Looking for help with your professional development? You’re in the right place! I’ve got courses. I’ve got workshops. They’re all packed with information and exercises to help you get where you want to go. And they all feature my trusty editorial assistants. 🦖🦕
Working with Indie Authors
Find Clients. Understand Their Needs. Work Better Together.
You’ll come out of this interactive course with an understanding of what indie authors need from you, some new ideas for business practices and marketing, and a bunch of templates you can use to make your work even more efficient.
This course is always available as a self-paced course, and it’s also run periodically with instructor-led cohorts.
Editing Memoir
Dive deep into the genre in this interactive course.
This four-week course will help you better understand memoir and its readers’ expectations. It will give you tools and techniques to help you figure out what a specific manuscript needs, and how you can address those needs to make it even more compelling to its readers.
This course is run periodically with instructor-led cohorts.
Exploring “Passive” Income
Increase your income. Move beyond trading money for time.
A short, self-paced workshop for mid-career editors to help you explore ways you could increase your income by developing courses or products that help you move beyond trading money for your time.
We’ll discuss what “passive” means in this context, consider some different aspects of production and marketing, and go through a series of exercises that can help you come up with ideas for what you could create.
The What’s Next Workshop
Figure our what’s next for your business. Plan how to get there.
A five-week, asynchronous workshop to help established and mid-career independent editors figure out what’s next for their business.
In this workshop, you’ll dream big, consider what you want and need from your business, explore how to move from where you are to where you want to be, and develop a concrete plan to get you there.
This workshop is available on demand for groups.
Coaching Writers
Explore different coaching options. Develop a service that works for you.
This short, self-paced workshop is coming soon!
Business Coaching
Take your business to the next level with custom guidance and support.
Get four (or more) face-to face video chat sessions where we discuss where you want to take your business and come up with plans and exercises together to help you get there.
More Courses and Workshops Coming Soon
I’ve got a bunch of short workshops and a few longer courses in development. Watch this space! Or just click on that subscribe button.
My Editorial Assistants
I have a bunch of buddies who help me keep things running around here. One of the many things they do is help me illustrate ideas and concepts in my courses. Want to get to know them better? Take a course, get my newsletter, or track me down on social media!
Diverse Editors for Diverse Books Scholarship
Are you an editor from a background, culture, or community that has been historically underrepresented in publishing? Do you need some help paying for continuing education? Then I hope you’ll apply for the Diverse Editors for Diverse Books Course Scholarship, available for all my courses.
All you need to do is email me up to 400 words describing how this course will help you achieve your professional goals. I’ll be awarding a scholarship to one person per course.
You can apply for course scholarships when the courses are scheduled. Scholarship details for each course are listed on their registration pages.
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