THE STORY CATALYST
1:1 CHAPTER DRAFT SUPPORT COACHING
THE WISE WAY TO FINISH YOUR BOOK
1:1 Chapter Draft Support
SIX SESSIONS + 10,000 WORDS OF CUSTOMIZED REVIEW PER SESSION
You have an outline that’s alive with possibility, and you mostly know where you’re going with your book. You have a road map, and you’ve got enough chapters drafted that you know your signature voice.
Now it’s time to start cranking out chapter drafts.
With 1:1 Chapter Draft Support, you tap into the wisdom, courage and resourcefulness of a master writing teacher and book coach. You gain the accountability many writers need to turn in chapters once a month, so you stay on track.
If you want your manuscript draft completed in six months, this package is for you.
And if you’re on a revision, this package works much the same, starting with a re-Visioned outline, working through chapters.
A SPECIAL DISCOUNT THROUGH SEPT. 3, 2025
This package normally goes for $2,400, but it’s on sale for $405 off to the first THREE writers who sign up.
That’s $1,995, and the good news is, you can pay in three installments.
As a special bonus, it’s only $1,845 for the first signup.
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
One week ahead of our monthly meeting, you’ll send me 10,000 words plus your updated working outline each time.
I’ll send you love notes, prompts, specific areas for development—and resources customized to your book and your craft.
We’ll meet for 50 minutes to discuss the next steps.
This package is for six sessions.
My goal is to get your manuscript ready for a full developmental edit.
WHAT THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES
- Six sessions
- Review of 10,000 words per session
- Monthly 50-minute consultation
That’s a total of 60,000 words with coaching notes.
NOTE: The objective of this service is that you get a fully drafted manuscript, guided by an expert book coach, which prepares you for a full developmental edit. While it includes coaching notes, it is not a full developmental edit. The intention is for you keep writing, find your structure, develop your voice and head off any issues that could hold your book back.
SUPER-SWEET BONUSES
If you purchase this package, you receive my Story Catalyst starter kit for free, as well as membership in the growing Story Catalyst community on Mighty Networks; access to monthly group calls; discounts on specialized Story Catalyst craft classes.
This link takes you to where you can pay your deposit and book your first call. Upon booking, I will send you a Project Greenlight email with instructions for how to begin, resources that will guide you, The Story Catalyst Starter Kit and a proposed meeting schedule for our six sessions.
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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