Author Momentum Coaching

Author Momentum Coaching
& Book Shaping

for Authors, Aspiring Authors, Teachers,
Change-Makers & Thought Leaders
with Ideas Ready for Shaping into Books That Matter

Are you ready to advance your book and captivate its right audiences? Curious about what it takes to become a versatile, confident, and authentic writer within a specific field? If you already have landed a contract – congrats! – do you need an additional editorial consultant to help you stay centered? Would you value ongoing editorial mentoring delivered in a format that fits your background, needs, and timing?

It’s tough to persist, execute and launch your great ideas. And have fun and learn your craft along the way? That seems implausible. But it’s possible. As an author, consultant, coach, teacher, and editor, I have helped literally thousands of people further their dreams.

Handsome advances with prestigious publishers. New York Times best-seller list. Revenue-making ventures. Those are some of my clients’ outcomes. Wonder comes, though, with what happens along the way. Your confidence bred from know-how, creative mindfulness, and fine-tuning. Recognition that your best ideas matter. Discovery that an audience waits for you to captivate them.

Your Captivating Book Mentorship Program

Special registration for this six-month program ends February 28. The program begins May 1.

Read about the details of this incomparable program, and see if one of the three levels of engagement is right for you.

How We Work Together 1:1

I take a total view of you as an author or thought leader with a book idea. You fill out and send me an AUTHENTIC AUTHOR Inventory that helps me understand your project, goals, deep intentions, and field background. We make a plan accordingly. Here are some matters we might address:

Captivating Yourself in Your Own Create-and-Work Flow

• heighten focus, stoke your fire, sculpt time, and generate ideas
• harness your own creative process
• balance personal obligations and creative responsibilities
• weave science-based tools & yogic tools
• foster curiosity, surprise, delight, & openness
• learn your craft in a way that will inspire and motivate you

Captivating Collaborators

• assess best publishing routes
• develop a method for “shipping” your writing – whether book
  or short pieces
• research agents’ selling record and editors’ book-buying record
• research your book’s market
• seek and query agents, publishers, and publications

Captivating Audiences

• finesse the emotional designs of a fulfilling story arc
• harness the power of story in blog, brand, or book
• global reviews of manuscripts-in-progress and book proposals-in-progress
• book proposal and manuscript assessments
• structural re-visioning of books, essays, and stories
• rewriting, co-writing, and ghostwriting
• global, line, & copy edits

I become your behind-the-scenes
project collaborator, mentor,
and idea-radar.

Are We a Good Fit?

When hiring a coach or consultant, you want someone you can trust. I take clients who

• are ready to commit to their best work
• recognize that the right coaching is an investment in time, energy,
  and revenue
• have great ideas that can add value to the world (or want to explore what those possibilities could be)
• recognize that executing great ideas requires persistence, patience, self-reflection, and know-how (at least)
• are receptive to input that they may not want to hear at first but at least are willing to work through the feedback
• are ready to work with someone who will guide them through
  the vagaries of creative work, creative living, and, if appropriate, creative enterprising.

SUPREME PACKAGE

If you’re ready to advance a complex project, receive frequent and in-depth support, and have a partner thinking on your project’s macro- and micro-levels, then let’s go SUPREME.

You’ll receive

• a three-month map that lays out key goals, milestones, and strategies for our work together (amendable, of course)
• a collaborative project system set-up such as Dropbox
• ongoing email and phone support as you need with priority response with possible additional podcasts or vid-casts addressed to your needs
•  Webex-based live meetings with video, shared desktop, and whiteboard options of 75-90 minutes
• a dedicated idea partner (Your project gets on my idea-radar.)
• tools & support material
• a review/response to/edit of up to 30 double-spaced pages of your notes, homework, drafts between meetings (This often includes a detailed “advanced review” letter.)

Rates:

Up to 6 meetings w/in 3 months (a meeting approx. every 2 weeks)
$898.00 per month	$2649.00 one-time payment
Up to 4 meetings w/in 3 months (a meeting approx. every 3 weeks)
$598.00 per month	$1774.00 one-time payment

Payments are made online via a checking account or credit card either once or recurring during your package’s duration.

SWEET STANDARD PACKAGE

If you have a straight-forward project with straight-forward needs and require less feedback and input between meetings, then let’s work with the SWEET STANDARD.

You’ll receive

• Phone/Skype/Webex/live meetings of up to 60 minutes
• a dedicated idea partner (Your project gets on my idea-radar.)
• tools & support material
• brief email support if necessary
• a light review of up homework or up to around 7 double-spaced pages or a spot review during the meeting

Rates:

Payments are made online via a checking account or credit card either once or recurring during your package’s duration.

One Deep-Immersion Meeting of 60-75 minutes: $399.00

Includes a deep assessment of your situation before the meeting plus a follow-up check-in two weeks later to assure you’re on the right track