Karen Ehman
Author, Speaker, Gospel Clinger
Karen Ehman’s greatest passion is to help believers apply biblical truths as they reflect the gospel to a watching world. She individually coaches writers and speakers, helping them develop messages and craft attention-grabbing book proposals.
Get To Know Karen
Karen Ehman is a New York Times bestselling author, a speaker, and a contributing writer at Encouragement for Today, an online devotional that reaches 4 million women daily. She has written 21 books and Bible studies including Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All and the 2020 ECPA devotional book of the year Settle My Soul. She has been featured on TODAY Parenting, Redbook.com, Foxnews.com, Crosswalk.com, YouVersion.com, FaithGateway, and Truly magazine. She is also a monthly columnist for two different LifeWay publications and contributes to online places such as Christianity.com, Club31Women, and her.bible.
Her greatest passion is to help believers apply biblical truths as they reflect the gospel to a watching world. Over the past 30 years, she has granted more than 350 podcast, television, and radio interviews and has spoken to over 400 audiences at such diverse places as intimate retreats, church conferences, arena events, and women’s prisons. She individually coaches writers and speakers, helping them develop messages and craft attention-grabbing book proposals. Karen is a graduate of Spring Arbor University and serves as President-Elect of their Alumni Board of Directors.
Married to her college sweetheart, Todd, she is the mother of three adult children and Grandma Kit to three-year-old Jasper and baby Magnolia Rose. She enjoys second-hand thrifting, cheering for the Detroit Lions, and spending her days feeding whoever happens to be gathered around her mid-century dining room table, processing life while enjoying her county fair blue-ribbon winning cooking.
Breakout Session
How to Write a Chapter
If you want to write a book, first you have to write a chapter, right? So how do you begin? Stop staring at the blank screen and come discover a doable process for fleshing out the five key elements of a strong chapter. In this workshop attendees will discover:
• The quintet of crucial components of a strong chapter that make it not only interesting and informative, but that also best position it to be memorable, allowing the lessons on the pages to stick in the minds of the readers
• How to compile a content notebook that will house and categorize anchor stories, statistics, quotes, research, biblical content, inspirational material, as well as practical takeaway ideas for each chapter
• Ways to sequence chapters so that they logically build upon one another and also tie into the overarching theme of the entire book
• How to weave in biblical content in a natural, yet powerful way that will best position the manuscript to encourage and grow readers through the truths found in God’s word.
15-Minute Appointments
Karen loves to help both writers and speakers to zero in on their areas of expertise and then create content that will not only benefit their audiences but will also position them for effective future ministry. If you’re stuck on crafting a message, developing that book proposal idea, or finding places that might feature your content, grab an appointment with Karen. Your brainstorming session will produce an effective and doable plan that you’ll be excited—and equipped—to implement.
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