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Who Salacious Phrase is for…
This women focused program will best serve three types people:
The Tongue-Tied Teller
You have something to say, but it never comes out right, or at all. You’re the one where the comeback always comes later. Some call it staircase wit. It’s when the connection happens after the conversation ends. Everything is clear in your head, but it doesn’t make it to the page, or out of your mouth. It’s not that you have nothing to say. It’s that it just won’t come out.
The Audacious Authority
You are a business owner, leader, or thinker with a body of ideas that deserves to exist beyond conversation. Leaning into your imperfect story or ideas builds trust, establishes your authority, and gives your work a place to live outside of you. If you want to be taken seriously at scale, this is your next move.
The Quiet Questioner
For nearly 20 years, I’ve watched quiet women sit in my classrooms believing they have nothing to say. And then they speak, and it’s undeniable insightful genius. Precise. Necessary. But they dismiss it, or call it all normal, meanwhile the rest of us are gobsmacked at how good it is. These kinds of women shrink it down before it even has a chance. If you think you’re unremarkable, you’re exactly who this program is for.
All three have in common the call within them to do it their own way.
Driven by passion, not perfection
My friend was saying to me, “It’s hard enough to get career writers to publish a single book in a lifetime, and you’re going to do this with regular people in seven months?”
Yes. Yes, I am. Here’s how:
I am going to destroy the idea of the clean narrative arc, the clear point, hell, I don’t even care if there’s cohesion. This inaugural Salacious Phrase is about speaking imperfectly, getting the first book out, and making a completed work that centers you as an authority on your own ideas.
Everyone wants to be an author. Not everyone wants to write a book. Salacious Phrase removes the struggle associated with “writing a book” by not making it a factor. I focus first on you being an author(ity) of your own body. The book will come from that. Not the other way around. In Salacious Phrase, authority produces the book, the book does not produce your authority.
You’ll have the freedom to use song lyrics, quotes, images, your own writing, your opinions on someone else’s writing, storytelling, made up scenario’s, ambiguous memories, and anything else you can think of to mind map your book. Nothing is off the table. I cannot emphasize enough how uninterested I am in the pristine, contained demands of literary rules. I will not ask you to participate in the tyranny of correctness.
If you’ve ever worked with me before in classrooms or as a client, you know my method: iterative, generative, and following whats alive. This will be no different. Im not interested in the rules. I am interested in the truth.
Say it like you mean it…Say more…Say it again…
What’s Included
7 months of programming, comps, peer editing, self editing, outside editing, coaching through layout. You’ll also design your own cover, write an author bio, have a headshot taken, create illustrations you do yourself, receive in person feedback, printing and more. You’ll control the entirety of your own process as you see fit. I create the structure and one stop shop, you take it and run.
Why Self Publishing
Simple. I want women to control their own voice. I want to create a space that rejects the packaging and sterility of publishing, which can reduce the complexity of your experience. I want you to skip the expensive and timely steps of finding a publisher. You don’t need a stamp of approval to tell you that your ideas matter. I want to eliminate gatekeeping, and have the management of your time be completely up to you.
Why Long Form
We live in a world of 90 second reels, cleanly packaged solutions, and short format slop. The only way to create a world of nuance, complexity, and the aliveness of being human is to literally do it yourself. This program operates just as much as a container for voice as it is as a refusal to accept glossy polished turds. Lastly, its spaced out so that you can do this with a few hour per week commitment.