Discovery Intensive FAQ
The Book Discovery Intensive, question by question
What the $4,000 intensive includes, why paid strategy beats free consultations, and what you walk away with either way.
No pitch. No pressure.
Book Discovery Intensive frequently asked questions
What exactly is the Book Discovery Intensive?
A $4,000 strategy engagement: ten hours of structured interviews, a complete book strategy report covering audience, positioning, and scope, a publishing path analysis, and a 2,000-word sample chapter written in your voice. It answers what your book should be before you commit to writing it.
Why would I pay for what other ghostwriters offer free?
Because a free consultation is a sales call and this is deliverable work. Free consults produce opinions shaped by the seller’s incentive to close you. The intensive produces work product you keep, from someone whose fee is already earned and who therefore has no reason to flatter a bad project forward.
What do I actually walk away with?
The strategy report, the publishing path analysis, and the sample chapter, yours regardless of what you decide next. Clients have taken the deliverables to other writers, to coaching models, and to their own keyboards. The point is the plan.
How does the fee credit work?
The full $4,000 credits against a ghostwriting or coaching engagement signed within sixty days. Proceed and the strategy work was effectively free; walk away and you paid for a professional plan you keep.
How long does the intensive take?
Two to three weeks typically: interviews scheduled across the first stretch around your calendar, then the analysis and writing. You end with the report, the path analysis, and the sample chapter in hand.
What if the verdict is that I shouldn’t write the book?
Then you get that in writing, with reasons and with what would need to change, from someone with no incentive to steer you into a $40,000 mistake. It is rare, and it is the cheapest bad news in publishing.
Who is the intensive for?
People deciding between a real book and a maybe: executives testing whether the idea justifies the investment, memoirists unsure the story sustains a book, and anyone burned before who wants proof of process before committing. It is not for people who already know exactly what they are writing and just need it written; those projects start with the engagement directly.
Is the sample chapter really in my voice?
It is built from your interview recordings the same way full engagements are, and it exists precisely so you can judge the voice match with evidence instead of promises. If the voice is wrong, you have risked $4,000 instead of the full engagement, which is the entire design.
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Ready to find out what your book should be?
The intensive starts with a free thirty-minute call to confirm the fit. If your project needs the full engagement instead, or nothing at all, you will hear that too.
No pitch. No pressure.