Here’s how we do it

1. Platform and Promotion Coaching

• Content Strategy and Development: brainstorm, script, test, and execute social media content strategy to reach and retain audience members who will be interested in your story
• Audience Engagement Strategy: learn to facilitate an ongoing conversation with your audience that leads to a steady stream of applicable content ideas, community-building, and presenting you as an experienced and trusted storyteller
• Email List Growth Strategy: develop and test email list freebies that lead to high sign-up rates, open rates, engaged readers, and promote pre-orders
• Newsletter Content Strategy: develop an ongoing social and newsletter strategy to retain readers and build their excitement for the book launch
• Business Planning for Multiple Streams of Writing-Related Income: expand earning opportunities through strategic monetization of social media audience and newsletter subscribers
• Coaching on Strategic Partnerships: connect with brands, community organizations, podcast show hosts, fellow writers, speaking opportunities, and educators to amplify your story

2. Story Coaching and Comprehensive Editing

• Story Brainstorming and Writing Coaching: learn to draft and organize your manuscript with big picture elements in mind, like structure, style, form, pacing, and character development
• Comprehensive Developmental Edit: receive thoughtful and detailed feedback for each chapter, and an overall editorial assessment of your manuscript
• Thorough Copyedit: ****receive feedback and suggested edits that will provide continuity in your story and fine-tune the language and sentence-level errors, while protecting and honing the author’s voice and style.
• Proofread: receive an in-depth review of your manuscript for grammatical errors, like spelling mistakes, misused homophones, inconsistent punctuation, missing words or commas, tense shifts, inconsistent typeface, and awkwardly spaced lines within the text.

3. Cover Design and Interior Formatting

• Cover Concept Brainstorming Session: develop ideas for your cover that you love and represent your story
• Complete Cover Design: collaborate on three rounds of cover concept revisions
• Your Dream Book Cover: receive the final cover for your ebook and paperback in high-resolution files for uploading to distribution platforms of your choice
• Interior Design: receive beautifully formatted interior files that can be used for print publishing with Amazon and IngramSpark; and ebook publishing with Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, and Google Play

4. Publishing Services

• Coaching and guidance in establishing your own self-publishing Imprint so you can keep all your royalties
• Advice on metadata selection, such as genre categories, BISAC codes, and keywords for max visibility on online retailers
• How-To videos to demonstrate uploading your print and ebook files to Amazon and IngramSpark
• Guidance on library distribution capabilities so that your title will be available for libraries worldwide to order both print and ebook copies to add to their systems
• Coaching on how to access your online daily and weekly sales reports; direct to consumer sales options; and bulk ordering capabilities

5. Book Launch Strategy Coaching

• Coaching on effective book launch strategies, including how to land in-person events, podcast interviews, and make book club connections
• Guidance on how to get your book into libraries and bookstores
• Advice on creating an Advanced Reader Team (ARC Team), Launch Team, and Street Team Assistance
• Coaching on how to plan a successful IG/FB Live Launch Event