Business Validate Your Book Idea (Before You Start Writing or Pitching) with Katie McCoach

Katie is an excellent instructor! I can see why she is such a great Book Coach. She modified and added detail to the course on the fly to accommodate questions throughout the class. The information was useful for idea formation, clarification, and contained broader publishing advice. It was a fun and informative class.

Validate Your Book was an excellent presentation. I loved the interactive group setting, almost like being there. Katie offered new information with confidence and style. Thanks

Wonderful presentation with great information! Instructor made the topic easy to understand in three separate 'waves.' Thank you for the class!

Good usable and applicable information that I can use in my writing process. Thank you.

Excellent and informative class. Katie McCoach presented the class very efficiently and helpfully. I liked her idea of writing the blurb and the synopsis before the story. A synopsis is easier to write when you don't have a whole book written. it's easier to summarize when you don't have a finished product. Great idea!

A fount of knowledge and fast talking=perfection! Thank you for taking the time to answer all our questions!

7 miles Deep = 7 lessons and a multitude of revelations about my writing. The class was well-constructed and presented. Katie’s approach was consultative teaching, which, to some, might seem lacking in criticism. However, learning how to do what we do has more impact on our art than being scolded about what we did wrong without the tools to fix it. To reap the rewards of Deep POV, a writer must fully understand their character, inside and out. If they did not do exploration up front, it tripped up a few writers since for some that can take weeks, months, or years. This class has changed my writing in so many ways, I really enjoyed it.

I thought the material presented was excellent and I'll value the addition to my library of resources. It was well worth the fees. I think our expectations of feedback to each exercise could be made clearer. When Katie sent her message on May 5 exhorting us to complete and submit the lesson 3 homework it gave me the impression that would be the only session I could expect feedback. This caused me to relax in getting timely completion of the remaining exercises as I was quite busy myself. I wasn't particularly worried as my observation of Katie's feedback was it emphasized encouragement over critique, which is fine, we all need encouragement, but in my case, I was ok not having to stress on getting homework completed on time if I'm just missing some atta boys. They're nice but they don't really make me a better writer.