Episode 181: The Business of Educating Writers With Jennie Nash

Ever wonder if writing a book fits you? Or have you thought of educating writers using your skill in writing? Book coach Jennie Nash is here with us today to share her tips and resources for our book coach and book writer aspirants!

Jennie talks about:

• Book writing
• Educating writers who want to write a book
• What exactly being a writer is
• Why people get into writing
• How the Blueprint Method helps anybody who might be thinking about starting a book
• Your ‘why’ or the reasons why you want to write a book
• Resources for writers who want to become a book coach
• Why Jennie chooses educating writers as her niche

About Jennie Nash

Jennie Nash is the founder and CEO of Author Accelerator, a company on a mission to lead the emerging book coaching industry. Author Accelerator has trained more than 100 book coaches in both fiction and nonfiction through their book Coaching Certification Program. Jennie’s own book coaching clients have landed top New York agents and six-figure book deals with Big 5 houses such as Penguin, Scribner, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette, and won dozens of national indie book awards. Client KJ Dell’Antonia became an instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick in 2020, and in 2021, Client Jenn Lim, hit the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Jennie is the author of 10 books in 3 genres.

Valuable Resources in She Uses in Educating Writers

Jennie shared two resources that she uses in educating writers to write a book. Both have 14-step processes  and philosophy that she teaches and adheres to, which is that you have to think before you write. 

• Grab this Blueprint for a Book worksheet to help set you up for writing your own book.
• Blueprint for a Nonfiction Book: Plan and Pitch Your Big Idea – a blueprint for writing a non-fiction book. It teaches about developing a book proposal, which is the document used to sell most nonfiction books rather than by the manuscript. 
• https://www.bookcoaches.com/ – provides a series of videos that talk about what it’s like to be a book coach, how you become one, what the training is like, what the community is like, who’s suited to it
• Inside Outline – an outlining tool used for character building that takes you on what’s happening to the character on the outside, the external events or plots that they’re experiencing and what’s happening to them on the inside.