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Starting point:

Late August unless both of us agree a different date.

This program contains:

let me apply the character-first approach to your novel and guide you to create a fantastic outline.

4 - 5 one-hour phone calls for coaching, discussion, and advice.

Feedback on short excerpts and scenes.

Your novel planned out from start to finish, with the beginning planned out in great detail.

"The book I wrote after we worked together landed me my agents at InkWell, and back in May, we sold two YA fantasy novels to Wednesday Books/Macmillan."

Allison Saft
Bestselling NYT Author 
Important details

Novel Development is a coaching program, not an editing service. I am more than happy to read a few chapters and a synopsis, but our main work will discussing the story as a plan or outline. 

Preparing for Novel Development coaching sessions requires considerable effort from me: once we have begun discussing the novel, and 24 hours have passed after the first session, no refunds are possible.

We agree to be flexible with each other's schedules and tolerant of normal life hiccups:  but we also agree to try to finish the 4 - 5 calls within (roughly) 8 weeks of the mutually agreed start date.

Exceptions to these rules can be discussed over the phone, inside the program.

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