People often struggle with their book concept: “How do I write the book that brings my vision to life and creates transformation for my readers and for me?” “How do I write a book that takes my business to the next level?” How about a book that launches your new business or helps you make a career pivot?
One of my most popular offerings is a Book Concept Consultation, because it helps you answer these questions. In this process, you’ll clarify your vision for the book, get into your readers’ minds (and be clear who they are, and conceptualize and structure an exceptional book that can bring your vision to life. The consultaton also offers you a feel for working with me before making a bigger commitment such as a coaching program or book proposal package.
My Highly Effective Book Concept Development Process
The Book Concept Consultation takes you through a process:
A Book Concept Consultation clarified this book’s focus, audience, features and inspired the winning title! The proposal led to a 6-figure book deal!
Quick Start to Kick Start Your Book: Work through a series of exercises and lessons that help you think about your book in ways that tend to produce an exceptional book that meets the vision and goals you’ve set forth for yourself. You’ll get clear on vision/mission, audience, features, structure, voice and more. Bonus: If you have more than one book idea, it can help you choose which book to write first.
Get Your Writing Done (optional): You are invited to attend my Get Your Writing Done program group calls (formerly Bring Your Book to Life(R)) at no extra charge for a full month to get into a state of flow and make progress with working through the exercises. You also have the opportunity to ask questions and get laser coaching during those sessions (offered twice a week).
Fill out and return the Book Concept Questionnaire two days (or more) before our call to help prepare us both for the call. I will use that time to make notes, brainstorm ideas and develop a plan for our session.
2 Hour Book Concept Consultation Session: Meet with me on Zoom to clarify your book concept and structure, a chapter template (if desired), get coaching on any specific challenges you are having (such as self-doubt, making time, certain artistic choices, etc).
Let’s walk through each component in more detail…
Quick Start to Kick Start Your Book
I created my self-study course, Quick Start to Kick Start Your Book, to help you answer the questions posed earlier and:
Nautilus Book Award-winning client, Rhonda Spencer-Hwang
Identify the best match for target audience.
Gain clarity on your readership’s demographics, pain points and desires, so the book you write matches their needs.
Choose features and format that make your book engaging to readers and help them get the most out of the book (making your book both effective and highly recommendable!)
Realize how to make your book stand out and succeed.
Get clear on content—what goes in the book and what you save for the next book, an accompanying ebook, website content or a paid course or program!
Create your book’s outline and, if desired, a template for typical chapters.
Get Your Writing Done
This aspect of the Book Concept Consultation package is entirely optional. However, if you are:
Struggling to find time to work on your book
Looking for a way to get into a flow flow state for your most inspired and creative work
Interested in working through the Quick Start exercise in a session where you can ask me questions while you work
Excited about being part of a community of people working on similar goals
then make some time on your calendar to join us for several Get Your Writing Done sessions. We currently meet Wednesday evenings 7-9 pm ET (4-6 pm PT) and Thursdays 11:30 – 1:30 ET (8:30 – 10:30 PT). While we spend most of our time writing (which can include working through Quick Start or writing a chapter or a book proposal section), there is some time for sharing insights, asking/answering questions, or even a bit of laser coaching.
While sessions are two hours long, it is fine to come for only the first or second hour, as each hour is a complete experience. However, if you can swing the full two hours, you may find you get more than twice as much done!
While this program is normally $249/month, you receive a month of the program at no additional charge when you sign up for a Book Concept Consultation. That’s up to 8 two-hour sessions and up to 700 minutes of working on your book concept, structure and writing. Imagine how much you can accomplished, writing in a flow state and having access to my powerful tools, a supportive community and immediate answers to your questions!
The Difference Between Writing a Good Book and a Great One
While you can purchase Quick Start to Kick Start Your Book for $97 as its own separate program, most aspiring authors benefit greatly from a book concept consultation after working through the Quick Start exercises. In your book concept consultation we will:
Discuss your current thinking on all the bullet points above, and apply them to both market forces, your vision and my experience with books of your type.
