Author Alchemy
A clear path from emerging writer to published author.
Through Author Alchemy, you’ll gain:
Commitment to a real writing practice
Confidence built through action, not performance
Tools to organize and develop your book
Language to share your work with clarity
A grounded entry point into the publishing process
Author Alchemy is for writers who are ready to write the good fight — not someday, but now.
A Guided Adventure Into Book Publishing
This is a self-guided course with five-taped chapters, workbooks, prompts, and resources to help you recommit to your creativity and finally start writing the book you were meant to write. Author Alchemy will get you started on your path to publishing, but more than that, it will show you how to fulfill your creative dreams.
✓ Self-guided - Five taped chapters to help you develop your content, credentials, and creativity.
✓ Interactive - Resources, worksheets, and prompts.
✓ Strategic - Guides on Substack, AI, and pitching practice.
✓ Insider - Includes query letter samples, chapter trackers, and pitching lists.
Build the creativity, confidence, and community to finally establish a writing practice, share your content, publish your writing, and become a celebrated author.
WRITE now.
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What Is Author Alchemy?
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Chapter One
Commit to Your Creativity. In this module, you will identify the promise of your work, develop the approach to your story, and finally begin to create a writing practice.
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Chapter Two
Conjure Your Story. Once you know what you want your writing to do, you can begin developing your book outline and creating your table of contents (yep, that’s where we start!).
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Chapter Three
Craft Your Confidence. We become writers by writing. In this module, you will begin to write 1,000 words a week - and find your creativity partner to help you stay on track.
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Chapter Four
Claim Your Credentials. Once you start writing, it’s time to share your words, creating a consistent posting schedule and pitching your writing to local and national publications.
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Chapter Five
Curate Your Community. Once you have established a writing practice, the next phase is building a community practice, finding the friends and guides to help you write and sell your book.
“My book would not have been what it was without the direction and support of Rise Literary! They not only pushed me to go deeper into my book proposal and helped me secure a publisher, but also, they helped me to build my career as a respected writer and author.”
— Emily Paulson, author of Hey, Hun (Row House Publishing, 2023)
Leading You through
YOUR CREATIVE JOURNEY
shape your arc.
define your approach.
outline your story.
gain clarity with structured support.
Worksheets and Prompts on…
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craft Your Promise + Approach
Begin to identify your promise to your reader and what approach your work will take in fulfilling that promise. Spoiler alert: your promise usually ends up being your book title and your subtitle is your approach.
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DRAFT Your story Outline
Using your story chronology and topic buckets, you will develop your book outline to not only chart your table of contents for your book but to chart your table of magic content – that can be repurposed for posts, pieces, and blogs.
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Find Your Creativity Partner
We help you identify the person or people to start creating an accountability and creativity group, establishing the right group, setting goals, tracking your progress, and turning the creativity circle into your new writing community.
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Build Your Substack
We help you turn your chapters into multiple Substack posts, building community off your magic content, and recognizing how you can begin to use the draft of your book as a blueprint for your social media, making it more authentic and whole less frustrating.
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bind your book
We’ll share a list of agents, editors, and pitching resources to help you start sharing your work with professional gatekeepers, friends, and guides. And also, special discounts to keep writing (and publishing) with Rise Literary.
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Create Your Community
We will lead you through the steps and options to start creating your community. You can choose your own adventure as you begin to consider all the ways you can start sharing your work with people you already know – and the many you are ready to meet.
WRITE now.
Author Alchemy is designed to take you from intention to initiation.
This is a five-chapter program for emerging writers who know they have a book in them — and are ready to begin the real work of becoming an author.
Author Alchemy helps you build the commitment and confidence required to organize your writing, share it thoughtfully, and begin your path toward publishing.
This is not about rushing to the finish line. It’s about staying still long enough to become a published author.
Because we have all been there. We have had the great idea, the the big dream of becoming a “writer.” It was my dream too once, but today, it’s a reality. I have written and edited multiple bestselling titles, I have co-authored over 20 published books, I have been published in multiple major publications. And I have created a career as a published writer and as a celebrated author.
Through a combination of craft talks, writing prompts, and worksheets, this deep dive into your creativity will get you started on your path to publishing, but more than that, it will show you how to fulfill your creative dreams.
We can't wait to help you get there!
“Rise Literary helped me to find my voice, and translate it on the page. Kristen is an amazing thought partner and voice of encouragement. I felt like Rise Writers believed in me on the days where it was hard for me to. I am so grateful for their confidence in me and the message I want to share with the world.”
— Dr. Portia Jackson, author of Less You Can
Your story has the
power to disrupt the world.
It’s time you tell it.