Author Coaching
USA Today Bestselling Author
Toby Neal
Retreats
Toby puts on retreats known for their depth, intimacy and powerful motivating qualities. She brings in top-notch speakers on a number of topics from craft to marketing, and plenty of time is given to writing and networking.
Considering Author Coaching?
- Are you in a rut with your creative work?
- Losing motivation to get your dream book finished?
- Confused about self-publishing or the road to an agent?
- Overwhelmed by all the information, choices and services out there?
- Struggling with burnout?
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“Author and Coach Toby Neal is absolutely incredible. She has done so many things for me. Not only has she helped me to improve my writing, improve my research skills, increase my knowledge of marketing and connected me to powerful resources, but she cheered me on, helped my self-esteem and gave me strategies to help me develop into a better, more empowered woman, wife, mother, and writer.”
“Leads by example with gentle but firm encouragement.”
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Five ways to celebrate holidays when you're in grief
Here are five ways to celebrate the holidays when you’re in grief and have lost a loved one. Celebrating might seem impossible when you’re in grief, and yet these "special" days come whether we want them to or not, and must be endured. There’s an empty chair at the...
Creating new traditions
Creating new traditions is something we can do at any time, but it happens of necessity when something major changes in life: a death, a divorce, a big move, a job change, a new marriage, the birth of a child. This year, I have gone through five of the six (and not...
Happiness is an inside job
Happiness is an inside job, even when your home is a tropical island paradise. Extreme beauty can actually distort perspective. Every other place is then seen through rainbow-tinted spectacles. I’ve been fortunate by design, spending the majority of my life in...
RV lessons
Lessons continue in our RV adventure. Every time we take out our tiny house on wheels, something new is learned. ‘Always check the weather and plan accordingly’ was the next slap upside the head. Eight years ago, when our daughter was in college at...
On Vikings and marijuana baked goods
The Russian River has moods. Originally known by the Southern Pomo Native Americans of the area as “east water” Ashokawna, or "big water" Bidapte, in the short time I’ve lived here I’ve come to feel about the river like I did about Maui’s ocean: just looking at it...
On the road again
On the road again! We’re traveling in a whole new way now that we’ve relocated (temporarily) to California. I’ve long had a thirst for the road. I’m not sure if it’s a culmination of my very early life with my parents, living in a van in the sixties and seventies, or...
We aren't in #Hawaii any more.
Well, Toto, we aren’t in Hawaii anymore. At least for now. What is this heresy? I know, I know…those of you who follow my blog may have noticed I fell off the map after daily blogging about our epic vacation in British Columbia back in September. Well,...
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