The Writing Coach
Literary Consultancy and Coaching for Writers from Jacqui Lofthouse
Author of The Knife and the Butterfly Naomi Lloyd was a regular client of mine over the course of a year as she wrote her book The Knife and the Butterfly: A Story of Jungian Analysis (The Karnac Library). Naomi was a psychotherapist who reflected deeply on the intense process of Jungian analysis, which she revealed …
Author of Dancing with Statues and The Belfast Girl I came to Jacqui with an early draft of my first novel. Her feedback was detailed, constructive and well thought out. She was able to point out and explain to me exactly what was and wasn’t working. I had previously taken a few writing courses and …
Author of Back to the Black: How to become debt-free and stay that way Jacqui has acted as a mentor for the self-publishing and marketing of my first book. She has far exceeded my expectations.Whenever I look at Jacqui’s website, or read her newsletters, I wonder how on earth she has time to fit everything …
Writer and Creative Writing Tutor, Open Learning Dept. Queen’s University, Belfast I took The Writing Coach’s mentoring package in 2010-2011. I had a collection of short stories (some unfinished), three ‘not-quite there’ novels and a vague idea that I wanted to teach creative writing, after working in the media for many years. Jacqui focused on …
Author of An Introduction to Twentieth Century French Literature Finding Jacqui has been the best thing I’ve done in furthering my writing career – better by far than any course I’ve undertaken or any help I’ve received from agents and editors. Trying to make the transition from academic writing to commercial non-fiction is not easy, …
Author of Cuckoo, Tarnished, Every Vow You Break and The Long Fall. At the beginning of 2009 I had a dozen short stories, two novels in rough draft, and an unfinished screenplay. I was writing in my spare time – I was a full time website designer and have three children. I had no idea …
Author of Love & Justice. Word count Tuesday to Friday – 4,500!! Blimey! What sort of magic fairy writing dust are you scattering?! This is the key to me – I think – not giving up on writing where I would have done before. Whatever you’re helping me to reveal about myself, thank you … …
