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Your Writing Coach

Coaching to help you fast-track your writing.

 
Meet the team

Writer coaching at The Novelry

 

Our book writing coaches are published authors who positively enjoy working with aspiring authors. They have hit the bestseller lists and been nominated for and won famous awards: they have been hand-picked for The Novelry as gifted writing coaches.

Our writing coaches are an in-house team. Between them, they have experience across the full range of all genres of fiction. They are based in the USA, Canada and the UK and coach online worldwide to a structured program designed to help writers become published authors.

Our coaches have been trained in our positive coaching method, and our one-on-one writer mentoring program is a big part of the reason we’re the world’s best-loved creative writing school.

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‘Incredible coaching sessions that helped reinvigorate my writing.’

Claire D.

 

Your coaching program begins with our review and discussion of your story ideas to help you select the best to meet your ambition and help you get published.

The first question your coach will ask is what do you want to achieve?

Your coach will work with you in one-on-one sessions of 45 minutes online via Zoom to develop the story and keep you on track with your writing. They will be on hand to answer any questions arising as you write to the finish.

You can schedule your personal online coaching sessions at times convenient to you. The sessions are recorded and sent to you to keep for your reference.

We operate in all time zones with our writers coming from the USA, Canada, the UK, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. Publishing is global and so are we.

Each and every coaching session in your coaching program has an agenda designed to help you progress your story development towards a publishing standard. 

 

 

Your coaching services fit into your course plan as part of our unique interactive process for story development.

Our behind-the-scenes systems allow every book coach to see where a writer student is at any given time and how they are doing at a glance.

A major perk of The Novelry is you have access to the entire team of writing coaches. Feel free to switch and swap to get the right advice for your own work as your story develops. You can choose the writing coach you would like to work with, and you’re not tied to one writing coach for your entire course program.

Our writing coaching team work hand in glove with our editorial team and get the latest publishing industry advice from experienced professionals connected to the worlds leading literary agencies. 

As a team, overseen by our course director, we’ll be keeping an eye on your progress to ensure your best chance of success.

The ability to chat with authors and editors, who I feel really care about my writing success, is what makes The Novelry so special.’

Catherine L. 

 

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Why do you need a book writing coach?

 

Whatever stage youre at with your creative writing, a good writing coach can help you develop your story faster and with more depth. Almost all professionals benefit from a mentoring relationship to develop their skills and in every other walk of life an apprenticeship is considered a wise idea. Even writers with extensive experience and strong writing skills can benefit from new ideas from a great writing coach and ongoing support.

In the literary world and publishing industry, most well-known published authors have studied with other writers and continue their writing journey with feedback from a trusted mentor over the course of their career.

Imagine if you had access to not only one great book coach but the benefits of a coaching team. Imagine being able to hop on a video call with a successful author with the technical skills you need to move forwards with confidence!

At The Novelry we work with you one-on-one and also collaboratively as a team to give you our best advice for your success.

Choosing your writing coach

 

Our book coaches are chosen for their warmth and collaborative coaching style. As an experienced writer, each and every one of them has chosen to work with aspiring writers because they enjoy the coaching process and want to encourage writers to find their story and their unique writing style to find their place in the literary world.

Our book coaching team are on-staff and dedicated to their work at The Novelry outside of their own writing. They find working with writers is a great way to achieve their writing goals and sharpen their own writing skills. Our team dig deep into each writers story and give them the emotional support many writers need for the writing journey. They meet with the other writing coaches every week to share notes to ensure they are giving the best practical advice to their writers.

You are free to choose to work with any writing coach you wish at any time, and we will be sure to give you our advice on the right coach for you too.

Our positive coaching method shines a light on whats working to encourage writers to develop their story in that direction. We are all writers at The Novelry so we know how to motivate writers, but we have our eye on your success at all times and will guide you toward what might be most likely to be published right from the moment you start writing. We have big plans for you.

—Louise Dean, Founder and Course Director

Good mentorship: staying on track together all the way to The End

Your writing coach at The Novelry will be cheering you on every step of the way, delighted as you tick off your writing goals, develop your skills, complete a first draft, submit your manuscript to literary agents and achieve your ambition to get a book deal.

