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Replay of Your 2023 Year In Review workshop is below!

This program is life changing.

Because if you're like I was, you're frustrated with your "fling it at the wall and see what sticks" strategy, Book Boss will give you the skills you need to take a more organized approach to your career. You'll learn to plan, to test, to revise, and to pivot when necessary. Good stuff!
Liv Rancourt
Published Author

“Life changing” is a big promise. But this program gives you the opportunity to learn things about yourself, about publishing, and about your abilities that you may not have ever previously realized. 

In truth, the program isn’t going to change your life–it’s going to give you the tools to change your life!

Here's the secret to building a sustainable career as a full-time author:

Write the best books possible.

and

Think about your writing career like a business owner.

Strategic business owners (and writers!) don’t make reactive decisions by committee. Instead, they build a sustainable business with deliberation and care based on their intuition and by growing their knowledge.

Why this program? Because we know...

You want to make being a writer your full-time career.

You want to be a bestselling author.

You want a community of superfans eager for your next book.

You want to support your family with your writing.

You want the career of your dreams.

But instead of reaching for what you want, you keep letting other people tell you what’s best, what you should do, what you can't do, what you should want…

What will Book Boss Strategic Intensive Do For You?

You’re about to become the expert in your own writing career!

When you join this group coaching experience, you're giving yourself :

A dedicated look at your publishing strategy.

A framework to confidently make decisions that will lead you to your publishing success (and help you stop listening to every piece of publishing advice you see on the internet).

And a supportive group to help you get past major roadblocks and move forward to being the Book Boss you're meant to be!

The Book Boss Strategy Intensive will be limited to 15 participants. Doors close on January 4th, 2023 or when the spots sell out.

Say “yes” to gaining the knowledge to make the best decision for your publishing career…

Join for One Payment of $897

Or 4 monthly installments of $225

Step into your power, take control of your publishing career and make money by becoming your own Book Boss!

As a writer, I struggled for years to find a community of like-minded people to share my author journey with. That struggle ended with the discovery of Angela James and her Book Boss coaching program.

Book Boss is a group mentoring program designed to move you ahead with a business plan geared toward achieving your personal writing and publishing dreams. No matter the stage you're at in your career, Book Boss can help you find your path to the success you want.

Whether your interests lie in traditional or indie-publishing, Angela's common sense approach will help you define your targets so you can work toward your goals in a practical and systematic way.

Edith Lalonde
Author of Romantic Suspense

Join the Winter 2023 book boss strategy intensive!
Here's what you get:

Dream * Create * Execute

The Book Boss Framework has three phases focused on setting the groundwork for your success!

All those classes you've signed up for thinking you can do on your own time and without the pressure of being in a live class? Yeah, you're not going to get 1/10th as much value out of them as you will in BBSI because you're learning from experienced writers and from Angela. This has been invaluable.
Christine Wilcox
Author

Book Boss Success Framework Welcome:

There’s homework. 

There, I said it up front. This course has homework. There’s work to do because creating your vision of success and the career that works for you doesn’t happen without knowing some things about yourself. 

So we’re going to do some work both in the meeting and outside of it, to set you up for your own success. 

And we’re going to create an atmosphere of camaraderie and support, where no one is going to feel left behind, left out, or alone. From the very first meeting, we come together with a mutual goal: to get you moving forward in your career in a way that works for you!

When I first joined I was worried I was out of my depth but I quickly realized it wasn't about being right or knowing everything. This was about me getting serious about my writing journey and career. I wasn't taking myself seriously as a writer but I am now!
Enid Grempler
Author

Book Boss Success Framework Module 1 (Dream):

In our weekly meetings, we focus on the Dream phase of the framework in two ways:

1) Group Coaching

2) Framework meetings

Via group coaching, each group member gets the opportunity to bring forward their current career struggles and let us help you brainstorm. The beauty of this coaching is that you get to pick and choose what works for you, and what doesn’t, and you also get to benefit from everyone else’s coaching as well! 

