Packages

Design the Underpinnings of Your Writing Career

Are you starting out on your writing journey? Do you want to discover who you are as a writer and build a portfolio of shorter length published work? This can be advisable before diving into developing and pitching a full length book.

Start to strengthen your author credentials, get feedback on craft and technique, and build an author platform by learning how to submit shorter pieces to online publications, magazines, journals, and contests.

6 installments of $200

Sessions include developing your knowledge of your unique audience and brand, strengthening your habits and making achievable, customized goals, instruction on how to research places to submit, strategy when it comes to submitting, brainstorming content to pitch, and finding ways to market and connect with your audience that fit you at your writing stage.

Design Your Piece

Is your book idea a BIG IDEA, one that will offer something fresh and fascinating? Will it hold up under intense scrutiny and use?

Design your book following an Author Accelerator proven process called the Blueprint to stand out and stand up.

4 installments of $450 (Medium Submission Deadlines)

or 8 installments of $250 (Smaller Submission Deadlines)

Digital workbook included.

Design Your Proposal

Nonfiction authors and certain memoir writers need a book proposal to pitch to agents or publishers. It’s a complex publishing document that deserves the utmost attention to detail.

Design your book proposal to offer the best business case for your book with Laura’s thorough eye overlooking its development and polishing its shine with you.

8 installments of $450 (Medium Submission Deadlines)

or 16 installments of $250 (Smaller Submission Deadlines)

Sample template and helping handouts provided.

Design Your Polish and Positioning

Have a manuscript that you need to know the quality of and know how you might go about pitching it?

Book a manuscript evaluation with Laura to assess your work and its pitch potential. The rates below are starting prices and each manuscript evaluation is custom-quoted based on its complexity.

$600+ (Large Submission – 45 pages)

$450+ (Medium Submission – 30 pages)

$250+ (Smaller Submission – 15 pages)

Design Your Pitch

Pitching your book to agents and publishers demands a solid plan and outstanding pitch materials. Work with me to take your BIG IDEA and translate it to an polished pitch package.

Paths to Publication Package – $600

1. Learn about the publishing landscape for your project’s genre or category, discover your best suited path to publication, and map out your next steps to preparing to pitch to agents and publishers.
2. Then learn how and where to research agents and publishers. Includes a tracking spreadsheet template, helpful information on what agents and publishers do, and a set of criteria to help determine what you might like to have in an agent or publisher.
3. After you’ve researched your options, we’ll have pitching strategy meeting to prioritize and plan how, how often, where, and when you want to approach your list of agents and/or publishers.

Synopsis Development Package – $1150

If you’re pitching fiction and certain memoirs this package is for you! This package includes 3 detailed passes at your synopsis and outline work if needed to help solidify the synopsis.

Query Development Package – $450

A query letter is needed for most, if not all, pitches. This package includes query letter work (3 passes) and a publishing strategy/feedback session.

Self-publishing instead of querying agents or publishers? Ask Laura about her self-publishing strategy sessions at your discovery call.