 

Your first session begins with one question – what do you want to achieve?

 

At your first session, your coach will review your idea or ideas and share feedback from the team at The Novelry. If you are aiming to be published, a strong story is the way to go. Different genres and reader audiences have different requirements and working with literary agents in New York and London we know what will fly! The coaching program is carefully structured to develop your storyline through the six sessions to become a stand-out story, and you are welcome to bring your own questions too. You can book any extra sessions as and when you need them.

At the heart of The Novelry is a warm-hearted writing community. We offer a collaborative environment, not a competitive environment.

Our Writer Coaching Team

  

New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller and award-winning authors have published books with major publishing houses worldwide. Based in the USA, Canada and the UK, our team offer coaching sessions for all time zones worldwide. You’ll find your sessions with your writing coach are fun, lively and inspiring.

We help you grow as a writer and build your confidence. Well shine a light on what’s working and help you solve problems. We get far better results this way. 

Most of our writing course plans include a coaching program. Choose the right course for you, and we will take great care of you and your book-in-waiting.

 

Choose your course

Children’s and Young Adult Fiction

Piers Torday

Children’s Fiction
Middle-Grade Fantasy

 

Writing coach, Piers Torday, is the award-winning and bestselling author of seven books for children dubbed the new master of children’s fiction by The Times.

 

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Melanie Conklin

Children’s Fiction 

 

Writing coach, Melanie Conklin, is the award-winning author of five middle-grade books for children, and winner of the International Literacy Association Teacher’s Choice Award.

 

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Alice Kuipers

Young Adult
Children’s Fiction
Memoir

 

Writing coach, Alice Kuipers, is the bestselling, award-winning author of five novels, and six books for younger readers. She has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal. She is also a bestselling ghost writer experienced in writing memoir.

 

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David Solomons

Children’s Fiction

 

Writing coach, David Solomons, is the author of middle-grade children’s novels. His children’s books have won The British Book Industry Best Childrens Book and The Waterstones Childrens Book Prize. 

 

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Crime and Suspense

Amanda Reynolds

Psychological Thrillers
Crime Thrillers
Suspense

 

Writing coach, Amanda Reynolds, is the bestselling author of four novels. Her number one ebook bestseller, Close To Me, was recently adapted into a major TV series.

 

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Lesley Kara

Psychological Thrillers
Sleuths, Crime Fiction

 

Lesley Kara is a Sunday Times Top Ten and Amazon #1 bestselling author of psychological thrillers. She is the author of The Rumour, Who Did You Tell?The Dare and The Apartment Upstairs.

 

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Emylia Hall

Cosy Crime
Reading Group Fiction
Literary Fiction

 

Writing coach, Emylia Hall, is the award-winning author of four novels with her fifth, a cosy crime novel, published in 2023. She is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.

 

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Fantasy, Speculative and Science Fiction

Tasha Suri

Fantasy
Fantasy Epics and Sagas

 

Tasha Suri is the award-winning author of The Books of Ambha duology (Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash) and the epic fantasy The Jasmine Throne. Empire of Sand was rated by TIME magazine as one of the best fantasy novels of all time.

 

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Andrea Stewart

Fantasy Fiction
Speculative Fiction

 

Andrea Stewart is the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning author of The Drowning Empire trilogy (The Bone Shard Daughter, The Bone Shard Emperor, and The Bone Shard War) and a finalist for numerous awards, including the Goodreads Choice Award and The British Fantasy Award.

 

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L.R. Lam

Science Fiction
Fantasy
Speculative Fiction
Literary Speculative

 

El, or L.R. Lam, is the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning author of nine novels, with three more under contract. Their books include the epic fantasy romance Dragonfall, the beginning of the Dragon Scales trilogy, cyberpunk near-future thrillers, space opera novels and a near-future thriller. 

