Blueprint For a Book
A 14-step guided video course for figuring out what your novel is really about — and building a story that delivers on it.
For writers who are starting a novel, stuck in the middle, or getting ready to revise.
$19
The best time to ask the big questions is before you've written another 50,000 words
Whether you're writing your first novel or your tenth, there's a powerful temptation to just start writing.
Put your head down. Get the words down. Figure it out as you go.
And sometimes, that's exactly what you need to do.
But at some point, every writer needs to STOP and ask the deeper questions.
Why are you compelled to tell this story?
What experience are you creating for your reader and what do you want them to take away from it?
What is driving your characters to act, struggle, and change?
And does the structure of the story actually deliver on all of that?
These are the questions at the heart of Blueprint for a Book.
The Blueprint helps you step back from the pages and examine the foundational elements of your novel so you can see how they work together as a whole.
When you understand that, you can make better decisions about what belongs on the page — and what doesn't.
That clarity gives your story power and it gives you confidence.
Jennie Nash is the creator of the Book Coach Certification program at Author Accelerator and has taught hundreds of book coaches and thousands of novelists to use the Blueprint for a Book system.
Now you can have Jennie and her book coaches guide you through all 14 steps in an on-demand course.
In 14 videos, they add context, examples, inspiration, and perspective to the Blueprint questions — helping you dig deeper into the key questions.
Your answers become a touchstone for the decisions you'll make throughout the writing process.
“The Blueprint process makes me want to write, and it makes what I’m writing better. I read it before every draft. It’s that good.”
— KJ Dell’Antonia New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters, a Reese’s Book Club pick
The biggest mistake most writers make is focusing only on plot.
They have a cool idea about this thing that happens — and then this thing happens, and then this other thing happens.
They probably pay attention to character, too.
They know who their protagonist is and what they want. Maybe they know what they’re up against, inside and out.
They completely miss what readers come for.
Readers come to a novel to feel something. They don’t just want to know what happens.
They want to know why things happens, what’s at stake for the characters, how the characters struggle against themselves and others, and how they end up somewhere different than where they began.
They want a real story.
The 14 Blueprint steps help you build a story that gives your reader what they came for.
Ready to Get Clarity on Your Novel?
Hi, I’m Jennie Nash
I'm the creator of the Blueprint method and the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator.
I've been obsessing about this question for more than a decade":
What actually helps writers do their best work?
I've worked with writers at every stage of the process, trained hundreds of book coaches, and developed tools that have helped thousands of writers move from an idea to a finished book.
The Blueprint is at the heart of that work.
It's a 14-step method of inquiry designed to help you understand the foundational decisions beneath your novel. The goal is to help you write a better book.
My definition of a better book is simple:
It's a book you actually write instead of just talking about writing.
And it's a book that gives readers an experience powerful enough that they want to tell someone else:
“You have to read this book.”
That's what the Blueprint is designed to help you build.
“Before anyone is allowed to ask a writer-friend out for coffee ‘just to pick your brain’ about a book idea, they should be required to read this. It answers SO MANY QUESTIONS. I’m going to keep a stash of copies to hand out.”
—Mary Laura Philpott, author of Bomb Shelter and I Miss You When I Blink
Everything you need to work through the Blueprint — for $19
When you enroll in Blueprint for a Book, you get:
✅ The full text of Blueprint for a Book
The complete 14-step method is built right into the course, so you can read each section as you work through it.
✅ 14 on-demand video lessons
Go step by step through the Blueprint with Jennie Nash and her book coaches, who add context, examples, inspiration, and perspective to help you think more deeply about your own novel.
✅ A framework you can return to throughout the writing process
Use the Blueprint before you begin writing, when you're stuck and need to find your way forward, or when you're preparing to revise a draft.
✅ Free custom book coach matching
If the Blueprint helps you see that you want personalized support, we'll match you with a book coach based on your novel, your goals, and where you are in the writing process.
⭐️ Get the complete Blueprint for a Book course for $19
Instant access. Work at your own pace. Come back to the Blueprint whenever your novel needs it.
Writers come back to the Blueprint again and again.
"Jennie Nash turned me into a plotter and changed the way I think about approaching any new project. I'm an Inside Outside outline fan for life!"
-Alison Hammer, USA today bestseller author of You and Me and Us, Little Pieces of Me, The Beach Trap, and The Comeback Summer
"If you are about to start writing or revising your novel - hold up! You need this bookbefore putting fingers to keyboard. It's a step-by-step design-your-novel manual that encapsulates the most important aspect of great story-telling: how to reach deep intoyour writerly heart and into the heart of the story you want to bring to life."
- Janet Fox,author of The Artifact Hunters, The Mysteries of Mystic Mountain
