To write a book is an adventure. It’s a calling, taking you out of the safety of your daily life. Normal people don’t do this. It is a quest. You travel past the stones marking your comfort zone. You head into the wild, out to the great unknown. The journey asks more of you than you expected. But you will see it through. You will return to your life triumphant, and with a completed manuscript.

People read because they want a great story told well. Difficulty, obstacles, persistence, determination, struggle, triumph. That’s as true for memoir and self-help guides as it is for fiction. The principles of story are true for all books to frame your story in a way that hooks the reader. Narrative is key.

The journey doesn’t have to be made alone. Virgil guided Dante through the depths of hell. Frodo had Gandalf. Luke had Obi-Wan.

Bringing those principles to your story is my role as a ghostwriter and story coach. It’s a collaboration to best tell your story – and we structure the collaboration in a way that best suits you.

Writing coach to help you through the process and bring in outside ideas. This is usually structured with a weekly or monthly Zoom call where we workshop your manuscript. I bring ideas and structural concepts from other books and other writing strategies to help your progress.

Developmental Editor. This can be done before you write the manuscript or after a completed draft. I bring knowledge on structure and storytelling to support your ideas. We work through your goals for the novel, non-fiction manuscript, or screenplay, and the material you have. Then we work through ways to best make your story shine.

Ghostwriter. I handle the writing and development of your manuscript. Through weekly or monthly meetings we cover the material and interviews – in the situations where your book needs it – and I write the draft. We work through revisions until you’re holding your finished manuscript.