Do you have a book you want to write?
Finding it tough going on your own?
As a two-time New York Times bestselling writer
—as well as an editor of other bestsellers and a writing coach to bestselling writers—
I can help you unearth and share your story and/or your message.
Whether I work with you as a book consultant, writing coach, editor, or writer,
or through my Boost Your Business with a Book e-course,
together we’ll make your content sound like you–only better.
It all starts with a chat and/or some sloppy copy.
Call me for a free 20-minute chemistry and project consultation and I’ll explain.
Or if you’re looking for a simple self-publishing solution,
check out Incubation Press, our sister site.
OSU-Cascade’s New Low-Residency Creative Writing MFA Program
After a long gestation period and guidance from people like the wonderful and wonderfully talented writer Ellie Waterston, OSU-Cascade's new Low-Residency Creative Writing MFA Program is now a go. You can find information about the program online at...
A Writer’s Worst Enemy
The forensic artist below draws individuals based on their descriptions of themselves, and then again based on the description that someone they've just met provides them. As you'll see, most of us are far more beautiful in real life than how we perceive ourselves....
Brainstorming
As a literature major at the University of California, Santa Cruz I would regularly meet with other students to discuss themes in the books we had been assigned to read. We’d get together in small study groups and explore what the author was trying to say along with...
Writing Coach Client Delivers with her First Book
If you've ever had to deal with back pain or a teenager, you know how deeply trying either can be. My writing coach client Wendy Coblentz had to contend with both simultaneously. Can you blame her for getting desperate as her back pain continued to...
Write a Bestseller
A lot of my writing coach clients want to write a bestseller. Who doesn't? When I ghostwrote The Legacy of Luna, a memoir about Julia "Butterfly" Hill's two-plus year tree-sit in an ancient redwood to keep it from being chopped down, I had no idea that I would write a...























