Why Every Book Needs A Trailer Every book needs a trailer to help promote it. Follow these tips to create a magical book trailer and boost your audience. Self-publishing success relies on independent authors doing their own book marketing, and…

Learn to Wait on God’s Timing Have you ever been discouraged as a self-published author? Success takes time and planning. Instead of being discouraged, learn to wait on God’s timing. As a self-published Christian author, my knowledge of the publishing…

Why Fiction and Nonfiction Novels Need Worldbuilding Why do both fiction and nonfiction novels need worldbuilding? Isn’t worldbuilding for fiction? Whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, setting is one of the most important features of your story. Good worldbuilding…

Focus on God’s Promises How can God use you during this time to help people, and how can we focus on God’s promises instead of on life’s problems? All one has to do is turn on the news, scroll through…

Why Authors Need to Collect Credits Through Collaborative Writing Do you know that authors need to collect credits through collaborative writing to help nudge them toward success? Let’s be honest. Achieving such success—finishing that book, sending out proposals, landing a…

Write How You Want To Have you ever felt pressured to write the way other expect you to instead of being able to write how you want to? Do you ever feel crushed by the expectations we writers face? I…

The Christian Authors Network (CAN) is delighted to announce the CAN Excellence in Marketing Awards. This special, one-of-a-kind contest encourages and recognizes marketing excellence of Christian authors. Each participant will receive feedback on their marketing campaign. The awards are open…

Are You Scheduling Time For Jesus? Has the title of this blog made you question if you are scheduling time for Jesus? Are spending enough time with the Lord? Or if you are “doing too much”? Are you putting more…