What is a Developmental Book Coach?
Developmental Book Coaching Services Include collaborating with writers to:
Create the Foundation for their Novel or Memoir: Comp Titles, Audience Analysis, Structure, Narrative Arc, Character Arc, and Transformational Journey
Create the Foundation for a Nonfiction Book for the General Reader: Comp Titles, Audience Analysis, Structure, and Annotated Table of Contents
Revise or Polish a Partial or Complete Manuscript
Write their Book Proposal
Write Query Letters and Pitch Agents
Creating the Foundation for a Book
There is an idea that has been haunting you for a long time. It’s an idea that is meaningful enough, interesting enough, or entertaining enough to warrant a book. You want to write that book, but you don’t know where to begin.
A developmental book coach is someone who meets with you weekly, biweekly or once a month. The book coach helps you:
Create the Foundation for their Novel or Memoir: Comp Titles, Audience Analysis, Structure, Narrative Arc, Character Arc, and Transformational Journey
Create the Foundation for a Nonfiction Book for the General Reader: Comp Titles, Audience Analysis, Structure, and Annotated Table of Contents
Revise or Polish a Partial or Complete Manuscript
Write their Book Proposal
Write Query Letters and Pitch Agents
Creating the Foundation for a Book
There is an idea that has been haunting you for a long time. It’s an idea that is meaningful enough, interesting enough, or entertaining enough to warrant a book. You want to write that book, but you don’t know where to begin.
A developmental book coach is someone who meets with you weekly, biweekly or once a month. The book coach helps you:
- Clarify your book idea, so you know the point of your book and why readers browsing in bookstores will want to purchase your book
- Find the structure of a nonfiction book or the shape of a story for a novel
- Conceptualize the narrative arc and the emotional arc of your character(s) so there is a driving cause and effect trajectory from the beginning to the end of your novel or memoir that keeps readers engaged
- Create a nonfiction book with an overarching structure, with chapters that link ideas together to clearly articulate main ideas and the major point of the book, and that guides readers on a transformational journey of personal growth, knowledge, or the acquisition of important skills.
- Get started writing the book that's been haunting you for years.
Manuscript Evaluation
But maybe, you’ve moved from having an idea to actually writing your book. Unfortunately, you’re stuck. You can’t go any further. Or maybe, you’ve completed your book, but it is far from what you dreamed it would be. You have no idea how to move forward.
A developmental book coach is someone who reads your partial or complete manuscript, to identify where it’s working, where it’s not working and, most importantly, why. Detailed comments on each page in combination with an editorial summary move you forward and guide your revision efforts to create the book you had hoped to write.
But maybe, you’ve moved from having an idea to actually writing your book. Unfortunately, you’re stuck. You can’t go any further. Or maybe, you’ve completed your book, but it is far from what you dreamed it would be. You have no idea how to move forward.
A developmental book coach is someone who reads your partial or complete manuscript, to identify where it’s working, where it’s not working and, most importantly, why. Detailed comments on each page in combination with an editorial summary move you forward and guide your revision efforts to create the book you had hoped to write.
Writing Your Book Proposal--Pitching Agents
When you write those last two words, “The End” it’s time to celebrate. It’s also time to understand how you’ll get your book into the hands of readers.
A developmental book coach can help you decide whether to self-publish, publish with a hybrid publisher, or publish with one of the Big Five traditional publishers.
A developmental book coach can help you write a book proposal as well as locate and pitch a literary agent who understands your book and knows how to place it with a publisher.
When you write those last two words, “The End” it’s time to celebrate. It’s also time to understand how you’ll get your book into the hands of readers.
A developmental book coach can help you decide whether to self-publish, publish with a hybrid publisher, or publish with one of the Big Five traditional publishers.
A developmental book coach can help you write a book proposal as well as locate and pitch a literary agent who understands your book and knows how to place it with a publisher.
What is a developmental book coach? A developmental book coach is an avid reader, a project manager, a developmental editor, a cheerleader, a guide, a support, a knowledgeable professional in all things related to getting a book started, finished, and into the hands of readers.
I would like to talk with you about your Book Project and answer all your questions.
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I would like to talk with you about your Book Project and answer all your questions.
Learn more about coaching life stories, memoir, nonfiction, and fiction by clicking on the buttons below.
