© 2023 Nicole & Rebecca Conquer Books
Made with ❤ for you, dear reader.
Nicole and Rebecca coach writers who struggle to craft their inner magic into words. We transform budding writers into dynamic professionals, and wild ideas into powerful books.
As speculative fiction fanatics, we know the world is hungry for stories that span universes and we want to help bring yours to life.
Your idea is big. Your characters are so cool you’d go manticore hunting with them. Your tale is epic, innovative, and beginning to grow tentacles. Your story flourishes in the dreamscape, but is it suitable for the world of publishing?
That’s the hard part, isn’t it? As sci-fi and fantasy experts, we understand our genre is bigger than any one collection of pages. We also understand high-quality critique groups just don’t grow out of 4th dimension portals (as much as we wish they would).
You need pointed, encouraging, professional feedback that makes your story shine in the growing world of SFF.
Our job as coaches and editors is not only to help you define the concepts and logistics of your story, but to put that know-how in your hands. We will help you create a stronger, smarter manuscript and build foundational blocks that will continue to guide you in your career as a writer.
Let’s conquer those books.
Let us traverse time and space with you to achieve the final product. Like the companions of Doctor Who, we’ll lend you our literary compass to guide you as you evolve into a Time Lord (or, in this case, Experienced Novelist). Full Book Coaching means we join you on your journey, starting where you are, and partner with you all the way to a finished manuscript.
This option is for you if:
Will Full Book Coaching, we’ll take you all the way to a finished manuscript in preparation for self-publishing production or querying. Through outline creation, multiple editing phases, and career-focused support, we’ll help you manifest your biggest dream.
What we provide:
You need to know if your story has a cracked hull, cryptic malware, or embedded alien embryo pods ready to hatch and eat us all alive. If that last one is true, we’d like to thank you for making our Alien Bounty Hunter dreams come true.
In all other cases, it’s critical to identify plot holes, structure issues, pacing hitches, and other big-picture errors plaguing your story.
As the creator, you know all the fine-points of your fictional universe. The reader on the other side of the page, however, may not be getting the right elements in the right order. You’ve been so close to your story for so long it’s difficult to determine how your story reads to new eyes.
This option is for you if:
A developmental edit is designed to pin-point exactly what’s distracting your reader. We’ll take a deep-dive into your completed manuscript and assess the plot, worldbuilding, characters, pacing, dialogue, and more in order to ensure the narrative is cohesive and the story’s scope is fully realized.
What we provide:
One thing we know for sure: a misread spell can have disastrous consequences. Nobody wants their ears transported onto a cactus.
The lines of your manuscript are just as important. The content, style, and flow of your language have a profound effect on your reader and can make or break your ability to secure an agent or top indie charts. With your completed, revised manuscript, we’ll hone in on voice, tone, and strength. While we uncover weak points in dialogue, narrative deviation, wordiness, redundancies, and more, our top goal is to enhance your unique voice.
This option is for you if:
With a line edit, we fine-tune your manuscript into a steadfast yarn. Your story will come away crisper, cleaner, and ready to come out of its invisibility cloak.
What we provide:
As fellow science fiction and fantasy authors, we understand how the complexity of your created world can run into the speed bump of… well… the real world. How are you going to shape all those fantastical details into a cohesive plot? What if the story you have so far doesn’t fit into a “saleable” format?
We can help. We’ve wrangled with unruly ideas and have successfully molded them into viable manuscripts.
This option is for you if:
We’ll teach you how to start each draft off on the right foot. As we walk you through Building a Story, we’ll help frame your world-building, anchor scenes, and character arcs to best enhance your story’s concept.
When you come out the other side of the Building a Story program, you’ll have a working outline that will serve as a map and key on your chapter-to-chapter journey.
What we provide:
Short stories give us a byte-size view into the wiring of your writerly habits. If you have a bad fuse, no amount of electrical current is going to kick the power on until you replace that fuse. You’ve spent a lot of time oiling the gears of your story, angling them just so, and it can be frustrating when things don’t pan out how you hoped.
With the Short Story Review, you’ll find out if your story is effective as a short, but you’ll also get an idea of which writing frequencies need a tune-up. It only takes a small sample of your writing for us to be able to pinpoint weaknesses you may be unaware of.
This option is for you if:
The Short Story Review can be used to upgrade a single short story, or it can be used against a sample of your larger work, as pricing for this package is based on word count. After our review, you’ll know precisely where to focus your kilowatt energy as you continue to write.
What we provide:
For years, we’ve had our noses buried in science fiction and fantasy (and two noses are better than one) constantly reading, studying themes, and hunting down contemporary news. We’ve researched, blogged, marketed, plotted, drafted, edited, and queried our way into gaining unique insight into an extraordinary field of work. Sci-fi and fantasy has utterly stolen our hearts because of its ethereal ability to bring the human experience into focus using visionary stories.
With one eye on the influence of classics, and one eye on the genre’s evolution, we can help identify where your work fits in, what will set it apart, and how to make it shine.
What we bring you as SF & Fantasy specialists:
© 2023 Nicole & Rebecca Conquer Books
Made with ❤ for you, dear reader.