Book Writing Coach Lisa Can Help You Write a Book and Get Published

As a book writing coach, Lisa Tener assists writers in all aspects of the writing process—from writing a book proposal and getting published to finding one’s creative voice, prioritizing projects, developing an author platform, setting clear goals and developing a system for creative success. She teaches 8 week classes on book writing and workshops on Writing in the Zone, her 5 step system for inspiration and success for writers, a powerful way to eliminate creativity blocks.

Lisa is a sought after speaker, presenting at national writers conferences (including San Francisco Writers Conference and Ocean State Writers Conference, library conferences and many conferences and events for entrepreneurs and women, including Harvard Medical School CME publishing course, the Rhode Island Bar Association and the Bryant University Women's Summit). She speaks at international professional conferences, including the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) Annual Conference. She served as both a panelist and presenter for the International Women's Writing Guild's Meet the Authors Conference, the Association of Rhode Island Authors and the Festival of Rhode Island Authors.

Lisa's many awards include The Gold Stevie Award for "Company of the Year - Media and Entertainment - Small Businesses in 2016 (International Business Awards), The Providence Business News Women Achievement Award, and both The Gold Award for Marketer of the Year in Media and  The Silver Stevie Award for Best New Service of the Year-Media (for her Bring Your Book to Life® Program), both from the American Business Awards.In addition to winning 5 Stevie Awards, Lisa has been awarded Start Up Nation's Home Based 100 and The Providence Business News Business Women Achievement Award and Positive Writer's Top 50 Writing Blogs several years in a row.

Published Author

Lisa is co-author with Peaco Todd and Jane Middelton-Moz of The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Anger: Dynamic Tools for Healthy Relationships (Health Communications). She originated the concept of Anger-obics, exercises that tap into intuition, humor and creativity to understand anger and communicate in healthy ways.

Lisa has taught writing and creativity workshops throughout the United States, in the Caribbean and in Southeast Asia since 1994. She also taught Anger-obics workshops with co-author Peaco Todd at conference centers, corporations and hospitals including New Balance Athletic Shoes, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Diverse Education and Writing Mentors

As an undergraduate at MIT, Lisa Tener studied writing with the late Frank Conroy, during his tenure as Director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts (before he became Director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop), Broadway Playwright A.R. Gurney, Jr., and award-winning poets Jean Valentine and Gjertrud Schnackenberg. She earned her Master's degree from MIT's Sloan School of Management where she concentrated in marketing served as co-chair of the Marketing Club and . She earned her Bachelor's degree from MIT, where she minored in writing.

Lisa is trained in a number of holistic systems and practices that have informed the creative nature of her work:

• Lisa's most recent body of work is inspired by her study and practice of qigong, yoga, sufi dancing and other spiritual practices.
• Lisa's signature exercise, "Meet Your Muse" comes from studying indigenous shamanic practices.
• Anger-obics was inspired by her studies in alternative and complementary healing modalities, especially Polarity Therapy.