THE STORY CATALYST
GROUP COACHING
TOGETHER, WE ARE MIGHTY
Monthly group coaching
INSIDE TRACK $27/month for clients
ESSENTIAL $47/month for non-clients
HOW POWERFUL THIS IS
Do you need a monthly literary booster shot? Are you working on a writing project — or more than few — and looking for just the right place to dive in?
Or have you been working alone all this time? You know your writing could really sing—and you know you’d get it done, if you only had the perfect coach and the perfect group.
For the first time, I’m offering monthly group coaching.
You’re ready to commit to your book project, but you want the community with built-in accountability.
Story Catalyst Group Coaching is ideal for you if you’ve been taking writing classes but you aren’t ready for the deep dive of one-on-one coaching.
Or, you’re in one-on-one coaching, but you want the community, too. You’d love to have a monthly check-in to celebrate your wins and shore up your skills.
Sometimes we advance the most when we combine a master teacher and a supportive community. Sometimes we benefit from all the different styles of success.
If you’re currently under contract with me for one-on-one coaching, this monthly call is $47/month, or $141 for a three-month bundle, $470 for a 12-month bundle (which gives you two months free). After our service package is complete, I can offer you a continuing discount.
Once a client, you are forever a friend!
If you’re just wanting to get to know me and find other writers like you, this is for you.
WHAT YOU CAN SHARE ON THE MONTHLY GROUP COACHING CALL
> Your elevator pitch for your book. You can’t hone this too much. The smoother your pitch, the better your vision, the better your path to publishing.
> Your monthly wins, whether that’s page count or creative insights and breakthroughs about your work.
> What’s become clearer to you about your project — the scene or chapter you will write next.
> Your newest revelations about your creative process. I say that a writer’s greatest superpower is mastering the knowledge of your own personal creative process — your unique way of getting to where you want to go.
> Your insights about what resources helped you the most and questions about resources you need now
WHAT YOU CAN ASK ON THE MONTHLY GROUP COACHING CALL
> How to outline, and how to use the living, breathing outline you have
> What you need to promise at the beginning of your book
> How to write an ending
> How to free-write
> How to create the space for inspiration so you never have writer’s block — EVER!
> How to write dialogue, description or teaching stories
> The difference between a teaching memoir and a narrative memoir
> Where to get published
> How and where to get companion pieces published
> How to decide between traditional, hybrid or self-publishing
> Unexpected places to look for publishing opportunities
> How to build your platform as an author so agents and publishers will flock to you
> How to use social media in a joyful way to engage your future and current readers
> How the book business even works. What are advances, and what are royalties?
> The 10 ways to make money with a book. What are they?
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Here’s a calendar of the next meetings, from 2025 and into 2026.
All sessions are recorded, but as you know, you get the most out sessions when you show up live and ask questions.
You’ll be invited to the free Story Catalyst writing community on Mighty Networks, and you’ll receive monthly reminders of our zoom calls there, as well as in your email inbox.
On the Mighty Networks community, you’ll get to talk with other writers, and you can participate in Accountability Pods suited to your book project’s genre.
GROUP COACHING DATES
10 a.m. PT/11 a.m. MT/noon CT/1 p.m. ET second Wednesday each month
All meetings are recorded, yet please know the true value of these sessions is the interactivity. Come prepared to engage with me and this community of wise writers with your most burning questions.
Aug. 13
Sept. 10
Oct. 8
Nov. 12
Dec. 10
2026
Jan. 14
Feb. 11
March 11
April 8
May 13
I’M A CLIENT! INSIDE TRACK STORY CATALYST GROUP COACHING
For clients currently under contract, it’s $27/month or $270/year (two months free).
I’M NOT A CLIENT – YET!
ESSENTIAL STORY CATALYST GROUP COACHING
For clients currently under contract, it’s $47/month or $470/year (two months free).
SEE WHAT BOOKS MY AUTHOR CLIENTS HAVE PUBLISHED
WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR FUTURE PUBLISHED SELF HERE
Tell me why you’re ready. Or tell me how you’re getting ready. Write a Letter to Your Future Published Self here. If you give me your email, I’ll send you a note two years from now.
OTHER SERVICES I OFFER
Maybe you’re not ready for this one. Maybe this is making you realize that you need to make sure your manuscript is an absolutely “yes.” Here are some of the other services I offer to help you get there.
