How Shall We Walk Together?
Every writer arrives in a different place, and every book asks for something a little different along the way.
Below are three ways we can work together. Scroll through each offering and notice which kind of support feels right for you and your book in this season.
When you’re ready, the green button within each offering will guide you to your next step.
the conversation
Sometimes your book needs a conversation before it needs another chapter.
There may be an idea that keeps finding you.
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You may have been collecting stories, notes, questions, and fragments for years and are beginning to wonder what they want to become.
You may already be writing and have reached a place where the path feels harder to see.
Or you may simply know there is a book asking for your attention, and you're ready to sit with someone who knows how to listen for it.
Bring me your book exactly as it is.
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For 90 spacious minutes, we'll listen together.
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We'll explore what's calling for your attention, follow the threads running through your ideas, and spend time with the questions that feel most alive. We might talk about your reader, your voice, the shape of the book, what belongs, what feels tangled, or what you're being invited to write next.
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You don't need a polished manuscript, a perfect outline, or complete clarity about what your book will become.
You simply need something asking to be explored.​
what our conversation holds...
A little listening before we meet.
Before our conversation, I'll invite you to share a few reflections about you, your book, and what you'd most love to explore together. You'll also have space to share pages, notes, an outline, or anything else that will help me meet your book before we gather.
90 minutes together.
This is spacious, private time for you and your book. We'll follow what emerges, ask meaningful questions, untangle what feels tangled, notice the threads that keep returning, and listen for what wants your attention next.
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A reflection to carry with you.
Afterward, I'll gather the threads I heard, along with questions, possibilities, and resources that may support your next season of writing.
this may be for you if...
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You can feel a book beginning to stir and want space to explore what it might become.
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You've accumulated years of ideas and want help finding the thread.
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You're questioning the direction, structure, voice, or heart of a book already underway.
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You're standing at a crossroads with your book and want a thoughtful companion for the discernment.
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You've been away from your writing and are ready to find your way back.
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Or you simply want to spend 90 minutes talking about your book with someone who will listen deeply.
That's enough reason to come.
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SPECIAL NOTE:
One conversation may be exactly what you need. And our time together may reveal that you'd like someone to keep walking beside you.
If you choose to continue with The Companion, your $511 investment will apply toward your first month.
“There are many ways to move a book forward.
A conversation can reveal the thread.
A companion can help you stay close to it.
A circle can remind you that you don’t have to write alone.”
the companion
There comes a point in some writing journeys when a single conversation isn't what the book is asking for.
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You want someone to stay close.
Someone who knows the stories you've been circling, the questions beneath the questions, the places where your voice comes alive, and the threads that keep finding their way onto the page.
The Companion is my most intimate way of working with a writer.
For six months, I stay close to you and your book as it takes shape. I read alongside you, listen for the threads, reflect what I'm noticing, ask meaningful questions, and help you make sense of the pieces when they feel scattered.
We can explore voice, structure, audience, positioning, proposals, publishing possibilities, and the practical decisions that arise as you bring a book into the world.
And we'll tend the writer, too.
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Writing a meaningful book can ask us to remember, reveal, question, grieve, choose, trust, and change. We'll make room for what the writing is stirring in you, while continuing to nurture the words asking to be written.
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As the pages take shape, so does the writer.
what our season together holds...
A Deep Beginning
We’ll begin with a spacious Book + Writer session to meet you, your book, and the season you’re entering together. We’ll explore what’s already taking shape, what feels alive, and where your attention wants to go.
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Ongoing Companionship
Twice each month, we’ll gather for private Book Doula conversations shaped by what’s actually happening with you and your book. Between our sessions, we’ll stay connected so questions, discoveries, and tender moments have somewhere to land.
Reading + Reflection
You’ll share pages with me along the way. I’ll read with the larger book in mind... listening for your voice, the threads that keep returning, what feels especially alive, and what may be asking for greater clarity or room to unfold.
Tending the Book + the Writer
Together, we can explore voice, structure, audience, positioning, proposals, publishing possibilities, and the practical questions that arise as your book grows. And we’ll make room for what the writing is stirring in you, too...because as the pages take shape, so does the writer.
an intentionally intimate offering...
I work with only two Companion authors at a time.
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That is intentional.
To walk beside you in this way, I need room to know your book. Time to remember what we’ve been exploring, stay connected to the pages you’re writing, hold the questions you’re living inside, and arrive at our conversations already knowing where we’ve been...
For six months, your book will have a place in my attention, too.
the companion
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Six-month commitment
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Limited to two authors at a time
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One-Year Membership in the Red Threads Collective​​
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Because this is such an intimate way of working together, we'll begin with a conversation. We'll talk about you, your book, where you are in the journey, and what kind of support you're longing for. We'll listen together for whether The Companion feels like the right next step for both of us.
$2222/month
the circle
A place to write your book. A circle to help you keep becoming its writer.
There are parts of writing a book that ask for solitude.
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And there are parts that become easier when you are surrounded by women who understand what it means to carry words that matter.
The Circle brings both together.
This is an intimate community of women writing meaningful books in many forms and at many stages. We gather twice each month to make space for the writing itself—and for the conversations, questions, encouragement, witnessing, and connection that help us keep returning to it.
Because while we each write our own words, we don’t have to write them alone.
our rhythm together...
First Tuesday · Writing Circle
Protected time to actually write. We’ll arrive together, name what we’re tending, and then settle into our own words in quiet company. Cameras can go off. Tea can be poured. Come exactly as you are.
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Third Tuesday · Authors Circle
We gather around our virtual table to share what’s unfolding, celebrate what’s moving, ask for support, and hear one another’s words. Bring pages you want to read aloud, a question you’re carrying, something you’re discovering, or simply yourself.
Beyond Our Gatherings
The Circle stays connected between the first and third Tuesdays, too.
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You’ll have access to our private online community and group chat. Both are places to share questions, discoveries, celebrations, and the moments when a little encouragement helps you return to the page. Along the way, I’ll also share resources, tools, and trusted sources from within and beyond our Circle to support your writing journey.
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In January, you’ll receive a DIY Writing Retreat to move through in your own rhythm. Later in the year, we’ll gather for a Virtual Writing Retreat, giving us a longer stretch of protected time to sink into our books together.
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Because connection with your book - and with one another - doesn’t have to end when we leave the Zoom room.
your words are welcome here...
One of the most beautiful things I’ve witnessed in our Circle is what happens when a woman reads her words aloud.
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The words don’t have to be finished.
They simply get to be heard.
You might bring pages from your book, morning pages, poetry, a scene, an introduction, a proposal, or something you’re still finding your way through.
And before you read, I’ll ask:
How would you like us to receive your words today?
You might want us simply to witness... to share what stayed with us... to sit with a question... or to offer gentle feedback.
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You get to choose what kind of listening your words need.
a circle tended by a book doula...
I’ll be there to tend the space, listen for the threads, bring meaningful questions, offer resources when they’re useful, and help us notice what is emerging in our books and in ourselves as writers.
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This is also where the wisdom of the circle matters.
Your fellow writers become women who understand the strange, beautiful experience of bringing a book into the world... women who notice when your voice gets stronger, celebrate the page that finally arrived, remember what you said you wanted to tend, and remind you that your book still matters when writing it feels hard.
Sometimes the greatest gift we offer one another is the courage to go first.
the circle
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Two Monthly Virtual Gatherings
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Two Annual Virtual Writing Retreats
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Access to resources/tools
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Private Group and Chat Space​
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One-Year Membership in the
Red Threads Collective
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Next, fill out this short form to start the process of joining the circle. Click the green button, and let the journey begin!
$191/month
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