Hi, I'm Anna!
As well as founding thebizbookcoach.com, I'm a Certification Coach with Author Accelerator.
Authoring a book is not only about learning the craft and producing your best writing, it's also about becoming an author.
Authorship demonstrates authority: once you're an author that is how people will perceive you. Simply put, authorship is next-level leadership, and I believe it’s time for Coaches and Founders to step into both.
My Story
Where it Started
I’ve always worked in the creative industries, originally in theatre. After a major tour collapsed, I hit rock bottom. My late Dad gave me a Kindle for Christmas and the books I read about business and personal development changed my perspective and gave me the confidence to start again.
What happened next
I shifted to writing, ran offline courses, founded the Dalkey Creates Writing Festival in Ireland and published 20 new Irish writers.
But I saw that writers didn't know the right approach for getting a book deal - and noticed how women had much less confidence than men.
Becoming a Coach
I became an Author Accelerator certified Coach, gaining the method that helps writers get a book deal.
I used it to develop Confidence & Craft, a 4-Step framework supporting Coaches and Founders one-to-one, developing both the right writing skills and the confidence to step into authorship.
The Future
My mission is to help Coaches and Founders get a nonfiction book deal so they can become published authors and next-level leaders, amplifying their messages and methods and changing people’s lives.
In the background, I'm developing my business towards a vision: a world where all women and girls have the skills to write with confidence.
TESTIMONALS
Joe Brennan
Storytelling Expert
"I found Anna to be really caring and supportive through this process. She focused on the positive and challenged the negative thoughts and emotions that hold me back as a writer. She gave me the freedom to visualise what writing means to me and what I want to achieve. She mapped a structured and doable map to achieve what I desire."
Dr. Martina Finnerty
Core Transformation Expert
"The gifts from working with Anna were so numerous. I could see how so many of us get trapped in a rabbit-hole which is where one ends up due to lack of structure, which, by the way, is what a properly crafted Book Proposal brings...this is the most important learning I got from Anna."
Lise-Ann McLaughlin
Life Coach
Taking the time to dig deep is so valuable, even when we think we know, we don't or there's always more. And from the word go, Anna made it a safe space. She is an excellent teacher, very inspiring and clear with her information and is really supportive, patient and kind.