Find your path to publishing
Five days to celebrated
author
Build the creativity, confidence, and community to finally establish a writing practice, find your creativity, publish your writing and become a celebrated author.
Sounds great, but….
❌ I don’t know what to write
❌ I don’t have any followers
❌ I get started but I can never commit
…We’ve got you.
Kind Words
Kind Words
“Rise Literary helps and allows an author's highest voice to come through. If you are looking for a collaborator - someone brilliant and funny - Kristen is your person and Rise Literary is the place to be! They are book doulas in the highest form.”
— Christopher Rivas, author of Brown Enough (Row House Publishing, 2022)
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What’s Inside Five Days to Celebrated Author?!
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Day One
Recommit to Your Creativity
Identify your promise.
Develop your approach.
Commit to your practice.
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Day Two
Develop Your Magic Content
Build your book outline.
Create your table of contents.
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Day Three
Craft Your Confidence
How to write 1,000 words a week.
Find your creativity partner.
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Day Four
Build Your Credentials
Share your words.
Pitch, pitch, pitch.
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Day Five
Turn your concept into community
Build your team.
Sell your book.
Kind Words
Kind Words
“My book would not have been what it was without the direction and support of Rise Writers! 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)
Worksheets and Prompts on…
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Your Path to 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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Build Your Book 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.
05
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.
06
The Secret List
We’ll share a list of agents, editors, and pitching resources to help you start sharing your work with professional gatekeepers, friends, and guides.
Kind Words
Kind Words
“Rise Writers 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
A Risk-Free 14-Day Guarantee
After 14 days in the Five Days to Celebrated Author portal, you’ll have received access to the first 2 modules of the program.
You’ll have recommitted to your creativity and developed your magic content, and you might have even started crafting your confidence – and writing 1,000 words a week, but if you aren’t feeling like you are getting where you want to go with your writing goals, we understand.
We want Five Days to Celebrated Author to be a full-body “yes” for you, friend.
But if you don’t feel totally confident and motivated to start your path to publishing, simply reach out, show us you’ve put in the work, and we’ll refund your investment.
Are you tired of dreaming of being a writer but are now ready to become one? Do you wonder about self-publishing, indie-publishing, or even where to begin—let alone what kind of book you want to write? Do you have a lot of questions but aren’t sure where to find the answers?
Five Days to Celebrated Author is a fun and engaging deep dive for those who are ready to start on the path to publishing.
Because we have all been there. We have had the great idea, the brilliant inspiration, the dream of being a published author. It was my dream too once, but today, it is my reality. I have written and edited multiple bestselling titles, I have co-authored over 20 published books, I have been published in Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, LitHub, the New York Times' Tiny Love Stories (and more). And I have created a career as a published writer and as a celebrated author.
Whether you’re looking to write fiction, nonfiction, memoir, or poetry, Five Days to Celebrated Author is really about understanding who you are as a writer, and who you can become as an author.
Through a combination of craft talks, writing prompts, worksheets, and live Q+A, 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!
Your story has the power to disrupt the world.
Find it and tell it.
In this five-module workshop, we will start you on the path to publishing, helping you to find the story you want to tell, the best strategies for getting published, and how to go from aspiring writer to celebrated author.
✓ Self-guided - Five taped modules.
✓ Interactive - Resources, worksheets, and prompts.
✓ Strategic - Guides on Substack, AI, and pitching practice.
✓ Insider - Includes agent lists and pitching networks.
✓ Support - Membership to Rise Writers community.