ICRS recap: Saturday through Monday!
I survived all my interviews and only missed meeting with a couple of writers! Everything is blurring together but I’ll try to get as much down as I can.
Saturday I had a great meeting with one of the agents interested in my WIP. You can read all about it here. Later that night I attended the Christys. And got my first taste of multiple interviews.
Sunday I went down to the Orlando Convention Center to register and paid $10 to park for 15 minutes! Sheesh! Then I called my writing pal, Cara Putman and we met for dinner to talk about writing stuff. I got to hold her precious two month old. It was a nice, relaxing time before ICRS and the work really began.
Monday I arrived early for my 9 o’clock interview, but my videographer wasn’t going to be there until 11am. So I pulled out my notes for James Scott Bell and waited. Sigmund Brouwer’s publicist showed up at 8:45 and asked if I could do the interview sooner. I had a little time and quickly found my notes, and new digital recorder. It took me a few moments to get into the interviewing groove, hopefully the recording with confirm my hopes. Sigmund brought his wife, recording artist Cindy Morgan and we had a great talk about their careers and balancing families.
James Scott Bell showed up next. Talking to him is always a pleasure. Then I got to hang with Claudia Mair Burney and the time was TOO short! I’ll have to do a following up interview. The rest of the morning escapes me, but by the time my videographer (VG) showed up I was shaking hands with the president! And I have photos to prove it. Well, technically it was John Morgan, President Bush impersonator, but you’ll have to wait to see the photos and the wonderful, inspiring interview.
The rest of the day was filled with interviewing new friends and old. Then me and my vidoe guy were off to the FireProof dinner and screening. I fell into my wall flower mode and being so exhausted from the endless interviews, I wasn’t up to asserting myself. But my reserved VG saw Kirk Cameron, made a bee line for him and sat down at his table for dinner. Of course I took my seat next to my friend who sat next to Kirk. In fact, I was happy for him to get to talk with him since the reason I invited this VG was because he was an alumni of my boys’ school and head to film school in Orlando on the exact day we were leaving. I wanted him to hook up with some of the people of FireProof and he did! He met a guy who was attending the same film school who had actually worked on Facing the Giants and FireProof.
If you haven’t heard of FireProof before, it is produced, written, acted… by the makers of Facing the Giants, the Sherwood Church at Albany, Georgia. There story is amazing, but not as amazing as what God is doing through their films. After eating dinner, talking with Kirk, the Executive Pastor/movie producer, and several others we snapped some photos and headed over to the screening. There’s so much I want to say about FireProof, but for now all I’ll say is that it’ll be worth your $8 or so. Be sure and see it on opening weekend, September 26th and tell a friend! The acting and emotions from the lead actors portraying a married couple of the brink of divorce is so real. But instead of taking the world’s easy out, the fight. Well, you’ll have to go see it. Let’s just say it’s filled with suspense (I held my breath at the firefighter scenes,) humor and real, raw emotions! Bravo to Kirk Cameron and Erin Bethea and the entire cast and crew who DONATED their time to make this movie that will help change the way we deal with marriage and divorce!
That’s all I have energy for today. I’ll recap Tuesday another day!
