A Mentoring Program for All Levels of Writers

​Emily and You: Walking the Path of the Fiction Writer​

​"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."
~ Oprah Winfrey
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What is the Mentoring Program and ​How Does It Work?​
​The Mentoring Program is a completely individualized six or twelve month journey designed to meet your specific needs. It is for anyone who wants to make huge jumps and lasting changes in their writing.

Because Communication Between Us Is So Essential to Your Success in The Mentoring Program...
  • ​We talk for an hour once or twice a week and, as part of the Mentoring Program, each session goes on for as long as needed.
  • We have a private email address where you can text me and receive an immediate response. I also text you reminders, challenges and happy thoughts about you, your writing process and your characters!
  • I set up a private blog where you can post as often as you like. I read what you post as soon as I can and, in addition, the blog becomes a record of your personal development through the year as well as the growth of your characters and stories. 
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"Emily, I just want to tell you how working with you in the Mentoring Program has realigned my entire sense of self and purpose. Our weekly sessions are like chiropractic for the creative soul, replenishing my sense of power and identity as a writer. Our more casual online chats throughout the week, the short emails you send me, are always inspiring, often funny, and keep me committed to the writing life."  ~Sonia Giordani
​The Benefits of The Mentoring Program Are Not Just From Our Formal Sessions.
​Imagine this scenario: You’re writing away, suddenly everything you write sounds like garbage, and you find yourself falling into a downward spiral. But instead of being demolished by this Inner Critic attack, you contact me immediately. You pick up the phone and call me, or post your feelings on our private blog, or send me an email on our private email. As soon as you have done this, just knowing you have reached out and put what is happening into words gives you power over your Inner Critic.

When we talk, I’ll remind you that you have forgotten this truth -- nothing you write is ever garbage. Rather what you've dismiss as garbage is the fertile ground from which you and your characters and stories grow.

Then we’ll explore this so-called garbage and shine the light on the hidden jewels that lie within it. We’ll come up with scenarios that get you writing happily again! These informal, spur of the moment connections will often be the most effective way of making you succeed as a writer.
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​"I looked for a person that would provide intellectual stimulation, while at the same time, would be emotionally aware and present to my journey as a writer. I wanted to find someone who I could openly share my doubts and frustrations, as well as my successes..." ~Anna Marie Hrivnak

Read more about how and why Anna Marie decided on the mentoring program...
The Mentoring Program is for anyone at any level of writing who wants to transform her relationship to her creativity and writing. It is open to a very small number of women and men. At this time, I have room for two more students. If you are interested in exploring your acceptance the Mentoring Program, please fill out and email this questionnaire. Feel free to call me at 914.962.4432.
The Six Month Program: $6000 
The Year Long Program: $9500
Both programs come with a copy of my workbook,The Art of Fiction Writing or How to Fall Down the Rabbit Hole Without Really Trying. In addition, the twelve month Program also includes free participation in any teleseminar I offer during the year as well as 10% discount on my residential writing retreat.​
If the Mentoring Program doesn't work for you now, please explore my other coaching programs and writing workshops. 
"I started with Emily many years ago and when I reflect on where I started and where I am now I know that the journey I have taken with her is the most valuable experience of my adult life. Emily invited me into this place where I dare to peel away my defenses, a little at a time, until what is left is the core of what makes me me. It is alive, it throbs with passion and anger, it can feel sorrow and elation; it lives and breathes because it is me. And the only reason I know that this part of me exists is because Emily encouraged, cajoled, and strengthened me to trust her, follow her down the path to my creativity and then she stood aside and let me try it on my own. Emily is sensitive to the fragility of opening up to one's creativity. Always I have felt safe and nurtured."  ~Linda Rizzotto 
"Emily is always harping on burrowing into your unconscious. She believes you will find something there that terrifies you, and if you can break the barrier, free the unconscious, and corral the 'demons' that lurk in your soul, they'll take you on the most glorious ride through your own self. How do I know this happened to me? First of all, my wife told me it did. You’ve changed, she said. You’re different, more in charge of yourself. Not that I’m perfect, but I have a lot less demons running my life. And the search never stops. There is nothing quite so rewarding and beautiful as discovering your inner self. The price is high: anger, rejection, and a certain scaredshitness that comes along with the writing, but the journey is worth it." ~ Tom Brennan
"I began Emily's Mentoring Program with a massive case of writer's block and an unrelenting internal critic that became especially loud and harsh whenever I wrote more than three pages. Emily, however, knows writers and she knows their inner critics. She showed me how to how to lower the Inner Critic"s voice to small, infinitesimal whisper. I'm now four hundred pages into a rough draft... If you want to write, you need to talk to Emily."  ~ Bob Storms