Find Your Path
Book Coaching
Turn your ideas into proposals, concepts to full manuscripts, and refine your book submissions.
Tell & sell your story with industry expertise in your pocket.
Group Courses
No matter where you are on your path to publishing, we support authors at every stage (and budget) get from fantasy to dream come true.
Hybrid Publishing
Rise Literary offers premier publishing packages with sales & distribution with Simon & Schuster.
Our hybrid packages can include audiobook production and distribution, publicity and marketing, TV and film development, and more.
LIVE EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
Rise Literary offers a host of events and workshops to help you grow as a writer, creator, and celebrated author. From our live speakers series to our book coaching breakfasts, Rise Literary believes in building community - helping writers find their path to publishing and their inspiration.
Founded by
bestselling author, big-five editor, and renowned publisher Kristen McGuiness, Rise Literary is a book coaching and hybrid publishing company designed to take you from the blank page to global stages. Utilizing her elite industry connections, Kristen has built a publishing house that supports writers from daydreamer to thought leader.
With literary tastes and a commercial palate, Kristen has used her 20+ years in publishing to build bridges that answer your deepest curiosities about writing and the industry - across all genres.
Through sales and distribution with Simon & Schuster, Rise Literary is where your writing fantasy becomes your author reality.
Start your next chapter today.
With simon & schuster
distribution,
rise literary
isn’t your usual hybrid press.
Rise Literary is distributed by Simon & Schuster, offering authors national (and international) distribution of their titles, along with professional production, editorial, design, and publicity & marketing services.
In addition, we include audiobook production and distribution, foreign right and film/TV development, and all marketing and publicity in our hybrid packages – offering authors a premier publishing experience.
Publish your book and build your career as a celebrate author.
NOW ENROLLING
Walk in with a vision,
walk out with your first draft.
In this group program, you’ll work through the building blocks of developing and writing your memoir.
Dates: Sunday, 21 September 2025 - 14 January 2026, every other week
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm PST/1:00-3:00pm EST
Details: A total of nine bi-weekly Zoom sessions, three 30-minute private sessions or upgrade to five hour-long private sessions
Classes are recorded. Private sessions are offered between live workshops.
“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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