Marni Freedman is a skilled writer’s dream of a guide across genres! She provides unwavering soul-connected support with a kick-ass degree of empathy combined with a fierce commitment to giving unvarnished nuts-and-bolts critiques for revision designed to create the strongest possible incarnation of each manuscript.

Marni is a phenomenal writing teacher, coach, and community leader. Her integrity is unparalleled, and the depth and range of her skill is unmatched. I recommend her to anyone looking to raise the level of their writing, whether that means finding a place to start the craft or making their lifelong work better than it has ever been. Marni is the whole package.

Marni is a unique combination of encouragement, inspiration, and superb coaching. She helped me find my writing voice. Her coaching and content editing were, and are, the magic ingredients that help me produce my books.

Marni is a talented editor, writer, and coach who zeros in on what could improve your work, pull back, and provide overview advice and direction. She is full of resources from the beginning stages of a book idea through to the end stage of publishing. I trust her formidable talent as a writing coach and depend on her endless compassion as a support to help birth my books.

Marni is one of those rare editors who draws out the best in one writer after another.

There honestly aren’t enough words to adequately capture what Marni Freedman brings as a writing coach. She has seen me through to the completion of an ambitious project and never failed to provide exactly what I needed to keep going, honing and improving the work every step of the way from beginning to publishing. Her skills as a writer, editor, psychologist, and advisor are stellar. There’s no doubt in my mind that without her keen insights, creativity, encouragement, and provocative inquiry, I couldn’t have written the book I wrote. Plus, she is a joy to converse with, has a great sense of humor, and a huge heart—simply the kind of person you want in your life. If you can work with Marni, do it. Just do it.

Marni Freedman is a master coach. With her mix of warm encouragement, sage writing wisdom, and kick-in-the-pants honesty, she helped bring my book, Frazzlebrain, into existence. I hired Marni for individual coaching sessions that dramatically increased my productivity and the quality of my writing. From there, I attended her writing courses. I still refer to her books and my notes from those classes for all my writing projects. I joined one of her read and critique groups, where her leadership and good humor strengthened my courage to create. Marni has built a supportive, brilliant writing community where writers support writers. She made my writing dreams come true and can do the same for you.

I’m an award-winning freelance journalist and essayist with years of published work—but tackling memoir has been the scariest, most humbling experience of my career. Marni’s patience, kindness, and intuitive, creative nature make her a soulful writing coach. She knows how to help you dry those memoir tears and plow ahead. She guided me through a first draft to an almost finished second draft of a project I’ve been working on intermittently for twenty years. Her insightful cheerleading gives me the confidence to carry on and flip fear into courage!