About us
We’re Christopher and Gena.
We’ve spent more than thirty years writing books — our own and other people’s — for publishers and ministries you know. Now we help authors and ministry leaders take their books from first idea to finished, personally. It’s just the two of us, and we still answer our own email.
Two writers, one business.
Christopher P.N. Maselli
Designs it, publishes it
Christopher is an award-winning author of more than 50 books, including children’s series for Zonderkidz, Carson-Dellosa, Focus on the Family, and more. He’s written for international speakers and ministries for three decades.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing and is a Certified Digital Marketing Professional. At Writing Momentum, he designs covers and interiors, publishes on Amazon, and runs the launches.
Gena Maselli
Reads it, edits it, shapes it
Gena has written professionally since 2003: books, magazine articles, curriculum, scripts, and more. She’s the author of Fabulous and Focused, Truth Unplugged for Girls and Truth Unplugged for Guys, and has written and edited for well-known international ministers and speakers.
At Writing Momentum, Gena leads the editing and the Momentum Circle — and she’s the one who’ll read your first ten pages.
Our own writing
What editors and authors say.
Before we helped other writers, editors at Zondervan, Scholastic, and Focus on the Family were editing our work.
“The Christian reading audience is hungry for a children’s author who can appeal to both girls and boys. Chris Maselli feeds that hunger.”
“So much fun!!! And Chris does a great job of laying down the gospel.”
“A very good writer… Chris’ writing is strong.”
“Chris’ stories have been a blast to edit. Very funny.”
“An engaging and beloved speaker at writer’s conferences across America, Chris is a gifted… author and mentor. He has helped countless writers.”
“From children’s literature to feature writing, from marketing and advertising copy… Chris does it all. Writing is his passion.”
30+ years
How we got here.
From a children’s magazine and an advertising desk in Fort Worth to marketing teams, an MFA, and four imprints of our own.
Christopher starts writing for kids
At Kenneth Copeland Ministries he becomes editor and sole writer of Shout!, an award-winning children’s magazine that reaches 210,000 subscribers worldwide. He’ll write it for more than ten years.
Gena starts in advertising
As KCM’s advertising coordinator, she runs every print piece from copy to mailbox, leads the in-house creative team, and buys print ads and billboards.
Commander Kellie and the Superkids
Christopher’s eleven-book adventure series for Harrison House, Kenneth Copeland Publications, and KDP. The same year, Gena becomes a marketing media coordinator, buying on-air time across 200+ stations.
The Amazing Laptop
An eight-book adventure series for Zonderkidz, and a turning point in Christopher’s career. The first book, Reality Shift, is named one of Crosswalk.com’s 10 Best Books of 2002.
Gena goes freelance, and Christopher joins Clubhouse
Gena starts writing books, devotionals, curriculum, and articles for ministries and magazines. Christopher begins two decades of stories, comics, and mysteries for Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse and Clubhouse Jr., including the readers’ favorite, the Jones & Parker mysteries.
Carson-Dellosa
The Super Sleuth Investigators, Bible games, and puzzle books — 325,000 copies and counting.
An MFA from Vermont College
Christopher earns his Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children from Vermont College.
Leading online marketing for an international ministry
Christopher becomes creative director of KCM’s eight-person online marketing team, then editor-in-chief over all of it, and earns his Certified Digital Marketing Professional designation. One campaign he led brought in 7,000 new names a week, a ministry record.
An Evangelical Press Award
Christopher wins the Evangelical Press Association’s first-place award for his work on Captain Absolutely.
Writing Momentum begins
Full-time freelance, a year on the road in an RV through 35 states, and a membership for writers.
Write Well, Sell Well and WriterCon
Christopher serves on the board of Write Well, Sell Well, and he, Gena, and Rene partner with WriterCon in Oklahoma City to teach writers marketing, the inspirational market, freelance writing, and children’s books.
Four imprints
Conviction, Writing Momentum, Gleanfield Press, and Lionproof Books — for the books we choose to publish.
The Writing Momentum Method
Everything we teach, in one book.
What we believe
Write the vision. Make it plain.
“Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.” — Habakkuk 2:2
It stays yours.
Your copyright, your Amazon account, every royalty, and every file. We charge a fee, never a cut.
We’ll tell you honestly.
If your book needs more work, we’ll say so. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll point you somewhere better.
It’s us.
No sales team, no hand-offs. The two people you talk to are the two people doing the work.
When we’re not writing, we’re raising our three kids in Northern Arizona, learning new board games, and watching Survivor.
Tell us about your book.
Or start with the two-minute check.