The Framework meetings are where I teach you the framework of planning for your successful career, in a non-burnout way, in a way that gets you closer to being confident in your own decision-making skills, and gets you a roadmap for moving forward. 

Via all of the meetings in the first 8 weeks of the program, you’re going to dream your biggest dreams, put to words some of your biggest vulnerabilities, and work your way to new methods of creating your publishing success.

I loved the Hot Seat Coaching the most. There were so many great questions from my fellow Book Bosses that I would not have thought to ask. Seeing that I'm not alone in my struggles -- whether software or "butt in chair" -- that was powerful and encouraging.
Anne Kaelber
Author

Book Boss Success Framework Module 2 (Create):

In the last third of the Book Boss Strategic Intensive, we’re going to create your career strategy based on what your success will look like, your dreams, the Book Boss framework, your homework, and the time period and goals that you want to create and plan for. 

You’ll get specific feedback on your strategy.

Because this creation phase incorporates a number of different elements, it’s not just a “planning” phase, but a phase where you create an honest approach to your career that you can feel confident in executing. 

BBSI has made be more realisitic in how I approach my writing career as far as planning, focusing on top priorities and realizing that "pivoting" is just a part of my plan.
Claudia Shelton
Published Author

Book Boss Success Framework Module 3 (Execute):

As we near the end of the Book Boss Strategic Intensive, you’ll learn how to move forward in executing your strategy. Because it’s one thing to develop your strategy–but now you need to actually execute it to make it work for you! 

In this phase, you’ll be offered some concrete action steps you can take to execute, as well as an understanding of how to pivot your strategy in meaningful ways in order to move toward your success. 

Last, you’ll be invited to continue working with your Book Boss Strategic Intensive group members in the supportive mastermind environment of the Book Boss Success Alliance.

Say “yes” to the most invaluable experience of 2023 you will invest in.

Join for One Payment of $897

Or 4 monthly installments of $225

WHy Book Boss Strategy Intensive?

It’s time to choose your publishing success, choose your writing dreams and choose joy.

Choose joy.

Joy is profitability too.

Book Boss Strategy Intensive is going to set you up to think about what a successful author career looks like for you, understand what your dreams are, and what brings you joy.

You’re going to build a writing and publishing plan that avoids serious burn out, have a vision for short and long term publishing success, understand what’s in your control–and what’s not in your control.

You’ll create a feeling of confidence that helps you feel secure in the choices you’re making.

And you’ll discover feelings of excitement and security, rather than always feeling nervous or unsure because you’re just wandering around your writing career, rather than making deliberate, educated choices for it.

You’re going to know it’s okay if things don’t work because you’ll have the tools to reevaluate and make different choices when publishing your next book, and you know how to look different at things through a lens of certainty.

You will go forward with a greater feeling of “I’ve got this” rather than always feeling like “WTF do I do now?”

And when someone insists that you have to do it their way, or that you’re doing it wrong, you’ll have the confidence and knowledge to explain why these choices are right for you.

BBSI is very welcoming of authors from diverse communities. Also, the course accommodated our real-life schedules (despite global attendance!). I got the most out of the live sessions but having the recordings to re-listen to them is invaluable! The combined Hot Seat Coaching documents were so very helpful!
Anne Kaelber
Author

You are unique and it's time you plan for your uniqueness!

In publishing, authors are always listening to what everyone else is doing and making decisions based on what that bestselling author has done or this bestselling author did. Or what your best friend who’s an indie publisher tells you that you absolutely have to do. Or your best author pal who just got a trad book contract says is an absolute must.

So you’re making decisions based on everyone else’s success.

But what are you not doing? Taking into consideration that you are not your best friend…you’re not that bestselling author– and you will never be the same as that bestselling author.

Wait, what?

You CAN be a bestselling author. You can get a trad contract. You can make money. You can grow a readership. You can have superfans. I believe in you. You believe in you (if you’re not quite there yet, I can help with that!)

But first, you need to stop letting other people make the decisions for you. Stop having a reactive career, where you chase the next bright, shiny thing rather than building your business with deliberation and care.

