Marlene felt a call to full-time Christian service as a teenager. If anyone had told her then, however, that God was calling me to a writing and speaking ministry, she would have said, "A loving God would never do that to me!"

She hated English in high school, and was terrified of the public speaking class she was required to take.

God's plan was certainly not her plan. Instead, it was "infinitely beyond [my] highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes" (Eph 3:20 TLB)! He has given her the joy and privilege of being part of Christian publishing since 1968. Write His Answer Ministries is the umbrella for her full-time (and then some!) writing and speaking ministry as well as my ministry to other writers.

The Lord has opened so many doors for Marlene, including the opportunity to serve on the faculty of over 75 Christian writers' conferences and to give my one- and two-day Christian writer's seminars over 50 times around the nation.