It’s time for another season of our Resident Writing Coach Program, where we invite wicked-smart writing experts to share their wisdom and experience, helping you to grow your story skills, strengthen your creative mindset, and get your career to the next stage.
Each year we have some new coaches and some returning, so let me first say goodbye to the incredible Lisa Poisso and Colleen M. Story. These two gave us a ton of actionable tips and advice, so I recommend pulling up their posts via a name search!
This is our 11th year, and we’ve had the incredible fortune to feature some of the top minds in our industry. We bring in a mix of expertise so you benefit from different voices and perspectives, so please help me welcome these writing experts!
Our Resident Writing Coaches
Julie Glover is an award-winning author of young adult and mystery fiction. She holds a master’s degree in counseling, has taught conference workshops and online courses, and co-hosted the Writers in the Storm blog for three years. She also served as sidekick and sometimes-host for Cruising Writers. Among friends, she’s known as a grammar nerd (though she prefers “grammar goddess”).
Julie lives in Texas with her wonderful husband, her loquacious cat, and her large collection of cowgirl boots.
Jill Boehme was known for many years to the online writing community as Authoress, hostess of Miss Snark’s First Victim, a now-retired blog. She is the author of Stormrise and The Stolen Kingdom; she is also a writing coach, a freelance editor, and a staunch defender of the Oxford comma.
You will also find Jill teaching writing classes both locally and online. She finds great joy in encouraging and inspiring writers.
Julie Artz helps status quo busting writers slay their doubt demons and get their stories reader-ready. She is an Author Accelerator-certified Founding Book Coach and a sought-after writing instructor and speaker. She regularly contributes to Jane Friedman and Writers Helping Writers, and is an instructor for AuthorsPublish. A consummate social justice-minded story geek, Julie lives by an enchanted river in Fort Collins, Colorado, with her husband, two naughty furry familiars, and two college-aged children who occasionally manifest. Julie is on YouTube and Substack.
Want to find out if your story is reader-ready? Take this quiz to find out!
Lucy V. Hay is a UK-based script editor & reader, and creator of the popular site, Bang2Write, a top screenwriting blog topping industry lists such as Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites for Writers. She’s edited UK features and shorts for 20+ years and authored the bestselling Writing & Selling Thriller Screenplays. Her alter-ego, Lizzie Fry, pens dark thrillers including her latest, The Good Mother. You can find Lucy at her thriving Bang2Write community, helping writers improve their craft through insightful, real-world advice.
Jami Gold is an award-winning paranormal romance author and blogger whose site was recognized by Writer’s Digest as a 101 Best Website for Writers. Her massive collection of resources for writers includes popular worksheets (including the Romance Beat Sheet), workshops, and over 1000 posts on her blog. Jami is known for her deep dives into all aspects of craft, business, and life of writing and has helped tens of thousands of writers over the years.
Suzy Vadori is the award-winning author of The Fountain Series, a certified book coach with Author Accelerator, and founder of Wicked Good Fiction Bootcamp. She works with writers new to the industry, offering developmental editing, coaching, and online courses. Her superpower is tirelessly working to simplify complex craft topics to get writers up to speed and motivating them to reach their full potential.
Michelle Barker is an award-winning author, editor, and writing teacher based in Vancouver, Canada. Her newest book, co-authored with David Griffin Brown, is Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors. Together they’ve also written Story Skeleton: The Classics and Immersion and Emotion: The Two Pillars of Storytelling. Michelle’s novel, The House of One Thousand Eyes, won numerous awards and was named a Kirkus Best YA Historical Fiction of 2018. Her collection of poetry, Chef, will be out in January 2027, published by Caitlin Press. As a senior editor at The Darling Axe, she loves working closely with writers to hone their manuscripts.
Jenny Hansen is a copywriter, brand storyteller, and LinkedIn coach by day, and a writer at night, working on memoir, humor, and women’s fiction. She’s a co-founder of Writers in the Storm, a long-running craft blog named to Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites list. Jenny’s writing is known for a blend of heart and wit, and she’s currently revising a memoir based on her cancer journey.
Here’s to another year of amazing posts!
