Coaching

Break Free from Feast-or-Famine Freelancing and Become a Successful Business Owner

Coaching designed for ghostwriters, editors, and book designers to create lasting change and build a business you deserve.

PROFESSIONAL COACHING

A successful writing business balances craft with business strategy.

We’ve all been there: believing the more you improve your craft (and the faster you write), the more you can charge. And when you charge more, you’ll finally make a profit—right? 

But the day-to-day reality is you end up taking any work that comes your way, grossly undercharging for it, and feeling burned out. 

In truth, the way to increase your capacity is by managing your energy, not just your time. 

This means working smarter, not harder, on things like:

  • Creating systems for contracts, templates, and onboarding

  • Delivering a great experience to create a pipeline of returning clients and referrals

  • Tackling tough decisions with confidence

  • Setting boundaries

  • Getting crystal clear on your ideal client

  • Pricing like a badass

I’ve been where you are. 

And after more than fifteen years of running my business, writing a book about it, and coaching other ghostwriters, I can help you leave behind the flailing and overwhelm that have you feeling like a hot mess. 

I’ll give you hands-on help to develop a customized action plan that will get you out of the feast-or-famine cycle. Together, we’ll create the sustainable business you deserve.

“Creatives say they’re ‘not good at business,’ but what they really mean is they don’t like promoting their art.”
— Amie McNee

Create Long Term Success

Increase Your Confidence

Tackle tough decisions with confidence, whether it's turning down work or negotiating your worth. You'll grow more comfortable making choices that are right for you, even when they’re making other people unhappy.

Be You Own Best Client

Setting boundaries is crucial; without them, you're essentially offering your time and energy for free, which is unsustainable. Learning to comfortably say no allows you to concentrate on your strengths, conserving and even boosting your energy. Boundaries also foster long-term relationships built on mutual respect by reducing resentment.

Identify Your Target Niche

Understand your perfect client and define what they can or cannot do.

Develop guidelines for finding and contracting with them.

Take Back Your Time

Significantly increase your capacity to get things done by managing your energy, not your time.

Develop a solid onboarding system with the ability to charge a monthly recurring fee automatically. Gain access to immensely helpful contracts and templates.

Cut out the Stress

Learn how to make smarter decisions that reduce the need for playing catch-up, leading to a calmer work environment and less burnout.

Future-Proof Your Business

Learn how to pinpoint the exact challenges in your business. While you may not have all the solutions just yet, I'll guide you in shaping a clearer vision for your future. You'll also master the art of securing clients with confidence, setting the stage for the lasting sustainability of your work..

Sharpen your focus, understand your value, and develop the confidence to think like a successful business owner.

  • “Karen is a game changer. She helped me shift my approach from disorganized freelancer to smooth, systematized, high-level business owner. My anxiety is down and my prices are up, and I feel like I’ve earned both.”

    Alex Hughes Capell
    Ghostwriter

  • “Taking one hour a week to focus on my business under Karen's expert guidance changed the way I operate. It's the perfect mix of accountability and guidance. In my twelve weeks working with Karen, I booked $90,000 worth of work!”

    Leslie H.
    Ghostwriter

How it Works

STEP 1

Discovery Call

Our initial call will determine your most immediate needs and what you want to get out of our coaching together. In that consultation, you will tell me your top three goals, and I will tailor our sessions around those goals.

STEP 2

Sign Up For Coaching

My coaching packages combine private coaching sessions with weekly action steps, ample reproducible resources, and on-demand email assistance to help you start running your business from a place of power and clarity.

The Get Unstuck program

5 SESSIONS

A focused, high-impact, action-oriented program that offers you customized support around a specific challenge you’re currently facing. This program is designed to help you prioritize your business needs and values, build confidence for change, and take decisive steps forward.

This program is best for individuals seeking support in navigating a specific or acute business challenge.

The Break Free program

10 SESSIONS

This package is a good fit if you are seeking longer-term support to overhaul your feast-or-famine, ad hoc work and cultivate long-lasting change in your business. Over the course of ten sessions, I will help you uncover your own needs, desires, values, and passions; build an inspired vision of the future that will serve as your anchor and compass; prioritize and articulate your business needs; find your voice to speak with confidence and self-compassion; navigate the growing pains; and take empowered action for change.

