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What Actionable Advice do you need?
We’ve got just the thing to up your GospelWise author™ game.
Mindset + Motivation
If you’re like me, even Christian creators need a gospel reminder + motivation to keep going.
Writing + Craft
Practice + upskilling in your writing craft will win the story day & ignite faith in your world.
Publishing + Business
Whether just starting out or 20 books in, these actionable insights will help you publish & profit.
Marketing + Sales
Marketing means creating connections between your work and people’s desires. So serve by selling!
15+ Years
Here to Empower Your Passion
A 15+ Year Legacy of Writing and Publishing Experience
With a decade of experience working with the biggest Christian publishers in the market creating content, editing books, and marketing projects PLUS independently publishing my own works for 15 years — I want to empower you to finish your gospel-rooted project and ignite faith in your world for God’s glory and human flourishing.
📗 15+ devotionals + studies
📙 An award-nominated Bible
📘 10+ Christian resources
📓 50+ short stories + novellas
📕 30+ religious fiction novels
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About CROSS + PEN
Through books, courses, templates, and coaching, Christian creators are empowered to write, publish, and market their content to ignite encounters with the risen Christ and radical heart of God.
We’re Passionate About Empowering Your Creative Gifts for God’s Glory.
You were created in Christ to create. Learn to wield the power of the pen for the sake of the cross, igniting faith in your world.
Our Mission
CROSS + PEN empowers Christian writers with the insights, inspiration, and skills they need to dream, create, and launch their passion projects for God’s glory and human flourishing.
You were created in Christ to create. Prayer + passion is all you need to start. We take you to the next level in your creative projects.
Our Vision
We empower you to fully live and lean into your sacred vocation by fostering a collective of creators to spark radical EmmausWay experiences in their world — where people’s hearts burn within them after Christian writers journey with them and open the Scriptures to them [Luke 24:32]..
Expert Author Coaching
We here’s to coming alongside GospelWise authors like you in launching passion projects for God’s glory and human flourishing in several helpful ways.
Manuscript Evaluation
Sometimes the best thing a writer can get is a second pair of eyes on their passion project. Whether fiction or nonfiction, let us help you evaluate the strength of your book and where you need guidance through an editorial assessment.
Editorial Feedback
So you’ve got yourself a finished manuscript — hooray! Now let’s get it gussied up and set on its best footing to ignite faith in your world with helpful, targeted feedback to fix editorial mistakes and give it a final proofread polish.
I’m Here to Help
Let’s Chat About Your Passion Project!
While I make most of my living as a professional writer off my own work, I spent 10+ years editing, publishing, & marketing other people’s work — devotionals, bible studies, Christian resources. I loved that work. I still do.
Get in touch if you need more personal coaching to kick-start, develop, or launch.