Well-Published Writing Coach / Memoir Coach / Consultant
Janell Moon is an experienced writing coach / memoir coach / consultant based in San Francisco, CA. She is the print-published author of eleven books since 1996. Janell is currently accepting new writing and memoir coaching clients. Services are available both in person at her San Francisco office and over the telephone.
Coaching You Through the Writing Process: From Concept to Completion
Let’s get started on the book you have always wanted to write. Through the writing coaching process, we will determine your personal and/or universal themes, set goals to help you finish your manuscript, and get your book out in the world. I’ll share my expertise about the publishing industry and offer guidance, support, structure, and information to help you write a good book.
Areas of Expertise from Which to Choose:
- Clarify the story you want to tell
- Decide on audience
- Decide on process
- Set project goals
- Creative visualization to write chapters, if desired
- Read chapters orally for feedback on story and voice
- Shape manuscript
- Navigate publishing industry for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
- Increase chances for success with national poetry contests
- Use journal writing for source-work
- Use of writing for well-being
- Counseling or hypnotherapy for writer’s block, author focus, if requested
Why Do You Need a Memoir Coach?
Memoir coaching can help you in so many ways. Just the act of writing a memoir creates a witness to your life experience. It says, “I am here, I lived through this, and it is important. This may help you.”
Memoir writing as healing can also be done in a literary style with some attention to craft on the second draft. A memoir coach can help you with this.
Why You Should Hire Janell as Your Memoir Coach
Janell is highly qualified to be a memoir coach. She taught memoir writing at the College of Marin and San Francisco City College. Her own personal memoir was published in 2011, Salt and Paper. Janell has been internationally published from memoir short stories to narrative poems. She realizes that memoir writing can be a healing process and can also put important ideas and experiences into the world.
Janell is available to work as your memoir coach by phone, in-person, or interviewing you, as you tell the story. She can give you the guidance that you can use as a first draft resource. She can also find you someone to ghost write your story for a finding fee.
415-824-2490 San Francisco / 510-594-6036 Berkeley
janellmoon@gmail.com
Janell Moon is the author of four nonfiction/inspiration/self-help books including Stirring the Waters: Writing to Find Your Spirit, published by Charles Tuttle, which was nominated for the Nautilus Prize as one of the five best spiritual books of 2001. Elements, a HarperCollinsUK imprint, published How to Pray Without Being Religious. The Wise Earth Speaks to Your Spirit, published by RedWheel/Weiser, was voted by Spirituality and Health Magazine as one of the best spirituality books of 2005. The Prayer Box of rituals was published by Red Wheel/Weiser.
Moon’s memoir, Salt and Paper is forthcoming in 2010 from RAW ArT PRESS. Riding Free in a Blue Studebaker is Janell Moon’s sixth booth of poetry, selected for publication as part of Main Street Rag’s 2007 National Poetry Contest. She is a San Francisco Bay Area Poet for Peace, counselor, writing coach/consultant, memoir coach, clinical hypnotherapist, and college instructor.
