I hit an odd turn in my career after selling my third nonfiction essay to Guideposts.
Yes, you heard me correctly. Guideposts. To go along with my nonfiction essays published by Bethany House, Tyndale, and even Zondervan. Somehow, over the space of a year and a half, I sold six nonfiction Christian “testimonial” essays to some of the biggest Christian publishers in the CBA. I’d forged a connection with an editor who, after buying an essay of mine for a collection called Life Savors, kept contacting me with submission calls for “real life Christian testimonies about faith.”
I wasn’t really overthinking this development, honestly. I was getting paid (very well, I might add) to write honest stories about my life, and how my family’s faith had helped us through some hard times. Despite the fact that, at the time, I did have a toe wriggling in the CBA pool (this was before and during the writing of Hiram Grange, and before my experiences with Realms Fiction), I really wasn’t thinking about laying down a foundation for publishing in the CBA. I was just writing true stuff and getting paid, and that’s all.
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