What Is Your Measure of Success?

[stextbox id=”custom”]This is a guest post by Heidi Kreider. You can read her Bio at the end of this article. If you’re interested in becoming a contributing writer for Godly Writers, please see our guidelines for doing so.[/stextbox] It’s 4H time around my house. That time of year when my 3 children work fevorishly for the big prize… grand […]

Full-Time Ministry: It Takes Senses

[stextbox id=”custom”]This is a guest post by Shannon Milholland. You can read her Bio at the end of this article. If you’re interested in becoming a contributing writer for Godly Writers, please see our guidelines for doing so.[/stextbox] Perched on the edge of chair, the words from one of my favorite Christian speaker’s lips dripped into the soil of […]

How To Be A Better Christian Writer

Are you a Christian writer or blogger? If you are then you’ve no doubt got an idea, a story, a concept. You need to write it down so that people can read it. Umm, right…that’s the hard part, I know. Writing it down. If writing was easy then everyone would do it. Actually, writing IS easy and […]

6 Ways To Build An Effective Christian Writer’s Platform

Here’s a little secret… I possess the world’s greatest message and the world’s most life-changing product. It is a message everyone needs to hear and a product that’s absolutely free, yet is more precious than refined gold or even a bucket full of rubies. The message I’m speaking of is the gospel of Jesus Christ.  The product, […]

What Christian Authors Can Learn From A Rejection Letter

Let’s face it: Rejection hurts. It can feel like the ultimate punch on the nose.  Sort of like when Amy–that cute little brown-haired girl from the 2nd-grade–had the audacity to actually check the “No” box on whether or not she’d be my girlfriend, and then ran to tell her pack of gossiping friends all about […]

9 Things You Must Include When Writing A Query Letter

[stextbox id=”custom”] Today I asked literary agent Rachelle Gardner whether or not she’d mind if I posted an article that has already been published on her own blog.  I’m pleased to have been given the go ahead, with the proper link attribution! As you may have already learned–or are in the process of learning currently–writing a query letter […]

The Christian Book You’re Praying About Whether Or Not To Write

I bet you’re writing a book right now. You’re nearly half-way finished and you’ve been writing it for about two or three years now.  But you probably also haven’t touched it very much in the last few months.  Am I right? Or maybe you haven’t started writing “your book” yet…but you’ve been considering it.  Maybe even praying […]

The Query Letter That Literary Agents Love To Read

If you’ve written a book, are currently writing a book, or are even remotely interested in writing a book, then one of the things you’ll soon need to consider is how to tackle a query letter. What is a query letter, you ask?  A query is essentially something you put together which describes your manuscript, your platform, your […]