Your Book Idea Diagnostic

“I’m so afraid of writing the wrong book.”

A keynote speaker said that to me recently. The fear is valid.

People do write the wrong book.

I once worked with a consultant who’d built a million-dollar-a-year practice. She handed me a finished draft of her book. We had to completely revise it from scratch.

Most people don’t see the invisible architecture that makes a book work.

Here’s the problem: Most people don’t know the decisions that need to be made, because when you read a good book, those strategic decisions are invisible to the reader.

Readers see a finished product: a Table of Contents, well-written chapters.

They don’t see the invisible work that underpins a book before it’s even begun.

With AI making it easier than ever to generate an outline, it's tempting to mistake a well-organized document for a well-positioned book.

Make the right decisions before you start.

A USA Today bestselling author told me that writing the book wasn’t the hardest part. The hardest part was the space between “I think I have a book in me” and “here’s the concept I’m moving forward with.”

You don't have to figure out those decisions alone.

With the right questions and strategic guidance, I can help you make intentional choices about your reader, your goals, and the place you want your book to occupy in the market.

So you’re not just writing a book.

You’re writing the book you want to be known for.

Let's start by getting the idea right.