Writer’s Strategy Session: 60-Minute One-on-One Mentoring

Writer's Strategy Session: 60-Minute One-on-One Mentoring

Private 60-Minute Zoom Session | Personalized Strategy for Food, Wine & Travel Writers

Bring your questions, challenges, and ideas. Leave with greater clarity about what to do next.

Sometimes you don't need another course, another worksheet, or months of coaching.

You need an experienced writer and editor to sit down with you, review your situation, answer your questions, and help you determine your next steps.

The Writer's Strategy Session is a private, 60-minute mentoring session for food, wine, and travel writers who want personalized guidance on a specific challenge, opportunity, project, or career decision.

Maybe you're trying to decide where to pitch a story. Perhaps you're rethinking your niche, struggling to position yourself professionally, considering a book, trying to build stronger relationships with editors, or wondering where to focus your time.

Or maybe you simply have a list of questions you've been wishing you could ask someone who's spent decades working in the industry.

This hour is yours.

We'll focus on what matters most to you right now and use our time to develop practical ideas and next steps that fit your goals, experience, and writing career.

What We Can Work On

Your session is customized to your needs. Topics might include:

✔ Pitching & Working with Editors

We can talk about story ideas, publications to consider, pitching strategy, editor relationships, follow-ups, assignments, and questions about the editorial process.

✔ Your Writing Career

We can look at where you are now, where you'd like to go, and which opportunities may deserve your attention.

That might include your niche, portfolio, professional goals, publications, specialization, or how you present yourself as a writer.

✔ Book Ideas & Publishing

Thinking about a book?

We can discuss your concept, potential audience, traditional versus self-publishing, book proposals, positioning, and possible next steps.

✔ Your Professional Platform

We can talk through your website, portfolio, media kit, bio, social presence, or other ways you present your work and experience to editors, destinations, brands, and potential clients.

✔ Freelance Writing Questions

Rates. Rights. Contracts. Press trips. Hosted travel. Working with destinations. Managing assignments. Finding opportunities. Building relationships.

Bring the questions that are relevant to your career.

✔ A Specific Decision or Challenge

Sometimes the most valuable use of the hour is simply working through one decision you've been wrestling with.

We can focus the entire session on that one issue if that's most useful.

What's Included

✔ Pre-Session Check-In

Before we meet, you'll have an opportunity to tell me about your writing background, what you'd like to discuss, and your priorities for the session.

That means we can spend less of our hour establishing context and more of it working on the issues that brought you to the session.

✔ 60-Minute Private Zoom Session

We'll spend a full hour focused on your questions, goals, and challenges.

This isn't a prerecorded lesson or a standardized coaching program. The conversation is shaped around you and what you need from the session.

✔ Session Recording

You can record your Zoom session so you don't have to take notes while we're talking.

You can return to the conversation later as you work through your next steps.

✔ Practical Next Steps

As we talk, we'll identify actions, priorities, resources, or decisions that can help you move forward after our session.

Perfect For You If…

• You have a specific writing-career question or challenge
• You're trying to decide what to focus on next
• You want another professional perspective on an opportunity or decision
• You have questions about pitching, publishing, editors, or the freelance writing business
• You're considering a book or larger writing project
• You want to evaluate your niche, portfolio, website, or professional positioning
• You feel as though you're working hard but aren't sure where your efforts would be most useful
• You want personalized guidance without committing to ongoing mentoring
• You'd simply like an hour to ask the questions that are difficult to answer through articles, courses, or general advice

How It Works

1. Purchase your Writer's Strategy Session.
2. Schedule your session. After checkout, you'll receive instructions for selecting an available Zoom appointment.
3. Complete your pre-session check-in. Tell me about your background, what you'd like to discuss, and the questions or priorities you'd most like us to address.
4. Meet with me for 60 minutes. We'll focus our conversation on the topics you've identified and adjust as other relevant questions arise.
5. Leave with your next steps. You'll have the recording of our conversation along with a clearer sense of where to focus your attention.

What You'll Receive

• Pre-session check-in
• 60-minute private Zoom mentoring session
• Personalized discussion focused on your goals and questions
• Practical strategies and suggested next steps
• Optional recording of your session
• One-on-one access to Susan's decades of experience as a professional writer, editor, publisher, and mentor
• Price: $200

Sometimes one focused conversation can help you see your next step more clearly.

Bring the questions you've been thinking about, the challenge you've been trying to solve, or the idea you're not quite sure what to do with.

We'll spend an hour working through it together.

Ready to Get Some Answers?

Book your 60-minute Writer's Strategy Session for $200, and let's spend an hour focused on the questions, challenges, or decisions that matter most to your writing career. You'll leave with personalized guidance, practical next steps, and a clearer sense of where to go from here.