Critique Groups That Work: A Handbook for Starting, Leading & Participating in a Christian Writers Critique Group

Write! Critique! Publish! Best-selling authors and faculty at writers' conferences regularly recommend critique groups for both beginners and professionals. A good critique group will:--Improve your writing skills--Increase your focus and productivity--Accelerate your path to publication Critique Groups That Work is the fast track to ignite and sustain your momentum. In clear, step-by-step tips, you'll learn:--Benefits and types of critique groups --Strategies for starting or joining a group --Ground rules that insure your group's success --Guidelines to deal with conflict in your group --Specific tips for critiquing and receiving critiques--Grammar goodies and key editing tipsIf you're serious about publication, a critique group is a non-negotiable. What are you waiting for?

Pat J. Sikora (MAT, Biblical Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary; MPH,University of California, Berkeley) is an author and conference speakerwith a passion to equip the Body of Christ for effectiveness. Her manybooks and hundreds of articles span a variety areas, including smallgroups, leadership training, Bible studies, healing, communication,aging, caregiving, writing, and Christian living.

Her mostrecent book is "Critique Groups that Work: A Handbook for Starting,Leading, and Participating in a Christian Writers Critique Group," which equips writers to become more successful. She also authored "Why Didn't You Warn Me? How to Deal with Challenging Group Members," which equipsleaders to effectively minister to "extra-grace-required" people.

Pat is the founder and lead Sherpa at Mighty Oak Ministries, which provides tools, resources, and strategies to equip the Body of Christ to growdeeply, heal progressively, and mature splendidly. She has experiencedhow the Word of God, applied and engrafted in community, can transformthe most broken person, resulting in a life more splendid than themightiest oak (Isaiah 61:3).

Pat and her husband, Bob, live in Sugar Land,TX. They have one brilliant son, an amazing daughter-in-love, and threeof the cutest grandkids you would ever want to see.