WHAT EXACTLY IS BOOK COACHING, You ask?
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A book coach provides accountability, emotional support, and guidance for the writers they work with. This can be done in a variety of ways such as low-touch, short-term coaching or high-touch, long-term coaching, but the three main pillars of my coaching practice in general are check-in, critique, and correction.
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As a book coach, I provide check-in calls or other means to help clarify goals before, during, and after coaching sessions. I do this because I want to make sure that you’re actually thriving and learning, not just passive consuming material.
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One of my primary jobs as a book coach is to provide holistic feedback regarding your work shape a more positive mindset. All feedback is given within the intention of strengthening what’s working, clarifying confusing areas, and shoring up weaker parts of the work. In these ways, we’re preparing your story to be its best for the next revision.
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Similar to what an editor does, I give in-depth textual corrections on your planning materials, working manuscripts, and even pitching materials at certain points in the coaching process. Depending on how much feedback you’d like, I do my best to use my eagle eyes to spot any clerical, linguistic, or structural errors in your prose and plot.
Is low-touch coaching right for you?
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"Find Your Why" Coaching Session
It all starts here. In just one hour, I’ll help you get crystal clear on the “why” of your story so that you dive into your story with confidence. This exercise is also particularly helpful for those experiencing writer’s block or are having doubts about the commercial viability of their work.
$125 flat fee.
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Mini Blueprint Coaching Session
The next step after finding your why is deciding if you’d like a taste of what an Author Accelerator-certified book coach can do for you and your story. Popularized by Jennie Nash in Blueprint for a Book, the Blueprint Method helps you hone your story vision and nail down your story’s structure in fifteen questions. The Mini Blueprint is a shorter version and just as robust.
$250 flat fee.
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Full Blueprint Coaching Program
If the Mini Blueprint doesn’t sound robust enough for you and/or you’d like to tackle the full, 15-step Blueprint with me, I’d be more than happy to help. Since each step has its own particular things to look out for, I’ll walk you through the entire thing at a careful pace in a little over three months. Enrollment for this program opens every January.
$500 per month for three months total.
How about high-touch coaching instead?
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Monthly 1:1 Coaching Program
So, you’ve found your why. You’ve done a Mini Blueprint. You’ve completed a Full Blueprint. What’s next?
Well, if you’d like to polish or pitch your novel in just under a year, you’ll enroll in my two other three-month coaching programs which will help with just that. The programs for both start in May and September, respectively.
$500 per month for three months total.
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Monthly Group Coaching Program
Don’t go it alone if you don’t want to. Find your fellow speculative and genre fiction writers, stay accountable to yourself and others, and grow right alongside an incredible community. Through weekly one-hour coaching sessions, hands-on workshop activities, and weekly exercises, I’ll help you plan, polish, and prepare to pitch your novel in just under a year.
$1,000 per month for up to nine months, but currently $100 per month for a limited time.
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Silent Retreat
This isn’t an actual service that I provide yet, but it could be in the future. Essentially, I would love to host a silent retreat somewhere with 12 amazing writers and give them the gift of two weeks away to study the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. I would love to see what Secular Buddhism and mindfulness could truly do for their writing. If you’d be interested in something like this, just send me an email, and I’ll add you to my growing list!
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