Make meaningful progress on your book & reconnect with what lit you up in the first place
Summer coaching intensives for nonfiction and memoir writers that fit around summer fun
Hello-o-o, summer!
We’re coming into the holidays this coming week, and before you gather with friends and family at celebrations, I want to make sure you have everything you need to tell them about my latest book coaching program.
It’s called The Summer Spark Writing Plan, and I want to help writers reignite the spark that lit up their book project in the first place — and I want it to fit around your summer plans.
It’s a chance to dig down with focus and get work done in only two or four days — so you can go out into summer feeling reconnected to your purpose and enjoy the season guilt-free knowing you made progress on your book.
This summer coaching program is perfect for writers of nonfiction and memoir who:
Have a great book idea but don’t know how to start, or
Started a book with great enthusiasm, but now find themselves stuck
I’m here to offer you resources, to provide editorial feedback, to address mindset challenges or set up accountability, and to guide you to a place where you feel confident and clear in your message. And then you can go off and write.
Or head to the beach. Or go camping. Or have a dacquiri on the back deck.
Because it’s summer.
But the point is, The Summer Spark will ignite meaningful progress.
You’re going to be so proud of yourself.
FAQs
Q: What exactly happens in a summer coaching intensive?
Great question—because there’s no one-size-fits-all answer. These sessions are tailored to the needs of writer. You don’t need a full draft. You don’t need to know your structure. You just need the spark—the desire to move forward with support.
How it works
This is live coaching. Coaching happens in connection, and I meet writers wherever they are. I’ve supported clients across North America, some as far away from me as Arizona and Northern British Columbia. I meet my clients on Zoom so that we can develop a trusting relationship working face to face. Phone coaching is also available if preferred, and local coaching clients in Greater Sudbury can ask about in-person options (Want to be coached at camp? I’ll go to the lake!).
What we work on
Here are just a few ways past writers have used their coaching time:
✨ Clarifying a vague book idea into a real concept
✨ Choosing between multiple directions for a story
✨ Creating a reader journey
✨ Building momentum on a manuscript that’s been stalled
✨ Drafting key anchor sections like the intro or first chapters
✨ Exploring a new voice or hybrid structure
✨ Aligning their book with a business, platform, or speaking goals
✨ Getting early feedback on positioning, title, or pitch language
And what actually happens…
We get grounded in your project • At first, we begin by talking about your aims for your book and your writing craft, exploring what challenges you face, then we develop a plan for your Summer Spark coaching session so that you can get closer to the final page of your manuscript.
We develop a strategy • You’ll move more deeply into your book. I may offer you some exercises to explore an area of your book — your readership, your purpose, your concept or theme, your outline — or work with you to develop your writing technique.
You work on your book • You can use this time to get words on the page and build momentum. I may send you away for an hour to write. Or, if you are brand new to your book idea, I may recommend you work through the exercises in Author Accelerator’s book-planning framework, Blueprint for a Book.
I give you editorial feedback • If you want an editor’s eye on your work, we’ll block off time for my review while you continue to work or go get lunch.
You set goals • Before the end of your final session, you’ll develop a plan for the next 90 days. You’ll choose strategies to maintain momentum on your project and figure out how to stay accountable to this big, beautiful goal you’ve set for yourself as you move back into fall routines.
Your Summer Spark coaching package will give you a way to make meaningful progress on your book, whether you choose the individual or group program.
Included in both options is a follow-up — I’ll be in touch one month after the conclusion of your coaching program to see if your writing plan is working and if it needs to be tweaked for success.
Bonus: I don’t disappear after the summer! Coaching can continue into fall. All my Summer Spark clients get 15% off a fall coaching package, so if you want to continue to work with me later, you can do it with a preferred rate.
These are only a few ways I work with writers. The Summer Spark Writing Plan is based on what writers need most. I you to walk away with clarity, confidence, and a reader-centered plan. You can look forward to writing instead of feeling unsure. You’ll know how to focus your energy when fall routines return.
But for now, you can take the first step and apply for a Summer Spark coaching spot.
Only 7 Summer Spark spots are available. Applications open now, but only until the spots are filled.
Questions? Review the coaching program details over here. If you can’t find your answer, send me a message.
(No questions? Send me a message anyway and tell me what you’re working on.)