Shellie Arnold
Author, Speaker
Shellie Arnold is a multi-published author who has written articles, Bible study/devotional curriculum, and contributed to several non-fiction works.
Get To Know Shellie
Shellie Arnold is a multi-published author who has written articles, Bible study/devotional curriculum, and contributed to several non-fiction works. She has keynoted at women’s retreats and taught in the workshop, Sunday school class, and small group settings. She has edited fiction and non-fiction for publication, as well as the memoir Five Tickets to Kansas, which won the Selah in 2023. Shellie regularly serves as faculty at conferences including the Florida Christian Writers Conference where she leads the popular Manuscript Critique Track, which allows writers to get feedback on their current work-in-progress.
Shellie has three published novels: The Spindle Chair, Sticks and Stones, and Abide With Me (nominated for a Selah in 2018), all of which depict the “perfect storms” in marriage—what happens when our weaknesses hit head-on, and we’re both left wondering if anything can be salvaged. Visit her at www.shelliearnold.com
Pre-Conference Session
Pre-Conference Opportunity
Pre-conference Manuscript Review: Available for up to twenty Speak Up attendees who will pre-submit their manuscript synopsis, outline, and up to the first fifteen pages between April 1, 2024, and May 15, 2024. Shellie will evaluate clarity, focus, continuity, market viability, and presentation. She will meet virtually with each writer for forty-five minutes, deep edit a portion of the manuscript, and return to the author no later than June 25. Cost: $100
Breakout Session
Overcome the Lies Hindering Your Writing and Speaking Ministry
As writers and speakers in ministry, we are called to be transparent, vulnerable, and authentic. And we want to be, don’t we? Yet sometimes we fight an inner war—a battle against the derogatory remarks, negative labels, and corresponding emotional wounds from our past that seem to bombard us when we try to focus on ministry. When those wounds are in the area of our gifting, the joy of writing and speaking for God can be diminished. But God wants to restore and grow our joy as we work for and with Him. In this session, author, speaker, and teacher Shellie Arnold shares how she was wounded where she was gifted, how God brought healing through one simple truth, and how that truth can reinvigorate your ministry as it did hers.
15-Minute Appointments
Shellie loves helping writers and speakers explore and follow God’s calling. Talk with Shellie to refine your heart message and ministry vision, identify your strengths and weaknesses, or review your proposal or first chapter. If your gift or message has been ridiculed or belittled, or the enemy’s lies are hindering you, talk with Shellie to find encouragement and create a strategy to move forward in ministry.
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