Welcome ProWritingAid Writers

Author Accelerator Certified Book Coaches Are Standing By To Help You With Your Manuscript Analyzer Report

Talk through your report with a human and feel confident about writing forward

The Manuscript Analyzer gives you a lot of solid data-driven feedback, but writing a great story demands discernment and strategy about how to approach that data.

That’s where a certified book coaches comes in.

  • We can help you sort out what you trust about the analysis and where you might disagree with the findings.

  • We can help you determine what element of the story you should you tackle first when you begin to revise your pages.

  • We can help you decide what to do if something big is called into question, like your genre or the whole point of view you chose.

We can also help with the biggest question of all:

  • Is it worth your time and energy to keep going? Is your book good enough?

  • (Spoiler alert: the answer is almost always YES. And can give you evidence for WHY.)

Every One of Our Book Coaches Has Completed The Author Accelerator Book Coach Certification Program And Met The Requirements Of Certification

Our program is rigorous and hands-on. Coaches in training go through 100 hours of lessons to prepare for their practicums, which then take them about 30 hours to complete. In the practicums, our coaches in training work with writers at three critical stages of the writing process.

Our certification team works with these coaches to improve their practicum work, and only we only certify them when they have met every standard of certification.

Once certified, our coaches remain in our community, where we provide ongoing education, peer support, and discussion about the (constant) changes in the publishing industry.

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What Comes After The $199 ProWritingAid Session?

You can head off on your own to work on your book, or you can continue working with a book coach. Stay with the one your did your session with or select another coach to help you as you write forward.

Each coach offers their own packages and programs and sets their own prices.

Here is what you can expect from all our coaches:

Holistic support for the writing life

An editor usually comes in to work on a manuscript when it is complete. A book coach works with the writer throughout the creative process, offering a framework while the writer is planning and drafting their book, giving feedback while they revise it, and helping with their strategy around pitching. Book coaches work not just with the writing, but with the writer, helping you maintain good habits and manage your mindset, your doubts, and your goals.

Accountability

Most writers are writing books at the same time that they are running companies, caring for children or other family members, and juggling other demands on their time. A book coach keeps their project on track by providing deadlines and timely, focused feedback. You have someone holding a mirror up to your work, asking questions about everything on the page, and pointing out where the writing is veering from the plan. The result is that the work tends to get done and get done well.

A Streamlined Process

Working with a book coach saves an enormous amount of time. Having support and feedback while you write often means you don’t need as many drafts to produce the book you are envisioning. Writers who work with book coaches have decided that it is more valuable for them to pay to work with a trained professional than to trade their limited time working with a critique partner or writing group.

Marketplace Intelligence

Things move fast in publishing and it’s tough for writers who aren’t immersed in the industry to keep up with it all. A book coach offers an extra perspective to help you understand changes and opportunities — everything from a new literary agency opening up to changes in the services that hybrid publishers are offering to new apps for book discoverability.

Strategic Insight

A new writer may only approach agents once for a book in their career and that time is now. A book coach has often guided writers through the pitch process and can help develop an effective strategy for researching and pitching agents, as well as an understanding of how to make meaning of any rejections or responses you might get.

Career Guidance

Book coaches help writers navigate the path to publishing, helping them decide on the best approach for their project and their goals. If your plans involve pitching agents, a book coach can teach you how to evaluate agents and build a strategic pitch list. Book coaches edit your pitch materials and help you get into the right mindset for pitching. Book coaches support you through a process that can be confusing and often upsetting.

Confidence

Working with a book coach builds confidence. Writers have someone helping them to see both their strengths and their weaknesses. They get honest feedback about what is working and what needs more work. Instead of guessing when your book is ready for the marketplace, you will know. Pitching from a place of confidence rather than fear is not only a more enjoyable process, it tends to produce better results.

Cheerleading

Writing is lonely work. It can take years to complete a commercially viable book and writers usually get very little feedback on their work during that time. When you work with a book coach, you have someone who is as invested in your project as you are, who is cheering you on, and who will be there for all the ups and downs of the process.

Our certified book coaches are trained in proven writing tools and resources.

These tools include Author accelerator CEO Jennie Nash’s Blueprint for a Book method, the Inside and Outcome Outlines, the Hierarchy of Editorial Concerns, the Good to Great Chapter Checklist, the Stoplight Strategy, and more.

You can lean more about Jennie on this page.

What Is It Like To Work With An Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach?

We did a survey of writers to quantify the outcomes

Certified coaches have an average of 10 years of coaching experience.

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Individual coaching isn't your only option. 86 percent of certified coaches offer or are planning to offer group courses and events (which tend to be more affordable.)

86%

100 percent of the writers surveyed felt better equipped to write on their own/with confidence after working with a coach.

100%

Most writers surveyed said that after working with a book coach they felt better equipped to meet deadlines and streamline their writing process.

73%

53 percent of the writers surveyed have published a book with a coach:

  • 47 percent are self-published

  • 33 percent have published traditionally

  • 20 percent have used a hybrid publishing model

53%

FAQs about working with a book coach

  • It depends.

    The book coaches we certify set their own pricing and run their own businesses, so there are a wide range of options. Higher prices usually correlate to higher-touch programs (meaning more hands-on editing and more personalized strategic consultation).

    The money you pay is an investment in your writing.

  • There is not a money-back guarantee on the Manuscript Analyzer coaching session. It is a special low-priced service each of our coaches has opted in to providing. The coach will be spending time, talent, and energy evaluating your Manuscript Analyzer and speaking with you on a phone or video call to discuss your project.

  • No. Book coaching is in its infancy as an industry and we are one of the leaders of this new field. No national organization or academic institution offers a book coach training or certification program, so it does not make sense to align ourselves with one. We are working to set the standards in the industry.

  • There is a link to our main certified coach directory just below this FAQ section. You can search on many different criteria to find a coach who is a good fit.

    Please note that there are coaches in this main directory who DO NOT offer the Pro Writing Aid Manuscript Analyzer special.

    If you wish to search for only the coaches offering the Pro Writing Aid Manuscript Analyzer special, please return to THIS PAGE

Get Matched With a Book Coach

Note that this directory lists ALL Author Accelerator Certified Book Coaches. To go to the directory of coaches offering the ProWritingAid Session, go HERE.