Why That Writing Program Didn't Work
25 Nov 2025 · 5 min
C.J. and Shelley Hitz explain why writing courses fail Christian authors and introduce Christian Book Academy, which uses weekly peer pods and spiritual support. Tanisia finished and published in three months after five years stuck. Over a thousand writers have completed books through the program.
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Over a thousand writers.
She struggled for five years, then finished and published in three months after joining.
Within six months.
50% off the first month by using coupon code "podcast" at checkout.
15 minutes per day.
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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've ever bought a writing course or joined a program but still haven't finished your book, you're probably wondering what makes Christian Book Academy any different. So let's talk about that, because we hear this concern often. And I'm Shelley Hitz, founder of Christian Book Academy, where we've helped over a thousand Christian writers to finish their books and become published authors, many of them after years of trying on their own or signing up for other programs. And the biggest difference? We don't just give you information, we provide a community plus support to help you every step of the way. So I get it. You've invested in writing programs before and you join and you get excited and you're hopeful and maybe even start strong. But then you get overwhelmed by all the steps. Life happens and the modules sit untouched. And now you're hesitant to try again because you don't want to waste time or money. And that makes total sense. But what if the problem wasn't you? What if it was that you were trying to go through it all on your own? Christian Book Academy is structured differently. It's not just a course that you go through on your own. It's specifically for Kingdom writers who want to write in partnership with God and finish without overwhelm. So instead of giving you another fire hose of content, which we have plenty of content, but we guide you step by step, fill 15 minutes at a time. We help you to focus on one tiny step inside our weekly peer led progress pods and we walk with you inside a community that keeps you encouraged and supported. This isn't just a course, it's a community to walk beside you. We actually call it a family, a family of Kingdom writers. So just ask Tanisia. She struggled for five years trying to write her book on her own, but after joining Christian Book Academy, she finished and published in just three, three months. Or Heather, who published within six months of joining. Or Jan, who saved thousands by learning how to self publish the right way and tripled the profit that she made for each book. We have hundreds of other stories just like them. So if you spent money before and felt like it didn't work, that doesn't mean that you failed. It just means you haven't found the right fit yet. And Christian Book Academy is that fit for so many of our writers because it's built for who you are and how you work best, spirit led, step by step and community driven. So we'd love to walk this out with you. Go to ChristianBookAcademy.com and join us. Let's finally finish what God started together.
If you're ready to take a step of faith and finally finish your book, we have a few ways we can help you find. First of all, you can join our free Writing Week challenge to create a writing habit in just 15 minutes a day. Thousands of writers have taken this over the years and it is incredible the progress that you'll see. So join us@writingweek.com and again, this is completely free. Inside our Book Writing Lab workshop you can choose your book topic, write an outline and create a writing plan in just 90 minutes so you'll finally feel confident that you'll actually finish your book. Get started@bookwritinglab.com and finally you can get more support and personalized feedback from myself and our team by joining Christian Book Academy because the honest truth is most writers stay stuck and never finish their first draft. But inside Christian Book Academy, we help you partner with God to write your book. So can you so you can become a published author. So finally ditch your self doubt and take a step of faith so you can finish your book. Join Christian book academy@christianbookacademy.com and get 50% off your first month by using the Coupon Code podcast at checkout. This is special Coupon code for our podcast listeners.
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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.