Taylor University Chapel

Mac Powell, Musician, Third Day

With Keith Ogorek, Author and President, Author Learning Center, Indianapolis, IN

Mac Powell Bio

Mac Powell, originally from Alabama, moved to Atlanta, GA as a sophomore in high school where he would soon co-found the Christian rock band Third Day. Throughout their nearly three-decade career, the band sold over 10 million albums, earned four Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, 24 Dove Awards, and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Since Third Day’s farewell tour in 2018 Mac released his debut solo Christian album “New Creation” on October 15th, 2021 which landed at NO.1 on the Top Christian & Gospel album chart. River of Life, the debut single from “New Creation” became a Top 10 hit at Christian radio followed by the multi-week title track, New Creation, which spent 7 weeks at NO. 2 and 16 weeks inside the top 10. Mac is on staff at Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, GA where he lives with his wife Aimee and children.

Keith Ogorek Bio

As an industry thought leader, Keith Ogorek has helped drive several significant innovations in the self-publishing industry and is featured in the book, Innovation–How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World.

Keith has helped operate Uriel Press, the Christian self-publishing imprint for UMI, and Fuzeframe, which identifies and options self-published books for development in Hollywood.

Ogorek has authored three books and written a number of helpful white papers, including the popular 4 Paths to Publishing and Three Phases of an Effective Book Marketing Campaign.

You will also find Keith speaking at leading industry events such as Genre-LA, The Greater Los Angeles Writers Conference, The California Creative Writers Conference, The Singapore Writer’s Festival, Havana Book Fair, and the Florida Writers Conference. In addition, he is a regular webinar presenter for The Author Learning Center.

Keith would love to talk to anyone about the writing process, publishing options and their advantages and disadvantages, selling books to Hollywood, book marketing, and building a platform.