Welcome to the nest, writers
Award-winning author and Harvard-educated journalist Laurie Dove offers coaching, literary consulting and one-on-one accountability that can take you from concept to complete manuscript—learning through expert guidance and enthusiastic support designed just for you.
I'd love to hear what you're working on!
Whether you want to talk through your ideas, clarify story structure or dive into developmental edits, you’re in the right place. Dove also offers personal coaching sessions that will keep you inspired to write (and on the right track), guidance for your agent search and early career support as you navigate publishing.
BOOK A FREE CALLWould you like to have an award-winning, bestselling author with decades of journalism, marketing and entrepreneurial experience on your side? You’re in the right place. Beginning writers are warmly welcomed, as are those who would like to level-up their writing careers. Finding the best support for your writing career can be transformative.
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Book coaching sessions
- Bespoke one-on-one book coaching: Tailored one-hour coaching sessions live and online, structured to meet your writing goals and ambitions
- Manuscript evaluations: Unique-to-you analysis of structure, development, idea and execution at any stage of your manuscript (even if you’re stuck on chapter one).
- Idea audits: Gain clarity, insight and a workable writing plan.
- Query letter, synopsis and pitch: Have a completed manuscript and think you’re ready for an agent? We’ll navigate the publishing world together with a query, synopsis, pitch and first pages that will put your best book forward.
What makes Laurie Dove a writing mentor you'll want in your corner?
Dove is an award-winning journalist and editor with thousands of bylines in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. She also earned a graduate degree at an Ivy League school in Creative Writing and Literature. When she’s not writing her next novel or creative non-fiction book, Dove is a creative writing professor who has spent years coaching other writers while building proven track record in the literary world. As an author who loves to learn, Dove has been in the place you are now as a writer, as a person with ambition, and as someone who has sometimes struggled with self-doubt.