#342: Will You Be Our Next Success Story?

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.

Will you be our next success story? Hi, my name is Shelly Hitz and I'm one of the hosts here at Kingdom Writers Podcast. My husband CJ and I also run a membership for Kingdom Writers just like you called Christian Book Academy and we are currently open for enrollment. And so if you've been waiting to join us or you're ready to take the next step to go to ChristianBookAcademy.com and make sure to get in before we close enrollment tomorrow. And one of the things that I love sharing are all of the success stories from our members. Because it's one thing for us to say who we have this great membership and you should join and it's another thing to hear someone's actual experience. And so we have created a program private podcast that has you can just binge listen to all of the success stories of our members. For example, you can learn about the easy path that Jennifer Nelson discovered to finally become an author in just 10 days. How Jan Cox gained both freedom and control over publishing her books plus saved thousands of dollars. The pivot Lola Oshinowo made after spending time in prayer that made all the difference for her first book. Hautenisia Mitchell gained a strategy to take the first draft of her manuscript to a finished book in just a few months. The strategy Esther Espinosa used to sell over 100 copies of her book with just one idea. The one thing that helped Heather Erdman finally finish her first draft so she was able to publish her first book and preview previously she got stuck and never finished more than a few pages. How Marianne Ward combined her passion for art and writing into an unexpected book that wasn't even on her radar and it has already sold more than 100 copies. The strategy that helped Lauren overcome writer's guilt and finally start writing consistently. Now she's more productive than ever. She's already published her book Twins so two books at the same time and is now working on her third one so and many more stories that I haven't even touched on. But you can go and get access to these for free right now@trainingauthors.com success stories or just swipe up on your show notes and get access there. But I'm really excited Because Christian Book Academy is a unique membership. There's really nothing else like it available on the Internet that I know of. What we do is we take you through the Kingdom writers path. So it's a five stage process. The first stage is your first draft stage where you're just getting that ugly, messy first draft out of your head and onto paper. And then you move into the final draft stage. This is where you're self editing, you're working on getting all those references and the images and all of the things ready for your final draft. This is where you also hire a professional editor. Then you move into the self publish stage. And this can also be where you get a traditional publisher. But for us, we personally teach self publishing or independent publishing and we give you all the resources of who you can hire. So that's what's going to save you the thousands of dollars because you know, you could pay literally thousands of dollars to get your book done for you, or you could go through our curriculum and be like the project manager that's managing the different pieces of the puzzle and hire the people to do it for you. And hundreds and hundreds of authors have done it this way by going through our program. The next stage is the book launch stage and we have entire curriculum just based around launching your book into the world. And then the final stage is the impact livestock stage. And this is where we give you resources for ongoing marketing. So every month you get a new mini marketing messages kit which has templates for social media and email. It has a courageous writer idea to, to use some sort of collaboration or, you know, stepping out in courage to market your book. And you get a new one of those every month. To be honest, we could charge just $47 just for that every month. But the membership is not even $47, it's $39 per month, no long term contracts. You can join and cancel at any time. But honestly, most people do stick around because not only do you get help in the curriculum to go through our kingdom writers path. So whether you're just starting out or whether you've been an author for a while, you, you'll find help and curriculum inside Christian Book Academy because we cover it all. And then not only that, you get the spiritual encouragement. So a lot of people like, they love our war room prayer meetings that we have. We also have a two day virtual writing retreat every month and CJ and I kick it off with encouragement and prayer specifically for you. And these are just incredible times of breakthrough and encouragement for the writers in our academy. And Then you also get access to our five day, 15 minute writing challenge. And so, you know, even if you're working on the marketing aspect, say working on collaborations and things like that, come to the virtual writing retreat and work on that project, you know, work on that content. You don't have to be writing to come to the writing retreat and get a lot done. And then you can also use our 15 minute writing challenge to write content for marketing. So wherever you're at in this stage, there is something for you. We have so much for you that I really can't even tell you everything. But you can go to ChristianBookAcademy.com Again, it's $39 a month or $399 a year, which will save you a couple months by basically, we only open to the public a few times a year and this is one of those times. So I highly encourage you. Go check it out@christianbookacademy.com and if you want to hear real life stories of our members, we've had this academy for years and so we have so many different success stories. Go listen to them at trainingauthors.com forward/success success story. And we would love for you to be our next success story. We would love to feature you on this success stories podcast. And so we'd love to have you join us inside Christian Book Academy. And if you have any questions at all, just email us. Supportristianbookacademy.com I will be, you know, helping out in the help desk this week. My assistants as well will be there to help you. And we cannot wait to celebrate all the new members that join us this week inside Christian Book Academy. And again, if you want to check out the success Stories podcast, go to trainingauthors.com success stories and if you're ready to join, go to ChristianBookAcademy.com.

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 power 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.