Kindle Your Romance

From passion project to published—

supported every step

Ready to turn your romance-writing hobby into a bill-paying business?

The Kindle Your Romance program provides hands-on, shoulder-to-shoulder romance publishing support with community membership to make sure you reach your romance author goals.

We’re an intimate community with enough author peers to support you, but not so many as to get lost in the crowd. And once we reach one hundred members, we’ll pause there to make sure everyone is getting what they need.

Here’s what you get as a member of the Author Ever After community:

• Your cohort will become your author besties—giving you support and accountability to keep you moving toward your publication date.
• The program is divided into action modules so you can focus on one element of the path to publication at a time. No more overwhelm. Hooray!
• Every masterclass is recorded in case you can’t make it or want to go over parts again.
• We have guest experts join us to share high-level training on topics of interest—like how to create an author brand you can be proud of, what to consider when writing interconnected stories (to get readers hooked into your world), email mastery for fun (and profit) … and so many more.
• You’ll find other authors to share pages for beta reads and to get feedback on promotional content you create like all your author bios and your book blurb and website content and email automations … because by the end of your tome with us, you’ll have all that and so much more in place.
• Attend weekly office hours to troubleshoot and discuss actions you’re taking (like writing your website content, social media bios, etc)
• Bring your mindset challenges and brainstorming needs to the weekly motivation and accountability mastermind
• Engage with your peers in live writing / work sprints where you can schedule time to work quietly and then chat with your author friends.
• I’ll create a website for you using one of three dozen modern templates that are perfect for pre-published authors. You choose the layout, write the words, find the photos you like, and together we’ll get that site up and published in a 90-minute meeting. ($250 value if you hired me as a non-member)
• If you join for a quarter or annual membership, I’ll development edit the first 25 pages of your manuscript for you at no charge.
• Publication in an anthology—so you can grab and finesse all your important author profiles before you’re ready to publish your first stand-alone title. (This may not sound exciting now, but it will when you’re ready to put your pre-order up for sale!).
• And, one of the best parts is that the community space where you’ll connect with your new romance author pals, is not in a Facebook group! Halle-freakin’-lujiah! 

What you get in the program

Stick with us and within 12 months you’ll have:

1. An overall strategy for your romance writing—and career if that’s your dream
2. All of your social media assets looking great—even if they’re just placeholders
3. Clarity on who your perfect readers are—and how to delight them with every book
4. An email automation sequence to start collecting your soon-to-be fans
5. A novella to use as the “cookie” to get folks to join your email list
6. A simple and styling website that matches your author brand
7. Clarity on how to pick the best cover for your books and readers
8. Titles, tag-lines and blurbs to entice readers to click on your book
9. Clarity on whether it makes sense for you to publish exclusively on Amazon or wide
10. A whole set of author profiles to use in all the places readers will be looking for new books
11. A strategy for how to connect your second, third, fourth and future titles so readers can’t stop when they reach “and they lived happily ever after.”
12. A book launch strategy
13. A plan to get your first 25 reviews
14. A killer Amazon author page (and Bookbub and Goodreads pages, too)
15. Spreadsheets and to set yourself up as a smart authorpreneur so the taxman doesn’t break your heart
16. Spreadsheets to track income, royalties, and profit
17. A strategy to determine when it makes sense to run ads
18. Your novella published in an anthology

And so much more—the confidence, resources, contacts, friendships, and anything else you need to pursue earning an income as a romance author.

The calendar for the year

Community 🥰

Sure, the people in your life love you. But, do they get you and your romance author ways?

As helpful as my government bureaucrat husband tries to be, he just doesn’t understand what it takes to be an author—from the commitment to write and edit 100,000 words or more, to becoming a small business person who wears all the tiaras—from bookkeeper to marketer to tech support …

Let Stephen King and his lot write alone. We are romance authors and we thrive in community!

Since 2016, I’ve been a tireless cheerleader for authors—and romance authors, specifically—sitting as a volunteer board member of two romance organizations that used to meet in real life, and in the last four years, as a cofounder of a multigenre online community where I host weekly mindset masterminds.

Make writer friends to support your true love story!

Writing a romance is a big undertaking with dozens—if not hundreds—of decisions to make. And not just about the color of your lovers’ eyes, their meet cute, their breakup, and the swoon-worthy way you bring them back together. 

Oh, no. There are decisions about editors and book covers and early readers and how you’ll publish and if you’ll create large print and audio versions …

Not only that, odds are pretty darned high you’ll face doubt monsters, both from inside your own head and from naysayers in your circle of family and friends who don’t respect romance or think writing romance is a silly hobby or a dumb next career.

It’s no wonder so many people who start to write a romance never finish. Which is more heart-breaking than a hero who cheats after the break-up. (We hates him, we do).

Author Ever After was created to support new romance writers at all stages of the creative and publishing process. It’s a community where you can get help from other romance authors who are either going through or have experienced the same struggles you are or will be. This is your equivalent of Central Perk in Friends, or McLaren’s Pub in How I Met Your Mother—it’s a space where everyone knows your name and is glad you came. Because sometimes, that’s where you want to go!

Inside the Author Ever After community, you’ll get the one-on-one and small group support, motivation, and accountability you need to write your own happily ever—both for yourself and the couple in your story.

Sample weekly schedule

So, how does this work?

Masterclasses

Each week, during the four 8-week modules, you’ll get access to a live masterclass, often led by an expert in the field who would charge $100 or more for an hour of their time.

Each masterclass is focussed on one topic to help you achieve one very specific goal by providing manageable steps to success in that area. The masterclasses are recorded in case you can’t attend live or want to rewatch specific parts.

And there’s no need to worry if you miss a class and fall behind since there is no falling behind! The office hours discussions are designed to cover every topic that’s been delievered up to that date.

Motivation & accountability mastermind

Every week, we meet to help you develop and keep a successful romance author mindset. How?

Celebrate a win: Science proves that we remember the things we celebrate so we start every mastermind with a quick, round-robin of everyone sharing one writing win from the previous week.

Brainstorm a couple of challenges: Members are invited to have the group help them troubleshoot something they’re struggling with. It can be about mindset or title ideas or the best tools to achieve a specific goal … If it’s something that will help you progress with your manuscript, it’s fair game to discuss. We usually get through three questions in the hour.

Set a writing target for the week: Your community wants you to succeed and will help you stay accountable. We end each meeting with every participant declaring one thing that will bring them joy to accomplish with their work-in-progress—and we cheer you on.

Everything you need in one safe and fun space

Focus challenges

Stay sane and supported as you create all the things you need to have in place before you publish your first romance

Goal setting workshop

Once a quarter, spend two guided hours focused on creating your tailored author work plan for the next twelve weeks