Services

When you decide to work with a professional writer, you’re not just paying for a written manuscript. You’re outsourcing labor and services, entering into a collaborative partnership, and paying for your ghostwriter’s expertise. High-quality writing costs money, but it is worth every penny. You can find dozens, even hundreds of writers on sites like Fiverr and Upwork who will write a whole manuscript for $100. But, as the adage goes, you get what you pay for.

Hiring a professional, experienced writer like me means you’re paying for expertise, quality, personalization, collaboration, creative control, and the service and attention your book deserves.

Why You Should Have a Book
A book is a specialized marketing tool that gives you credibility as a voice of authority in your field 
Having a book helps you:
Land speaking engagements
Enhance your visibility in an industry
Generate business leads and opportunities
Diversify your revenue
Build your legacy

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Book Development

So, you’re interested in writing a book, but you’re not sure if you have a book in you. You don’t want to start writing and end up with a 100-page pamphlet, but you don’t know where to start organizing your thoughts and ideas or how to transform them into a book plan. Brainstorming with a book developer can help you streamline your ideas, build a foundation, and get enough material together to make your book a reality.

Book Development Includes:

  • Weekly brainstorm sessions
  • organizing ideas into content
  • Preliminary outlining
  • Hook, theme, and brand development

Ghostwriting

Writing a high-quality book takes time, commitment, and collaboration. It starts with defining the hook, theme, and message you want your audience to take away from reading your book and ends with a fully written, top-notch manuscript.

Ghostwriting Includes:

  • Hook development
  • Book plan and chapter outline
  • Author interviews
  • Written and reviewed manuscript

Book Coaching

Putting words on paper, virtually speaking, doesn’t necessarily make it a book. Professional writing consulting guides you through your book writing journey from start to finish, whether you have a manuscript ready for review or want someone to keep you on track while you write your book.

Book Coaching Includes:

  • Collaborative book design
  • Author accountability
  • Book development guidance
  • Manuscript review
  • Story and theme development
  • Chapter structure development

Developmental Editing

You’ve refined your hook, theme, message, and chapters, story, and written your manuscript. Now what? The first set of “third-party” eyes on your manuscript should be a developmental or content editor who will check for flow, consistency, storytelling quality, and overall content. Whether you have a nonfiction or fiction book, developmental editing is the first step toward finalizing your manuscript.

Developmental Editing Includes:

  • Thorough read-through of the manuscript
  • Focus on overall content, accuracy, storytelling, consistency, and relevancy
  • An analysis of narrative flow, theme, and presentation of the content
  • Comments throughout the manuscript to direct attention to specific areas of note
  • A full write up of the editor’s analysis of the manuscript from a bird’s eye view, as well as narrowed focus on areas for potential improvement
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Looking at the Returns
The return on investment from writing a book comes from the opportunities it creates, not the book sales.
 Courses and Workshops
Designing workshops and courses from your book content.

Workshops earn $500 to $1000 per ticket, Courses earn $150 to $3,000 per seat depending on size and length of course.

Pre-recorded courses have an earning potential of hundreds of thousands of dollars in passive income annually. 
 Speaking Engagements
First time authors make between $5,000 - $10,000 per speaking engagement

One to Two speaking engagements a month can equal full ROI in as little as 6 months.

One speaking engagement a month and One new customer/client per event can equal full ROI in 6 months or less (based on product/service cost).
 Consulting Opportunities
Consulting is a natural byproduct of writing a book. People want your expertise and guidance. 

For premium consulting, you can make $500 per hour or $50,000 per consulting package

One annual client can equal full ROI. Two or more annual clients is Hundreds of Thousands of dollars in additional revenue.

For more on book ROI, and making money with your business book

Book a Free 30-minute Consultation to tell me more about your project and to see if we’d be a good fit to work together.