One week. You attend a structured session lasting up to three hours (in one session or two), and your complete Book Blueprint is delivered within seven days. The Blueprint includes vision and working title, core thesis, about the author, chapter architecture, voice and tone, editorial direction, target reader and market position, and a practical roadmap. Delivery is accompanied by a Blueprint Review Session to walk through the Blueprint together.

The Book Blueprint is a fixed fee for a single book. This includes a Blueprint Session of up to three hours (in one session or two), a complete Book Blueprint delivered within one week, and a Blueprint Review Session to walk through the Blueprint together. For context, it costs less than most businesses spend on a single morning of external consultancy. Projects involving multiple books are priced on complexity and discussed during your initial conversation.

Not exactly. Traditional ghostwriting starts with a writer's interpretation of what you mean. This service starts with your own words. The Blueprint Session captures how you actually think and speak, and everything that follows is built from that foundation. The result is a book that sounds like you at your most articulate, not like someone else's idea of you.

No. The Book Blueprint is a standalone product. Once you have it, you have three routes forward: write the book yourself using the Blueprint as your guide, continue with the Writing Partnership, or take the Blueprint to a professional ghostwriter. There is no obligation to proceed beyond the Blueprint.

The process is the same whether you are starting from scratch or arriving with a draft. The Blueprint Session assesses what you have and gives you an honest picture of where your book stands: what is working, what needs rethinking, and what the path to a finished manuscript looks like. Some clients discover they are further along than they thought. Others learn that the structure needs rebuilding before the writing can move forward. Either way, the Blueprint gives you clarity you did not have before.

The process starts from the architecture rather than picking up where someone else left off. But the starting point is an assessment, not a refusal.

Business and thought leadership books, memoirs, practical how-to guides, hybrid books that combine personal story with professional expertise, creative and fiction projects informed by specialist knowledge, and multiple books developed in parallel.

The Writing Partnership is a fixed monthly retainer with a six-month minimum commitment. The typical production rhythm is one chapter cycle per month: raw material from you, a polished draft from me, then revision and voice calibration. After the initial six months, the partnership continues on a rolling monthly basis with one month's notice to conclude. Once chapter production is complete, the retainer covers manuscript-level work: continuity editing across the full arc, structural adjustments that only become visible when all the chapters exist together, and refinement of the opening and closing. Clients typically reach manuscript stage within nine months for a standard business book; twelve months at the outside.

The manuscript is where most book development services stop. This one does not. Your Blueprint session captured your argument, your voice, your positioning, and your stories, and that material does not stop being useful when the manuscript is finished. Publication, author website, keynote presentations, LinkedIn optimisation, content strategy, podcast scripts, press and media kits, course outlines: every deliverable draws on the same source material and the same voice direction, with no briefing document to write and no context to rebuild. Before your Blueprint Session, it is worth being clear about what success looks like for you, whether that is the book simply existing, a specific sales target, speaking invitations, or something else. That clarity shapes the whole project.

Up to three hours for the Blueprint session, in one session or two. If you proceed to the Writing Partnership, the time you invest each month is modest: you provide raw material for the chapter in progress and review the drafts I produce. The production work happens between sessions. You talk, review, and refine. You do not stare at a blank page.

Yes. The production method behind this service uses AI tools. Most people assume that means the technology does the work. It does not, for the same reason that owning a recording studio does not make you a musician.

AI can produce eighty thousand fluent words for anyone who asks. That is not the hard part. The hard part is getting the trajectory right before production begins. It is the same principle as navigation at sea: a single degree off course is invisible in the harbour. Five hundred miles out, you are heading for the wrong continent. Books work the same way. A thesis that is slightly off, a structure that feels logical but has no argument running through it, a voice that is close but not yours: these are small errors on page one. By chapter eight they are unfixable, and most people cannot tell until they have already written the whole thing.

That is the work this service does: the extraction, the architecture, the editorial decisions that set the trajectory before a word of the manuscript is written. A live conversation where someone follows your thinking, finds the thread, and builds the structure around it. No tool can do that on its own. Without it, AI produces something that sounds like a book but reads like nothing in particular.