Answer any questions about the book concept and structure that you’re struggling with, so you can get clarity by the end of our call.
Brainstorm new ideas to make your book stand out. Here’s where we often come up with features or concepts that make your book exceptional. My clients’ many award-winning books and 5- and 6-figure book deals are testament to that.
Upgrade your title. “The Creativity Cure” and “The Secret Language of Cells” are examples of the powerful titles co-created during a consultation.
Overcome anything that might be getting in the way of making progress on your book (from imposter syndrome to procrastination to structure issues and more).
Tap into your own inner knowing through a powerful exercise I call “Meet Your Muse” —a guided visualization that connects you with your creative source for answers. More about that below.
Meet Your Muse and Tap into Your Creative Genius and Inner Knowing
My muse often appears to me as a wise woman offering alphabet soup. (AI generated image)
While this is an optional aspect of the Book Concept Consultation, many authors say it’s a game changer—empowering, exciting, potent and yielding phenomenal results. In the last half hour or so of your session, I’ll walk you through an exercise to help you bypass linear thinking and tap into your inner wisdom, intuition and creative source for additional information about your book.
If you have felt “stuck” in any way, this process can free you and cause a breakthrough in creativity and productivity.
Added Takeaways!
In your consultation, we can tackle one (and possibly more) of these additional and exhilarating goals:
Carrie Barron, author of The Creativity Cure, and me at Carrie’s NYC book launch. The title emerged in Carrie’s Book Concept Consultation!
Explore and choose your publishing path.
Brainstorm business ideas that bring in income while fueling book sales.
Come up with a platform-building strategy, particularly if you want to attract a traditional publisher / literary agent.
Perform a website audit and suggest ways to use your website to grow your community/ mailing list and attract publishers.
Identify a fitting gift/lead magnet/free offer to grow your list of people likely to buy your book when it comes out.
After working through all or part of Quick Start, you’ll prepare for your consultation by filling out a questionnaire and sending it to me at least two days before our call, so I can also prepare and spend time thinking about your book and letting ideas bubble up! In your questionnaire you can let me know what you want to get out of our consultation and any specific questions you want me to consider before our call.
Sign Up For Your Consultation
Sign up for your consultation and you will receive:
Quick Start Quick Start to Kick Start Your Book self-study program
This program takes you step-by-step through how to structure, start, write and format that great book you have inside of you.
An invitation to my twice-weekly Get Your Writing Done sessions
These consultations are limited to four per month; so save your place now. We are currently booking for April. As soon as you sign up, you can work through the Quick Start exercises and join our Get Your Writing Done sessions.
Note: If you sign up for a consultation package by August 2, I will automatically include the publishing decision at no extra cost (a $300 add-on). So, use the first button when you sign up, even if you want to add on the publishing choice support, in which case you’ll save $300).
Or Sign Up for a Book Concept Consultation that Includes the Publishing Path Decision
Sign up for the dual consultation and you will receive:
Quick Start Quick Start to Kick Start Your Book self-study program
This program takes you step-by-step through how to structure, start, write and format that great book you have inside of you.
An invitation to my twice-weekly Get Your Writing Done sessions
The Book Concept Questionnaire
My preparation time before we talk
2 hour Book Concept Consultation with me
Up to a half hour of additional discussion to help you choose the optimal publishing path based on your vision, goals, existing platform, book concept, and skill set.
Investment: $1,800
Sign Up Now for a Book Concept Consultation ($1500)
If you have read this far but your issue is more of feeling stuck and needing support to break through a creative block, email me to find out more about a “Meet Your Muse” session ($295 for 1/2 hour, $575 for one hour; all sessions come with a preparation questionnaire and we both spend time preparing beforehand).
Note: I know that these are challenging times financially for many people. If my pricing is not in your budget, reach out to me to let me know your needs and I can recommend a colleague who is an excellent book coach and less expensive.
Testimonials
First Draft in Just 7 Days! Now, Published.
