FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Everything You Need to Know
WHAT EVEN IS BOOK COACHING?
Book coaching is one-on-one support to help you write your book. You can choose from a weekly, fortnightly or monthly call with your coach. The first few sessions are dedicated to working through the Book Building Questions to create a comprehensive plan for your book, and the following sessions are committed to Book Writing, where we work through the book chapter by chapter. The format is non-negotiable, even if you think you're ready to jump straight into Book Writing - you'd be surprised by what you can learn about your book from the Book Building Questions, and it's often not the book you expected it to be.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STRUCTURAL AND COPY EDITING?
A structural edit is a big-picture analysis of an already written first draft. It entails a comprehensive structural report which homes in on all your book's biggest structural issues (chapter placement, logical flow, story arc, etc) and offers recommendations on how to fix them yourself. A copy edit occurs after one or more rounds of structural editing are completed, and it finesses the book to get it ready for publication - think paragraph structure, spelling and grammar, as well as heading hierarchy work.
DO I NEED ALL THREE OF YOUR SERVICES?
No, you don't! But usually you need at least two of them. If you start with book coaching, the structural work is incorporated along the way, meaning you don't have to revisit it later - you can go straight through to copy edit. If you've already written a first draft and don't need coaching, it's recommended you do a structural edit, followed by a copy edit.
HAVE YOU WRITTEN A BOOK?
Although I've helped bring many books to life, I haven't written my own. I've never thought of myself as a creator of words but as an editor of them. My superpower is imparting logic, structure and meaning onto someone else's brilliant yet unformed idea, and my obsession is watching those ideas come to life. Call me the Dr Frankenstein of the literary world.