Ministry from the Margins Books.

Any spiritual leader — ordained or lay — who identifies as any of the following: feminist, queer, BIPOC, a woman, nonbinary, disabled. These perspectives are tremendously underrepresented in ministerial books. In fact, LGBTQIA+ writers only represent 16% of published authors and BIPOC writers only represent 11%. Tehom Center Publishing wants to change this.

Ensure your church, denomination, regional body, judicatory, self, or some combination will sponsor the $1,950 coaching fee. Then fill out the registration form, which is automatically sent to you once you share your email address.

Participating spiritual leaders can write any non-fiction book — including, but not limited to, a book of sermons, a ministerial memoir, creative non-fiction about a particular topic within ministry, a curriculum, a book of poetry, or a book of essays.

All cohorts meet once per month from 1–2:30pm EST on the indicated dates.

Fall Cohort: register by October (meets monthly Oct–Dec).
Spring Cohort: register by late April (meets monthly April–June).

A publishing contract with Tehom Center Publishing or one of our partner presses, plus three monthly group coaching sessions in three areas: book writing, book marketing, and authorpreneurship. Authors also get access to a private Facebook group just for TCP authors and clients, and access to future cohort coaching sessions for refreshers — if you're in one cohort but need a marketing refresher later, you're welcome to join that session.

All TCP authors also receive full book formatting (interior and exterior design), 20% author royalties (double industry standard), 5 free copies of their book, and their books available for sale on our website, Amazon.com, and BarnesandNoble.com.

TCP sends you a simple form to pay, and you can choose to pay in full or in 3 monthly installments.

Past participants have funded participation by requesting full or partial sponsorship from a bishop, regional minister, synod, denomination, church, or combination of churches; using continuing education funds; church fundraisers; asking individual donors; crowdfunding; utilizing non-profit, business, or chaplaincy funds; self-paying; and combinations of all these options.

No, absolutely not. While many of our participants are ordained in Christian traditions, we also have non-Christian Unitarian Universalists, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, and a variety of other belief systems and spiritual traditions present.

No. The program is open to people who experience marginality in a variety of ways, though most participants are some combination of queer, BIPOC, disabled, women, or nonbinary.

This is a tremendous part of the book writing coaching process. Believe it or not, it's incredibly doable using the methods Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber coaches — much of the book will draw upon things ministers have already written.

While there is a recommended 6-month timeline, no participant is bound to it. Each participant is coached on how to create a doable writing schedule that won't detract from current ministry or family life.