You need to change how you’re making decisions. Stop chasing other people’s success and chase your success.

You’re not that bestselling author.

You’re not your best author pal.

You don’t know their work habits, their writing abilities, their daily life, their support systems. You don’t write like them, plot like them, or market like them.

You don’t have their knowledge, their time, or their money.

In short, you need to stop making decisions just like them, because those decisions may not work for you.

How will your career be transformed?

The Book Boss Strategy Intensive is a deep dive into the publishing career you want to achieve, and an opportunity to understand how to set up a foundation that will carry you through your publishing career or publishing pivot.

This 14-week course will change the way you look at publishing, writing and career decisions. You’ll come out of it not only with a concrete plan–that will change with you–to follow, but a new confidence in the decisions you make. 

After conducting literally 100s of consultations with authors, there was one common question, in multiple variations, that came up time after time: 

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

Should I go indie or trad? 
Should I query agents? 
What pivot should I make?
Should I use more than one pen name? 
Do I need to build my website now? 
What do I do after I finish the book?
Should I be on social media?
Should I have a newsletter?

And through our work together, every author who did a consultation with me realized the same thing:

It wasn’t that they needed me to tell them the answer because the answer is different for everyone.

It’s that they needed help getting to the answer that was right for them, without someone else’s opinion weighing them down, holding them back, and making them doubt everything.

Yes, it’s reassuring to have someone else boss you a little and just tell you what to do…

But What if you could be your own book boss?

The Book Boss Coaching is more than just a how-to. In fact, it is more of a journey to find the best ways to carve a path you can not only be comfortable with but direct forward.

When I think of fellow authors in my shoes, they might not want to take Book Boss because it will make you question EVERYTHING you know. To spend a lot of money for a business coach and then realize that money, or the current trend you're chasing ISN'T where you should be is highly frightening. Especially in an industry that is bumping up against a perfect storm of change and monopsony looming ahead.

I think the biggest takeaway was paying attention to the heart and soul of my business as an author. All else is secondary. What I mean by this is by finding purpose and meaning in what I write, how I respond to others, and weighing it against my sense of self is more important than burning myself out by chasing a market trend.
Calia Wilde
Contemporary Romance Author

Book Boss strategy Intensive

Here's what you'll get

  • 14 weeks of coaching, from 1/9/23-4/18/23
  • A judgment-free, it’s-okay-to-be-messy zone and supportive, inclusive, no-bullshit vibe. We’re all a little messy here and we’re going to accept that in others too!
  • At the end of the program, you’ll have a multi-faceted publishing plan (anywhere from a 3 month-36 month plan, you choose) as long as you do the work (we’re not making this for you, we’re just facilitating it and giving you the tools!) But more importantly, you’ll have the ability to pivot, change and adapt the plan as needed, and create that plan on an ongoing basis.
  • Strategy Intensive documents (worksheets, decision tree, example plans and more).
  • Weekly Group Meetings
  • One round in the focused-on-you hot seat (that means you bring yourself to a meeting, bring your problem/roadblock/struggle to the table, and we take our collective brains to help you brainstorm!)
  • Private podcast feed of all sessions so you can listen on the go!
  • Exclusive Discord server for Book Boss Strategy Intensive participants to chat, communicate, ask questions and get feedback from one another.
  • Weekly office hours with Angela via Voxer–Voxer is a voice messaging app that allows us to communicate via voice or text so I can answer privately your specific questions that you don’t want to bring to the group.

BONUS!

4 months access to From Written to Recommended VIP Author Community

With your Book Boss Strategy Intensive membership, you also receive free access to my paid author community where you'll find resources for querying, writing bios, choosing pen names, publishing mindset and more!

Special Invitation

At the end of the 14 weeks, an invitation to the Book Boss Success Alliance–the small group mastermind *only* for graduates of the Book Boss Strategy Intensive, this program is a high-touch, high-level small group fostered for support, growth and ongoing learning. Available only for Book Boss Strategy Intensive graduates!.

