Anointed Scribe: Christian Author Business — God's Way
A weekly podcast for Christian writers and authors who want to write, publish, and build their author business without losing sight of what matters most — their relationship with God.
Can I be honest? I built an award-winning author business — twenty-plus books, bestseller lists, the whole thing — and it left me exhausted, empty, and far from God. I was building for Him but not with Him. The metrics consumed me. The comparison crushed me. And the hustle nearly cost me everything.
Then I had a Holy Spirit revelation — and everything changed.
I'm Urcelia Teixeira, a multi-published Christian fiction author, and this podcast exists because I learned the hard way that no amount of book marketing, platform growth, or self-publishing strategy will bear lasting fruit if it’s not centered in God.
Each week on the Anointed Scribe podcast, I'll equip, teach, encourage, and yes — sometimes lovingly correct — because that's what we need as Christian authors navigating a world that measures success by sales rankings and follower counts.
We'll talk about the real stuff:
- Why comparison and striving are stealing your joy — and what Scripture actually says about your identity as a writer.
- How to approach book marketing, self-publishing, and platform building without losing yourself in the process.
- What it looks like to run your author business with integrity, peace, and clarity instead of anxiety and hustle.
- The difference between chasing results and bearing fruit.
This is the how-to show that starts with the root, not the fruit.
Whether you're just starting out or twenty books in — if you write Christian books and want to write, publish, and build an author life with God, you're home.
❤️🔥 Ready to take the next step?
Start here (free): Download Discover Your Christian Author Brand ™— a 5-step Scripture-based guide to find your voice, clarify your calling, and define your brand.
Go deeper: The Revive to Thrive™ program walks you through the spiritual and practical shifts that changed everything in my own author business — from striving and burnout to building and thriving with Christ at the center. If you're ready to build your author business God's way, this is your next step.
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Episodes
79 episodes
78 | Why Your Books Aren't Selling: The Real Problem May Be Deeper Than Book Marketing
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 re...
77 | What Breakthrough Really Means for Christian Authors
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...
76 | How Christian Authors Turn a Divine Calling Into a Defined Brand
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 pu...
75 | God Has Things to Tell You That Can't Be Googled Or Found On ChatGPT
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...
74 | The Kingdom Author Wake-Up Call I Didn't See Coming
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 a...
73 | The Hardest Word in a Kingdom Writer's Vocabulary
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...
72 | Fruit or Flesh? How to Know What's Really Driving Your Author Business
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 be...
71 | A Time to Tear Down — What God Is Really Doing in Your Author Life
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 writ...
70 | Kingdom Writer: Stop Fixing Your Book Marketing Until You've Fixed This First
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 s...
69 | The Difference Between a Waiting Season and a Stuck Season
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 sha...
68 | What I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Nearly Gave Up
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 enou...
67 | What Kingdom Writers Get Wrong About Their Writing Life
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 — bel...
66 | You Were Never Meant to SELF-Publish — What Exodus Reveals for Kingdom Writers
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 Chris...
65 | 5 Signs Another Christian Writer's Marketing Strategy Isn't Right for You
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 st...
64 | The Busywork Trap: Why You're Doing So Much and Still Not Moving Forward
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 Christ...
63 | How Christian Authors Can Look at Their Book Sales Without Losing Their Faith
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 mis...
62 | Why Your Book Sales Drop After the Holidays And What Christian Authors Can Do About It
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 happ...
61 | When You’ve Prayed for Breakthrough — and Nothing Seems to Change
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 w...
60 | Why “Next Year Will Be Different” Never Works for Christian Authors
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.”An...
59 | Between What Was and What Comes Next
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 ...
58 | Why That December Pressure Isn't From God
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’...
57 | Feeling Defeated Before Setting Goals? Christian Authors, Fix This First!
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 did...
56 | Why I Choose a Word of the Year + The Quiz I Use Every Year
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...
55 | Before You Write Off 2025, Listen to This.
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-fi...
54 | Why Every Course You've Taken Still Left You Stuck And What's Actually Missing
Have you invested in course after course, desperately hoping to find the breakthrough formula, but ended up more confused than ever? Spent money on Facebook ads training, launch strategies, and marketing blueprints that promised "zero to six fi...