The Anointed Scribe Podcast | Grow Your Christian Author Business, God’s Way

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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 forget: you are already branded. Long before you ever thought about logos, covers, or platforms, God marked you as His own.

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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 promotions that never worked, and the financial pressure I was silently trying to build under at the time. I share what I'd do differently if I were start...

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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 about the bare necessities of a faithful author life — what Scripture actually says we need, what we may need to release, and why simplicity might be one of the mo...

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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 control, why Christian authors often struggle to rest, and how to know when your writing, novel marketing, book sales, or author platform growth has started carrying too much weight in your heart.

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 business foundations, and the pressure Christian authors often carry behind the scenes.

This isn't about blaming yourself or chasing another random strategy. It's about learning how to pause, identify what may really ne...

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, it isn't a prosperity formula, and it isn't God handing you everything you want exactly when you want it.

Whether you're a Christian fiction writer, an indie author navigating self-publishing, or a Kingdom writer trying to mak...

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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 had in mind? That's exactly what today's episode tackles.

Most Christian authors don't struggle with the calling. They struggle with translating it in...

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 post, Facebook group post, or proven method. It can only come from one source.

This is a conversation about discernment. About testing the voices you've been building your author business and writing life on...

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 conversation that's long overdue.

From borrowed God-language on social media to AI-generated faith content, to the quiet drift from calling into performance — this episode names what's really happening in C...

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 just for the world, but for what it means to be a Kingdom writer trying to be faithful with something they can't fully control.

Beca...

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 up even at your writing desk. Paul named them all. And every single one has an author version.

But Galatians 5...

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 the story of Nehemiah — a man who rebuilt an entire city from rubble in fifty-two days — I want to completely reframe the season you might be sitting in right...

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 Christian authors — and none of them have anything to do with your cover, your blurb, or your ads. Because here's what I've learned the ha...

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" has quietly become permission to stay exactly where they are — circling the same mountain, month after month, wondering why nothing is changing.

This isn't a lack of faith episode. It's a wake-up-with-love episode. And if...

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 missing.

I had answered God's call. Pivoted my entire career in obedience. Won the award. And I was still failing. Or at least, that's what it felt...

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 experience and scripture, this episode explores the difference between passive waiting and active trust, why the craft treadmill isn't always the answer, and why the most visible writers in your space probably have far...

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 journey, this one’s for you.

Through a powerful passage in Exodus 35–36 — where God commissions ordinary people to build the tabernacle and supernaturally equips them with skill, intelligence, and creativity they didn’t have b...

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 what’s “working”… instead of discerning what’s actually yours in this season.

We’ll talk about anxiety, c...

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, this episode will bring instant clarity.

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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'm sharing what changed everything for me: how to measure success as a Christian author in a way that keeps you grounded, faithful, and free - without ignoring the data...

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:

You’ve prayed. You’ve believed. You’ve stayed faithful. And yet… nothing seems to be shifting.

If your calling feels heavier than it should —

If your growth feels slower than it makes sense —

If you’ve been quietly wondering why your prayers haven’t changed your circumstances…

This episode may finally put language to what your spirit has been sensing.

This is not a productivity talk.

It’s not a “try harder” message.

And it’s not another motivation push.

This is a gentle, Spirit-led inter...

It’s the start of a brand-new year.

New goals. New planners. New promises we’re making to ourselves — again.

“This year will be different.”

 “I’ll be more disciplined.”

 “I’ll finally stay consistent.”

And yet, if we’re honest, many Christian authors have said these same things before… only to find themselves back in the same place by March.

In this episode of Anointed Scribe, we talk about why good intentions rarely lead to lasting change — especially in your author business.

Because the issue is rarely ef...

The days between Christmas and the new year can feel strangely disorienting.

The celebration is over.

The calendar hasn’t reset.

And there’s a quiet pressure to start planning — even when your heart isn’t ready.

In this gentle, pastoral episode of Anointed Scribe, we’re honoring the in-between space — the pause between what was and what comes next. This is not a teaching episode or a call to action. It’s an invitation to breathe, to rest without guilt, and to trust that God is present even when nothing feels clear.<...

As the year comes to a close, many Christian authors feel an unspoken pressure — to finish, to plan, to prove that this year mattered.

But what if that pressure isn’t from God at all?

In this episode of Anointed Scribe, we’re talking about the kind of end-of-year urgency that masquerades as responsibility but quietly fuels striving, anxiety, and burnout. If your mind feels noisy, your to-do list feels heavy, or rest feels like something you have to earn, this conversation is for you.

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It's that time of the year when you're gearing up to set new goals… but instead of feeling excited, you feel defeated.

If you’re ending 2025 feeling worn out from all the effort you poured in—and still wondering why the results didn’t match the work—this episode is going to meet you right where you are.

Today, I’m sharing a moment from my own author journey when discouragement hit before I even started planning for the new year. And more importantly, the unexpected shift God brought that completely changed how I now approa...

It's that time of year—everyone's setting goals, making resolutions, and planning their 2026 author business. But what if one word could give you more clarity than a hundred strategies?

In this episode, I'm sharing why I personally choose a Word of the Year, how it's kept me focused and grounded for 8 years, and the quiz I use every single year to help me discern what that word should be.

This isn't a "you must do this" episode. It's simply me sharing my experience with a practice that's transformed how I approach my author business—and invi...

It's almost the end of 2025, and instead of gratitude, you're drowning in guilt.

The books you didn't finish. The goals you didn't hit. The platform that didn't grow. Everyone else is posting their year-end wins—12 books published, six-figure incomes, USA Today bestseller lists—and you're wondering if you wasted an entire year.

But what if you're measuring the wrong things?

What if God sees your 2025 completely differently than you do?

In this vulnerable episode, I'm sharing my own disappointing 2025—an unexpected international move that disrupted every plan, left books unwritten, and income...