Dr. Stephanie O’Leary “When I scheduled a ‘Book Concept and Strategy Consultation’ with Lisa Tener, I thought I would get some great advice on my concept for a parenting book. I walked away with a clear vision for Parenting in the Real World, tremendous inspiration and the confidence to follow my dream of becoming an author.
“When I sat down to write my manuscript, it was done in just seven days!
“I sought out Lisa’s expertise again and was fortunate to work with her on the editing process. She exceeded all of my expectations and her down to earth style helped me relax and trust in the process. I felt supported, respected and knew that Lisa valued my work as much as I did.
“Lisa went out of her way to ensure that my ‘voice’ came through and has continued to support me even after the project wrapped up.
“My book is now published, was available weeks ahead of schedule, and has all 5 Star Reviews on Amazon. Lisa Tener was an integral part of this journey and I can’t wait to work with her on my next book!”
— Stephanie O’Leary, Psy.D., Author of Parenting in the Real World
One Coaching Call “Made All the Difference” – Published by Routledge!
“I reached out to Lisa for coaching after getting many rejections from publishers. In just one consultation, Lisa encouraged me and gave me actionable steps that made all the difference.
“This included specific advice on creating an author website (and what is needed), suggestions for developing my platform, including writing articles for Kevin MD and other venues, and responding to reporter queries. With Lisa’s advice, instead of giving up, I pressed on, developed a stronger platform and received an offer from Routledge which published my book in October, 2021.”
— Christine Ko, MD, Author of How to Improve Doctor-Patient Connection: Using Psychology to Optimize Healthcare Interactions
The highlight of the call was when Mike gave specific advice to each person on the call. He had some great ideas for book titles and gave a good reminder that, when coming up with a title, “Don’t sell the problem. Sell the solution.”
Mike reminded us all that every talk, blog post and podcast is “an opportunity to test your book title with your market.”
One conversation centered on the question of how niche or broad to go with the book’s concept, audience and, therefore, title. If you go too broad, you risk the potential of losing your core audience. Yet, a bigger market can mean more sales—IF you are able to reach the larger market and not dilute the message or confuse readers about who and what the book is for.
It reminds me of a client who wrote a terrific book about a system that worked for depression, anxiety and addiction. When we approached his dream publisher, a mid-sized and somewhat niche house for psychology books, the acquisitions editor who bought the book said, “Pick one. In our experience we have trouble selling a book that has too many problems it solves. We do best with books that solve one problem.” He pointed out that a big five publishing house might be able to swing the more diverse audience but their audience would do best with the more niche book.
The author picked the problem the acquisitions editor was most excited about and the book was published successfully. Of course, it’s always important to listen to your intuition. At the same time, do be open to expert advice. I find, in general, that the authors who are flexible and listen to their book coach, literary agent and acquisitions editor, then check in with their gut, are the most successful and fulfilled in their book writing and publishing journeys.
Are you struggling with audience, title or both? Ask questions or share insights below!
How to Get Started Writing a Book: How to Pin Down a Book Idea
As we approach the start of the Bring Your Book to Life® Program, I find myself leading many book concept consultations in order to help people pin down a book idea and get started writing. Are you wondering how to clarify your book idea?
You may wonder:
“How do I get clear about what my book is—and what it’s not?”
“How do I get started on my book?”
“What is my book idea at its essence?”
“What do I need to know before I start writing?”
“What happens in a book concept consultation?”
Good questions!
Book concept consultations vary depending on the needs of the emerging author. However, there are some foundational questions we usually cover, as well as some themes that often emerge.
In this post, I’d like to share both the structure and focus of a typical book concept consultation as well as provide some common insights and inspirational takeaways that may help you on your book writing journey and, in particular, to help to choose a book idea and pin down content, details and structure.
Preparing for a Book Concept Consultation
When you register for a private consultation or my Bring Your Book to Life® Program, you’ll immediately receive a questionnaire to help us both prepare for our call together. In the questionnaire, you’ll answer a variety of questions about your book ideas, your long term vision and goals, and your hopes for your readers. People often share that as soon as they began answering the questions, the haze lifted and their path became clearer.
