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

Feeling pressured to spend more money just to keep your author business growing? For Christian authors, the costs of publishing, ads, promotions, software, courses, and tools can add up quickly, especially when book sales are already tight. And when other authors seem to be spending more, it’s easy to wonder whether running lean is wise stewardship or whether you’re holding your own growth back. I...

Are you working hard to sell your books but still not seeing the response you hoped for? The problem may not be that you need more visibility, more ads, or another platform. You may be reaching people who were never the best fit for your books in the first place. In this episode, you’ll look at how to recognize a mismatch between your books and the people paying attention, why “Christian readers”...

Have you ever wondered whether marketing your books means you’re trying to take control of your book sales instead of trusting God with them? You believe God called you to write, but your books aren’t reaching as many readers as you’d hoped. So do you wait for God to open doors, or do you roll up your sleeves and start marketing your books? For Christian authors, finding the balance between faith,...

Have you ever felt perfectly content with your author business until you saw another author’s success? One impressive book launch, ad result, publishing schedule or KDP sales screenshot can make you question decisions you felt good about just days ago. And before long, comparison can start influencing more than how you feel. It can affect how you spend, market, publish and grow your author busines...

Do you feel pressured to post on social media every day just to stay visible and sell books? In this episode, we’re looking at book marketing beyond social media and a few author tips that can help more readers find you without making your entire author platform depend on Facebook, Instagram or TikTok. I’m sharing why your social media following is only one part of your author platform, plus pract...

Trying to sell more books can pull you into an exhausting maze of Christian book marketing strategies, Amazon keywords, categories, ads, social media, email lists and endless advice. But before you reach for another book marketing tactic, do you know what problem you’re actually trying to solve? In this episode, I’m sharing what I wish I had understood much earlier in my author career: why God’s w...

If your Christian author business isn’t growing despite trying new marketing strategies, you may be focusing on the wrong kind of growth for the season you’re in. In this episode, I walk you through the three Christian Author Seasons and show you how to recognize where you are in your author journey, what your business needs right now, and which next step deserves your attention. You’ll learn the...

Christian authors often blame book promotions, the publishing industry, or a lack of book funding for why their author business isn't growing. But fear may be doing more damage to your author business than any failed book launch or slow sales month. In this episode, we name the four fears that shape how Christian writers write, price, publish, and show up. You'll hear the specific, every...

Wondering whether God still wants you to write a book? If you've been checking your book sales, doubting your writing calling, and turning over whether it's time to stop, this episode gives you a clearer way through this author crossroads. This week you'll learn to untangle the things that keep you stuck in this cycle of doubt and how to stop feeling like your entire purpose as a Ch...

Walk away from today's episode knowing that God isn't absent from your author business, and He isn't withholding book sales from you either. The reason you're not seeing the growth you want in your writing life is something else entirely. If you're a self-published Christian author with a solid book catalogue behind you, and you've tried every indie author strategy th...

🎁 Not sure what needs your attention most in your author business right now? Take the free two-minute Author Growth Quiz™ and receive your personalized starting point. How do you balance writing, family, faith, and rest when self-publishing never seems to stop? When you're doing all the work yourself, writing, book marketing, ads, author newsletters, and social media, it's easy to feel...

🎁 Not sure what needs your attention most right now? Take the free two-minute Growth Quiz™ and receive your personalized starting point: AnointedScribe.com/quiz Can you want a profitable, successful author business and still be content in Christ? Many Christian authors feel spiritually conflicted about wanting more readers, stronger book sales, greater opportunities, and a healthy return on every...

Authors are expected to show up on social media, build a personal brand, and let readers see the person behind the books. But how much of your life do you need to share to connect with readers without compromising your privacy or online safety? In this episode, Urcelia shares seven practical ways authors can create a warm, genuine social media presence without oversharing. You will learn how to de...

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...