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  • All clients start by completing a short form (LINK) which tells me what their needs are. If I am accepting new clients, I’ll schedule a 30 minute consult so we can get to know each other and you can ask whatever questions you have. From there, you may choose to sign up for Creative Coaching or Book Coaching. Or you may decide “this ain’t the person for me!” And that’s totally cool! I’m happy to refer you to someone who is a better fit for you. I have access to an enormous catalog of certified book coaches who specialize in lots of different areas, and am always happy to make referrals. I will also be happy to send you referrals if I am not currently accepting new clients, or you can ask to be added to my waitlist.

  • Creative Coaching and Book Coaching vary in price, from $150-$600 per session. Email me and we’ll discuss your needs.

  • Definitely not. I do primarily work with writers who have ADHD, but I also have clients who are struggling with things like chronic illness, are new parents, have PTSD, or who have found that, for whatever reason, traditional writing advice doesn’t work for them. The most important criteria for working with me is for you to make sure that my teaching style and personality are a good fit for the way you learn. The easiest way to find that out is by sending me an email so we can discuss your needs.

  • I work with folks who have ADHD or executive dysfunction for any other reason (cPTSD, perimenopause, postpartum, grief, etc) and help them address how creative despair is impacting their ability to commit to their work. I also help writers finish project — we develop concrete, practical, sustainable systems and processes for drafting, revision, and seeking publication, while still maintaining the generative pipeline so new ideas don’t wither on the vine.

    My speciality is working with speculative fiction writers, but I have also worked with poets, memoirists, screenwriters, and am open to working with any artist.

  • Creative Coaching

    I do this work by meeting with writers over zoom, either monthly or twice per month. I develop a unique plan for each writer, based on my own method of assessment, anchored in the writer’s goals for their specific project or their writing career overall. Every meeting, we set sustainable and realistic goals for the month, and check in to see how those goals have progressed since the previous meeting. At every single coaching session, I meet you where you are — regardless of what kind of month you’ve had, even if you haven’t met a single goal — and we adjust the plan as needed to ensure that it’s working for you and you continue to make progress. If needed, I will read up to ten pages of your work prior to each coaching session and give verbal feedback.

    Book Coaching

    Book Coaching encompasses everything in creative coaching, and **also** includes editorial support. This means I will read and comment on up to 8k words of your manuscript, plus additional documents like outlines, character sketches, etc. (up to 10 pages standard format).

    Developmental Editing Add-On

    For current coaching clients, I offer an add-on for developmental edits on a full manuscript. Prices for this add-on vary based on manuscript word count. I do not accept manuscripts from clients I have not coached. This add-on is offered subject to my availability (I love developmental edits but they are time consuming!). If you are a current client, I will send you a quote for a developmental edit on request.

  • Creative Coaching does not include editorial support. Book Coaching does include ongoing editorial feedback on a specific project, in addition to the support of Creative Coaching.

  • - I do not do proofreads

    - I rarely do copy edits, and only for existing clients

    - I only do developmental edits on full manuscripts for existing clients

    - I do not ghostwrite books

  • No. All the sci-fi artwork on my website was created by a real artist, Tithi Luadthong, and was purchased via shutterstock in 2020. If you like it, please consider purchasing a print (LINK). The skeleton and astronaut images on my homepage are photographs taken by @cashmacanaya (LINK) via Unsplash.

  • I do not use AI in my own work, for any part of my creative process. I do not knowingly use any writer’s work to train AI systems, and I do not knowingly cooperate with third parties that do so.

    While I have worked with writers in the past who use AI to support their creative process (for example, using verbal transcription or having text read aloud to them), I do not work with writers who use AI to do the writing itself.

    If you are looking for a coach who will support your use of AI to write fiction for you, you have come to the wrong place.