Launch Pad Co-Authors
Emma Dhesi
Emma Dhesi is a book coach and author mentor who specialises in helping beginner authors write their first novel. Through her 1:1 Emma guides you through story development, character evolution and provides written feedback on your work. She will navigate you through the emotional rollercoaster of finishing your first novel. For more hands-off help, Emma Read More
Grace Sammon
Grace Sammon is an author, radio host, entrepreneur, and educator. Recognized in “Who’s Who in Education” and “Who’s Who in Literature,” Grace utilized skills built up over decades to re-invent herself with her award-winning fourth book and debut novel – The Eves. Always committed to creative collaborations, Grace is the founder of Author Talk Network; Read More
Mary Helen Sheriff
Mary Helen Sheriff is the author of the award-winning southern women’s fiction, Boop and Eve’s Road Trip. She serves as an Author Marketing Coach, host of Growing Up Bookish, and the CEO of Bookish Road Trip. She has 14 years of teaching experience in elementary school, middle school, college, and professionals. She earned an MFA Read More
Stephanie Larkin
Stephanie Larkin is the founder and president of Red Penguin Books and Web Solutions, a book and web publication company for over a decade. She is the author of Write That Book!, 365 Reasons to Celebrate! and SCORE with Social Media. Stephanie is the host of television’s Technically Speaking, an award-winning educational cable TV series Read More
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Amy Ferris
Amy Ferris is an author, editor, screenwriter, and playwright. She has contributed to numerous magazines and literary anthologies, and her memoir Marrying George Clooney: Confessions From a Midlife Crisis was adapted into an off-Broadway play in 2012. Author. Writer. Girl. Director: The Story Summit Writer’s School Recipient-Women’s eNews Award: 21 Leaders for the 21st Century Honoree Read More
Carol Van Den Hende
CAROL VAN DEN HENDE is the award-winning author of the Goodbye, Orchid series, a public speaker, and MBA with 20+ years’ experience in marketing, strategy and insights. Carol has keynoted and presented at conferences like Writer’s Digest, IBPA, International Women’s Writing Guild, Rutgers Writers’ Conference, Novelists Inc. and Women Who Write. She’s also the founder Read More
Heather Davis
Dr. Heather Davis is a storyteller, Author Accelerator certified book coach, developmental editor, author platform expert, and the founder of The Kreative Authorpreneur. She helps diversity authors from all over the world create emotionally complex novels that resonate with readers and agents. Heather lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where she loves trail running, Read More
Janyre Tromp
Janyre Tromp is an in-house book editor by day and writer of historical novels with a healthy dose of lyrical intrigue at night. She’s the best-selling author of Shadows in the Mind’s Eye and co-author of both O Little Town and It’s a Wonderful Christmas. And that all happens from her unfinished basement when she’s not hanging out with her family, Read More
Joe Bunting
Joe Bunting is a WSJ Bestselling writer, dad, founder of The Write Practice, and author of Crowdsourcing Paris. He cries in every movie. Scenes are the basic building blocks of all stories. If you want to write a great book, start by writing great scenes! But how do you actually write great scenes, Read More
Kat Caldwell
Kat is a fiction writer, an Author Accelerator book coach and hostess of the Pencils&Lipstick podcast. Her passion is to help writers write their story through encouragement and honing their storytelling skills. In between conducting interviews for the Pencils&Lipstick podcast and writing her next novel, you can find Kat traveling the world, reading, or volunteering Read More
Lewis Jorstad
Lewis Jorstad is an author, editor, and story craft nerd who helps up-and-coming writers hone their writing skills over at The Novel Smithy. When he isn’t working on the next book in his Writer’s Craft series, you can find him playing old Gameboy games and baking homemade bagels. Find out more at www.thenovelsmithy.com Have you Read More
Linda Rosen
Fitness Professional turned novelist, Linda Rosen’s books are set in the “not-too-distant past” and examine how women reinvent themselves despite obstacles thrown their way. A central theme is that blood is not all that makes a family– and they always feature a piece of jewelry! Her novels, The Disharmony of Silence, Sisters of the Vine, Read More
Meredith R. Stoddard
Meredith R. Stoddard writes folklore-inspired fiction from her writing shed in Virginia. She studied literature and folk-lore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before working as a corporate trainer and instructional designer. Her love of storytelling is inspired by years spent listening to stories at her grandmother’s kitchen table. She also helps Read More
Samantha Skal
A fan of true crime and mysteries of all kinds, Samantha Skal (she/her) is a book coach and author from the beautiful Paci”c Northwest of the United States. She is proud to be an Author Accelerator Certified Fiction Book Coach who specializes in coaching thriller, mystery, and suspense authors from novel planning and twist brainstorming Read More
Stacy Juba
Stacy Juba, the founder of Shortcuts for Writers, helps fiction and creative nonfiction writers of all levels who want to simplify the writing and editing process so they can save time and money. She published her first novel at age eighteen, and over the years has written sweet and sassy chick lit novels, mysteries about Read More
Susanne Dunlap
Susanne Dunlap is a historical novelist and Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach. Her love of history began in academia with a PhD in music history from Yale. She soon decided it was much more fun to spin stories based on the remarkable figures and times she discovered than to write peer-reviewed articles, and published her Read More