from the USC School of Filmic Writing. One of her plays was made into a film, “Playing Mona Lisa,” and was produced by Disney. Marni is the co-founder and Programming Director for The San Diego Writers Festival, whose mission is to gather Southern California writers and creatives for a day of literary celebration, creative expression and most importantly, to promote diversity and inclusion for undeserved communities. She runs the San Diego Writers Network and is the programming director for the San Diego Memoir Association.
Marni is a unique writing coach because she has a tool for almost everything. She has a way of taking complicated information and translating it into easy-to-grasp, step-by-step information. Her character worksheets and plotting devices have been met with rave reviews. She teaches writing workshops for UCSD Extension, conferences and retreats across the state and runs the Memoir Certificate Program at San Diego Writers Ink.
JED JURCHENKO
TEN GREAT IDEAS FOR AUTHORS
Jed is a husband, daddy to four girls, therapist, psychology professor, and an author. He and his wife Jen, blog weekly on Coffee Shop Conversations, where you’ll find freshly brewed wisdom to help you lead your family, grow your friendships, and mature your faith, so that you and your family can live joy-filled, Christ-honoring lives.
CINDI MCMENAMIN
WRITING TO HEAL BROKEN HEARTS
(See Profile Above)
CONFERENCE ADD ONS
WRITERS GOT TALENT CONTEST
A Page One Critique Fest
This is a chance to get expert feedback on your incredibly important first page (all genres are welcome). Best first page awards will go to five different writers to be announced at the conference.
Submit entries no later than March 1st, 2020. Mail to SCS Writing Conference 2075 East Madison Avenue El Cajon, Ca. 92019
ONE ON ONE CRITIQUES
A 20 minute appointment with expert presenters to ask questions, receive feedback on one sheets, query letters, and proposals with table of contents (NO CHAPTERS), story and article ideas. Spots are limited and will sell out.
VENDOR OPPORTUNITIES

Contact Margy Hill conference coordinator to be a vendor at the conference! Spaces are limited!