What Is Book Coaching?
A book coach (sometimes called an author coach or writing coach) is someone who guides a writer through the writing process. This is a one-on-one partnership that really digs into why you’re writing this particular book and works alongside you to help you write the best book you can.
Why Hire a Book Coach?
You’re an author, or you want the confidence to call yourself one. I can help you make progress in your project and feel confident in your writing journey.
As your book coach, my role is to help you develop your storytelling skills, make progress in your writing, and feel confident in yourself and your skills.
Our coaching relationship will be customized to your needs. Through video calls and emails you’ll get things like:
- Tools and exercises to help you plan or outline your book
- A project manager and developmental editor working with you chapter by chapter as you draft your book
- One on one help making and carrying out a revision plan
- Feedback on your writing — what’s working and suggestions to improve
- Accountability
- Resources and writing exercises to build your skills
- Opportunities to ask questions and brainstorm with someone
- Encouragement and celebrations of your accomplishments
*At this time I only work with women writing romance or women’s fiction/beach reads.
Let’s Create Your Custom Book Coaching Package
A book coaching package with me is designed to help you set and meet your writing goals, answer your questions, and help you build your writing toolkit. After a free 20-minute introductory call to see which of the below buckets your project fits in, I’ll put together a custom coaching program designed around your writing needs and goals.
Finish That Novel
You’ve started a draft but just can’t seem to make progress on it. In a Finish Your Novel Coaching Package, we’ll make a plan and keep you accountable to finish that novel.
Finish Your Novel Coaching Packages will be available starting in Spring 2023.
Revise That Novel
You’ve got a messy first draft and don’t know what to do with it or where to start making it into something great. Revision can be a lot more intimidating than drafting. In a Revise Your Novel Coaching Package, we’ll make a plan and keep you accountable to transform that first draft into a rad, swoony book.
Revise Your Novel Coaching Packages will be available starting in Spring 2023.
Single-serve Coaching Call
Do you have a writing or revision question that you want to chat about but you’re not ready to commit to a full coaching package? That’s okay!
I offer 45-minute video calls to discuss your writing project or questions you have about the writing process, editing, or publishing. I’ll email you after our call with a few resources too.
Single-serve coaching calls do not include direct feedback on your manuscript.
Single-serve coaching calls will be available starting in Spring 2023.
![It's nap time and you know what that means: time for mama to write/edit.
I was in a video call last night with a bunch of other book coaches and book coaches in training and a question was asked: how do you make time in your life to do your coursework and professional development?
My answer: my daughter's nap time is my time. It is my reading, writing, and editing time. It doesn't matter if there is housework to do. That work doesn't get done while she's napping. When she naps, I get to do my thing.
So today I'm attempting to write three different versions of the closing scene to my WIP. This timed exercise is to give myself a better idea of what I'm going to be writing to when I start the new draft of this book. It's also to help me figure out if the ending I have in mind is actually the right ending.
I have 1.5 hours. Wish me luck!
[ID: a white hand holds a cup with a straw beside a laptop that has a sticker of flowers growing out of a book. A grey couch and a grey and white rug are in the background. End of description.]
#AmWriting #MomsWhoWrite #BookCoach #DevelopmentalEditor #RomanceWriter #WritingCommunity](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/318022098_1070552903827897_2420655007230103637_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=VovNAORR4IIAX930emD&_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfBFfuYnEY2cqU9H2WNPZ4HHeHcWT8iR5y2SJn_iukwbMA&oe=6394FDD8)
![All the books I'm currently reading. 😆
Two romances and a craft book. And to be totally honest, they are all fun and all of them are teaching me about writing and editing and coaching.
This week, I'm also working my way through a big ol' revision plan of my 2019 NaNoWriMo novel. To make this plan I'm going right back to the beginning and thinking about what exactly I want this book to be, why I'm writing it, and what it's actually about. This afternoon, I'm attempting to map out the story—what actually happens, what needs to happen and why. This is also exactly the work I will be asking my book coach clients to do.
What are you reading? How many books do you usually read at a time?
[ID: two paperback books and an eReader stacked on a wood table. There is a grey cup with a straw beside the books and a Christmas tree and wrapped gifts in the background. End of description.]
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![I'm attempting to sneak in a cup of tea and a few more pages of this little book while the kiddo plays.
I've read this book before, but as I'm jumping into a season of revision I wanted to remind myself of the fantastic beat structure Gwen offers here.
If you write kissing books, I highly recommend this resource. It's less than 80 pages and packed with humour and writing tips and a really easy to understand beat structure that's also super flexible.
[ID: a white and red book (Romancing the Best by Gwen Hayes) sits next to a red and white mug on a wood coffee table]
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