Online Novel Coaching
Get help with your novel from an experienced coach.
How It Works
A dedicated coach
An enthusiastic mentor who cares about your progress.
A customized plan
Crafted to help you surmount your particular challenges.
Weekly check-ins
Your coach will hold you accountable to the plan you set.
Monthly reflections
Consultations with your coach to make sure you’re on track.
A supportive group
Fellow writers will help you stay motivated.
Live online meetings monthly
Connect and converse in OneRoom’s video classroom.
Coaching fee is $59/month.
Apply to work with a novel coach.
What Group Members Say
“The community has been incredible. It’s changed writing from a drudgery to something that’s really exciting.”
Anne W.“My motivation is at an all time high right now and I’m so pleased I joined this group.”
Dorothy Massey
“In all my years of writing...I had never before actually completed a real, honest-to-goodness first draft.”
Darren Nethington
Meet the novel Coaches
Erica Wright
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Erica Wright’s latest crime novel is The Granite Moth (Pegasus Books). Her debut, The Red Chameleon (Pegasus Books), was one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of Summer 2014. She is also the author of the poetry collection Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press) and the chapbook Silt (Dancing Girl Press). A new collection, All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (Black Lawrence Press), will be released in 2017.
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Tupelo Hassman
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Tupelo Hassman is the author of the novel girlchild (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and winner of Quiet Lightning’s first book contest with Breast Milk. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Harper’s BAZAAR, The Independent, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The Portland Review Literary Journal, ZYZZYVA, and by 100WordStory.org, FiveChapters.com, and in Drivel: Deliciously Bad Writing by Your Favorite Authors, among others. Tupelo is the first American to win London’s Literary Death Match and she teaches at Santa Monica College and California State University, East Bay.
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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of the novel Harmless Like You. She has a BA from Columbia University, an MFA from the UW-Madison. Her short work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, Guernica, and NPR’s Selected Shorts, among other places. She has received residencies from the Gladstone Library and Hedgebrook.
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Rachel Weaver
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Rachel is the author of the novel Point of Direction, which Oprah Magazine named a Top Ten Book to Pick Up Now. Point of Direction was chosen by the American Booksellers Association as a top ten debut for Spring 2014, by IndieBound as an Indie Next List Pick, by Yoga Journal as one of their top five suggested summer reads and won the 2015 Willa Cather Award for Fiction. Prior to earning her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, Rachel worked for the Forest Service in Alaska studying bears, raptors and songbirds. She is the director of the Colorado Writing School and is on faculty at Regis University’s low-residency MFA program.
Work with Rachel ->Why OneRoom Works
The novel support you receive will be tailored to you and your needs as a writer. You’ll have a dedicated writing coach and work alongside other motivated novelists to accomplish your goals.