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Niche Down or Stay Open? A Conversation With Memoir Coach Esther Harder
This week on the Substack Writer Salon, I talked with Esther Harder, Book Coach , an Author Accelerator–certified book coach who helps memoir writers “with battered passports” tell their outsider stories. She writes Write Like an Outsider here on Substack.
Esther and I do similar work, and we ended up comparing notes on how we coach, how we find clients, and a question I’ve been going back and forth on for a while.
Here are the highlights.
Do you need a certification to be a book coach?
No, Esther said. You can coach with the skills you already have. For her, the value of the Author…
The skinny
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