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Personal Coaching


6 Months: Story Idea to Published Novel

SERIOUSLY? YES! YOU CAN DO IT!

In today’s publishing environment, it’s not easy for brand-new writers to build a career as a published novelist. You learn bits and pieces here and there and everywhere else. But no one puts them all together for you in one coherent, logical program.

Until now! The 6 Months: Story Idea to Published program will take you from your initial story idea to a complete novel, edited, and professionally published. The program is individualized, one-on-one, and totally tailored to what you need—not a group presentation that may or may not fit your needs. 

In 6 months you’ll take all the key steps to go from story idea to published novel—all while learning the basics of setting up your fan base, editing & revising your work, packaging it professionally, and then publishing and promoting it. You go from idea to professionally published in 6 months!


FREE One-on-One 45-Minute Coaching Call

Not sure if the products and programs on this page are for you? Do you have a question about writing or publishing you want to answer?

Feel free to sign up for a FREE One-on-One 45-minute coaching call and ask Meg Leader directly. This is a one-time-only free offer, but it is genuinely free. No credit card required.

Click on the link in the title or on the image or click the button below to choose the time and date of your free call.


Courses


World Building for All Genres

This course provides unique help in understanding why all novels in any genre require a story world, while also explaining how to use the story world as a powerful tool that enhances your writing.

Story worlds can be super powerful, if you know how to use them effectively. Your story world can be an actual character in your novel, but it also can:

  • Affect the other characters.
  • Enhance the plot of the novel.
  • Strengthen the story structure.
  • Deepen the theme of the novel.

Your story world can help make your novel amazing! But you have to know how to use it effectively so it becomes a key part of your writer’s toolkit. This course shows you how!


7 Days to Page-Turner Scenes Online Course

Master the secrets of bestselling writers and how they make every scene enthralling and compelling, keeping readers turning the page! Learn more.


Start Your Story Right Online Course

Let this Online Short Course show you how to assess your great story ideas and how to turn them into workable story concepts that can support a Page-Turner novel Learn more.


E-Books


Page-Turner Fiction: Comprehensive Guide to World Building for ALL Genres

The Comprehensive Guide to World Building: Everything You Need to Know for ALL Genres

If you write fantasy or science fiction, you already know that it’s essential to do some world-building so your story has a place to happen. But the truth is, ALL stories need a world–every story takes place somewhere. So if you’re writing a contemporary romance, or a cozy mystery, you still need to do some world-building.

But every genre has different needs in terms of the story world. A contemporary romance doesn’t need the same kind of story world as a historical mystery or a LitRPG novel.

The Comprehensive Guide to World Building: Everything You Need to Know for ALL Genres not only explains the story world need of 33 different genres, from epic fantasy to LitRPG to Women’s Fiction, but also tells you how to build your story world AND how to use it to enhance your story, add depth to characters, provide support for plot, and even turn the world into a character of its own. Want to know more? Click here, or on the image: Learn more.


Page-Turner Fiction Scenes E-book

WRITE GREAT SCENES E-book

A great complement to the 7 Days to Page-Turner Scenes Course, this e-book has more detail and more examples from great writers.

Plus it serves as an invaluable reference for you. You’ll learn:

  • Why scenes are the building blocks for all novels.
  • How well-written scenes are constructed and why they are built that way.
  • Key techniques used by bestselling authors to create scenes that are true page-turners—ones readers can’t stop reading.
  • How to incorporate your new knowledge into your own writing process—and how to fix things when they go wrong! Learn more

Page-Turner Fiction: Story Tropes by Genre

STORY TROPES BY GENRE E-book

Tropes are the common elements that readers expect from books in specific genres. For example, a romance novel needs a happy (or satisfying) ending where the reader believes that the couple will be together long term.

Do you know the tropes for the major genres? This book not only will give you the most important tropes in the major genres, but will make them fun and entertaining.

But doesn’t that make books “formulaic”? Nope, not at all. Not if you understand the tropes and mix-and-match them with tropes from other genres and do so in a fresh and entertaining way.

Let your imagination run wild and your creativity discover new, exciting ways to make these tropes interesting and surprising to readers. They’ll love your stories if you do! Learn more…


Page-Turner Fiction: Start Your Story Right E-book

START YOUR STORY RIGHT E-book

Do you have a fabulous story idea, but don’t know where to start to turn it into a wonderful novel?

This e-book provides you with exactly that help. You’ll understand:

  • The essentials of your story and how go from story idea to actual novel.
  • How to think about your story idea the way bestselling authors do,
  • How to uncover the essence of your idea to turn it from vague notion to a solid story that readers will love. Learn more…

Ms. Evaluation Services


Partial Ms. Evaluation (to 40K words)

Did you know more than 97% of all writers NEVER complete their novels?

Are you stuck somewhere in the middle of your novel, not sure how to finish it?

Be one of the elite writers who DO complete their novels by getting help to get out of that rut!

This Partial Ms. Evaluation is designed to do just that.

  • I’ll personally read up to 40,000 words of your incomplete novel. I’ll give you detailed line edits of about half of that, up to about 50-75 ms. pages
  • Then I’ll give you a detailed outline of the challenges—and how you can fix them.
  • About a week after I return the comments to you, we’ll schedule a one-on-one call to discuss your story and strategize together a plan to enable you to finish your book.

Be one of the elite writers who finish their novels!


Want a Review of Your Complete Ms. of up to 100,000 Words?

Have a completed ms. but want an objective opinion about it?

Go for a full ms. evaluation! In this I’ll

  • Personally read your completed ms.
  • Provide detailed line edits for at least the first 100 pages.
  • Give an overview of key aspects of your story, from characters and plot, to voice and general flow.
  • Ensure you receive encouragement about the aspects of your writing that you’re terrific about.
  • Suggest ways to improve it to make it more appealing to agents, editors, and readers.
  • About a week after returning comments to you we’ll have a personal one-on-one phone or Zoom call to discuss your story, and how best to move forward with it.

There are two options for this full ms. critique: one for a story of up to 100,000 words; the other for a story between 100,000 to 150,000 words (next product). You make that choice on either of these at time of checkout.https://store.megleader.com/products/full-manuscript-critique-to-100k


Want a Review of Your Complete Ms. of 100,000 to 150,000 Words?

Have a completed ms. but want an objective opinion about it?

Go for a full ms. evaluation! In this I’ll

  • Personally read your completed ms.
  • Provide detailed line edits for at least the first 100 pages.
  • Give an overview of key aspects of your story, from characters and plot, to voice and general flow.
  • Ensure you receive encouragement about the aspects of your writing that you’re terrific about.
  • Suggest ways to improve it to make it more appealing to agents, editors, and readers.
  • About a week after returning comments to you we’ll have a personal one-on-one phone or Zoom call to discuss your story, and how best to move forward with it.

There are two options for this full ms. critique: one for a story of up to 100,000 words; the other for a story between 100,000 to 150,000 words (next product). You can make that choice on either of these two products at time of checkout.