CRT25 - a retreat to remember!
I am astounded that there seem to be no blogs about this year’s Christian Resources Together Conference (CRT25) on 3rd-4th September - so here is my very personal feedback. It is difficult for me to get away to anything writerly nowadays because of my husband’s health. So I signed up absolutely at the last minute when my eldest daughter had decided she’d like to spend a day with her Dad. I wanted to go to the retreat because I had always found it boosted my writing to meet booksellers and publishers as well as Christian writers. There is a huge buzz around CRT that is difficult to put into words - a frenzy of friendships, a merging of ideas, a cluster of colleagues, a wide range of new people to meet, all concerned with the writing trade. I’m no stranger to CRT, having first attended at about a week’s notice when I took over as acting Chair of ACW, so with several retreats in between, I knew what I was expec...