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You Know How to Write. But Do You Know How to Coach a Writer?
You already know a lot about writing. But knowing how to write and knowing how to help someone else write a book are two very different skills.
If you're an editor, writing teacher, freelancer, or experienced writer, you already have valuable expertise. Discover how to turn it into a book coaching business that helps writers succeed—and pays you for the work you love.
Join Jennie Nash, CEO of Author Accelerator, for the free live webinar:
How to Become a Better Book Coach Without Learning More About Writing
DATE COMING SOON | 8 am PT / 11 am ET
Can't make it live? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording.
The Biggest Mistake Aspiring Book Coaches Make Is Trying to Learn More About Writing.
Maybe you've spent years studying writing. You've read the craft books, taken the workshops, written your own work, or helped other writers improve theirs.
You know how to spot a weak opening, a confusing plot, or a character who isn't working.
But when a writer hands you their pages and asks for help, what do you do?
You might see twenty things that could be better. Do you point out all twenty? Rewrite the sentences? Explain everything you know about story structure?
That's where a lot of smart, talented people get stuck.
They know plenty about writing, but they don't necessarily know how to use that knowledge to help someone else move forward.
And giving a writer everything you know can actually make things worse. They get overwhelmed. They fix the wrong things first. They start doubting their instincts. Sometimes they stop writing altogether.
Great book coaching requires a different kind of expertise.
It's knowing what matters most on the page, what feedback will actually help, what can wait, and how to support the person doing the writing without taking over their book.
It's also knowing how to turn that work into a professional service—with clear boundaries, efficient processes, and fees that make sense for your business.
That's what I want to show you in this free training.
Because you may already know more than enough about writing to become an excellent book coach.
What you need to learn is how to coach.
What Do Great Book Coaches Know That Other People Don't?
Over the last ten years, Author Accelerator has trained and certified nearly 450 book coaches. They've come to us from all kinds of backgrounds: writers, editors, teachers, and professionals from entirely different fields.
And here's what we've learned: The people who become excellent book coaches aren't necessarily the ones who know the most about writing. They're the ones who learn how to use what they know.
They learn how to look at a writer's pages and decide what matters most. How to ask questions that help a writer see something new. How to give feedback that builds confidence instead of undermining it. And how to support the person behind the pages without taking over the book.
They also learn how to work as professionals. How to choose the right clients, establish clear expectations, protect their time, and build a business that's both rewarding and profitable.
These are skills you can learn. And you don't need to publish a bestseller, earn another degree, or spend years studying writing craft to learn them.
In this free webinar, I'll show you why your coaching process matters more than how much you know about writing, why you may be more qualified to coach than you think, and what it takes to turn your expertise into professional work that pays.
Because the goal isn't to become the person who knows everything about writing.
It's to become the person a writer can trust to help them write a better book.
What Does It Really Take to Become a Better Book Coach?
That's what we're going to explore in this free training.
We'll look at:
Why learning more about writing won't make you a better coach.
You might be able to spot twenty things wrong with a manuscript. But which two things should you tell the writer about? Discover why coaching judgment matters more than knowing every rule of craft—and how to give feedback that actually helps writers move forward.
Why you're more qualified to coach than you think.
You don't need to have published a bestseller or mastered every aspect of writing to become a great book coach. We'll explore the skills that really matter, what you may already bring to the table, and what you can learn to become more confident and effective.
How to turn helping writers into professional work that pays.
Being good at helping writers is one thing. Building a sustainable business around that work is another. We'll look at what professional book coaches need to know about choosing clients, defining their services, setting boundaries, working efficiently, and making their expertise profitable.
You'll leave knowing what it takes to become a better book coach, where your existing expertise gives you an advantage, and what you need to learn to build a business doing work you love.
Hi I’m Jennie.
I'm the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator. I'm also the author of the three Blueprint for a Book books, which have sold more than 20,000 copies, and I've coached writers whose books have landed on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
When I started book coaching, I knew how to edit, spot problems in manuscripts, and help writers make their work better. But I was customizing every offer, reading enormous amounts of material, and spending hours preparing. I kept thinking I needed to give writers better feedback.
Eventually I realized I didn't need a better way to edit the pages. I needed a better way to investigate the book. I needed to know what to ask, what to listen for, and how to identify the problem underneath the problem the writer thought they had.
That realization changed the way I coached and eventually became a methodology I've spent more than a decade teaching to other book coaches.
\Along the way, I've helped hundreds of coaches learn how to use their expertise to help writers—and how to turn that work into a business. In this training, I'll share what I've learned about the skills that make a great book coach, why you may already be more qualified than you think, and what it takes to build a sustainable business doing this work.
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10+ YEARS TRAINING BOOK COACHES
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NEARLY 450 CERTIFIED BOOK COACHES
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20,000+ BLUEPRINT BOOKS SOLD
FREE LIVE TRAINING
You Know How to Write. But Do You Know How to Coach a Writer?
You already know a lot about writing. But knowing how to write and knowing how to help someone else write a book are two very different skills.
If you're an editor, writing teacher, freelancer, or experienced writer, you already have valuable expertise. Discover how to turn it into a book coaching business that helps writers succeed—and pays you for the work you love.
Join Jennie Nash, CEO of Author Accelerator, for the free live webinar:
How to Become a Better Book Coach Without Learning More About Writing
DATE TK | TIME TK 8 am PT / 11 am ET
Can't make it live? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording.