Congratulations to Trisha Loehr, who recently earned her Author Accelerator Book Coach Certification! She shares more about her experience in the program and what’s next for her career below.

How did you come to book coaching?

I've always been a reader and wanted to be an author but as a teen was told I needed a "real job" so I studied communications and worked in the non-profit world for ten years.

When life went sideways, I became a freelance writer and editor and loved helping individual writers tell their stories. But something was missing. Editing wasn't as personal or as accessible as I wanted it to be.

And that's when I discovered book coaching and how relational it is. I realized that not only would becoming a certified book coach help me make my business more of what I wanted it to be, it would also teach me so much about writing and help me become a better writer too.

I'm excited to relaunch my editing business as a book coach business to help other women who want to write, actually make it happen and to create novels they can be incredibly proud of.

What was your experience in the Book Coach Certification program? What did you find most satisfying and most challenging?

I found the lessons incredibly interesting. A lot of the content confirmed for me that I already had some expertise and skills but that there was still so much more for me to learn. The combination of video, written content, audio content, and actual examples of real coaching documents was helpful to experience the lessons in various ways to help facilitate learning.

The practicums were challenging and fun and rewarding and so valuable. Making the time to go through the incredible amount of information and do all the exercises was challenging but the accountability in the mentorship program really helped.

What is the most valuable piece of advice you’re taking away from the training?

Writing isn’t something you have to do alone.

Tell us more about your book coaching plans.

I plan to be a book coach for romance writers, specifically women writing romance. Often, women spend the bulk of our time and energy on things for other people: on our jobs and our families and our homes. And then when we read a romance novel we are teased for our "guilty pleasure" book. I want to encourage women to invest in themselves and their dreams and the stories that they enjoy—the stories that may seem silly or too tropey or whatnot. These stories bring joy to their authors and their readers and that's a lovely, lovely thing.

But writing is hard, especially when you're doing it alone. So I want to be the person to help through brainstorming, feedback on pages, deadlines and accountability, and conversations to help figure out what else might be making this writing thing harder than it needs to be and how to overcome those hurdles.

My website is https://trishajennreads.com and has my services, some resources on my blog, and more information about me and why I do what I do.

What did you do to celebrate this achievement?

I bought a book and a pencil case when I applied for certification.

And I bought candy, chocolate, and went out for dinner when I got my certification decision. Oh, and I cried and laughed in my car while reading the email.

What are the next steps in your career?

Launch my email newsletter and hopefully actually make headway on my own WIP — a super tropey enemies to lovers, fake dating, forced proximity, small-town romance. :)

Congratulations, Trisha!

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