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Writing doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Most writers are working around jobs, families, and other responsibilities competing for their time. These courses and services are built for that reality. Browse the programs and courses below to find the right next step for your book.
Signature Programs
Discover my signature programs for writers who are ready to take their craft and productivity to the next level.
Book Editing Blueprint helps you write and revise with a plan, so your draft’s in better shape and your editing budget goes further.
The Organized Author focuses on the practical side of writing, helping you develop efficient systems to manage your time, organize your projects, and balance writing with the demands of everyday life.
Both courses are packed with actionable advice and step-by-step guidance to help you on your writing journey.
Writing Courses That Improve Craft & Cut Editing Costs
Strengthen your craft and self-edit with a plan. These self-paced writing courses give you simple steps and guidance so you can create a book you’re proud of.
Time Management, Creativity, and Inspiration for Writers
Struggling to write with a busy life? Learn systems to stay productive, motivated, and creative, even on your busiest days.
Developmental Editing Services for Authors
Ready for professional input? My 1:1 developmental editing services give authors detailed notes and editing support you can rely on.

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Signature Programs
Book Editing Blueprint: A Step-By-Step Plan to Making Your Novels Publishable - ($497)
If your manuscript feels rough and you’re unsure what to work on next, Book Editing Blueprint offers a framework to follow.
This self-paced writing course shows you how to draft and revise in a logical sequence, with each round building on the last.
Writers choose either the Drafting or Editing Track and move through 10 modules covering structure, pacing, character arcs, dialogue, line-level revision, and final polish.
You’ll apply each step to your manuscript using a guided workbook, a printable 26-page editing checklist, and a customizable editing tracker.
Get lifetime access to the complete Book Editing Blueprint system and use it on every draft you write.
The Organized Author: Systems for Success ($247)
When drafts are scattered, your files are a mess, and everyday responsibilities keep interrupting your writing time, it’s hard to make steady progress—no matter how much you care about your work.
The Organized Author: Systems for Success is a self-paced course for busy authors who want a writing life that fits into real life. Inside, you’ll learn how to organize your projects, digital files, writing time, and marketing tasks so nothing important slips through the cracks.
With short lessons, demo videos, a workbook, and a library of templates and trackers, you’ll set up routines that help you sit down to write, follow through on promotion, keep projects moving, and reconnect with your creative energy.
Build systems that help you finish what you start—enroll in The Organized Author today.
Writing and Editing Quick Wins
Rewrite the Fight: Turn Bland Arguments into Unforgettable Character Conflict ($97)
Rewrite the Fight shows you how to write argument scenes that feel sharp, believable, and charged with consequence.
This course breaks down how conflict works across different relationships, including family blowups, romantic standoffs, workplace power struggles, and friendships under strain.
You’ll learn what triggers these fights, how personality influences each reaction, and what each character risks losing. Then you’ll focus on craft, strengthening argument and physical fight scenes through dialogue, body language, internal thought, pacing, and word choice.
You’ll also study eight student scenes with detailed editorial feedback and line edits.
Make your fight scenes hit where it counts.
Book Blurbs Made Simple: How to Write Back Cover Copy That Stands Out and Hooks Readers ($9)
Finally finish your blurb.
Your book blurb is often the first thing readers see—and one of the hardest pieces of writing to nail down. Condensing an entire book into a few paragraphs often feels harder than writing the book itself.
Book Blurbs Made Simple walks you through writing a book description step by step. You’ll learn what to highlight, what to cut, and how to present your story in a way that captures reader interest.
The course works for both fiction and nonfiction, whether you’re self-publishing or querying agents.
With brief video lessons, printable roadmaps, examples, and a guided workbook, you’ll have a process you can use again and again.
Enroll for $9 and get your blurb written.
Inside Voices: Why Characters Should Talk to Themselves and How to Do It Right ($47)
Inside Voices teaches you how to write internal dialogue that feels natural, develops your narrator, and fits the flow of the scene.
You’ll learn how to balance thoughts with action, choose between direct and indirect styles, and fix common problems that jolt readers out of the moment.
Includes six short video lessons, downloadable slides, cheat sheets, a written Q&A, and two bonus journals to gain more insight into your characters.
Give your characters an inner voice that feels real—and worth reading.
Perfect Your Plot: Common Story Development Mistakes and How to Overcome Them ($47)
If your story feels shaky, or you’re worried your scenes aren’t doing their job, this quick, practical resource will help you repair what’s not working. Perfect Your Plot shows you how to spot and solve the story-level issues most writers miss before you spend hundreds on edits or hit the publish button.
