Marketing doesn’t have to feel like drudgery. If you’re an author who dreads promoting your book, it’s time for a mindset makeover.

If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that you never know what conditions in our world will impact a book’s sales and engagement.

Writing in a way that creates an effective and safe exchange between what's on the pages of your book and the reader's heart, mind, and actions is important. It's what helps bring the change, outcome, or transformation they seek. It's what keeps them reading.

Leader, thinker, changemaker, and cultural influencer, you’ve questioned the feeling but you can't shake it. This next book you are to write must be big and transformational. You’ve come into new way of being, and it’s causing you to see everything differently. The pieces are still coming together and the idea is at the tip of your pen, but you are feeling a bit stuck on how to tease it out. Let the answers to these three questions lead you to your next big book idea.

Going from speaker to writer can be a big shift in expression, but there are ways you can capture your most compelling messages and transformative ideas and get your words on the page and in the book you’ve been called to write.

Living in these moments for you, sent and called one, is an energy leach the enemy counts on. When you find yourself going back to the memories and emotions of the moments you've already begun to heal from, take up the active work of Philippians 4:8.

You’ve done OK by yourself. Sure, your book isn’t done, but once you really set aside the time and make the commitment, you could get it done if you really wanted to. The isolation of the writing life does not get to you at all. Friends and family may not understand the sacrifice you need to make to write your book, but you’ve got yourself and God.

If you struggle with overcoming hindrances to your writing and have not been able to break through and write anyhow, let me offer that it is OK to push back against them. Do not lay back as if failure is your lot. It is not.

Your spiritual life as a writer is more than just about how often you read the Bible, pray, and go to church. It’s also about how your whole internal life provides you the right environment to create what God has called you to create and how you will share what you create with others. Helping to develop this right environment, The Pray Hear Write practice enhances your spiritual and writing life in three significant ways.