Mentor
I can remember the moment I started mentoring so clearly. I was attending a networking event in Birmingham when I met a chap called John Sealey.
“What do you do, Jo?” he asked me. “I help people to write books,” I replied, the words just fell out of my mouth and were as much a surprise to me as they were to him. “Then you are just who I need,” John replied, handing me his business card. |
John was my first mentoring client. It was 2002.
Since then I have mentored hundreds of people to write books, articles and life story. I call myself a mentor rather than a coach because I give so much advice. With 32 books and hundreds of articles to my credit, I am an authority on all aspects of writing non-fiction. Now so many of my clients have published books or embarked on writing, blogging or communications careers that I have proof my methods work.
Your Book From Scratch
My intensive 12-month programme will help you brainstorm, plan, create and perfect your book from scratch
Next availability - March 2020
You can work with me for as little as four hours or for as long as it takes to create your book, from ‘brainwave to bookshelf’. In 2017 I created my Book From Scratch Mentoring programme, so that, for a reduced monthly fee and the commitment of a year, I can work with you, mentoring, editing and cheerleading you towards the eventual publication of your book. Most clients move on to publish with one of our imprints – Summertime Publishing or Springtime Books – but there is no obligation to do so.
Whether you want someone to assess your manuscript, read your first chapter and proposal or just help you to polish a few stories and poems about your own life I am happy to help you. With my personal experience of having lived abroad and running a business it's inevitable that I specialise in these areas and can lend my vast knowledge of the subject and the experts within it to my clients’ work.
I’m told I am encouraging and helpful. I am also told I am honest. If I think your idea could be improved I won’t shy away from telling you so. When you work with me, you are safe in the knowledge that I only work with a limited number of people at a time and that I will think about your book in the middle of the night or when I am out walking in the woods. I take my clients’ work seriously and strive to do my best to help you produce the best work you can.
Whether you want someone to assess your manuscript, read your first chapter and proposal or just help you to polish a few stories and poems about your own life I am happy to help you. With my personal experience of having lived abroad and running a business it's inevitable that I specialise in these areas and can lend my vast knowledge of the subject and the experts within it to my clients’ work.
I’m told I am encouraging and helpful. I am also told I am honest. If I think your idea could be improved I won’t shy away from telling you so. When you work with me, you are safe in the knowledge that I only work with a limited number of people at a time and that I will think about your book in the middle of the night or when I am out walking in the woods. I take my clients’ work seriously and strive to do my best to help you produce the best work you can.