About
About Keri
Keri Wyatt Kent shares her 25 years of publishing industry experience with writers to help them become authors. She is the author of twelve traditionally books, published with companies including Zondervan, InterVarsity Press, Revell, and Bethany House. She’s been the collaborator, contributor, or ghostwriter on more than a dozen other projects, and has helped dozens of authors to self-publish their book. She’s written more than 70 study guides and thousands of magazine, newspaper, and web articles. She has decades of experience as an editor. She is the director of development for West Coast Christian Writers and teaches at their annual conference. You can see a portfolio of her published works at https://keriwyattkent.com/keris-books/
Keri’s Writing Life
I’ve always loved books, reading, and writing. In fifth grade, my teacher told me I was a writer, and I believed him. That year, I read 100 books, which I kept track of on extremely cool purple notebook paper.
In college, a writing teacher invited me to write and edit for the student newspaper, and I discovered my love for journalism. I served as the co-editor of the student newspaper at Wheaton, and a reporter for the Daily Pennsylvanian at University of Pennsylvania.
My first decade after college I worked full-time as a newspaper reporter. I shifted to freelancing around the time I started having kids, writing for websites, magazines, newsletters and so on. I wrote or edited for whoever would pay me, whether it was Roads & Bridges magazine or an astrophotography website.
I wrote my first book when my children were one and three. Since then, I’ve been traditionally published more than a dozen times.
As self-publishing became increasingly popular, I went to school on how to do it. I learned all about various self-publishing platforms, and in 2016, began helping business and ministry leaders to self-publish books and curriculum. Since then, I’ve helped writers self-publish more than a dozen titles. I’ve ghostwritten more than 70 small group study guides for churches, and partnered with pastors including Rick Warren and Bill Hybels.
While I am always working on my own writing, I spend much of my time coaching writers—offering them guidance and accountability. I also offer editing and customized assisted self-publishing.
I publish two Substack newsletters each week. One is on hospitality and travel, the other is the Powerful Story newsletter, which offers free advice on writing and publishing. (subscribe here)
