JESSE
FLOREA

Editor Clubhouse & Club Jr. magazines | Focus on the Family

Biography

Jesse Florea has written and edited for Focus on the Family for nearly twenty-eight years. Currently, he oversees Clubhouse (for kids 8-12) and Clubhouse Jr. (for kids 3-7) magazines and cohosts the “Official Adventures in Odyssey” and “Official Average Boy” podcasts. Jesse has written or cowritten more than forty books, including the Defend Your Faith apologetics Bible for kids, The Case for Christ Young Readers Edition, The Case for Miracles for Kids and The One-Year Devos for Sports Fans. He lives with his wife, Stephanie, in Colorado Springs and enjoys hanging out with his married children and his two grandkids.

Workshops

Pre-Conference Session

Article Writing: Breaking In and Staying In

Writing for periodicals and websites can help you enjoy the 4-P’s: earning profit, establishing your platform, expressing your passion, and building a portfolio. In this half-day workshop, you’ll learn how to capture an editor’s attention, gain tips on crafting an effective lead, discover different types of periodicals and stories you can write, find out how good interviewing skills can open doors to big-time publications, and look at different writing opportunities in the Christian marketplace. This is a very hands-on, interactive workshop that will expand your thinking about this still viable area of writing.

Saturday Workshop

Be A Kid to Write for Kids

Kids are creative, funny and thoughtful little humans. To write for children, your stories should be like them—creative, thoughtful and funny. Kids are child-like, not childish. This workshop will help you think and be like a child. We’ll talk about who kids are, look at cultural trends, and uncover tips to capture a reader’s attention while playing by the rules of writing. By being a child, you’ll have a better chance of creating stories that will catch an editor’s eye and eventually entertain a child.

​1:1 Appointment

In order to make the most of your 1:1 appointment, we recommend that you carefully review the faculty members' areas of expertise, needs and requests to identify those best suited for your goals as a writer. ​​​

Acquiring: ​Children's fiction and non-fiction, non-fiction for teen girls, personality stories about kids.
Not interested in: Poetry for adults and teens.
Pre-qualifications: None. Just a passion to reach kids with the truth of Jesus Christ.