Shelley Hitz, founder and owner of Christian Book Academy, introduces the Christian Book Academy Success Stories Podcast and explains the academy’s mission: to mentor Kingdom writers through writing, publishing, and marketing so their words "outlive" them and impact lives. She states the academy has mentored writers since 2011 and that the Academy has been "strong since 2015." She outlines the Kingdom Writers Path (five stages): 1) finish first draft, 2) final draft (self- and professional-editing, references/images), 3) self-publish (click the publish button), 4) book launch, and 5) impact lives (ongoing marketing). She mentions enrollment windows several times a year, a waiting list at christianbookacademy.com, workshops that provide earlier access, and a chat support option on the site.
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Welcome to the Christian Book Academy Success Stories Podcast. I am so glad you're here. My name is Shelly Hitz and I am one of the mentors inside Christian Book Academy. I also happen to be the founder and owner and we have been going.
Strong since 2015 with our Academy.
We've been mentoring writers since 2011. So we are here to help you.
And I thought it would be fun to share some case studies and also just the results that that our members.
Inside our online membership Christian Book Academy have been getting. So what we help you with Inside Christian Book Academy is we help you write words that outlive you, publish books that fulfill your calling and reach readers with your message so that God can use your words to impact lives. And we take you through the entire process of writing, self publishing, or independently publishing your book and then marketing it.
And so we have a a path called the Kingdom Writers Path inside our academy where there's five different stages.
The first is finishing your first draft. The second is your final draft, which.
That'S self editing, professional editing, all the different things that you need to do for references and quotes and images. And then the third stage is self publish. This is where you're going to click the publish button. The fourth stage is your book launch. And then finally stage five is impact lives. This is an ongoing stage for marketing.
Your book once you've birthed it into the world. So I'm so excited you're here. We publicly open our doors to Christian.
Book Academy several times a year. So get on our waiting list@christianbookacademy.com and if you want in sooner, just join one of our workshops and you'll get a backdoor invite into our Academy. If you have any questions at all, just click the little chat bubble on that page. Christianbookacademy.com we're happy to help you. And if it's not the right fit, I can help you either give you a recommendation for another program or, you know, just tell you that it's not the right fit. But we are so excited to help more Kingdom writers, just like you write.
Words that outlive you, self publish books.
That fulfill your calling and reach more.
Readers with your message so that God can use your words to impact lives. Thank you for being here and I hope you enjoy these episodes of our members Inside Christian Book Academy and what God is doing through them.