Of course I’ll write you a testomonial! Actually, would you be able to write the glowing reference in my voice?

Dr. Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, President and Co-Founder Five Journeys, and President, National Celiac Association. Along with her husband, Dr. Ed Levitan, MD, she wrote Dirty Girl: Ditch the Toxins, Look Great, and Feel FREAKING AMAZING! Her answer reflects the trust and connection I make with each author I work with. I couldn’t hope for a better testimonial.

Now, where are you on this journey?

1.  Are you just getting started? Maybe you need a Book Navigator to help you set your course.

Sometimes authors know exactly what they want to write about, but when they open a fresh document on their computer, they freeze. Where should they begin? How do they corral the ideas and knowledge inside their head, and put it down on a page in a way that makes sense? How can they be sure they have enough ideas and knowledge to begin with?

A book navigator can help you answer all those questions. By the way, yes, I created the phrase ‘book navigator.” Some call this book positioning, others use different phrases. I like navigator, because it goes with the book-creation-is-a-journey theme, and besides, it’s applicable. 

Click here to learn what your book-writing experience will be like with me as your book navigator.

2.  Do you want to pilot your own ship with an experienced captain as first mate? That is, would you like an author coach? 

For some people, the dream of writing a book means their fingers are the ones typing in all the words. They don’t want a ghostwriter, and they think they’re homed in with good book navigation. Some make it to the destination of their choice, others get lost in deep water or wind up in the doldrums, demoralized, disappointed, and want to give up.

I promise the journey doesn’t have to end that way. A good author coach will help steer the course. They will set the navigation and be your co-captain, meeting regularly with you as you reach milestones and helping you improve your writing craft until you have a polished manuscript.

Learn what it’s like to have me in the co-captain seat with you as your author coach here.

Have you started your book-writing journey and realized you need a course correction? Perhaps a developmental editor is the first mate you need.

You have a finished draft! Yay! Or maybe it’s finished.

You’ve made it to somewhere on your book-writing journey, but it’s not the resort destination you were aiming toward. Now you need a little help getting where you really want to be.

There could be numerous things going on in your manuscript that you know are fixable, but you aren’t sure how to fix them. For those kinds of manuscripts, a developmental editor is the best first mate you can find. 

You can learn how a developmental editor can help you polish your manuscript here.

Are you the kind who likes to travel by private yacht? Do you want a ghostwriter to take your words and make them a book?

There are a number of reasons why authors hire ghostwriters—and none of them have anything to do with being lazy or “cheating the system.”

Some people know what they want to say, but they don’t enjoy writing. Other folks have so much going on in their personal or professional lives that they don’t have the time to sit down and focus on putting what they know into written form. And then there are people for whom both are true. 

Regardless of why someone hires a ghostwriter, the results are they get their story or ideas told and presented in book form.

To see how I would work with you as a ghostwriter, click here.

Can you see land at the horizon but water is coming up from below deck? You wrote a manuscript…well, you wrote something that might be a book, but maybe you need a book doctor to help suture it together.

Sometimes the feedback and suggestions from a developmental editor sound like the perfect solution for your manuscript. If you could just follow through on their directions, then you’d have the book you wanted to write. But that’s a big “if.” The comments and notes are all great, you just don’t know how to pull it off on the written page.

At other times you wish you were that far along! Instead, you have a virtual pile of…just stuff: lists, research, snippets of written prose you’re proud of, others you’re not but they are important. You have an outline, a revised outline, some graphs…the only you don’t have is a clue as to how to piece it all into a book.

In either case, you can dial 9-1-1 to get a book doctor to come aboard and help.

Are you at the port and ready to throw a party? It’s time to think about what’s next in your publishing adventure!

It has never been easier to publish a book. More and more options seem to pop up every day. But before you can publish your written manuscript as a book, you need a cover and you need someone who can design book interiors. I have a network of professionals who will be happy to collaborate with you to create a final, polished, professional book that I can then coach you through self-publishing on Amazon and Ingram/Spark for retail distribution.

If self-publishing isn’t the answer you were looking for, I also have a small network of hybrid publishers that will take your manuscript and use their in-house team to do the interior and exterior design of your book. Those houses also offer marketing packages, too, which is something else I don’t get involved in (though if you self-publish, I can recommend some book marketers).

Or we can talk about how to travel a route toward landing a contract with a “Big 5” publishing house.

Regardless, the first step in any of the above adventures is to make a free 30-minute consultation with me to discuss what’s next. Schedule a free 30-minute consultation!