Authors are expected to show up on social media, build a personal brand, and let readers see the person behind the books. But how much of your life do you need to share to connect with readers without compromising your privacy or online safety?

In this episode, Urcelia shares seven practical ways authors can create a warm, genuine social media presence without oversharing. You will learn how to decide what belongs in your public, protected, and private circles, recognize identifying details hidden in posts and photos, avoid exposing your location in real time, and create safe content categories that still allow readers to know you.

You will also learn how to audit the information already available about you online, protect your social media accounts, and set wise boundaries that help you show up with greater confidence.

Because your readers can recognize your voice, values, personality, and work without having unrestricted access to your home, family, movements, or private life.

In this episode:

• How to set social media boundaries before you post

• The difference between personal and identifying information

• Why you should delay location-based posts

• What to share when you want to keep your life private

• How to audit your existing online presence

• Practical ways to strengthen your account security

• A four-question check to use before your next post

Scripture: Proverbs 27:12

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© 2026 Urcelia Teixeira. All rights reserved. This episode and its accompanying materials may not be reproduced, republished, transcribed, or adapted without written permission.

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Overwhelmed by conflicting self-publishing, book marketing and author business advice? In this episode, you’ll learn five biblical filters for choosing the right publishing or marketing strategy, making wise author business decisions and avoiding costly mistakes.

Whether you’re deciding where to publish, whether to invest in a course, when to run book ads or what to focus on next, these biblical principles will help you filter the advice around you and seek God’s wisdom for your author business so you can make the right decisions as a Christian writer.

You already have more author advice available to you than any writer in history. What you need is the wisdom to know which piece of it is yours. That's what this episode gives you.

Scriptures: James 1:5-6, James 3:17, Psalm 1:1-2, Proverbs 9:10, Proverbs 2:3-5, Proverbs 3:13

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Your book finally starts selling, the good reviews land, and instead of celebrating, you feel unsettled. Good days can shake your author life more than the hard ones, and Scripture is plain about why.

We spend so much of our writing life bracing for the slow months and the book launches that fall flat. Almost nobody prepares us for when the good days come. So when success arrives, we grip it too tightly or start taking the credit for it, and either way our eyes drift off God.

I share the win that caught me off guard and walk through three passages that show Christian writers how to receive a good thing without losing themselves in it.

You'll come away with four simple ways to receive the good things God brings while keeping your eyes on Him, plus a gentle heart check for whatever season your author business is in right now.

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Come find your people also in the Anointed Scribe Tribe on Facebook, a community of Christian writers who understand the hard days and the good ones.

The Anointed Scribe Podcast brings faith, encouragement, and practical help for Christian writers who want to build a profitable author business, God's way.

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Ever feel like you have no idea what you're doing in your author business or what you should be doing? In this episode I want to offer you some direction, and a different way of seeing your author journey.

When I first started out, I tried to do exactly what the successful writers around me were doing. It sent me in circles for longer than I'd like to admit. What I learned is that God has a specific way He's growing each of us, and our author life will never look quite like anyone else's.

We look at why following someone else's publishing road so often leads to a dead end, what David and Gideon teach us about being chosen and used by God, and six honest reasons we reach for someone else's methods instead of our own.

Then I share something close to my heart: how to recognize what God may be growing in your own writing life right now, so you can stop measuring yourself against everyone else and start tending the calling that's actually yours.

If you've been feeling stuck, unseen, or unsure whether you're even on the right track, this episode is for you. You'll walk away lighter, freer, and more confident in the author journey God has you on.

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If you reach the end of most weeks feeling scattered, behind, and vaguely guilty that you didn't do enough, this episode is for you. I share why our striving is rarely just a scheduling problem, what Scripture says about numbering our days (Psalm 90:12), and the weekly planning rhythm that changed everything for me.

And by the end of today's episode, you'll not only have a way of increasing your productivity, you'll also know how to manage your time in a way that guards your peace, protects your time with God, and quiets the striving for good.

We'll talk about protecting your quiet time before the noise of the day takes it, planning your week in a way you actually enjoy, a few practical tools that will help, and the real difference between striving and stewarding your time.

Whether you're drowning in too many hats or just tired of working hard with little to show for it, you'll walk away with a faith-centered way to manage your time that guards your peace and keeps God at the centre.

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🎁Free: Discover Your Christian Author Brand guide

What can the most-read book in human history teach Christian writers about building an author brand? More than you'd think — and almost none of it is what the marketing world tells you.

In this episode of the Anointed Scribe podcast, we look at branding through a completely different lens — starting with a truth most Christian authors easily forget: you are already branded. Long before you ever thought about logos, covers, or platforms, God marked you as His own.

We trace where branding actually began, what Scripture says about being God's workmanship (Ephesians 2:10) and called by name (Isaiah 43:1), and what the life of Jesus — the clearest example of identity, mission, and audience the world has ever seen — can teach us about reaching readers without losing ourselves to hustle, comparison, or pressure.

Whether you're just starting to build your Christian author brand or you're rethinking the whole thing, this episode will help you build it on the one foundation that actually lasts.

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What would I do differently if I could start my author journey over? After eight years, twenty novels, and a long list of hard-earned lessons, I have some honest answers.

In this personal episode I'm taking you back to where it all began for me — an impulsive first novel in 2018, several failed book covers, money poured into ads and promotions that never worked, and the financial pressure I was silently trying to build under at the time. I share what I'd do differently if I were starting my Christian author brand today, and the point at which God called me to pivot my entire career…contrary to popular authorpreneur advice.

We'll talk about the three Ws every author needs to know and why getting clear on these changes everything about how you write, publish, and grow your author business.

Whether you're writing your first book and just starting out or several books in and sensing it's time to make some real changes as a Christian writer, this episode will give you a clear, honest place to begin.

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FREE 'Why aren't my books selling?' Checklist

The author world never stops telling us we need more. More books. More reviews. More ads. More content. More proof that what we're building is actually working. But what if the relentless pursuit of more is the very thing stealing the peace, clarity, and joy God intended for your writing life?

In this episode we're talking about the bare necessities of a faithful author life — what Scripture actually says we need, what we may need to release, and why simplicity might be one of the most overlooked disciplines in our writing and publishing lives.

We unpack the Mary and Martha story, the discipline of simplicity from 2 Corinthians and Matthew 6, and what it actually looks like to seek first in your day-to-day author life. Plus a practical three-question simplicity audit to help you identify what's draining your time, your peace, and your obedience.

"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary." — Luke 10:41-42

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