The Pink Ink Author Intensive

Here's What Awaits You

✦ Put It On My Desk

Before we meet, you’ll send me whatever you have.

A finished manuscript. Fifty messy pages. A proposal. A half-formed idea scribbled in your Notes app. The book you’ve been thinking about for seven years but haven’t written a word of yet.

You’ll also complete a thoughtful questionnaire about your vision, your ideas, your audience, your ambitions, and what you ultimately want this book to become.

I’ll spend time with everything before we meet.

Not because I’m preparing to line-edit your sentences.

I’m looking for the bigger picture.

The ideas hiding between the lines, the possibilities you may be too close to see. The questions I want to ask you. The threads I want to pull.

So when we sit down together, we can get right to the good stuff.

✦ Our Conversation

For 90 minutes, your book has my brain.

This is not a manuscript critique.

It’s a private book strategy session designed to help you see your work — and what could be built around it — differently.

We might discover that the book you thought you were writing is actually about something bigger.

We might find the title in something you casually say twenty minutes into our conversation.

We might map out the Substack you should have started six months ago.

We might decide you’re done waiting for an agent and it’s time to publish the damn thing yourself.

We might uncover an entirely new way to position, launch, or monetize your ideas.

Depending on what your book needs, we may explore:

• The big idea behind your book
• Concept, positioning, and marketability
• Title and subtitle possibilities
• The reader you’re actually writing for
• Self-publishing versus traditional publishing
• Your independent publishing strategy
• Your Substack and author platform
• Building an audience before the book arrives
• Launch and visibility strategy
• Revenue opportunities around your intellectual property
• How your book connects to your business, brand, or larger body of work
• What to do next — and what to stop overthinking

There is no predetermined agenda.

We follow the most interesting thread in the room.

Because you don’t need another publishing checklist.

You need someone who can look at the whole thing and say:

Wait. Do you see what you have here?

✦ Your Pink Ink Blueprint

After our conversation, I’ll take everything we uncovered and turn it into your personalized Pink Ink Blueprint.

Part creative vision. Part publishing strategy. Part permission slip.

Inside, I’ll capture the ideas, opportunities, decisions, and next moves that emerged from our conversation — which may include:

• Your book’s central idea and positioning
• Title and concept directions
• Publishing recommendations
• Self-publishing strategy
• Platform and Substack ideas
• Audience-building opportunities
• Launch and visibility ideas
• Revenue and expansion opportunities
• Strategic next steps
• A suggested timeline for moving forward

This is the document that tells you where we’re going.

Something you can return to when the noise gets loud, the publishing advice gets contradictory, or you start wondering whether you should really do the bold thing we talked about.

You should.

✦ The Two Weeks That Follow

The best ideas have a funny habit of arriving after the Zoom ends.

For two weeks following your Intensive, you’ll have private email access to me as you begin putting your Pink Ink Blueprint into motion.

Come to me with the follow-up questions.

Send me the title idea you suddenly thought of in the shower.

Tell me you bought the domain.

Ask me whether you should launch the Substack.

This is where we keep the momentum going.

✦ My Little Black Book

Eventually, strategy needs execution.

If your next move calls for an editor, cover designer, formatter, or another trusted publishing professional, I can connect you with people from my own publishing world when appropriate.

No endless Googling. No hiring someone because their website looked convincing at midnight.

Just talented people I trust to help make beautiful books.

✦ Perhaps This Is Where We Begin

Maybe you have a finished manuscript.

Maybe you have twelve pages.

Maybe you have nothing but an idea and the increasingly inconvenient feeling that you’re supposed to write this book.

You don’t need to arrive with everything figured out. That’s rather the point.

The Pink Ink Author Intensive is for the writer who wants someone to look beyond the pages and see the possibility.

The book.

The positioning.

The publishing path.

The audience.

The platform.

The ideas that could grow from it.

The career that could be built around your words.

And yes — perhaps somewhere down the road, your book becomes a fit for a deeper relationship with Pink Ink Press.

Perhaps it doesn’t.

Either way, you leave knowing what I see — and what I would do next.

Because sometimes one conversation changes the entire trajectory of a book.

Put yours on my desk.