Services

I provide coaching, mentoring and consulting services to both new and established writers. As a coach, I help writers get started writing, overcome any chronic or sudden writers blocks, and continue writing whether it is simply “creative journal” writing or writing toward one or more finished writing products (books, screenplays, short stories, articles, poetry). My first goal is to help the writer choose the kind of writing and project—by genre, craft and subject matter—truest to them since such writing will inevitably be the best writing and, as it happens, the most publishable. As coach and consultant, I want to see every writer I work with launched as quickly as possible in the right direction.

Evaluation of a complete book manuscript or screenplay, whatever stage or draft, usually takes 3-4 hours; partial book manuscript, 2-3 hours. An evaluation provides a long email or phone/Zoom critique of the work with a follow-up email exchange to clarify the craft matters needing attending to and guidance on how to attend to those matters. Most writer’s blocks, no matter how persistent or immobilizing they have been for a writer, usually takes 1-4 hours to resolve. Coaching on an ongoing basis—by email, phone, Zoom or face-to-face—can be effective in as little as 2-3 hours per month; and my clients range from those who consult with me for an initial 2-6 hours and then go off to pursue their writing and writing projects on their own, through clients who retain me for daily or weekly coaching, to writers who check back in every year or five or ten. Every writer is different—by goals, experience, life responsibilities, and budget.

Work is billed by informal e-invoice after work is completed, and installments are acceptable. I work within a writer’s budget whatever its size.

Hourly rates:

New Writer (if you’re not sure, we’ll decide it together): $110
Established Writer (your career is in place but you need help): $175