This Week’s Tip: Successful Authors Don’t Compete – They Collaborate
This week is the bridge.
Platform is relationship.
Message is service.
Collaboration is how both multiply.
Successful authors don’t isolate. They intentionally link arms. They understand something many authors miss:
You don’t need a bigger audience. You need shared audiences.
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When life speeds up with the holidays, deadlines, family needs, ministry, all the moving pieces, it’s easy for writing to slip quietly to the back burner. Not because your message suddenly matters less, but because everything else feels louder.
But here’s the truth: the busy seasons don’t cancel your calling.
They invite you to trust God with smaller pockets of time, quieter moments, or slower progress.
Last month, several members of our team attended the two-day Leading and Loving It conference. They encouraged and equipped leaders who faithfully serve, but they were also poured into. Renewed. Reminded that you can only pour out what God first pours in.
You are not meant to pour out on empty—God fills, sustains, and refuels the weary writer.
Writing is the same way.
You give your heart, your time, your testimony. You pour out your story with the hope that someone else will meet Jesus in the pages. But God never asks you to do that alone. He pours into you through His Word, His people, His presence, and His Spirit.
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This Week’s Tip: Don’t Sell the Book. Share What the Book Does.
This might be one of the most freeing tips we’ve shared yet!
Stop trying to convince people to buy your book. Instead, start showing them what your book can do in their life.
When someone reads your post, they’re not really asking, “What’s your book about?” They’re wondering, “Why should I care?”
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