Small-Group Coaching for Indie Authors
Practical cohorts that help you plan, write, revise, and launch with confidence.
Draft Accelerator
Get your book moving, fast.
A focused 8-week sprint to turn your idea into a working plan and consistent drafting habit.
– Weekly coaching
– Premise
– Story Beats
– Character Profiles
Revision Lab
Turn a messy draft into a readable book.
An 8-week guided revision to fix structure, sharpen voice, and level up first pages.
– Scene-By-Scene triage
– Live workshops on problem areas with targeted feedback
– Concrete revision plan
Launch Pad
Market with a plan, not wishful thinking.
A 4-week boot-up for your release to avoid the last-minute rush.
– A 90-day launch calendar
– Assets development
– A plan you can execute without burning through cash
Testimonials
Knowledgeable
I’ve been part of a group that’s been meeting weekly with Kathrese McKee since July, 2023. She’s an excellent group facilitator, and a knowledgeable resource about writing and publishing.
I look forward every week to the hour I spend with her, and consider that hour as one of the most productive hours of my week.
Susanna
Office Hours
Cozy Mystery
Accountability
Before I joined Office Hours, I was struggling to write consistently and really needed accountability. With the group, I found exactly that. Kathrese’s warm and knowledgeable guidance (not to mention her humour!) has created a supportive space, and the mix of genres and experience among the members has kept me motivated and inspired. As a result, I’m now writing regularly and have three SFR novellas currently in editing, which I’ll be publishing this year.
Kerrie
Office Hours
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Results
When I began working with Kathrese, I was only writing about one chapter every other week. It took a while, but now I do two chapters every week. Two weeks ago, I finished Final Rest Stop at 96k words, my first book in a series of five. This week, I’ll be done with chapter four in book two.
Pete
Office Hours
Suspense
since 2014
Cohort Leader and Author Coach
Kathrese McKee helps indie authors make visible progress through the messiest phases of the work: drafting, revising, and preparing for launch. After more than a decade as a professional editor across urban and paranormal fantasy, dystopian sci-fi, historical fiction, cozy mystery, fairytale retellings, and romance, she now channels that experience into small-group cohorts and a long-running, weekly Office Hours community.
She hosts the Writing Pursuits podcast and publishes the Writing Pursuits Tips newsletter, focusing on simple frameworks, accountability, and tools authors can use in their daily work. An indie author herself, Kathrese has published novels and novellas and appears in multiple anthologies.
Today, her priority is coaching and cohorts; a limited number of manuscript assessments are available by inquiry. She also speaks on craft and indie-publishing for libraries and writer groups.
