#363: Come Celebrate with Us! (8th Memberversary)

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Hey, Kingdom Writers, this is Shelly Hitz and this is a very special episode. I just wanted to hop on here and let you know we want you to celebrate with us our eighth member, Versary. So we have had Christian Book Academy now eight, eight years. This is incredible. Like, it literally is mind blowing to me. When I first started the academy, it was called Author Audience Academy at the time. And I had no idea what was going to come of that simple step of faith. I started it with about 25 people in a beta group. And here we are eight years later. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of members that have come through our virtual doors and have published their books, marketed their books, and so much more. And so this week we are celebrating by Hosting a free 15 minute writer group writing session. This is powerful. So we've been doing group writing sessions for a long time. We call them our virtual writing retreats. And it's two days that if you're a Christian Book Academy member, you get to join us, get tons of work done, but also have the accountability, the encouragement, and it is just a good time. We. But we've also run our 15 minute writing challenges for years, probably almost eight years as well. And so this is kind of a combination of both of those. We're gonna meet and we're gonna celebrate. We're gonna celebrate some things that God has done. We're gonna share with you the power of just writing for 15 minutes and then we are going to write together. So this is going to be this Thursday, February 16, 20, 20, 23. And we are going to go live at 11:00am Eastern. So please, please, please join us. This is free. Invite your writer friends. And this is something that every time I host something like this, people are just amazed at what they get done in just 15 minutes. But it's also just going to be fun. We're going to have a celebration and we are going to just, just give God the glory for what he's been doing over these last eight years. It still just like blows my mind. Like, where did the time go? It has been a journey. I mean, if you've been with us since the beginning, we love you. Like, you are amazing. If you have just recently joined us, we love you as well. We're always praying that the right person at the right time for finds our resources joins Christian Book Academy. And so if you want to join us, you can also join Christian Book Academy right now just go to christianbook Academy. Com. We are now always open. We used to just have a few times a year we would be open but now you can join us at any time. So this is a great time to join. We have a lot of things available for you resources but most importantly a community that will walk beside you and that keeps Christ at the center. Like that's what we do. So I hope that you will join us for this eighth year member versary celebration. We're calling it our 15 minute writer group writing session. And so come and join us. All the the details are in the show notes. Just swipe up and you'll find the information. If you're on our email list, you'll also be getting that information. But we are so excited to be celebrating with you and just are in awe of what God has done. Let me pray. Lord, we just thank you. We thank you that you take our tiny small little steps of obedience and you can do something that we can't even think or imagine. And so Lord, when we started this academy, we had no idea what would come. We had no idea how many lives would be impacted, how many books would be published, how many readers those books would reach. And we still don't know. Like we don't fully know the impact, but we, we know that you know. And we want to celebrate this. We want to help even more writers. And so we just thank you Lord for this opportunity to celebrate, to celebrate what you're doing. To give you the honor, the praise and the glory. But to also keep helping writers in this calling you've given C.J. and I. And also to keep helping those writers that find us to write, self publish and market their books. So thank you Lord for this opportunity and and we pray this in Jesus powerful name. Amen. Amen. Friends, mark your calendars for this week. Thursday, February 16th at 11am Eastern. We are going to meet. It's completely free. Come join us and we will see you there. All right, I'll talk to you next time. Bye bye. Would you like more? If you are enjoying this podcast but want more, I have something exciting to share with you. We have released what's called a private podcast. So a private podcast you will not find by searching in Apple. You have to know specifically how to subscribe to it. It's more private and exclusive and it just can be more relaxed behind the scenes and My new private podcast is called Hits Blitz and it's wisdom for writers that you're going to learn from from my 18 plus years of experience in publishing and online marketing so that you can move forward in God's Call to write. I am best known for injecting energy and enthusiasm into everything I do and inspiring those around me to take action. So I encourage you to listen in to this exclusive private podcast. It is free, 100% free. You don't have to pay for it and be prepared to be inspired by my next Hits Blitz. So you can sign up@trainingauthors.com hits blitz and if you have any other writing friends that you think could benefit from it, definitely share it with them. They can go to the same link trainingauthors.com hitsblitz to get access. Again, this is a private podcast so you cannot get access to it any other way. It's completely free. All you have to do is sign up and then you'll get the all the information on how to add it to your podcast player of choice. So I can't wait for you to join me over there. I share a lot of things behind the scenes and more content just in a real time basis. So it's more like chatting with a friend or following someone on stories on social media. Except you don't have to get caught up in any of the algorithms. You'll just have this in your podcast player and be able to listen in wherever you're at, whatever you're doing. Some of the listeners told me this week that they were listening while waiting in the Target parking lot, while brushing their teeth. You can fit this into the pockets of time that you have, so I hope you'll join me. Come over to trainingauthors.com hitsblitz.

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 and 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.