Over last weekend, Chicago freelancer Anne Ford blogged from the 12th Chicago Writers & Editors / One-on-One conference (which is co-chaired by MBToolBox guest-blogger Annie Logue.) Here's her final installment:

We were a glassy-eyed bunch at the conference wrap-up
this morning. I made it through my last two editor
meetings and then headed to Gino's East for deep-dish
and debriefing with a few other attendees. A key item
from our list of Reasons We Love One-on-One: The
organizers vet the editors carefully to make sure
they're open to lots of freelance material-not just
short blurby stuff (I'm not knocking it-I came away
with a fistful of front-of-book pitches to make), but
full-on features, too.

More and more people apply to every year, so keep an
eye out for next year's announcement. And if it fills
up before you get there, slap your name on that
waiting list-I wasn't the only one who got in that
way.