You write it. I refuse to let you stop.
Blank page to finished manuscript, with me on every chapter.
Your hands stay on the keyboard. I bring the structure, the honest feedback, and the willingness to tell you when a chapter is not working while there is still time to fix it. You end up with a finished draft, a method you can run again, and me still in your corner for the next one.
The straight answer
Book coaching with me is $10,000 USD for 12 × 60-minute sessions, across 90 days. Or $12,500 USD for Book Coaching + Createcation to lay the foundations. You write every word. I bring the chapter map and honest feedback on your pages, and I'll tell you a chapter isn't working while there's still time to fix it. Most clients finish a first draft inside the 90 days.
You have bought the course. Twice.
There is a 12-module program in your inbox you got 3 modules into. A writing app you pay for monthly and open twice a year. A Facebook group. None of it worked, and none of it was the problem.
A course cannot see your pages
It does not know that your chapter 4 is actually your opening, or that you have buried the best story on page 90 because it felt too personal. Somebody has to read it and say so.
Accountability is not nagging
It is a standing appointment with somebody who has read what you sent and has notes. Nobody wants to show up to that empty-handed, which is the entire mechanism.
Most books die in the middle
Not at the start, where everyone is excited. Around chapter 6, when the shape is wrong and you cannot tell why. That is the session where coaching earns every dollar.
Coaching is the only one where you keep the skill.
Hire me to ghostwrite and you get a book. Hire me to co-write and you get a book and a much better year. Hire me to coach and you get a book, plus the structure and the instincts to write the next one on your own.
It is the cheapest thing I offer and the hardest thing I offer, and those 2 facts are related.
It runs in 90 days. You can commit to anything for 90 days, even when life is lifing, and that is exactly why this one finishes when the 12-month version stalls.
Same method. 3 different rooms.
This page is about the middle one. The other 2 exist because not everybody needs 12 sessions of my undivided attention, and some people need a great deal more than that.
A Createcation
The room, compressed. 4 days, 5 other writers, every meal handled, and me in the room the entire time. For people who do not need a year of anything and would rather do it in one immersive go.
See the 2026 roomsPrivate coaching
You and me. Blank page to finished manuscript with me on every chapter, reading your pages properly between sessions and telling you the truth about them. The most attention I give anyone who is doing their own writing.
What is in the 12Coaching + Createcation
Lay the foundations first. 4 days in the room with me to build the structure, then 12 private sessions to write the thing. The most of me you can get while still writing every word yourself.
See the 2026 roomsPlenty of people do both of these, which is why the bundle exists. A Createcation™ retreat is how a lot of writers start before committing to 12 sessions. Createcations lay the foundations. We nail the clarity and the strategy first, so when we start coaching, we’re writing your book... not arguing with it.
Where they go, roughly.
60 minutes each, scheduled around your life, not a fixed weekly slot you will start resenting by session 4.
Validation
Whether this is the book, who it is for, and what it is supposed to do for you. Sessions 1 and 2. Skip this and you risk writing 60,000 words nobody needed.
The framework
The Quantum Copy Method™ and your full chapter map. By the end of this stage you know what every chapter is doing and why it sits where it sits.
Goldmines
The questions you have been avoiding. This is where the story you were not going to include turns out to be the spine of the book.
The writing sessions
The bulk of the 12. You send pages, I read them properly, and the session goes on what is actually on the page rather than what you meant to put there.
The reveal
Publishing paths, positioning and launch. What traditional, hybrid and independent actually cost you and actually get you in 2026, and what happens in the 90 days after launch week. You finish knowing what to do with the thing you just wrote.
People who wrote it themselves, and said so out loud.
Avril Henry, 5x bestselling author, on why she still hires a book coach
Peter Merrett, on coaching Wonderlicious into the world
Sabrina Suarez, on publishing before you feel ready
“The book comes out on October 1st. It exists because of 4 days in a room with Crystal and the coaching that followed. She told me what was not working when everyone else was telling me it was lovely. I would not have got there alone.”
Author of Not All Diamonds Are Worn, out October 1st
$10,000 USDand you keep the skill.
For 12 sessions of 60 minutes across 90 days. Add a Createcation and it's $12,500 USD. Payment plans exist.
Coaching is wrong for you if any of this is true.
You genuinely cannot find the hours
Coaching only works if you write between sessions. If your calendar is not going to allow that for the next year, ghostwriting is the honest answer.
You want someone in the prose
I give you notes, not rewrites. If you want a professional actually moving your sentences around, that is co-writing.
You want the room, not the spotlight
Some people write better with 5 other writers than with all of my attention on them. That is a Createcation™ for 4 days.
“I came to Crystal’s Createcation in Niagara-on-the-Lake with a lifetime of scattered writing and no clear sense of what it was trying to become. After one full day of Crystal carefully working through my material with me, I left with nearly a complete outline, a clear picture of who my book is for, and a real understanding of the traditional, hybrid, and self-publishing routes ahead. Crystal doesn’t sell you “her way.” She brings the mind of a ghostwriter, developmental editor, copy editor, publishing strategist, and book coach to your idea, then maps it out and scaffolds you toward the finished book. If you want a cheerleader, this isn’t that. If you want an architect, there’s no one I’d trust more than Crystal and Word Magic.”
The questions I get every single week.
How much does book coaching cost?
Private 1:1 book coaching is $10,000 USD for 12 sessions of 60 minutes each, or $12,500 USD with a Createcation. Ghostwriting is $60,000 USD and co-writing is $30,000 USD if you would rather not do the writing yourself.
Do you offer group book coaching?
No. My coaching is 1:1 only. If you want other writers around you, a Createcation™ puts you in a room with 5 of them for 4 days.
How is book coaching different from ghostwriting?
In coaching you write every word and I shape, question and hold you to it. In ghostwriting I write the book and you show up for interviews and approvals. Coaching is the only one of the 3 where you build the skill while you build the book, which is why most people come back for the next one.
How long does it take to write a book with a coach?
Coaching runs in 90-day blocks, and most clients have a first draft by the end of one. One went from idea to print in 8 months. It depends almost entirely on how much you write between sessions, which is the honest answer and the one nobody likes.
Do I need to have started writing already?
No. Sessions 1 and 2 are validation, before a word gets written. Plenty of my clients arrive with nothing but an idea they have been carrying for years.
What happens in a session?
You send pages ahead. I read them properly. Then the session goes on what is actually on the page rather than what you meant to put there. Early sessions are structure and strategy, middle sessions are craft, and the last one is publishing and launch.
What is the Quantum Copy Method?
It is the storytelling framework underneath every book I have written, taught as part of the Word Magic Method™. It turns a through line from a vibe into a structure you can write inside, and it is why coaching clients often have a full chapter map within days rather than months.
Will you edit my manuscript?
I read and respond to your pages as part of coaching, which is developmental work rather than line editing. If you want somebody with their hands actually in the prose, that is co-writing at $30,000 USD.
Do you help me get published?
Yes. The final stage covers publishing paths, positioning, and what happens in the 90 days after launch week. You finish knowing what to do with the book, not just how to write it.
Do you coach writers outside Canada?
Yes. I am on Vancouver Island and I have coached 200+ authors across 12+ countries. Sessions run over video and I schedule across time zones, including Australia and New Zealand.
What if I fall behind?
You will, at some point, and it is fine. The sessions flex around your life. What I will not do is pretend it did not happen, because the whole point of hiring a coach is having somebody who notices.
It is only ever a question of when.
30 minutes, free. Tell me about the book and where it stalled, and I will tell you honestly whether coaching is the right room or whether something else is.