Our sessions will help you rebuild your relationship with yourself and advocate for that newfound self in your business.

Get Unstuck

Break Free

Zoom Coaching Sessions

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Weekly Customized Action Steps

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Full Access to My Resource Library

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Email Support,
Monday through Friday

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Number of
Coaching Sessions

5

10

Your Investment

$1,197*

*Two-installment payment
plans available

$2,197*

*Two-installment payment
plans available

What Successful Ghostwriters Are Saying

  • “As a ghostwriter, Karen sees the meaning behind the words. She knows her job isn’t just to record what her authors say and take those words at face value. She’s always probing deeper, making connections, and considering how individual concepts came together to make a whole. More than pure writing talent—which Karen also has in droves—these are the traits of a great ghostwriter.”

    Chas Hoppe
    WSJ Best-Selling Ghostwriter, Book Coach, and Editor

  • “I began providing ghostwriting and editing services for Karen through her company, Front Rowe Seat, 7 years ago. She was instrumental in helping me get my foot in the door to an industry I was just starting out in professionally. My confidence and skills grew under her tutelage; she has always been willing to share the resources and knowledge she's picked up from her time in the industry, which has been invaluable to me. She's a great collaborator, project manager, communicator, and writer/editor in her own right. She's also a fun person to be around!”

    Rebecca Pillsbury
    Memoir Ghostwriter & Editor

  • “Karen is far and away one of the most experienced, strategic, and empathetic creatives I worked with. And... wow. I was consistently impressed not only by the caliber of her writing, but also by the firm, passionate, and gentle coaching she provided authors who were struggling to wrap their arms around the stories they wanted to tell. She holds herself to a high standard and helps others reach that standard as well. Anyone who has the ability to work with Karen in any capacity is going to get the full benefit of that knowledge, expertise, and kindness.”

    Vi La Biana
    Publishing Manager, Scribe Media

 Private Coaching FAQs

  • Zoom coaching sessions are hands-on, no-nonsense calls that inspire you to maximize your potential and create long-lasting change. In our sessions, we clarify your needs, desires, and values; build inspired visions for your future business; develop tangible resources and services to help you meet your goals; and devise concrete action plans for moving toward your desired future.

    Customized action steps are concrete actions that we collaboratively devise at the conclusion of most sessions, in order to help you take what you’ve learned during our time together and tangibly apply it before the following session. Common action steps include carving out dedicated time to create a signature offering, developing your target client avatar, setting boundaries with clients, and regularly scheduling time for your own writing. At the beginning of every session, we follow up on the prior week’s action steps to ensure accountability.

    Full access to my resource library provides duplicatable resources, including contracts, training manuals, checklists, and more to systematize your processes.

    Email support gives you real-time assistance between sessions, Monday through Friday. Having trouble making a difficult decision? Need help addressing a client communication or conflict? Wondering how to set a boundary in real time? Send me an email with the particulars, and I’ll reply within twenty-four hours.

  • Private coaching sessions are held via Zoom on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10 a.m. to⁠ 3 p.m. ET.

  • I’m happy to work together with you to create a payment plan for private coaching. Financial aid is not available for private coaching, but I am in the process of developing online workshops and a group coaching program, which will offer affordable options for those seeking hands-on support.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

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“Thank you for being a guiding light in the freelance world for me and so many.”

—Rose Friel
Foreword Literary Consulting

“Karen is always a tremendous help. She has been invaluable in helping me launch and establish my ghostwriting business. She always freely shares any information, best practices, documents, or suggestions. She is like a coach and a bonus consultant in one wonderful package!”

—N.J.
Ghostwriter and Editor

Meet Karen

Since 2008, I’ve written four of my own books, ghostwritten more than seventy books, and worked with hundreds of authors.

My specialty is working with female thought leaders and industry experts who want to increase visibility, credibility, and impact by writing a book. With my natural curiosity and successful methodology, I know exactly how to capture your genius on the page.

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Behind the Cover

A Ghostwriter’s Guide to Authoring Your Own Business Book

Behind the Cover distills my more than fifteen years of writing and publishing experience and lays out my method from start to finish.

You’ll finally get that book out of your head and into readers’ hands.

Read the first two chapters for free.