A little support goes a long way.
Every writer struggles, but you don’t have to struggle alone. Working with a creative writing coach can help you get past blocks, be more productive, and proceed with confidence. Many writers who stop writing aren’t acutely aware of why they stopped. A book coach can help you discover the reason and help you move forward.
Our book coaches specialize in helping writers who are new to writing a story or book. I help them with scene structure and composition, story structure, character development, and, most importantly, I help them manage their expectations regarding what it takes to complete a first draft.
With a book coach, you can:
- Start writing again
- Learn to set reasonable, workable goals
- Learn which tools of the craft you’re missing, such as structure, elements of scene writing, character arc/development, etc.
- Accountability
- Conquer creative blocks
- Understand why you feel your writing isn’t working
- Learn to move past fears
- Get unstuck
- Receive help with structure and character arc
- Improve your scene-writing skills
- Gain confidence
- Cope with anxieties surrounding your writing
- Learn ways to deal with your inner critic
Book a free discovery session to determine if we’re a good fit for each other. We can work together in person or online.
When you finish your first draft, I will send you off with a rewrite plan. I can also support you through this process if you wish.
We also offer editing services for short stories and help with personal essays.
Book Coaching Packages
We offer several coaching packages and working styles to suit every budget, ensuring we have something for every writer. Every coaching situation is unique, and although we offer standard packages, pricing can vary depending on your specific needs.
| Fractals Coaching Package | Mahogany Coaching Package | Candelabra Coaching Package | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Availability | 4 openings | Only 2 left! | Only 1 left! |
| Session | Two 30-minute monthly sessions by video conference (Zoom) or phone | Every other week for 60-minute sessions by video conference (Zoom) or phone | 1 hr weekly sessions by video conference (Zoom) or phone |
| Progress Rate | Ideal for those working on essays, poetry, or short stories | For those who want to make steady progress | For those who want to make rapid progress |
| Feedback | Feedback on up to 5 pages per session, properly formatted* | Feedback on up to 20 pages per 60-min session, properly formatted* | Feedback on up to 20 pages per 1-hour session, properly formatted* |
| Additional Benefits | – Can pause at any time – No rollover sessions |
– Can pause at any time – No rollover sessions – 20% off writing workshops and retreats. -Attend monthly group coaching meetings |
– Can pause at any time – Access to me outside of our sessions for support (within reason) – Ability to roll over 2 sessions at a time. – 20% off writing workshops and retreats. -Attend monthly group coaching meetings |
| Schedule Session | Sign up below or Schedule a Consultation | Sign up with below or Schedule a Consultation | – Access to me outside of our sessions for support (within reason) – Ability to roll over 2 sessions at a time. – 20% off writing workshops and retreats. -Attend monthly group coaching meetings |
| Cost | $249 Monthly fee via PayPal Subscription, Venmo, or Zelle | $357 Monthly fee via PayPal Subscription, Venmo, or Zelle | $647 Monthly fee via PayPal Subscription, Venmo, or Zelle |
| * Proper formatting = Double spaced, 12pt font, 1″ margins per session | |||
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Book Coach Profiles
Nicole Criona
Number of clients who’ve completed drafts: >40
Specialties:
- Developmental Editing and First-Draft Coaching for Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, & Screenplays
- Creativity Coaching
- Productivity Coaching
- Scene Improvement
- Structure
- Writer’s block
Nicole Criona, a native Angeleno, is the current owner and co-founder of Los Angeles Writers Group (founded in 2003). She specializes in Developmental Editing and coaching fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and screenwriters who want to complete their first draft and has helped many writers finish drafts.
For more than fifteen years, she’s facilitated creative writing workshops and supported aspiring writers working on novels, screenplays, short stories, poetry, essays, and memoirs. She also runs the day-to-day operations of LAwritersgroup.com, leads several creative writing workshops in Los Angeles, San Diego, and online, coaching groups, and specializes in coaching writers who want to complete their first draft.
Nicole has helped more than 35 writers finish their first book draft, has been thanked in several books, and has several clients who are currently being considered by agents. Her newest program, 100 Days of Writing, was designed by Nicole, and she also authored the successful Get Writing Again in 15 Days email course.
While Nicole focuses mostly on helping writers, Nicole’s writing credits include poetry and fiction on Hissquarterly.com (Sanity is a One-Trick Pony issue), Strongverse.org, Six Sentences, and Narrative Magazine, among others. She is currently working on a novel and a non-fiction book. Read Nicole’s most recently published poem, Advice to an Angel About to Fall. She has also worked as a freelance writer.
Resa Alboher
Specialties:
- Writing coaching across genres and at all levels (beginner- professional) for literary fiction, memoir, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Romance, New Adult, Young Adult, Middle School, Picture Books, general/creative non-fiction, essay, journalism, blogging, screenplay, writing for theatre, television writing, notebook writing, journaling, spiritual writing
- Beginner’s Writing Coaching (for those who want to learn to write, or have been away from writing for a long time)
- Writer’s Block coaching
- Editing services, including reads, manuscript consults, critiques, developmental edits, and line/copy edits
- Submission research
Resa Alboher is one of the founding editors of St. Petersburg Review. She is also a member of the Springhouse Journal editorial board, a book scout, and a book coach/manuscript consultant.
She’s a writer across genres whose publications include Roads & Kingdoms, Cosmonauts Avenue, Scapegoat Review, Black Heart Magazine, Rewire Me, Mango Salute, Have an NYC 2, Maintenant 5, and Radar Productions. She has books of fiction, essays, and poems in the works and a few screenplays hidden in the wings. Resa is a passionate, energetic, kind, and patient writing teacher and a long-time traveler with perpetual culture shock who lived twenty years in Russia, where she worked with the legendary Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg and taught American Writing at the Humanities University in Moscow. She is in a kind of equivalent culture shock (but also a kind of cultural excitement) now that she is living back here in her native Los Angeles after so many years wandering the globe and discovering the vibrancy of LA anew.