
Conference Keynote Speaker: Melanie Dobson
"The Power of Story" and "Ten Steps to Create a Compelling Novel"
Melanie is the award-winning author of twenty historical romance, suspense, and time-slip novels. Four of her novels, Chateau of Secrets, Catching the Wind, The Silent Order and Love Finds You in Homestead, Iowa, have received Carol Awards, Catching the Wind received the Inspirational Fiction Audie Award in 2018, and The Black Cloister was named the ForeWord Religious Fiction Book of the Year.