What does coaching consist of?

  • Bi-weekly "teaching" group meetings where I teach you the framework and concepts of Book Boss.
  • Bi-weekly live group coaching to help with roadblocks and struggles.
  • One round in the hot seat (that means you bring yourself to a meeting, bring your problem/roadblock/struggle to the table, and we take our collective brains to help you brainstorm!)
  • You receive individual feedback in group coaching sessions, in group teaching sessions, via private 1:1 Voxer office hours with Angela, via Discord and on your homework.
  • A supportive group environment where there's no judgement, no shame and no ridicule for the fears and doubts you're experiencing.

The details

This Winter 203 session is $897 (or 4 monthly payments of $225) and this is the only time it will be that price. The price will go up for the Fall 2023 session.

  • Coaching is 14 weeks, from 1/9/23-4/18/23. No meetings held the week of 3/1/23
  • Weekly Meetings every Tuesday.
  • Meetings held between 12p-6pm Eastern
  • Meeting length is 90 minutes to 2 hours.
  • All meetings are recorded and available via video and private podcast.

What does this mean?

It means we’re going to be doing group coaching in live meetings, accompanied by work you’ll need to do in between meetings. You’ll get individualized coaching within the group environment (not 1:1 coaching, but an opportunity to ask for feedback from the group and from me in a group setting).

You’ll have access to the small groups and make connections with the people who are having your same struggles, and if you do the work, you’ll come out of the three months with an actual plan that you can execute, the tools you need to create and pivot, and with clarity, confidence and a sense of forward momentum. Or, in concrete terms: you’re going to have not just an actual publishing plan but an idea of how the heck you’re going to execute it and change it when you need to.

take control of your publishing career!

Rollercoasters are fun and all, but not so much when it’s your money, career and business involved. 

Join the Winter 2023 session now!

Join for One Payment of $897

Or 4 monthly installments of $225

"For a new author just starting out like myself, I would say: the Book Boss program is helpful for getting your feet under you and building a foundation for your author business to guide all your big decisions going forward. Maybe you're not floundering now, but if you ever expect you may be overwhelmed with options and wondering when to pivot or to go indie or trad or hybrid, taking Book Boss will help direct you as the course is about spelling out what you want long-term and how to get there. "
Laura Rye
Author of Freak Camp

Is it for you?

This group coaching program is geared toward two types of authors:

 Authors who are unpublished or on the cusp of publishing and want to start their journey off in a strategic way. 

It’s also for authors who are already published or multi-published, but feel as if they’re flailing, need to pivot, have never thought strategically about their careers and may be struggling with the beginning of burnout.

Whether you’re published or unpublished, as long as you’re ready to be your own book boss and answer the questions of “now what?” and “should I?” this is for you!

You'll need...

  • To make a commitment. The only way to get results is to commit to the program and your fellow participants. We're serious about this. There's work involved so you need to commit to showing up and doing the work (for you!)
  • An open mind. The best gift you can give yourself is going to be being open and honest with yourself as we go through the exercises. Holding back or convincing yourself it’s not necessary to do the work or that you can skip a step is going to make it hard for you to get the full transformation.
  • A willingness to give (and get) feedback. In this group, we’ll be looking for you to give feedback to the other group members and to me! Give as much as you get is a great group motto, and so you want to be sure you’re offering insights to your fellow group members.
  • A promise of confidentiality. Your fellow group members will depend on you to keep what’s discussed confidential, just as you’ll depend on them to do the same. I will depend on you to keep the group framework and materials confidential.
Sivan Freidlin
Contemporary Romance Author

WHy group coaching?

I know, I said at the beginning that other people’s opinions can weigh you down. 

But other people can also lift you up and help you expand your business in ways you may never have thought possible. 

One of the things I stress is the importance of community: for support, for reassurance that you’re not in this alone, for collaboration, for different viewpoints, and for a solid foundation of learning how to take in information and make the decision about how it’s best for your business and success.

