Picture Book Practitioner: part editor, part mentor, part motivator

A one-month uniquely tailored service to concentrate on your project with a writer, editor, and teacher who “speaks” picture books. This is a chance to navigate your manuscript and to help your story—plus you as an artist and book creator!—set sail in a way that feels true to you.

I'm absolutely passionate about helping writers and writer-illustrators tap into their unique voice and vision, providing inspiration for their manuscript, writing identity, and direction for immediate steps and future ones. You’ll get four weeks of feedback, encouragement, resources, thorough and sensitive support around story and strategy, and the camaraderie you need from someone who cares deeply about nurturing creative practice and this special form.

We can also be flexible around what we work on and how we approach the process according to your needs. Want input on queries and the process? Let's go! Got two ideas to tackle? We could be able to make that work! Whether you have a fully-fleshed out manuscript to revise OR simply notes about a concept you're ready to develop, I can help. (Picture book creators at any place on their path welcome!)

What you can look forward to in our work together:

Four weeks with the following as a guide—

Preparation questionnaire. First one-hour video call after I read and reflect on your project: goal-setting, vision, conversation, story comments, comparative works. Once-a-week check-in and encouragement from me to you via email. Up to two questions answered via email every week about your manuscript or anything related to your project, path, writing life. Line notes on at least one draft or revision of your manuscript, more depending on your pace. Sometimes it's multiple drafts. Second video call up to one hour on line notes, your creative process and voice, and/or one relevant PB element.Third video call up to one hour about your latest draft/revision, resources, reflection, next steps, strategy, and/or Q&A. I can also provide guidance around developing presentations about your future book! Reflection questionnaire. Something surprising and totally tailored to you!

Cost: $750 for the month (any four mostly consecutive weeks). Paid in two installments via PayPal or Venmo, beginning and close. I offer a 30% discount for educators! 

Email me to get started or get more information. Or download this "What to Expect" PDF.

I am the author of the picture book, To Make, have an MA in literature and creative writing, and am a long-time champion of picture books and their makers via critiques, This Picture Book Life, workshops, and as an editor. From community college teaching to the teen writing series on YouTube, This Writer's Life, from mentoring teen creators to grown ones, I’ve been in this world a long time and bring a particular cheering-on spirit to folks I work with.