Story strategy for ambitious writers
Your story isn't too big.
It's missing its throughline.
Book coaching for creative women writing cinematic speculative fiction in the margins of a full life. Fantasy, dystopian, science fiction, and the blends that don't fit one box.
Find the Throughline. Write Forward.
You spend all day building ideas for everyone else. The strategy deck. The social campaign due Friday. The brand video that somehow has you wearing every hat, editor included. And the whole time, there's a novel in the back of your head you never quite get to.
I know that book. It's big and cinematic, probably fantasy or dystopian or a blend you can't put in one box (maybe The Hunger Games meets Station Eleven, with a time-bending twist), and you've been carrying it for years. You've worldbuilt. You've re-outlined. You've started chapter one more times than you want to admit. The ideas were never the problem. What's missing is the throughline, the connective tissue that holds the whole story together. Being your thought partner while you find it is what I love to do.
Choose the path that meets you where you are
Every story is unique. I'll show you the key behind yours.
The Workbook
From Tangled to Throughline. Do the first piece of the work yourself.
$19
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The Throughline Session
I review your workbook and we name the point of your book together.
$249, credited toward the Boot Camp
The Boot Camp
Find Your Throughline Boot Camp. Three months from tangled idea to a draft-ready blueprint.
Founding rate $450/month
Already drafting? 1:1 coaching is where I read every page.
The signature offer
Find Your Throughline Boot Camp
A small-group intensive for six writers. Over three months we walk your big, tangled speculative story through Author Accelerator's Blueprint for a Book method until you hold a complete, draft-ready blueprint for your novel. You'll know what your story is about, what to write next, and why you're the one to write it. You'll walk in with a tangle of ideas, and walk out ready to write the book.
Meet your coach
I'm on the path too.
I'm Karen, a book coach for speculative fiction writers, and I'm writing my own novel in the same stolen hours you are. I'm Author Accelerator certified and trained in the Blueprint for a Book method, my background is in film and storytelling, and I work almost entirely in speculative fiction. That last part matters: it means a coach who actually reads and loves what you write.
Certified Book Coach
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Thoughtful essays, practical tools, and behind-the-scenes notes to help you write the story only you can. Give it a few issues before you decide anything.