In addition to the questionnaire, for those not in my premiere programs, many writers decide to purchase Quick Start to Kick Start Your Book, a $97 -$116 workbook/course that helps you with the early stages of book writing, to gain clarity about your foundational book concept and structure before you begin writing. Quick Start addresses some of the information in the questionnaire at a deeper level and with exercises.
Once you work through Quick Start and answer the questions in the questionnaire, you’re ready for your book concept consultation.
What Happens in a Book Concept Consultation?
A book concept consultation often begins with exploring your vision for the book (what it will do for you, your readers, your business and/or work in the world, and the broader community and world). Sometimes you gain additional clarity, or realize a new aspect of the vision you hadn’t recognized before.
Usually a book concept occurs by phone or skype but occasionally we meet in person.
We explore who your target audience—or core readers—are for this book. We discuss which audience of several may be most aligned with your vision. Be prepared for possible surprises from your inner muse (more about your muse shortly).
If you have multiple book ideas, we discuss which idea might match your goals best, which may be most marketable, which might be easiest to start with, and other important considerations. We clarify the content, features, tone of the book, and also what maybe doesn’t fit in this particular book—what to leave out for another book or for blog posts and courses, for instance.
We also address the underlying structure of your book: What might work best for your readers to learn and integrate the material? What might be most appealing and marketable to your readers? What may make it easiest to write, especially if this is your first book of many.
Other important issues that come up in a consultation include self-doubt and related concerns.
“Do I have what it takes to write this book?”
“Will anyone likely read or buy it?”
“Is this book truly needed?”
“Am I delusional?” [Hint: you’re probably not delusional.]
And we address any decisions you’ve been grappling with:
“Do I tell other people I’m writing this book or keep it a secret for a while?”
“Do I work with a co-author or on my own?”
“Should I write a memoir or make it more of a self-help book?”
Your questions will likely be very specific to you and your book. They come up in the questionnaire and also as we discuss your book. I take them down so we can explore once in conversation and once in a guided visualization I call “Meet Your Muse.” Did I mention I’ll share more about your muse later?
Self-publish or Traditionally Publish?
Many people also wonder whether to self-publish or traditionally publish. It’s helpful to get clarity on your publishing decision early on, since the two options diverge after you clarify your book concept, structure or outline and one or two sample chapters. After that you either write the book (if self publishing) or the book proposal (if traditionally publishing).
We take several factors into account to get clarity including your vision and goals, the marketability of your book, how competitive the market is for this type of book, the current size of your community or platform, your willingness to do what it takes to grow said platform (and whether that’s something you are going to enjoy) and more.
Insights and Takeaways
Insights, of course, vary from call to call but here are a few common insights I’ve observed over time:
“I wouldn’t have the desire to write this book if I didn’t have it in me to write it.”
“I’m more creative than I realized.”
“This could actually be fun!”
“This is going to be easier than I thought. I have access to something within me I didn’t even realize was there.”
“I have more than one book here!”
Time to Meet Your Muse
Usually, we meet the muse in the woods, but perhaps your muse is at the ocean!
Once we have explored the issues above, we often embark upon a journey of sorts—a guided visualization I call “Meet Your Muse” in which we consult your inner muse for guidance on all of the above questions.
“What’s a muse?” I think of your muse as your inner creative source—an aspect of you that has access to wisdom beyond your everyday mind, that’s infinitely creative, that offers a deeper sense of knowing. Some people experience the muse as being within them and others feel like it comes from outside of them. Doesn’t matter. It’s all the same. We all have different ways of experiencing the muse.
Your muse may show up in symbolic form—a wise being, a religious figure, a totem animal, a thing. Or you may experience your muse as more of a felt sense of connecting with something. You may hear an inner voice (and it may sound just like your regular voice-inside-your-head). When we’re doing the exercise, you provide a few hints when you’re in your head (“I think…”) or your heart/muse (“I feel, I see, I hear…”).