Something I’ve learned in my time participating in business memberships and mastermind groups is that while I am the final strategist for my business, having a group coaching experience with people who get me, get what I’m experiencing, and can help me strategize and give advice–so I can sift through and decide what and how to apply it–is invaluable.

People at both your same level of experience–perhaps even especially people at your level of experience (as well as people who have both less and more experience) and different levels of experience can give you insight and new strategy because they’re bringing different life lessons, lived experience and ways of approaching an issue to the table. 

In addition, learning with others can give you the opportunity to make connections, build together, and help each other along the way. As your success grows, and their success grows, you’ll find more opportunities for supporting and collaborating with one another.

Let the group coaching experience teach you about how to utilize community in a way that’s healthy and productive for your publishing business.


What if you could be your own book boss?

  • What if you knew exactly what you should do? (At least most of the time, because we all need support from friends and mentors.)
  • What if you knew what was next? What if you felt comfortable giving yourself the permission to choose, to go ahead, to make the decision, because you were coming from a place of confidence and knowledge?
  • How would it feel if you weren’t always wondering “what next” and “should I…”? Instead, you would know what was next and you could talk yourself through the “should I…” questions.

WHat if you didn't *always* feel uncertain?

  • What if you had the tools to recognize the FOMO and then let it go, because it wasn’t what was right for your plan, your business, and your success? How often are you doing something simply because of FOMO (fear of missing out) because someone has told you it’s what you absolutely must be doing?
  • What if you put a plan in place to help you resist getting derailed by the new, shiny idea or thing that’s come along? Are you being strategic with how you spend your time or are you getting distracted by the Shiny Things?
The saying goes that "Not all those who wander are lost" but that wasn't the case for myself and my writing career. I was lost and wandering down all procrastination paths, doing everything but avoiding the one that would help me actually point me in the right direction.

The Book Boss mentorship not only helped me to talk through the roadblock that was holding me back, but also provided support, and a workable Writing Plan that will help keep me moving toward my publishing goal.

If you don't know what your next steps are or you are like me, a wanderer stuck on a loop, then this mentorship will help guide you and keep you accountable.
Melanie Berthier
Author

The Book Boss Strategy Intensive is designed to set you up with an executable plan for your own publishing success, confident decision making, and the ability to, you got it, be your own book boss.

And it’s set up to do it with other people who are struggling to, so you can feel that sense of community and understand that you’re not alone and there are others out there who will support you!

Get yourself a book boss support group

Hey, I'm Angela james

20 years in the publishing industry, 2 successful imprints launched and directed (Samhain and Harlequin’s Carina Press) and 100s of novels edited across my career… plus I’ve been teaching Before You Hit Send for the past 15 years!

I’ve worked with 100s of authors at all stages of their career and I know exactly where authors get frustrated, burnt out, stuck and feel alone.

I created Book Boss Strategy Intensive to bring authors together to develop a strategic, flexible publishing plan that will help lead them to their dream publishing career.

Are you ready to be your own book boss and build the publishing career of your dreams?

If you’re looking to create a lasting publishing career with a plan that adapts with you and allows you the permission to be yourself as you build your author career—then Book Boss is the program you’ve been looking for.
Be Your Own Book Boss Join now!

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"I took a lot out of the program. The most valuable thing though was figuring out what path I want to take. For years now, I've been stagnant. I've fought imposter syndrome and feeling like a one shot author. It's held me back from moving forward and spurred a lot of my indecision on whether I wanted to self-publish or traditionally publish (try to)."
Melanie Berthier
Melanie BerthierAuthor
"If you're feeling a lot of angst and uncertainty, not knowing where to start, this course is very helpful in figuring out your priorities and values and letting those guide all your decisions and figuring out what's most important to you to accomplish the next couple of years. The Book Boss course will help you write all of that out so you can remind yourself when you start to self-doubt or feel conflicted because of what you heard some other author is doing or a new shiny thing in the industry. "
Laura Rye
Laura RyeAuthor
"it’s empowering to learn you’re not alone, that most, if not all, authors struggle with doubts: about marketing, about promo, about managing time and the fear of “not doing enough.” It was comforting to learn that even the ones who seem to have it all together and are doing a lot still struggle with doubt. It’s easy to think you’re the only one going through it and that’s not the case. It was helpful to see people dig deep, be vulnerable and open about their feelings and doubts, even if I wasn’t able to bring myself to be one of them. >
Deana Kussman
Deana KussmanAuthor
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Frequently Asked Questions

