Jennie Nash once told a three-time New York Times bestselling author to throw out a 500-page memoir she'd spent years writing. It wasn't cruelty — it was pattern recognition. The author's own frustration, the sprawling page count, the lack of a clear intention: all of it was a signal Jennie had learned to read after years of asking the right questions instead of promising the right outcomes.
Jennie Nash is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Author Accelerator, a company built to help writers write books worth reading. She's coached clients to deals with agents and major publishers including Scribner, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette, and is the author of nine books across three genres. Before book coaching, she was a solid mid-list traditionally published author — until a failed six-figure auction and a botched self-publishing attempt pushed her toward the coaching work that would become her real career.
We get into why she treats book coaching like an entrepreneurial startup problem — borrowing directly from Seth Godin and Simon Sinek — rather than a purely creative one, and why she believes most writing education fails to address the actual, holistic support writers need. We also talk candidly about pricing: why she charges thousands of dollars for services others sell for fifty, and why she thinks the myth of the \"genius struck by lightning\" is directly responsible for writers chronically undervaluing their own work.
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📚 About Jennie Nash
Jennie Nash is the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Author Accelerator, a company on a mission to help writers write books worth reading. Since the company's inception, writers serious about reaching readers have trusted Jennie to coach their projects from inspiration to publication. Her clients have landed top New York agents, national book awards, and deals with houses such as Scribner, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette. Jennie is the author of nine books in three genres. She taught for thirteen years in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, is an instructor at CreativeLive.com, and speaks on podcasts and at writing conferences across the country.
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