Ramon Presson is a Sought-After Writing Coach for:

• Creative writers with a passion for fiction or non-fiction writing, seeking to develop & improve their craft.
  • Learn to raise the quality of your writing without changing your unique style
  • Receive gentle, honest, unbiased feedback from an experienced author
  • Discover how to mine your life, your interests, and the world around you for a bottomless treasure of writing ideas
  • Recognize and utilize the universally recognized features of good writing
  • Learn how to use your love of reading to also improve your writing
    
    
• Aspiring authors who want to break into publishing
  • Understand what magazine & book editors and publishers are looking for
  • Learn to evaluate successful writers and writing for valuable clues which can lead to your own success.
  • Avoid common mistakes that sabotage getting into print
  • Learn to write attention-getting query letters
  • Develop a plan for manuscript development
  • Discover techniques to expand “good ideas” into great writing
  • Receive guidance in writing the formal book proposal required by all potential publishers.
  • Welcome gentle, honest, unbiased feedback on your writing content
  • Understand the crucial difference between a subject and an angle
  • Know when self-publishing is the better option and receive help in determining which company is best for your book.
  • Discern whether hiring a literary agent is right for you and receive help in locating, interviewing, and contracting the best agent for your needs.
  • Discover and use proven methods to market your writing
  • Learn how to use writing to enhance your professional credibility and marketability
    
    
• Project writers who desire to increase reader interest in such mediums as
  • Newsletters
  • E-zines,
  • Web Sites
  • Blogs.

Ramon is the creator and co-author with Dr. Gary Chapman of Love Talks for Couples and Love Talks for Families, each in their third printing. He is also the author of four Serendipity House/LifeWay books: Soul Care (re-released as Vital Pursuits), Stress Busters (re-released as Intentional Choices), Recovering From Divorce: The Death of A Dream, and Radical Reconciliation: The Journey of Forgiveness.

Presson has written feature articles for Marriage Partnership, Discipleship Journal, Christian Single, The Christian Communicator and Single Adult Ministry Journal. Presson has been a frequent contributor as guest editorial writer “The Nashville Eye” for The Tennessean newspaper.

Ramon, having journaled regularly since 1985, often leads Creative Journaling workshops and a Saturday morning seminar "So, You Want to Get Published."

Call (615) 319-6450 for dates/time/location of upcoming workshops and seminars.

Most Commonly Asked Questions

Free Bonus
As my way of saying thanks just for visiting my web site I’d like to send you a freebie that you can use immediately.

Send me an e-mail and I’ll send you a free copy of my article "5 Books in 1 Year" published in the June 2003 issue of The Christian Communicator.

The entertaining to-the-point article details how I wrote and published 5 books in one year while working a full-time job. In case you’re wondering…no, I didn’t write a single paragraph at the office. Even though I was writing material that I knew my church where I was serving as an associate pastor could use, I wrote outside of church/office hours. And without neglecting my family. So, you want to be a writer but insist that you don’t have the time? Sorry, you’re talking to the wrong person if you want validation of that excuse.

In the article I’ll give you the four writing principles/activities that worked for me. It’s free for the asking. Simply send me an e-mail at ramon@ramonpresson.com and request article "5 Books in 1 Year."

Most Commonly Asked Questions

1) Do I have to live near you in order for you to be my writing coach?
No, thanks to phones and e-mail effective coaching can be done long distance.
While, most of my clients are indeed local I have writing clients from Florida to Arizona. No place is too far away if you have a phone, access to a computer with internet/ e-mail, a P.O. Box or an old-fashioned mail box with a red flag.

2)What does it cost to have you coach me?
My fee is $90 per hour. That hour may be spent in privately reading, reviewing, and critiquing your actual work. The time will certainly include conversation and discussion of your ideas, your content, and my recommendations.

3)Can we talk about this before I make any kind of commitment?
Certainly. In fact, I insist. I offer a complimentary consult by phone (or office visit if you live in middle TN) to discuss my services and your writing goals and needs. Together we’ll determine if we’re a good match. I cannot guarantee my availability for all interested participants. Factors include the number of current clients, the scope of their goals/writing projects and yours, as well as my own writing schedule and my publishers’ deadlines. I want to give you my focused attention always. If I don’t feel that I can do so and help you fulfill your writing goals I will let you know.

4)How will I know how many hours this will take?
We’ll talk about that during our consult. You have the ultimate say-so in that matter. Some people want help with a specific project which compacts the coaching hours. Some see their writing as something of a journey and me as something of a trail guide—the hours are spread out over time. It’s different for everyone. That’s why we talk first and then both of us take some time to think about it.

5)Why do you do this? Why do you as a published author want to coach other writers?
For most of my life I have consistently done two things: counseling and writing. In the film Chariots of Fire, the British runner Eric Liddell says, “God made me fast and when I run I feel His pleasure.” When I am counseling or writing I feel God’s pleasure, enjoying the fulfillment of doing what God designed me to do. I find coaching writers particularly rewarding as I have the opportunity to bring my two passions and core competencies together.

And forgive me if this sounds sappy, but in doing so I feel that I am honoring those strategic people that God used to mentor or encourage me along my writing journey.

It is a way of saying thank you to Calvin Miller, Mike Shepherd, Dr. Gary Chapman, Susan Tjaden, Ron Keck, John Eames, and others. It is my way of paying tribute to Maurice Thomas, my Wingate College English professor who told me in 1980 that I had a special gift, a “way with words.” Mr. Thomas gave me his time outside of class, “coaching” me in the craft of writing and compelling me to embrace my identity as a writer. I stay in touch with Mr. Thomas ( I can’t bring myself to call him Maurice even though he insists ) and I tell him that he is the grandfather of my writing. All my journals, poetry, articles, books—they are his grandchildren. I want to be a grandfather like that…..perhaps of your writing, if God so leads.