When people pick up self-help books, they tend to be in a crisis. They have likely tried these methods before and have bought books like yours before. Your book would have to be good enough to earn a spot in chapter two. The book needs to be reader-friendly enough to overcome the expectation that this is another sales pitch.
This seems to support the idea of smaller promises and more intentional directions. A reader who completes at least one exercise and perceives some sort of impacted result will want to finish the book. A reader who is told they can change absolutely everything will not.
Self-help books need a common theory if their various sections and chapters are to cohere. Chapter 14 on cognitive reframing makes a lot of sense when juxtaposed to chapter 13 on goal setting. Chapter 13, in turn, pairs up well with chapter 12 on habitual goal achievement. Mixing techniques from disparate chapters doesn’t help. Chapter 14 is akin to chapter 15 on cognitive redefining. It makes a great deal of sense to do an overall re-analysis when each of the chapters is done. The goal is to determine that you are working on the problem from the same perspective. Then everything fits together.
The genre of “self-help” is where most fabricated text converges the hardest. Write a chapter on procrastination and you get pretty much the same fifty techniques, in the same order, and stated the same way as the forty other books that covered this topic. Readers in this genre have seen this list and will recognize it by the second page.
The plan we make shows what readers do over the course of the week, not chapter order. How do readers initiate contact with the book, and what do they do when their first choice does not succeed? Chapters are arranged around those answers and the chapter the author has written about failing goes first, as that is the place where most readers give up.
Two things upper management checks are jumps people usually skip. The first is whether we are implying any clinical result in a sentence that we have no right to promise. The second is whether the tone has become scolding because when it’s a draft, it’s easier to slip into scolding the reader of the particular chapter who needs that chapter the most.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical self-help book | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short book | 20,000 | $2,000 | $20 | $2,020 |
| Standard book | 45,000 | $4,500 | $45 | $4,545 |
| Full-length book | 70,000 | $7,000 | $70 | $7,070 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Every format is priced identically: $10 per 100 words plus a 1% platform fee. A 45,000-word self-help book comes to $4,545. There is no research surcharge, no rush tier and no minimum retainer.
Up to 3 days. The writer has to read around the subject before writing it, so we quote honestly rather than promising an hour. If your deadline is tighter, say so in the brief and we will tell you before you pay whether we can meet it.
Our content creators aren’t clinicians. Most of the content we create isn’t advice for treatment. We draft content for review by the clinician you select to finish the work, and we include a clear statement to encourage readers to get the care they deserve when it is needed.
There aren’t many platforms that can say they assist, but we will not sugarcoat for you. A platform is narrowness: a book written for restaurant owners that cannot sleep is better than a book on sleep. A writer will strongly support and push you toward that version, as that is the one that a reader will prefer over the other twenty versions.
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Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
My novel took four years, and the back cover took three sentences and had me stumped for six weeks. The writer must have read the full manuscript (instead of the synopsis) which I know because the copy references a scene from chapter fourteen.
Chapter seven got me stuck for almost a year, and the suggested structure finally helped. Great outline, but the email with it was a two-sentence filler. I had to ask for a paragraph explaining the order of the chapters.
I had managed to write around 40 thousand words. Unfortunately those words didn’t provide any structure. When I received the feedback on this, it contained a merged chapter, one chapter completely removed (along with an explanation as to why) and the additional feedback stated that the chapter that had been removed was essentially doing the work of three chapters which I had already written. It was a bit painful to read, but correct.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
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