Hello, my beloved friend in Christ.
Just an introduction to my writing journey.
I spent three years writing fiction under the pen name Zella Ace, and I first joined KDP, but had no success. Then I took my work to Inkitt, and God granted me instant success. I had over a hundred completed readers by the end of the first night, and four days later, broke 10k reads. After less than a year, I broke 1 million reads. Since then, I have amassed millions of reads and the lowest accurate number of readers I was able to calculate was at least 26,000 readers. I realised that all my life, I was always longing for instant success, and God had given even that to me.
At first, I was writing smut, I am ashamed to admit. I told myself that Song of Songs was erotica, and that meant it was fine. I sought resources online to see if writing erotica was a sin, and the results were divided. I asked my Christian friends, and they advised that it was alright. I didn’t know what to believe, but after some time, I realised I never had peace about it. I didn’t know if it was a sin, but a good Christian should not be doing something they’re uncertain about, so I laid it down and gave that up. Soon after, I have come to believe that it was sinful.
From that moment on, I decided to only write books that led people to Christ. I had some measure of fame, and God moved me to sacrifice it for His sake. I lost a lot of attention from my readers, but it was the highest point of my writing journey when it came to fulfilment.
Some time after, God gave me a clear call to start a Christian blog, this blog, to minister to the church. I realised those three years were necessary to teach me to not find value in numbers, but in faithfulness. I obeyed His call, and I still have this collection of books that I wrote for His people, in order to help them. I have an action plan in place to do my duty to preach the gospel, and here is an explanation of it.
- A book catered to the secular people:
Title: Forbidden to Have You
Link: https://a.co/d/04VqAhJH
Genre: Romantic Comedy
How it will help:
- Written in a way that appeals to the unsaved
- The plan is to attract the unsaved to this book, after which some might then decide to pick up my other books, which I pray the Lord brings them to the ones that preach the gospel
- The wish is for this book to bring laughter to a sad day
2. A series that is directed to a secular readership, but has heavy Christian themes subtextually that will bridge the gap towards Jesus
Title: The Lifespring Series
- (The series consists of a Mafia romance, then an MC romance but I intend to rebrand this and change the titles one day. I only chose those subgenres because they were more marketable, and they actually mean very little to the storylines.)
Book One: The Mafia Lord
Link: https://a.co/d/0fF494GL
- Ownvoices
How it will help:
- Helps you learn that you have value apart from your appearance
- Helps you to love yourself
- Helps you to value the love that others have for you
- Helps you understand that you are not alone if you’re experiencing psychosis
Book Two: The Motorcycle Devil
Link: https://a.co/d/04k1xM8N
How it will help:
- Helps you let go of your past
- Healing from grief
Book Three: The Broken Saint
Link: https://a.co/d/0bNRmvdy
How it will help:
- Christian romance
- The gap is closed
3. Christian Romances where Jesus is the main focus, not just subtextually, that will help strengthen those who belong to Christ and also hopefully move the unsaved to accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour
Title: Crossed Hearts
Link: https://a.co/d/0alAenos
How it helps:
- Ownvoices
- Depression and Anxiety representation
- Motivation for evangelism
Title: A Glimpse of Grace
Link: https://a.co/d/0grJUxPB
How it helps:
- Ownvoices
- Helps encourage those who have struggled with loneliness
- Helps those who deal with craving fame as an idol
- Helps those who have emotionally abusive parents
- Motivation for evangelism
Title: Enduring
Link: https://a.co/d/0gP8aaKc
How it helps:
- Encouragement for waiting on the Lord
It is my hope that by making this plan known that some helpful friends will join in to further advance the Kingdom mission for Jesus.
I request that if any of these books have made you feel better, that you introduce them to the people around you that you think it can help too. And I also welcome any Christian to make suggestions for revisions to this plan to preach the gospel to people. Thank you for your assistance.
(p.s. I also have non-fiction books available for sale, but the content is otherwise available for free on my blog, God and neighbour.)
Jesus be with us all.
Recommended Reading Order
- Forbidden to Have You [optional]
- The Mafia Lord (Lifespring #1)
- Crossed Hearts
- A Glimpse of Grace
- The Motorcycle Devil (Lifespring #2)
- The Broken Saint (Lifespring #3)
- Enduring