Sometimes your muse confirms our initial ideas, and other times your muse adds additional information or inspiration. At times, your muse—your inner guidance—may tell us the opposite of what we thought. And I’ve learned to trust that.
The “Meet Your Muse” part of our call is often especially powerful. It puts you in touch with a resource that will help you throughout your entire book-writing and publishing journey—your creative source.
Curious about the muse? Here’s how one client found the creative space to write her book, after her writing practice fell apart, by listening to her muse.
Feel free to share how you access your inner guidance and ask any questions you have about how to choose and develop your book idea.
Grappling with Your Book Concept and Other Writing Challenges
Working on Teri’s book concept during her VIP Day.
I love this time of year. As I gear up for teaching my Bring Your Book to Life® Program, several early-bird registrants have had their first book concept consultation this week. Common themes emerge—perhaps some themes you are grappling with yourself:
“Who am I to write a book? Can I do this? Will anyone read it?”
“I’m not even sure what this book is. It feels so vague right now.”
“Who’s my target market? Moms? Business owners? I can’t decide.”
“I have so many ideas. What’s the right one?”
“How do I find my voice as a writer? How do I make this book stand out from everything else out there? Is there a way to find my essence as a writer?”
These are all great questions to be asking. And, yet, if you ask them from a place of fear, or wanting to control the process or a sense of rigidity, they will muddle everything. If you think there is one right answer and you need it now, you push the clarity away. If you ask from a place of openness and curiosity, of ease and gentleness, not needing an immediate answer, you draw the clarity to you.
You will get clear. Maybe not right way. You may need to play around, experiment, trust.
And then, it will come.
Book Writing Advice
Be relaxed. Stay open and curious.
So much of the time, we are in our heads when thinking about our books—overthinking. Our best writing comes from our hearts. I don’t mean fluffy or vague ooey-gooey writing. Just writing from a place where you embody your book, your stories, your teachings, your wisdom and knowledge.
You may want to practice walking in nature, running, qigong, tai chi, yoga, dance, lifting weights or meditation before writing. In that way, you tap into a more expansive sense of who you are and your connection to all that is. You can let go of the part of the mind that strives and embrace the part of you that exists in a state of flow.
Try it! And feel free to share any practices that help you get clarity. Or ask any questions you have about writing a book.
I thought I knew what book she “should” write before we consulted her creative muse.
I was wrong.
It happens.
And that’s why I love my process for helping new authors clarify their book concept: they look within for their final answers.
Here’s another book whose author got clarity by consulting her creative muse.
Your Book Concept: The Whats of Your Book
What do I mean by book concept? Think of it as the “whats” of your book:
What’s your vision for what your book will accomplish in the world, in your readers’ lives and in your own life?
What’s your book about?
Who’s it for? (Or what’s the target market if you want to be a stickler about the “whats”?)
What features do you want to include?
What content do you plan for it?
What fits and what should you save for an in depth course or private consulting or the next book?
What’s the structure of your book?
What method of publishing do you choose?
I like to have clients determine the whats well before writing. You’ll save much time and heartache by doing this kind of planning first.
And so, these are the questions we tackle during the book concept consultation.
The Creative Muse Process
We start with your vision and work from there. I share what I know about the publishing industry and help an author evaluate whether to plan on self publishing or whether their book is a likely candidate for traditional publishing (and what it would take to get there).
We brainstorm ideas to make the book fresh and resonant for the target audience. We get creative.
As we go, we make a list of questions for the author’s creative muse—her creative source, her highest guidance, her inner knowing.
At that point, I guide the author in my favorite exercise, which I call, “Meet Your Muse.”
I asked the author to ask her creative muse to, “Show me my readers.”
These readers were younger than we expected. They were a completely different market from that of the primary book she planned to write. And the content was completely different as well!
Your muse may be a totem animal, wise being or just a felt sense of connecting with something greater than yourself.
