Welcome to The Author Adventure, a practical and experientially-based travel guide for the adventurous and courageous creative—designed to meet and support you on the journey of writing your transformational nonfiction book. I often say that writing a book is much more like a wilderness adventure than a neat subway jaunt across town—this book is meant to be your map and I, your sherpa.

If you have felt the call to write a nonfiction book or memoir and have no idea how to get started or what to do next, you are in the right place.

If you’ve done this before but know you could use more support to vastly improve your process, you are in the right place. 

Feel empowered to write your story, honor your experience, value your voice, heal your past and transform your future, and find freedom through authentic expression.

This book is a robust reference guide you can reach for when you need specific, actionable guidance on the next leg of your authorship journey.

This is the compilation of the resources I use to guide every client we work with at Whale Song. It is the yang to my coaching yin. It is here to provide the tools and information you need to write a strong book and find your way through the authorship experience.  The book is divided into four sections that will help you plan your book, write your book, edit your book, and publish your book.

This work is born out of my twenty-plus years helping writers professionally—as a copywriting department manager, writing professor, and writing coach to authors of transformational nonfiction as the founder of Whale Song. The approach in this book is informed by my advanced academic education in communications and my own lifelong devotion of personal growth and healing. Aside writing advice, you will see meditations, movement practices, art activities, rhythms and rituals, and other holistic invitations intended to support you along your author adventure. 

Coming Fall 2025.