The right book
Find the thread connecting your expertise, story, reader, and business goals.
Get known for what you know
Build the right book. Finish it. Publish it. Put it to work.
I help experts identify the book worth writing, then turn what they know into a nonfiction book that builds authority, opens doors, and supports their business from the first idea through publication and beyond.
Your expertise deserves a book with a job to do.
Have expertise worth turning into a book?
See what your expertise could become as a book.Why this work exists
The work should fit the human.
Not the other way around.
I spent years trying to force my brain into systems designed for somebody else. Writing was supposed to happen quietly and linearly. Business was supposed to follow a formula. Technology was something I was expected to accommodate.
Then I began speaking my ideas aloud, using AI as a thinking partner, and redesigning the process around how I create. The bottleneck started to disappear.
That belief now shapes every book I help build: find the thread, preserve the human voice, and create a process the author can finish.
Wherever you are in the process
Your book needs more than writing.
You may be starting with fourteen ideas or holding a finished manuscript that still needs a job to do. Leslie helps you enter where you are and move the book toward where it needs to go.
The finished book
Shape, write, speak, edit, or strengthen the manuscript without losing your voice.
The positioned book
Publish, package, and launch the book so the right readers can find and understand it.
The working book
Use the book to create authority, conversations, clients, stages, and opportunities.
Before working with Leslie, I was very up in the air about what my book was. I had stories, but I didn’t know how to tell or organize them. Leslie listened to all the different ideas that came out of my mouth and pulled them back together for me. Now we have a path, we know who I’m talking to, and we know the message goes beyond simply telling my story.
Meg
Why Leslie
Practical strategy. Human voice. No publishing fog.
I’ve built businesses, owned a ranch, guided sea-kayak tours in Alaska, fixed windmills, and learned entrepreneurship far beyond the polished highlight reel. Those experiences taught me how to find the throughline, cut through the noise, and turn a lifetime of hard-won knowledge into something other people can use. I bring that same real-world practicality to books.
Meet Leslie“Your story isn’t separate from your expertise. The right book brings them together.”
Ways to begin
Start with the support your book needs.
FREE WEEKLY SESSION
The Author Lab
Bring your book questions, ideas, or work in progress and get clearer about the direction, structure, and next step.
Join the Author LabSTRATEGIC FOUNDATION
Your 30-Day Book Roadmap
Turn scattered ideas into a clear book promise, reader, structure, and chapter path with guidance and an AI-assisted framework.
Ask about the RoadmapFULL-JOURNEY SUPPORT
Author Accelerator
Move from the right book to a finished, positioned, working book with strategic coaching across the entire journey.
Explore the AcceleratorOne philosophy · More than one expression
Use the tools. Keep the voice.
Books, AI, speaking, and meaningful conversations belong in the same ecosystem when they remove friction and help good ideas travel farther.
The right book
Find the throughline first, then build a book process around how you create through writing, speaking, existing material, or a combination.
Explore book supportBetter tools
Use AI and voice-first systems to remove needless friction without flattening the experience, judgment, or perspective that makes the work yours.
Explore AI solutionsA voice that travels
Books, stages, and meaningful conversations give good ideas more than one way to reach the people who need them.
Discover Powerful on PurposeA free place to begin
Bring your book questions to the Author Lab.
Join Leslie for a free weekly book clarity session and leave with a clearer direction and a useful next step.
“The most helpful thing was figuring out who the reader is. Now I have a focus, and I can keep that person front and center as I move through the book.” Shayne