 

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Katie Khan

Speculative Fiction
 Magical Realism

 

Katie Khan is the author of two novels. Her first novel, Hold Back the Stars, was published in the U.K. by Penguin Random House and in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster, and has been translated into twenty-one languages around the world.

 

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Literary, Romance and UpLit

Rachel Joyce

Up Lit
Literary Fiction

 

Rachel Joyce is the multi-million copy bestselling, award-winning, Booker Prize-listed author of six novels and short stories.

 

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Mahsuda Snaith

Literary Fiction
Women’s Fiction

 

Mahsuda Snaith’s debut novel The Things We Thought We Knew (Penguin Random House) saw her named an Observer ‘New Face of Fiction’. 

 

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Libby Page

Romance
Up Lit
Women’s Fiction

 

Libby Page is the bestselling author of four novels. The Lido became a Sunday Times bestseller within its first week of publication and has been published in more than 23 territories around the world.

 

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Historical Fiction

Kate Riordan

Historical Fiction
Mystery
Suspense

 

Kate Riordan is the bestselling author of five novels, and has been a Richard and Judy Book Club choice. Her novels are published by Penguin Random House.

 

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Sarah Penner

Historical Fiction
Magical Realism
Mystery

 

Sarah Penner is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of two novels. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages, and her debut, The Lost Apothecary, has been optioned by Fox Entertainment for a drama series.

 

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The courses to become a published author

 

Only The Novelry offers the complete career path for novelists from coming up with a big idea through to raising your writing to publishing standards.

With one-on-one coaching from bestselling authors to stay on track.

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The Novel Kickstarter Course

Find the story and write a first draft.

For $1699 or £1399

With instalment payment plans available. 

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The Novel Development Course

Complete and edit a novel.

$1865 or £1550

With instalment payment plans available.

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The Finished Novel

The full writer-to-author career path.

$3499 or £2799

With instalment payment plans available.

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Our 3-step program to becoming a published author

 

Only The Novelry offers the complete career path for novelists from coming up with a big idea through to raising your writing to publishing standards.

With one-on-one coaching from bestselling authors to stay on track.

writer coaching online

The Novel Kickstarter

Create the world of your story to write a first draft.

For $1699 or £1399

With instalment payment plans available. 

Learn more
writer coaching online

Novel Development Plan

Complete a novel to publishing standards.

$1865 or £1550

With instalment payment plans available.

Learn more
writer coaching online

The Finished Novel

The full writer-to-author career path.

$3499 or £2750

With instalment payment plans available.

Learn more

What makes a good mentor?

 

An aspiring writer will want to consider a potential writing mentor carefully to choose an experienced writer who has navigated the publishing industry successfully, with a proven track record, who has standing and recognition in the literary world and the publishing industry.

A good mentor is someone who loves learning and who understands that they too, as a writer, are always learning; that way the one-on-one mentoring relationship becomes a mutually fulfilling and exciting experience, open to new ideas and feedback that flows naturally both ways. 

To choose your potential coach, consider the writing coachs work. Have they been published recently? Do they write in a similar genre? Do they understand the book publishing process? Have they got teaching experience? Do they belong to professional organisations? That they belong to a writing community and are willing and able to work generously with other writers is an important test.

a writing coach who is full time not freelance

At The Novelry you get access not only to great writing coaches but to top-flight editors from major publishing houses like Penguin Random House too. Your editor will be on hand not just for developmental editing of your entire novel after you have completed your first draft with your writing coach, they will also give you line by line feedback. For the price of a private writing coach you will have a team of publishing industry professionals at your side. If youre going to write a book, do it with the very best support.

Coaching to finish your novel.

 

‘I found The Novelry at a time when I was ready to give up. I was feeling very low on confidence and knew I’d be my own worst enemy if left to my own devices. The sessions with Emylia, my writing coach, were a real highlight – she always made me feel like she genuinely cared about my novel, and I was constantly amazed at the way she engaged with the story and the creative suggestions she brought forward. The sessions kept me on track and helped me work through plot kinks along the way and I felt like I had a real champion through the whole process.’

—Becky Hunter, now with a major two-book publishing contract in the USA and the UK

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