Work with Me
Because you don’t have two years and 300+ pages to waste.
Your fans (and family) rave over your recipes and stories. Any time you show up at a party, people want to know what you brought and what you’re working on next.
Funny that you ask. I’m working on a book now.
Then you’re flooded with questions mainly about how you even write a book, and all you can think is: I don’t freaking know.
You ache when you see any MFK Fisher book, Lisa Donovan’s Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger or Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Fat because you’re ready for your work to be a favored staple on bookshelves for years to come too.
You’re not interested in throwing together a story to say you’ve written a book. This story defines the work you’ve done until now. You may not know the next steps or who to go to, but you’ll sure as heck find out.
Because you:
Aren’t one for cookie cutter anything. Life is better lived outside of the box and other people’s expectations.
Manage enough in your life and career. You are happy to free up your own mental space to have someone else manage your book writing.
Will serve your story the best you can, even if it means throwing out a whole heap of pages.
Crave genuine connection with your audience and would rather have a deep conversation over a cup of coffee than surface relationships.
Want to be accountable to someone else, because you’d never show up late to set when people are waiting on you. Digging and making your own deadlines for that saved folder labeled “Book” is a different story.
Believe you have a message worth sharing, but get overwhelmed trying to put the pieces together.
Are a rockstar in your career, but feel like time and second-guessing may be your greatest enemies when it come to writing your dream book.
Want clarity on what’s working and what’s not because you’ve been sitting on this “perfect” idea long enough.
Know how to tell stories, but want to collaborate with someone who’s cool with that pastry flour in your messy bun and your wild new chapter idea.
Have used your creative talents for others, and now, it’s time for the light to shine on you.
You need a book coach. And yes, it’s a real thing.
No one teaches you how to write a book. It can feel too big and daunting to piece it all together. Plus, why should you have to figure it out on your own, when you can start the process with a partner and shave pages and time off of the process?
Julia Child and Edna Lewis had Judith Jones. And you also deserve an all-in developmental editor, project manager and creative supporter who can take some of the weight off of the process.
Even when you have a book deal, your publishing team won’t constantly be around when panic sets in and you don’t know what to write next.
My job isn’t to change the book you sold or tell you what to see. It’s to help you see what you cannot — to coach you through the book writing process, to point out the missing places of your work — where the gold is — and to connect you to your best story.
What does “best” mean? Best is:
When your story aligns with who you are when no one is looking; the creative writer you’ve hidden for years
Knowing your book is only meant to be on certain bookshelves, and you like it that way
Not trying to sound like Ruth Reichl (even though you love her), but owning your rhythm, cadence and point of view even if people don’t like it
Finding the story that grabs readers from the get — like a bottle of Chandon poppin’ open on a 68 degree day in Yountville