Services

How I Work With Writers

I offer structured packages designed to support writers at different stages of their journey, along with flexible single sessions for specific challenges that arise along the way.

Clarity of Scope

What I Do & What I Don't

What I Do

What I Don't Do

✓ Help writers explore their topics more comprehensively before and during early writing

✕ Edit your writing (that's a copy editor)

✓ Ask questions that uncover assumptions, biases, and blind spots

✕ Restructure your manuscript or provide developmental feedback (that's a substantive editor)

✓ Bring interdisciplinary perspectives to expand thinking

✕ Provide expertise in your specific technical domain

✓ Support writers in clarifying their core message and motivations

✕ Give you advice for how to fix your writing

✓ Address internal barriers that create "stuckness"

✕ Give you answers or prescriptive solutions

✓ Serve as a thinking partner during the lonely process of writing

✕ Write content for you

✓ Prepare writers for productive work with substantive editors

✕ Offer step-by-step procedural guidance

✓ Create follow-up questions to extend exploration between sessions

✕ Provide ongoing support between sessions

Editors work with what you've written. I work with what you're thinking.

When I sit down with writers, I'm not there to provide answers or prescriptive solutions. There are some phenomenal book editors and marketers who do that work. Instead, I'm there to think alongside you, ask the questions that open up new possibilities, and create a space where you can do the deep work that great writing requires.

The Packages

Three-Session Packages

Each package is three focused sessions tailored to where you are in your writing process.

Book Launch Exploration

For writers starting a new project or in early development

Exploring the project's foundations and scope
Solidifying core assumptions and possibilities
Opening up comprehensive perspectives on the subject matter
Establishing direction and initial framework

Structure & Consolidation

For writers in the middle of their process

Organizing accumulated ideas and research
Identifying patterns and connections
Creating coherent frameworks
Transitioning from exploration to structure

Finishing Strong

For writers approaching completion

Drawing on strengths to tighten and refine content
Processing feedback from editors and maintaining momentum
Addressing internal barriers to finishing
Tangible goal setting for completion

Single Sessions

Available to returning clients

Sometimes you don't need another package of sessions—you just need a sounding board or to get "unstuck."

Examples of additional single session needs:

Incorporating a new concept mid-process
Processing challenging publisher or editor feedback
Working through stuck points
Exploring emerging ideas or complications

Once you've completed a three-session package with me, you're welcome to schedule single sessions as needed.

Every Session

What's Included

Up to 90 Minutes

Focused, unhurried conversation

Session Notes

Key insights and threads worth carrying forward

Follow-Up Questions

Curated questions sent after each session

The Investment

This is an investment in both the quality of your book and the quality of your experience writing it.

Writers who work with me report:

Better grasp of their topic
Easier navigation with editors later in the process
Less time spent "stuck"
Deeper understanding of what they're truly trying to say

Pricing and package details are provided prior to your free 15-minute consultation.

Important to Know

Working with me will likely contain some challenges. In the early and middle phases of writing, our work often opens things up and initially creates more questions than answers. This process might create temporary discomfort or complexity as we work through stuck points and challenge assumptions or current frameworks.

This is how breakthroughs happen—but writers should expect that moving forward sometimes requires confronting difficult questions and realities in order to pursue the deeper truths and communicate more effectively. For sessions in the late/completion phase, the focus shifts to construction, tightening, and addressing internal barriers that prevent finishing.

Fit

Who This Is For

Good Fit

Writers exploring original thinking
Topics that lend themselves to openness and creative exploration
Writers with commitment and budget to invest in deep development
Writers open to questioning assumptions and confronting challenges
Projects in active development
Writers who value depth and are willing to sit with complexity

Less Good Fit

Highly technical or procedural writing
Writers working within established formulaic frameworks
Fiction writers (current packages are not crafted specifically for fiction writing)