Yet, her muse remained firm. “These are your people.”
So we went with it and she got more clarity on the content, title, motivations and even her big picture business plan. WOW.
A few times she said, “I think…” and I knew she was back in her head and it wasn’t her creative muse speaking. We returned to the muse and got a consistent and inspiring message.
When I asked her how it felt to see herself making this her primary focus she said, “Light. It feels right.”
My Bring Your Book to Life students are preparing for the start of book writing class next month. They’re researching their markets, creating the vision for the their books, and starting to outline. Some are calling me for their book concept consultation.
I love the consultations as we brainstorm to take good ideas and make them even better. Today was no exception–fun and creative. The possibilities for this book seemed endless.
Eight hours after today’s session, I received a desperate e-mail with the above subject line, “Help, someone already wrote my book.” The book covered exactly the material my student planned to cover…and the author–someone with similar credentials–seemed to have a very similar take on the subject.
My advice, “Don’t panic. Your book will have its own voice and flavor. Sounds like he does a good job, but maybe by adding a brief story to the start of each chapter, your book will have something his doesn’t. And the forms will be an excellent addition.”
In fact, when publishers and agents consider a book, they want to know there are other books like yours out there. They’re very concerned when there aren’t! If there are no books like yours, there may be no market.
Students finding their unique voice in the "in-person" version of my book writing class
At the same time, if your book is exactly like another book, why write it? You want to add something unique to what’s out there. How do you do that?
1. Go back to your readers. What do they want and need? Are there ways to give that to them? Perhaps your book will have stories that address readers’ concerns, or you’ll add another two chapters that the other person missed, or you have a new point of view on certain topics. Perhaps your book is more experiential and offers exercises or journal prompts.
After all these centuries, books still sell.
2. Trust in your unique writer’s voice. Your tone should capture your personality in a way that meets a need of your audience (humor, emotion, a degree of irreverence, or playfulness, for instance). It may take time to find your voice, but trust that you will.
We can go back to Ecclesiastes to find, “There is nothing new under the sun.” Yet, there are fresh ways of saying things or books would have stopped selling a more than a century ago.
An aspiring author recently called me to explore writing coaching to help him write his book. He wondered about hiring a ghostwriter. Generally, I’m all about writing your book yourself. I’ve met too many people who’ve hired ghostwriters and been disappointed.
And most relatively smart people can develop an engaging (or even compelling) style and find their authentic voice as a writer by learning a few important skills with the help of a writing coach or editor. The only reasons to hire a ghostwriter is if you’ve gotten solid expert help and you still can’t write or you just don’t have the time.
This person didn’t have much time. His question was critical. Could he find the time to write his book?
It can take years to write a book and I know people who’ve written books in a manner of weeks. In my book writing classes, some students have a first draft within eight or ten weeks. Some never finish at all; others can take months to write their book.
Writing a book as quickly as eight weeks assumes that either you don’t need to do much research for the book, or you write your first draft without doing much research and then you do the research afterward (or have someone else do some of the research for you).
You’ll write faster (and you’ll write a better book) if you spend time before the writing to clarify your goals in writing a book, the audience or market for the book, the book concept, including features, tone, how the book fits in with what’s currently out there, and the outline of your book.
How fast you write a book also depends on how much time you commit per week. However, just because you devote yourself full time to writing doesn’t mean you’ll have your book any sooner than someone who has a full time job. Sometimes the people with demanding jobs are the best at making the most of the 30 or 90 minutes a day they devote to writing a book.
While I can’t tell you how long it will take you to write your book, I do know that those who consistently make writing appointments in their calendars and hold themselves to it (often with the support of a writing buddy, book coach or a book writing class) can often predict, after a few weeks, how soon they’ll have a first draft.
This proud author wrote his book in record time. And he swears he didn't hire a ghostwriter.
If you’re wondering how long it will take to write a book, I suggest you spend time to clarify the market and book concept, outline the book and then write for two to three weeks. Be consistent about your weekly commitment and see how much you accomplish in that time. At that point you should be able to project how long it will take you to complete writing your book.
