Book Coaching
Book coaching pairs you with a dedicated editor who serves as your mentor, accountability partner, and biggest champion throughout your entire writing journey.
Book coaching pairs you with a dedicated editor who serves as your mentor, accountability partner, and biggest champion throughout your entire writing journey.
Book coaching pairs you with a dedicated editor who serves as your mentor, accountability partner, and biggest champion throughout your entire writing journey.
Book coaching is a personalized, long-term partnership between you and a professional editor who guides you through multiple stages of writing your book. Your coach provides ongoing feedback, strategic guidance, and consistent motivation as you develop your manuscript from an initial concept to a polished final draft.
Unlike traditional editing services that work with completed manuscripts, book coaching supports you throughout the actual writing process, offering real-time feedback and course corrections. More individualized than a writing group and more personalized than an online course, book coaching is fully tailored to your project, writing style, and personal goals.
Invisible Ink editors recommend book coaching to authors who fit any of the criteria below:
Step one: Submit your book concept, outline, or early chapters along with your writing goals and timeline preferences.
Step two: Get matched with an Invisible Ink editor whose expertise aligns with your genre and writing style.
Step three: Schedule your kickoff session to establish meeting frequency, discuss communication preferences, and create a customized pricing structure.
Step four: Receive your personalized writing roadmap with milestones, deadlines, and strategic checkpoints.
Step five: Begin regular coaching sessions with ongoing manuscript review, feedback, and guidance as you write.
Step six: Celebrate your completed manuscript and schedule traditional editing services with Invisible Ink.
Your editor will compose your unique evaluation based on what they think is most important to bring to your attention. Typically, authors can expect to see most or all of the following topics discussed:
Great stories are a combination of inspiration and careful planning. Your coach will help you develop a realistic timeline, set achievable milestones, avoid common pitfalls, and create a writing schedule that fits your life.
Instead of writing in isolation, you’ll receive ongoing feedback on characterization, plot development, pacing and more.
Your coach will identify issues early, suggest improvements, and help you maintain consistency throughout your manuscript, thus avoiding major structural problems that might require extensive revision later.
A successful novel fulfills, or deliberately subverts, the expectations of its readers and the conventions of its genre. Your coach will ensure you master your genre while helping you develop your unique voice.
Every writer faces moments of doubt and procrastination. Your coach is your advocate, celebrating your victories and giving you practical advice to help you through the roadblocks.
Beyond helping you write your current book, coaching prepares you for a sustainable writing career. Your coach will share industry insights and guide you toward your long-term publishing goals, whether you want to build an author platform on social media or better understand the landscape of traditional publishing.
How do you like to collaborate? Weekly video calls, regular email feedback, intensive monthly sessions? With your Invisible Ink book coach, anything’s possible so long as it supports your first draft.
