One Life Coaching
does your writing need some love? LET me help.
One of my greatest joys as an editor and writing professional is to work one on one with other writers.
As a writing coach, I offer my clients sensitive, professional feedback designed to meet their own personal writing goals. Every client relationship is different. Many clients I meet on a regular basis to discuss work and provide feedback. Others are looking for more particular strategies, like preparing a manuscript for submission to agents or publishers. Coaching might include support structuring or planning a book, developing and enhancing an ongoing writing practise, troubleshooting a complicated project, or getting particular feedback and editing advice on a shorter piece of writing. It may simply be a way to hold yourself accountable to a longer term project with regularly scheduled check-ins.
This is an excellent way to work together if you’re not yet ready for a full manuscript evaluation or if you simply need some one to one support. Whatever your writing and editing needs, as a writing coach I’m here to lend you decades of experience in the writing and publishing worlds, a background in adult education, and a curious and sensitive approach to helping you explore your writing.
Each season, I work with a very limited number of writers. Coaching rates are available by the hour ($110 + HST), with discounted rates for pre-paid packages of six, ten, and twenty hours. Working times are flexible.
2026 Coaching rates
Six-hour package: $625 + HST
Ten-hour package: $995 + HST
Twenty-hour package: $1895 + HST
Manuscript Submission Package (*NEW)
One of the most frequent requests I receive as a writing coach is to help with preparing client manuscripts for submission to agents and publishers.
The submission process is the most important part of sharing your work with potential agents and publishers. You’ve put together your best work. If you’re hoping to follow the traditional publishing route, now you need to get it noticed by people in the industry.
As a writer, consultant, editor, and coach, I know a lot about the Canadian publishing industry. Industry insiders are looking for a great pitch and a sense that you you’ve done your homework. I can provide you with strategic advice, a second set of eyes on your pitch and query letter, and a solid plan for approaching agents and publishers. We can also work together to determine if traditional publishing is the best goal for your work or if avenues like independent or hybrid publishing might be a better fit.
I am not an agent and cannot help pull strings to get your work in front of a particular agent or editor. But I can help set you up to ensure your work has the best chance of being noticed in the crowd.
The submission package includes:
Three one-hour strategy sessions with me to discuss your work, determine your submission goals, and develop an appropriate submission plan for your manuscript (discovery, strategy, submission)
Reading and reviewing up to 20 pages of your work (one chapter or synopsis) to better understand and situate your work
Identifying a shortlist of suitable agents and/or editors for your work
Reading, reviewing, and helping to polish your pitch and query letter
Finalizing a submission schedule + strategy
This package can be combined with any Manuscript Tune-Up Package. The submission package does not include any editing of the manuscript itself.
investment: $975 + HST
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Trevor acted as a developmental editor on one of my stories. What struck me most was not just the thoroughness of his critique, his copious notes, but the penetrating insight, the encouragement to go deeper into a piece that I thought, quite mistakenly, I understood.
—Lucian Childs
Toronto, ON
Author of Dreaming Home
Finalist, 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize