Called to Write: Tips for Christian Authors - video

Michael Hyatt, New York Times bestselling author and former CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, offers insight for Christian writers and how to manage the common concern over "selling" yourself and your work. If you struggle with this, thinking a Christian writer should not self promote, market, or even succeed financially, watch this video. Mr. Hyatt offers a perspective that can help.
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  • Hi Michael, You absolutely correct.  As a disabled Army Chaplain, I do have a story.  Not about war as those thoughts need to stay buried until God releases my tongue about that subject.  I was a semi-pro Scuba Diver who prayed to God, a Dangers prayer, to clear my mind from being consumed with compassion fatigue and distractions from War.  To bring me back to the fire for Him when He first called me into ministry.  My next dive, after the prayer, on the "Mighty O", Pensacola, FL, God virtually killed me.  Organs shutting down because of a shotgun blast of nitrogen exploded in the brain.   I was in a coma and they wanted to pull the plug but I miraculously woke up after four days paralyzed.  The Priest said I'm his second miracle in 18 years.  All ADLs were broken and could not move but one arm barely.  They said I would not walk but God provided a vision that I would while I was screaming from pain in the CCU.  Morphine was not working.  Fought with medical staff who said I was neurologically impaired because I said, I'm going to walk.  After 28 days, I walked out of the hospital which freaked everyone out.  What God did is a mismatch compared to medical science documentation, through and through. People keep bugging me to write the story.  So now I will and illustrate it Dive photos from the "Ghost Ships of Truk Lagoon" that match each storyline in the book. So yes, I'm doing what God is commanding me. Marking is easy.  I'm Currently self-publishing through the Westbow Press. The target date to finish the manuscript is May 2020.  I'm developing the story as not a mear testimony but one that will help others across a wide segment of believers and non-believers.  I like Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning.  We need another book of survival in the midst of the unsurvivable.   If God said build it once I can answer "why",   I now can bear the "how" to make it happen. That is,  If the "why" is answered the "how' will come.  Peace, Mike 

  • Such good insight -- thank you Michael Hyatt for these thoughts
  • Thanks Michael for uplifting and empowering me to get going again on my first Christian book called 'Who Are We in Christ.' God bless you.
  • Thanks Michael. Promoting something is not overly uncommon for me, but asking for money for something that I have done is. To me they nearly fit into the same basket. I hope God gives me the grace to promote with power and not pride, the book He has inspired me to write.
  • Thank you for great words of clarity I needed this sir God bless you. I'm in the process of writing my first christian book. Accept The Call To Greatness.