- 1:1 book coaching and development
- Idea-to-Outline coaching
- Chapter Draft Support coaching and editing
- Developmental Editing of full manuscripts
- Path to Publishing Package – Find Your “Right Fit” Literary Agent
- Editorial assessments and revision plans
- Contemplative and generative writing retreats in settings such as Ireland, Taos, Scotland and Utah canyonlands
- Story Catalyst writing craft classes
- Story Catalyst community
- Uncommon Hours classes in designing and de-stressifying the writing life with leading-edge time management hacks and practices of mindfulness and creative visualization
- Uncommon Hours community
- Brand Catalyst branding and content creation that helps you engage your audience, raise visibility and build a thriving author platform
- Social media consulting on strategies for garnering media attention and audience engagement and development of coherent, captivating content marketing that builds your audience
- Creativity coaching about living a flourishing writing life
- Abundance coaching
- The Fire: consultations about agent query letters, targeting literary agents; consultations about publishing “companion pieces” in mainstream news outlets and magazines, literary journals to make the case for your book; consultations about publishers and other places to submit your work
- Consulting on leading retreats for writers, creatives, wisdom teachers and body-mind-spirit healers
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AUTHOR SUCCESSES
“A tale of resilience and grace, Little Sister chronicles, in riveting prose, a surreal childhood and does so without rancor or self-pity.”
~Amazon
PATRICIA CHADWICK
Little Sister
Post Hill Press, 2019
In this memoir, Patricia Chadwick writes about growing up in a Catholic cult, where children were separated from their parents. She gives an interview on CBS to Dana Jacobson. (Patricia came to me through kn literary, and it was an honor to help her finish this book!)
A change at the cellular level. Part travel memoir and part spiritual guide, Cleanse Your Body and Reveal Your Soul is one woman’s transformative quest with Ayurvedic Panchakarma (a fivefold detoxification treatment involving massage, herbal therapy, and other procedures) and the profound shifts that led to some sustainable, substantial life changes. Dissatisfied with a mainstream psychiatric practice, Dr. Pentz heads to India, where she undergoes an ancient, rejuvenating cleanse.
In his memoir, David Sorensen explores his identity as a coda, or a child of Deaf adults. He describes his experiences with the roles often placed on codas at a young age, such as interpreter, confidant, and decision-maker. His story reveals a person seeking acceptance and belonging while straddling the Deaf and hearing worlds, and shows how he found reconciliation within himself and with both worlds.
As a British citizen of Nigerian ancestry, Ade Anifowose had lived an invisible life—until he found a home in Atlanta with his American wife. One day on a Greyhound bus near the border of two countries, at a border patrol checkpoint in Las Cruces, New Mexico, officers stopped his bus. “Are you an American citizen?” they asked. Down the row, he heard, “Sí, sí, sí.”
He could not answer yes. He had been living and working in the United States for over 25 years, but…it was complicated. The moment of truth had come. “You’re going to have to step off the bus,” the officer said.
In one moment, the trajectory of his life changed unalterably. My Invisible Life is a narrative memoir that kicks off with his deportation from the United States of America, after living most of his adult life with his wife and family, friends and a large network of community. When he first moved to Atlanta in 1993, he had been on a search for belonging and found that he could be more African in Atlanta than in England. Now, he had been told that I did not belong.
PUBLICATION NEWS COMING SOON!
Have you ever wanted a way to bend the ear of the Universe – that is, the loving energy behind all creation? Yes, that Universe, the one that renders absolute and perfect manifestation. Know that the Universe hears what is in your heart. It hears exactly what you want for your greatest life.
Can your life be so crazy that it ends up making you functional?
If crazy can be influenced by a life beginning in rodeo and functional can be influenced by a profession as a therapist, then the answer is easy: You decide.
What it is to be “crazy” and what it is to be “functional” are relative to the individual. Sometimes, it takes a lifetime to distinguish between the two. And sometimes, it takes a book filled with a lifetime’s worth of experiences. Even those considered crazy.
OCD? It’s in there. Anxiety? In there. Trauma? Take a number. Substance abuse? All depends on how you define “abuse.”
Yet despite the titillation from the full-frontal crazy, the heart of this story is in resilience. And if you think resilience can only come from positivity, enlightenment, or deep breaths… think again.
We’re suffering.
We suffer individually and collectively. We suffer from an epidemic of worry. An epidemic for which we’re desperately seeking solutions, the perfect medicine for what ails us.
And we’re so connected. Yet, more disconnected than ever. Disconnected from our essential nature. Disconnected from our place in it all.
In our striving, we suffer. And in our striving to find solace for our suffering, we suffer.
All of this, Patricia A. Muehsam, M.D., understands.
In The Do-Nothing Cure: A Physician’s Tales, Teachings and Tools for Finding Your Way Home to Health, Muehsam, an extraordinary physician, teacher and thought leader, presents the antidote to suffering. Drawn from her years of exploring the heart of health, The Do-Nothing Cure presents Muehsam’s path out of a modern world that is frenzied and disconnected and into a realm where suffering does not exist and health resides. Living at the Guest House is how we find our way home to Absolute Health.
Forthcoming in 2021 from New World Library