When it’s over, the plan is that you’ll know what happens because you’ll have the framework to make those decisions. But if you’re like me, and you like the idea of ongoing support, you will receive an exclusive invitation to the Book Boss Success Alliance. A small group mastermind *only* for graduates of the Book Boss Strategy Intensive, this program is a high-touch, high-level small group fostered for support, growth and ongoing learning.

This session will only be held if we get 8 participants. If we do not meet the minimum, all participants will be refunded.

Email us at support@angelajames.co or message us via the chat button here on the website.

You will receive individual feedback via your hot seat opportunity, as well as during Voxer office hours, on weekly homework, and on Discord chats.

This is not a 1:1 coaching opportunity but there will be opportunity for asking questions privately and during the meetings!

Hot seat is a coaching term often used in the business world, particularly in small group settings where an individual becomes the focus of group coaching temporarily in order to get focused feedback from the group. In Book Boss Strategic Intensive hot seats, each author will have the opportunity to present one roadblock, issue, problem they’re struggling with and get the entire group to discuss and brainstorm.

I recommend being able to show up for at least some of the meetings live. You don’t need to attend every meeting live, and there will be recordings and a private podcast of all the sessions.

That said, past participants felt that attending live did give towering value.

In addition, I do ask that you try to attend as many of the group coaching sessions as possible as this will be where you and your fellow participants give and get feedback to one another.

Meetings are held every week from the weeks of January 9th through April 18th on Tuesdays. There are no meetings the weeks of March 1st. Meetings will be scheduled between 12p-7pm Eastern and a full schedule will be provided the first week of the Intensive. If you’re in a European or Asian area time zone, or have a limited-availability schedule please reach out to discuss meeting timing to see if it will work for you.
This session is capped to 15 total participants. Once the 15 spots have been claimed, the cart will no longer allow sales.
You may request a full refund until January 10, 2023. This is after the first meeting. After that time, no refunds will be available.
Voxer is a text and voice messaging app that you can use either on your mobile device or computer. This app allows us to communicate in real time by exchanging messages via text or voice. Voxer office hours occur every Wednesday during the intensive and are your chance to ask personalized or private questions of Angela and get direct feedback, advice or suggestions.
Sometimes I say “we”. You’ll see not only me, Angela James, in the program/on communication, sometimes you will see my assistant Dan Stephensen (people adore Dan!) He may send out emails, answer questions and possibly show up in a session or two to facilitate co-working but I will be leading all the sessions.
1:1 consultation is available for a rate of $350 for a 2-hour Voxer session. As you can see, this makes the Strategic Intensive, an extremely good deal in comparison, but if you’re interested in the 1:1 consultation, email angela@angelajames.co
Consider joining the Book Boss Author Community: From Written to Recommended. We’re running a limited time special if you join this week. Get the first month 1/2 off and $30/month after (normally $37/month). This offer expires January 10th.
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“Book Boss was a fantastic program! I’m in the relatively early stages of my writing and self-publishing career, and I’ve come out of the program with a more specific, concrete plan for where I go next.

I really love Angela’s emphasis that success looks different for everyone, and also that there are multiple ways we can measure success for ourselves–especially by balancing what seems realistic to achieve and pushing for what’s going to bring us joy.

Speaking of balance, the program also struck a great one between the teaching aspect, where Angela shared her advice and wisdom, and group/peer support, where we all got to know each other and talk through our writing challenges and wins. I’m really happy I joined, and I’m excited to put what I learned into action!”
– Brianne Gillen, Author of Fierce Dames & Cinnamon Roll Gents

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