For Writers & Aspiring Writers
Are you a writer trying to navigate finishing your novel and setting up your author business? I get it. It's HARD!
But I'm here to help.
Let me help you achieve your writing dreams!
I help others grab hold of that creative project, job, or idea that has always been at the back of their heads. Maybe you lack confidence—then I’m your cheerleader. Perhaps you lack knowing where to start—I’m your guru.
I believe your life is a story, and you are meant to tell that story! Whether it’s non-fiction or fiction, someone in the world is waiting to hear your story to be inspired to tell their own.
I will cheer you on all the way (as well as give practical help because we all need that too!) and believe me when I say, that the day you start putting your creativity out into the world, is the day the world gets a little brighter!
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Read Through
A fresh set of eyes on your manuscript can make all the difference. In a Read Through, I will provide you with comprehensive feedback on your story’s structure, character development, plot progression, and overall readability.
Full or partial Developmental edit
Whether you need a full developmental edit or a partial one, I’m here to help polish your manuscript. This service includes detailed analysis and suggestions to improve your story, pacing, character arcs, and more.
individual coaching
Do you have a dream and don’t have three years to spend on the internet learning how to accomplish it? My Individual Coaching service is tailored to your needs, offering personalized guidance, support, and accountability to help you finish your novel and set up your author business.
Not sure which program is right for you?
My Story
Have you ever had the fear of not accomplishing anything in life? That fear of mine manifested in a dream I had around 19 years old. I dreamt I was at my ten-year high school reunion and couldn’t remember ANYTHING I had done in the last ten years. NOTHING. That nightmare haunted me for YEARS.
I think I’ve always had two dreams: I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to make a difference to people.
Babies placed everything on the shelf, and although I did enjoy having the demanding little buggers, the only thing I could write was a blog. In many ways, I felt like I had nothing to say. Looking back, I realize I just didn’t have the right support.
The First Problem: My Mindset
Entering my thirties, I started new habits: waking up earlier, reading and praying in the morning, exercising, setting times to write, not watching television, and the biggest of all, calling myself a writer.
It worked, and for a little bit, I started writing again, putting two manuscripts firmly in my hard drive. But as my husband’s job grew more demanding, I also felt like I was sliding into obscurity. Unable to find a writing rhythm, my stories suffered, and I became very frustrated. I wanted to blame my husband for my inability to get anything done and for me not being a published author yet, but it wasn’t his fault.
It was mine!
Determination
By 2012, I was determined to write. I started by trying to rewrite an old novel. Then I started two other novels and found little success with finishing them. In the summer of 2013, with my husband working extremely long hours and my third baby born (actually a sleeper, hallelujah!), I sat down to write a book that wouldn’t leave my head.
It took me four years to finish it. But I finished it.
Then started the hard work of figuring out what was next.
My dream to be a world-renowned writer was an immature dream. It didn’t factor in the changing industry and focused more on money and fame than anything else. I spent the next three years on Google, going to every free webinar I could possibly find. I read twenty-four business books in 2018 and listened to lecture after lecture on marketing, social media, sales, and leadership. I figured out how to set up a website, make graphic designs, find an editor, start a podcast, create journals, talk to printers, call up strange companies for advice, send out emails to complete strangers, pay a designer in Pakistan, learn to grow an email list, and ask lots of questions to people who were a few steps ahead of me.
By the end of 2019, I had two novels published, a fiction-writing prompt book, an interactive journal, and a weekly podcast. By 2021, I published my third novel, a prequel novella, and started helping others get their books done and published.
