The Anointed Scribe Podcast for Christian Writers | Faith, Encouragement & Christian Author Business
You're a Christian writer building an author business you never planned for, caught up in chasing book sales the way the algorithms demand, wondering how it got this complicated. The Anointed Scribe Podcast is your faith and encouragement home, a Christian podcast for authors who want to write, publish, and grow God's way.
You answered a call to write, and somewhere along the way you came face to face with the challenges of staying rooted in your faith in a publishing industry drenched in worldly strategies. Maybe you've published a book or two and feel off course, worn down and unseen, wondering whether God still has you in this. Or maybe you're just starting out and want to build right from the beginning, before the traps catch you. Wherever you are in your author journey, you'll leave each weekly episode lighter, with permission to stop performing and the hope to keep going, confident in who God says you are instead of the next metric.
Your host, Urcelia Teixeira, is a bestselling, award-winning Christian novelist with more than twenty books and years of full-time indie experience, who rebuilt her own author business with God at the center after chasing the industry's version of success and coming up empty.
A devout follower of Christ for over two decades, she teaches from the heart with biblical wisdom, always pointing back to Scripture rather than a secret formula.
Each week holds both the heart and the practical:
- Encouragement grounded in Scripture, for when you feel discouraged, stuck in comparison, and battling doubt no one else talks about.
- Identity and calling, so you write from who you are in Christ rather than for approval.
- The author business done God's way: novel marketing, email lists, writing with AI, book sales, and author platform, carried as faithful stewardship rather than hustle.
- Discernment, for when you're overwhelmed by social media and the endless contradictory self-publishing advice, so you know which strategy is actually for you.
If you're a Christian writer looking for faith, encouragement, and real direction to grow your author business God's way, this Christian podcast for authors has you covered, whether you're an overwhelmed author, a weary writer, or a brand-new authorpreneur finding your feet. Hit follow, and let's grow your faith and your author business together.
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Episodes
85 episodes
84 | What's God Growing in Your Author Life?: Direction for Christian Writers
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 trie...
83 | Author Time Management: Faith-Centered Productivity Tips for Christian Writers
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 (Psa...
82 | Author Branding Strategy: What Jesus Teaches Christian Writers
🎁Free: Discover Your Christian Author Brand guideWhat can the most-read book in human history teach Christian writers about building an author brand? More than you'd think —...
81 | What I'd Do Differently If I Were Starting My Author Brand Today
📗 FREE Discover Your Christian Author Brand guideWhat would I do differently if I could start my author journey over? After eight years, twenty novels, and a long lis...
80 | Christian Author Mindset: Overcoming the Hustle of Self-Publishing
FREE 'Why aren't my books selling?' ChecklistThe author world never stops telling us we need more. More books. More reviews. More ads. More content. Mor...
79 | Christian Writer Mistakes: How to Overcome Fear in Your Book Project
FREE Why Aren’t My Books Selling? ChecklistBeing a self-published Christian Writer is hard work. It's demanding and rest often feels like failure. But w...
78 | Why Your Books Aren’t Selling: Book Marketing Fixes for Christian Authors
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 | Kingdom Author Business Standards: Integrity in Christian Publishing
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 | Christian Self-Publishing: What Exodus Reveals to Christian 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 | Author Productivity Tips: How to Escape the Busywork Trap
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...