You’ll get short, focused lessons and examples pulled straight from real editorial letters so you can see what weak structure looks like and how to make it stronger. A guided worksheet and printable cheat sheet will help you apply what you’ve learned to your own draft, right away.
Start Perfect Your Plot today, and catch the cracks in the foundation before your readers do.
First Pages Quick Fix Clinic: Revising for Powerful Opening Pages ($47)
Why first pages fail—and how to fix them.
Your opening pages do more than introduce a story. They signal to readers, agents, and publishers whether your book is worth their time.
If you’ve revised your first chapter again and again and it still feels off, First Pages Quick Fix Clinic helps you see what’s not working.
This self-paced course breaks down what professionals look for in strong opening pages, using nine sets of real first pages annotated with in-line commentary and revision notes.
You’ll learn to spot common opening problems and apply the same techniques to your own pages.
Enroll in the First Pages Quick Fix Clinic and see what your opening pages are missing.
Energize Your Writing Toolkit: Cheat Sheets for Character Emotions ($67)
The Energize Your Writing Toolkit gives you over 4,000 ready-to-use emotional cues—organized into printable cheat sheets across 21 categories—so you can write fresher, more believable reactions without slowing down your process.
You’ll also get a workbook to spot your overused habits, a guide for weaving body language into scenes, and bonus tools to add variety and depth. Print it, store it, and pull it out whenever a scene falls flat or you’re stuck mid-sentence.
Grab your copy today and make your next scene more powerful, expressive, and true to your characters.
The Looks and Gazes Quickstart Guide (Free)
Feel like your characters are always looking, glancing, or gazing?
It’s one of the most common habits in fiction, and it can make your scenes feel flat or repetitive. The Looks and Gazes Quickstart Guide is a free cheat sheet with 100+ fresh ways to upgrade your characters’ expressions and reactions. Drawn straight from The Energize Your Writing Toolkit, it’s a quick win you can use right away.
Whether you’re writing a new scene or revising a draft, this guide helps you spot overused patterns and fix them fast. One small fix. One big difference.
Line Editing Made Simple: 5 Days to More Polished Pages (Free)
Take Control of Your Edits Masterclass (Free)
In this free training, you’ll learn the three most common mistakes that drain writers’ time, money, and motivation. Whether you’re writing your first draft or engrossed in edits, this 20-minute class will help you figure out what your manuscript really needs—and what it doesn’t.
Tips for Naming Characters Guide (Free)
Grab the Tips for Naming Characters Guide for advice and resources to find the perfect names for your characters. Make naming easier beginning today!
Shortcuts for Writers: Editing Made Simple Facebook Group (Free)
Shortcuts for Writers Blog Posts & Guest Guidelines (Free)
Writer’s Focus and Flow Quick Wins
The Writer’s Biz Crew—Your Plug-and-Play Squad of Smart Bots for Running Your Author Business ($147)
Publishing a book means more than writing it, but most authors are left to manage the business side on their own.
The Writer’s Biz Crew combines a practical ChatGPT course with AI brainstorming partners built for authors.
Together, they guide you through planning your next 90 days, outlining a realistic launch, drafting reader emails, brainstorming social content, crafting professional pitches, building a street team, and more.
Get step-by-step support with the chores sitting on your to-do list, so you can protect your time and energy for writing.
The Writer's Digital Desktop Refresh and Organize Kit ($9)
If your computer desktop feels cluttered and distracting, getting started can take longer than it should. When files are hard to locate and icons pile up, it’s easy to fall behind before you’ve written a single word.
The Writer’s Digital Desktop Refresh and Organize Kit offers a practical way to clean up your digital workspace. In under an hour, you’ll organize writing projects, marketing materials, and admin files into simple, labeled sections, so you can sit down at your computer and start working instead of hunting things down.
Clear the clutter and simplify your digital workspace.
The Writer's Muse Journal: Oracle Card Spreads for Creative Inspiration ($9)
Sometimes your story needs a nudge, not another outline.
The Writer’s Muse Journal is a downloadable brainstorming companion for writers who feel stuck, uninspired, or too close to their work to see new possibilities.
This journal gives you additional spreads to use alongside the Oracle Cards for Writers framework.
Card spreads like The Antagonist Unmasked, Relationship Puzzle Pieces, Fork in the Road, Sensational Settings, Creative Juices Jumpstart, and From Flaws to Fortitude invite you to explore character motivation, plot turns, themes, and story choices—often leading to insights you wouldn’t have considered on your own.
Grab The Writer’s Muse Journal and see where your story wants to go next.
Vision Board Toolkit for Writers: Empower Your Future ($37)
Stay connected to your writing goals through drafts, deadlines, and distractions.
