First Stages
Book Coaching
This service is for writers who are just starting a book—maybe they have a few chapters or sections written, or maybe just an idea that won’t stop knocking at the door. I’ll help you develop your idea, organize your thoughts, plan your book, and figure out a writing process that works for you.
Includes: initial hour-long call, detailed writing plan, writer-set milestones and check-ins, and as much feedback moving forward as the writer needs.
Book Doula
Book Coaching
For writers who are stuck. Wherever you’ve stalled in the writing process, I’ll provide guidance and gut-checks to jump start your writing, plan your process, and help you back on the road towards your goal.
Includes: initial hour-long call, feedback on what has been written so far, help envisioning the rest of the book, addressing hurdles, and planning next steps, and as many check-ins as the writer needs moving forward.
After the First Draft
Editing
Feedback for completed drafts, whether short fiction, novels, memoir, or other nonfiction of any length. Can be as in-depth or broad as the writer prefers.
Includes: initial half-hour call, a feedback letter addressing overall prose tone and style as well as thoughts on the work as a whole, i.e. plot, structure, character, point of view, etc., and, if desired, detailed line-by-line feedback on the sentence level.
Some Writers I’ve Worked With
Youmi Park (agent: Jin Au), editing short fiction (e.g. “Mistakes of Thought” in The Masters Review), currently coaching her through writing her first novel.
Emma Smith-Stevens, providing overall feedback and line edits for THE AUSTRALIAN (Dzanc Books, 2016) before publication.
Rebecca Evanhoe (winner of the O Henry Prize), putting together the proposal for a book that is now under contract.
Kate Reed Petty, line-by-line edits and overall feedback for the manuscript of what is now TRUE STORY (Viking, 2020), long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, as well as help writing and sending out a query letter to agents.