The Anointed Scribe Podcast for Christian Writers | Faith, Encouragement & Christian Author Business

Every wrong decision in your author business costs you something, and some cost you a lot. In this episode of the Anointed Scribe Podcast, you'll learn five biblical tips for making the right decisions as a Christian writer, whether you're weighing Kindle Unlimited against going wide, deciding on that expensive course, or choosing between running ads and writing the next book. You alread...

Take the Growth Quiz™ Your book finally starts selling, the good reviews land, and instead of celebrating, you feel unsettled. Good days can shake your author life more than the hard ones, and Scripture is plain about why. We spend so much of our writing life bracing for the slow months and the book launches that fall flat. Almost nobody prepares us for when the good days come. So when success arr...

Ever feel like you have no idea what you're doing in your author business or what you should be doing? In this episode I want to offer you some direction, and a different way of seeing your author journey. When I first started out, I tried to do exactly what the successful writers around me were doing. It sent me in circles for longer than I'd like to admit. What I learned is that God ha...

If you reach the end of most weeks feeling scattered, behind, and vaguely guilty that you didn't do enough, this episode is for you. I share why our striving is rarely just a scheduling problem, what Scripture says about numbering our days (Psalm 90:12), and the weekly planning rhythm that changed everything for me. And by the end of today's episode, you'll not only have a way of in...

🎁 Free: Discover Your Christian Author Brand guide What can the most-read book in human history teach Christian writers about building an author brand? More than you'd think — and almost none of it is what the marketing world tells you. In this episode of the Anointed Scribe podcast, we look at branding through a completely different lens — starting with a truth most Christian authors easily...

📗 FREE Discover Your Christian Author Brand guide What would I do differently if I could start my author journey over? After eight years, twenty novels, and a long list of hard-earned lessons, I have some honest answers. In this personal episode I'm taking you back to where it all began for me — an impulsive first novel in 2018, several failed book covers, money poured into ads and promotion...

FREE 'Why aren't my books selling?' Checklist The author world never stops telling us we need more. More books. More reviews. More ads. More content. More proof that what we're building is actually working. But what if the relentless pursuit of more is the very thing stealing the peace, clarity, and joy God intended for your writing life? In this episode we're talking abou...

FREE Why Aren’t My Books Selling? Checklist Being a self-published Christian Writer is hard work. It's demanding and rest often feels like failure. But what does it reveal about fear, pressure, consistency, and the way we sometimes carry our author calling as if everything depends on us? In this episode, we're talking about the difference between faithful stewarding and fear-driven contr...

If your books aren't selling the way you hoped, it's easy to assume the problem is your writing, your marketing, your platform, or even you. But what if low book sales are only the symptom? In this episode, we're looking at five deeper reasons your author business may feel like it's standing still—from unclear positioning and scattered marketing to reader confusion, shaky busin...

Most Christian authors are praying for the wrong breakthrough — and it's keeping them stuck. In this episode of the Anointed Scribe podcast — the writing podcast for Christian authors who want to build their author business God's way — we go deep into what biblical breakthrough actually looks like versus what the online Christian space has sold us. Because breakthrough isn't hype, i...

Grab the free Discover Your Christian Author Brand guide in the show notes — it's the practical companion to today's episode and it's going to help you put everything you hear into action. You heard from God. You know you're called to write. But how do you turn a divine prompting into a clear author identity, a defined message, and a brand that actually reaches the people He ha...

You are surrounded by more Christian author advice, book marketing courses, writing coaches, and self-publishing advice than ever before. And yet somehow, God's voice has never felt harder to hear. In this episode, I open up Jeremiah 33:3 and pull out one word that reframes everything — a word that reveals why the direction you've been searching for cannot be found in anyone's blog...

What does it actually mean to call yourself a Kingdom author? Not as a label. Not as a niche. As a real, daily, costly accountability to the God whose name you're putting on your work. Because there's a growing gap between the Christian author identity most of us claim — and the sacred standard that identity actually requires. And in this episode we're closing that gap with a conver...

There's a word most Christian authors say they believe in. They underline it in their Bibles. They nod at it in sermons. And then they go home and hold on to their author lives with both hands. Surrender. In this Good Friday episode, I'm taking you to the garden of Gethsemane — to the night before everything fell apart — and to the five words Jesus prayed that changed everything. Not jus...

Most of us have read Galatians 5 dozens of times and applied it to our personal lives. In this episode, we bring it straight into your author business. If you've ever wondered whether God is in your work or whether the flesh has been running it in His name, this is the diagnostic you've been missing. Because the works of the flesh don't only show up in the obvious places. They show...

Sometimes you have to delete a few chapters and rewrite them to write a bestseller. And sometimes God has to do the same in your author life. In today's episode I'm taking you deep into one of the most misunderstood seasons a Kingdom writer can find herself in — the one where nothing is working, nothing is growing, and no strategy seems to hold. Using Ecclesiastes 3:3 as our anchor, and...

Put your hand up if you dread your book marketing! If you dread having to send out a newsletter because you have no idea what to say. Or if it's just easier to do what other authors are doing because frankly you have no idea what you should be doing. This episode is for you. Because in today's episode I'm naming the three root causes that make book marketing feel impossible for most...

Are you in a waiting season — or are you actually stuck? These two things can look identical from the outside, but they feel completely different on the inside — and they require completely different responses. In today's episode, I'm sharing three honest questions that will help you tell the difference. Because for a lot of Christian authors, the language of "waiting on God" h...

This is my backstory — and it's something I've never shared before. Not like this. In today's episode I'm bearing it all — the full, raw story of just how depressed and desperate I was two and a half years ago. Desperate enough to take out a credit card, go into debt, and fly halfway across the world — twice — hoping someone in a conference room would finally tell me what I was...

Have you ever held a belief about your author life that felt completely spiritual… but quietly kept you from moving forward? In today's episode, I unpack three beliefs I've seen quietly circulating among Kingdom writers — beliefs that come from sincere, God-honouring hearts, but that might be getting in the way of the author life God actually intended for you. Drawing from personal exper...

What if the word “self-publish” has been quietly working against you as a Christian author this whole time? In this episode of The Anointed Scribe, Urcelia unpacks the hidden problem with the word “self” in self-publishing — and why Christian authors were never called to write, publish, or build their author business alone. If you’ve been feeling exhausted, isolated, or stuck in your indie author...

Ever tried a marketing strategy because it was working for someone else… only to feel drained, behind, and totally out of your depth a few weeks later? Yep. Been there. In today’s episode, I’m sharing 5 clear signs a marketing strategy might not be right for you — even if it’s producing results for another Christian writer. Because the online author world is loud, and it’s so easy to start chasing...

Ever finish a full day of “working” on your author business… only to realize nothing actually moved forward? In this episode of the Anointed Scribe Podcast, we’re talking about the busywork trap — the sneaky cycle that keeps Christian authors stuck in constant activity without real progress. If you’ve been tweaking, planning, researching, organizing, and “getting ready”… but not seeing results, th...

You've heard it a thousand times: "Know your numbers." But what happens when looking at your KDP dashboard makes your stomach drop? When that royalty number hasn't budged in weeks - or months - and you're starting to wonder if you're missing some crucial step in the book publishing and marketing process that everyone else knows about - except you. In this episode, I&a...

Your book sales were great during the holidays—and then January hit and everything stopped. Now you're panicking, wondering if you did something wrong or if this is a sign you should quit. Take a breath. This post-holiday sales slump happens to almost every author, and once you understand why, you can stop spiraling and start planning strategically. In this episode, I'm breaking down: Th...