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YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD – ONE STORY AT A TIME.

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So many writers spend countless hours on a book that will never make it into the hands of readers.

So many writers have a story inside them that longs to be told, but they don’t know what it takes to actually get published.

So many writers want to put their most difficult lived experiences into an interesting narrative arc with tension and meaning, but they don’t know how to find the distance and vision needed to step back and look at their own story from a new perspective.

I know what that feels like. It took me years to untangle my lived experience from the true story that I finally learned to write. I can help you do this in a fraction of the time it took me.

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As a book coach, I specialize in memoir and women’s fiction, and I am especially interested in the following:

  •  Working with authors who have left a religious belief

  •  Working with authors exploring family issues and childhood trauma

If you are my ideal client, your long-term goal is to have a big impact on the world through your story, whether it becomes a best seller or connects passionately with a small press.

If you’re my ideal client, you may have found me by Googling “memoir book coach” or “trauma book coach.” It’s important to find a person with the right temperament to guide you through curating and bringing to life your own personal story. It takes empathy. It takes a gentle touch.

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As a coach, I focus on the big-picture, structural work, and I offer both developmental feedback and line editing. If you’ve done all you can do with your manuscript but you don’t know where to go from here, I can help. If you have a finished, seemingly polished manuscript and you’d like an honest evaluation, I can help. If you have MOST of a manuscript finished, but you don’t know how to start or end it, or you can’t figure out what seems to be missing, I can help.

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MANUSCRIPT EVALUATION

Includes:

  • A professional and comprehensive review of your manuscript

  • Extensive feedback in the form of in-line comments and a thorough, detailed-oriented editorial letter.

  • Articles, essays, book recommendations, and other teaching materials to assist in the revision process.

  • Specific next steps to take in order to make your book and publishing goals a reality.

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    PRICING is approximate – based on a $65 hourly rate:

  • Up to 30K words        $800

  • 30K – 60K words         $1000

  • 60K – 90K words         $1500

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It’s time to ask yourself, “What is this book worth to me?”

Do you want to keep tinkering with it or would you like to see it finished, polished, and ready to pitch?

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