#312: Importance of Community + Coaching for Kingdom Writers

Welcome to Kingdom Writers where we help equip and empower Christian writers of all genres to share your unique gifts with the world. We're your hosts, C.J. and Shelli Hitz.

This podcast is filled with spiritual encouragement as well as prayers to help you overcome the resistance you face as a writer. Your story matters.

If you're here at the time of this going live, then you have an amazing opportunity to join us inside ChristianBookAcademy.com we only open our doors publicly, you know, to everyone a few times a year and right now is one of those times. So what is Christian Book Academy? Christian Book Academy is our online membership where we help Kingdom writers like you write words that will outlive you. Self published books that fulfill your calling and reach more readers with your message so that God can use your book to impact lives. And so we teach the entire process from writing, self publishing and marketing your books and we would love to have you join us. We are constantly adding new resources for you, but not in a way that overwhelms. So every month we have a virtual writing retreat. This is a two day retreat. It's a Friday and a Saturday, so even those of you that work during the week can come or if it works better for you during the week, you know, you can come one of the days, you can come for a few hours and this is a member favorite. People love it and get so much accomplished during these retreats. In fact, one of our members just said, you know, she currently lives in Australia and she can't make the actual times that we're meeting together but she's using the replays in the member area and is still like getting a ton accomplished. She said she's going to meet the deadline for her novel and she is just on a roll with writing. But we would love to have you join us at our next virtual writing retreat. We also have, you know, marketing resources for you. So if you are already a published author and looking for ways to market your book, we have many marketing messages, kits, a new kit for you every month and we have tons of different trainings and templates and workshops for you. I just completed a workshop, scrolling to Sold, helping you to really write it, you know, about your book in a way that gets people to stop, right? Instead of just scrolling past to stop, really take notice and say oh, I think this is for me and actually want to click and become a customer and to do it in an authentic way, right? Copywriting can be kind of, you know, cheesy or icky or you know, Just sleazy. But, you know, we teach you to do it in a way that is honoring to God and that feels good to you. So there's so much that I could go into. We teach you the entire process of self publishing and we have new books being birthed all the time in Christian Book Academy. It's just amazing. And so one of the reasons that I really encourage you to consider joining us is for the community because it gets lonely as a writer, right? I mean, you're there in your home and it's easy to just get lost in just the loneliness or the spiritual battles and the things like that. And so we have our war room prayer meeting every month that we pray for you and we stand with you. We have our private Facebook group where you can get involved. We help, you know, connect you with accountability partners. And over and over again I've heard from members how the accountability partners and meeting together and praying together have gotten them across the finish line. But not only for the community, but also for the coaching and the mentoring. And so if you have a question, you post it in the Facebook group or come to one of our live calls and we are here for you. And you know, we have over a decade of publishing experience ourselves, actually, you know, published our first book in 2008. But we also have a team of mentors that are part of the academy that can help answer your questions as well as other members that are always there for you. But you get the help that you need so you can keep moving forward. You get fresh ideas for publishing different kinds of books. Maybe you never thought about publishing a low content or a journal or something like that. We have an entire module on specialty books. You get fresh ideas for marketing. But most importantly, we help you to integrate your faith into every part of the process of writing, publishing and marketing your book. So if you're ready to move forward, even in a greater way, to be more fulfilled because you have a community of writers, you know, you have mentors that are praying for you and that can answer questions for you. Join us. Our doors are open right now for a short time. So check it out today@christianbookacademy.com and if you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to email us. Once you get to that page, there's a little pop up box. Just click that and email us any questions. Be happy to let you know if it's the right fit for you. And let me just pray for you. So Lord, we just thank you for every single person listening right now. I just Pray that your spirit would just come upon them. We thank you for every person that will be joining Christian Book Academy right now. We thank you for what you're going to do in their lives and how you're going to help them to move forward. And we just pray that your favor would be upon each person listening, Lord, that you would just continue to speak to them, show them which way to go. We thank you for this. In Jesus powerful name, Amen. So we love you. You know, whether you decide to join us inside Christian Book Academy now or later, or maybe never, we are just so thrilled that you're here, that you're part of our community. And we just. We just are blessed by you. So thank you for being here. And if, if this is the time for you and if this is the right thing for you to join, go to ChristianBookAcademy.com and we cannot wait to serve you inside the membership.

Thank you for listening to this episode of Kingdom Writers. We believe that you, as a Christian writer, have a specific role to play in the Kingdom of Heaven to impact lives for eternity.

And because of this, we choose to pour out our lives into encouraging writers like you to not only tell your stories, but to take the courageous step of self publishing your stories in books that will outlive you and leave behind a powerful legacy. This podcast is sponsored by Christian Book Academy, where we help you give birth to your books. We invite you to join our community of Kingdom writers.

Sam.