The Vision Board Toolkit for Writers guides you step by step through creating a physical or digital vision board that helps you stay focused on what you’re working toward.
Vision boards aren’t just decorative. In a 2016 TD Bank survey, three-quarters of small business owners who used one said their business ended up where they envisioned it, and 82% reported achieving more than half their goals.
Inside the toolkit, you’ll find short lessons plus affirmation cards, inspirational quotes, genre-specific dream reviews, images, fill-in-the-blank graphics, and customizable templates, all designed specifically for writers.
Create your vision board and keep your goals front and center.
Oracle Cards for Writers: Unlock Your Story Magic and Overcome Blocks to Success ($47)
When a story problem won’t budge, try a different way of looking at it.
Oracle Cards for Writers is a self-paced course that teaches writers how to use card-based spreads as a structured tool for exploring story questions.
Across nine illustrated lessons, you’ll work with imagery and symbolism to examine character motivation, emotional turning points, and plot direction.
The cards act as a neutral lens, helping you step back from the draft and consider new possibilities. Each lesson shows how to apply visual cues to assess scene options, weigh character decisions, and test alternate paths your story could take.
Enroll for $47 and add a thoughtful new perspective to your writing process.
NLP for Fiction Writers: Enhance Your Skills and Creative Flow ($49)
Awakening the Creative Muse: A Writer's Guide to Intuition (Free)
You don’t need to push harder. You need to reconnect.
If your intuition feels buried under deadlines and distractions, this free guide will help you find your way back. Awakening the Creative Muse shares 8 practical tips to clear the mental clutter and reconnect with the part of you that already knows what to write. Whether you’re stuck in revisions or craving more joy in your process, this guide will help you slow down, tune in, and tap into the creative insight that’s been there all along.
Download your free copy and start writing from a place of flow—not force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Which writing course should I start with?
A. Start with what feels most useful for you right now. If you want a complete, step-by-step system for drafting and revising your manuscript, Book Editing Blueprint is a great place to begin.
If you’d rather focus on one specific area, or want a smaller starting point, you can choose a targeted course like Perfect Your Plot, First Pages Quick Fix Clinic, Inside Voices, the Energize Your Writing Toolkit, Rewrite the Fight, or Book Blurbs Made Simple. You can always build from there over time.
Q. What if I’m not sure what my biggest writing problem is?
A. That’s completely normal. If your draft feels messy or overwhelming, Book Editing Blueprint can help you bring structure to the writing and revision process.
If you’re not ready for a full system, starting with a smaller course can help you identify what needs the most attention while making progress right away. Two of the biggest problems in fiction manuscripts are weak body language and internal dialogue, so the Energize Your Writing Toolkit and Inside Voices are great starting points. By improving one element at a time, you’ll start to see what’s working in your draft and what to focus on next.
Q. Do I need to finish my draft before taking a course?
A. No. You can start at any stage. These courses are helpful whether you’re drafting or revising.
Q. What’s the difference between the signature programs and the smaller courses?
A. The signature programs, Book Editing Blueprint and The Organized Author, provide complete systems to support your writing process. Book Editing Blueprint focuses on drafting and revising your manuscript step by step, while The Organized Author helps you manage your time, projects, and writing workflow so you can stay consistent and make progress.
The smaller courses focus on specific challenges—like plot, body language, conflict, internal dialogue, opening pages, or blurbs—so you can improve one area at a time. You can take them on their own or combine them with a larger program.
Q. Can I start with a smaller course instead of a signature program?
A. Absolutely. Many writers begin with a smaller course to solve a specific problem or to get a feel for my teaching style. You can always add more courses later if you decide you want a more comprehensive system.
Q. How can I be more productive and consistent with my writing?
A. Simple systems make it easier to stay consistent. The Organized Author helps you manage your time, projects, and routines so writing fits into your life.
If your computer desktop feels cluttered or distracting, The Writer’s Digital Desktop Refresh and Organize Kit can help you reset quickly and get back to writing.
Q. How do I handle the business side of being an author?
A. Writing is only part of the process. The Writer’s Biz Crew helps you plan, organize, and follow through on the business side of authorship, like book launches, street teams, newsletters, social media posts, outreach, and goal-setting, so you can keep moving forward without feeling overwhelmed.
Q. What if I feel stuck or need help coming up with new ideas?
A.If you’re feeling stuck, a different approach can help you see your story more clearly. Oracle Cards for Writers offers a creative way to explore ideas and uncover new possibilities, while the Vision Board Toolkit for Writers helps you stay connected to your goals and inspired as you write.
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