If, in that time, you get little accomplished, you’ll also realize it’s a good idea to reach out for more help in whatever form works best for you–writing buddy, writing group at a local library, a book writing class, an editor or a writing coach.
Just get started and your answer will become clearer. And, at some point, you’ll know exactly how long it takes to write your book–you’ll be holding that book in your hands.
Meet the Team
My Publisher Tamara Monosoff: From the gorgeous cover to inner design, to the original inspiration for QR codes and putting every single one of those crazy videos on my website, and guiding me patiently throughout the process, Tamara is my dream publisher. Thank you!
The most talented photographer in the world, Seth Jacobson
PR Trainers Chris Winfield, Jen Gottlieb, Brittany Sisko, and the entire community at the Be Seen Accelerator
Beta Readers: Joshua Home Edwards, Tracy Hart, Stephanie Meyers, Laurie Hunt, LiDona Wagner, Mia Potter, Gael Johnson, Amber Hanks, Melissa Sones, Gael-Sylvia Pullen, and Paula Schonewald. I hope I did not leave anyone out—if I did please let me know so I can add you here!
Title Support Howard Van Es, Tamara Monosoff, Lorraine Segal, Tama Kieves, Kristin Meekhof.
Launch Consulting Howard Van Es
My Health and Wellbeing Posse who helped me survive the stress-induced health challenges I encountered on the way
Dear Friends Johannah Cremin (and her prayer circle) and Virginia Swain; Qigong teacher, Leah Franklin, and the lineage of Mei Hua Qigong masters from whom she learned; dream shaman Kari Hohne; loving guide, Linda Yael Schiller; acupuncturists Nancy Graham and Patricia Gilmartin; Lynne Ahn, MD and John McGonigle, MD; dowser, Erina Cowan; and special friends Linda Broadhead and Seraina Wood.
Book Ambassadors: Louise Brownell
Podcasters, Show Hosts and Early Adopters: Dan Janal, Sharon Burton Ways, Josh Steimle, Leslie Draffin, Robin Kall
Bloggers and Blogs: San Francisco Writers Conference, Jane Friedman, Nina Amir, Howard Van Es
My Supportive Family: Tom, Will, and Luke Patterson, and Mimi Sammis, you are the lights in my life! Tener and Arnold families, and the Patterson-Potters and Pattersons
My many colleagues from Harvard Medical School’s CME publishing and women in healthcare leadership courses—director Julie Silver, et al.
All my students!
All my amazing writing colleagues
Intellectual property advice, Attorney Dana Newman
A special thank you to my many clients and colleagues who gave me permission to quote their wonderful words in this journal
The brave souls who appear in the accompanying videos.
I could probably go on thanking deserving people for another twenty pages, so for those not listed, please know you have my gratitude.
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Dr. Stephanie O’Leary
“When I sat down to write my manuscript, it was done in just seven days!“I sought out Lisa’s expertise again and was fortunate to work with her on the editing process. She exceeded all of my expectations and her down to earth style helped me relax and trust in the process. I felt supported, respected and knew that Lisa valued my work as much as I did.
“Lisa went out of her way to ensure that my ‘voice’ came through and has continued to support me even after the project wrapped up.“My book is now published, was available weeks ahead of schedule, and has all 5 Star Reviews on Amazon. Lisa Tener was an integral part of this journey and I can’t wait to work with her on my next book!”
“I sought out Lisa’s expertise again and was fortunate to work with her on the editing process. She exceeded all of my expectations and her down to earth style helped me relax and trust in the process. I felt supported, respected and knew that Lisa valued my work as much as I did.
“I reached out to Lisa for coaching after getting many rejections from publishers. In just one consultation, Lisa encouraged me and gave me actionable steps that made all the difference.
Do you have questions about your book title, the audience for your book, and how niche or broad to go?
In addition to the questionnaire, for those not in my premiere programs, many writers decide to purchase 
