BOOK DEVELOPER & EDITORIAL PARTNER

BOOK DEVELOPER & EDITORIAL PARTNER

Turn your expertise into the book you'll become known for.

StoryLed™ Book Development helps experienced female coaches, consultants and creators turn decades of expertise into the book they'll become known for, in as little as 60 days.

StoryLed™ Book Development helps experienced female coaches, consultants and creators turn decades of expertise into the book they'll become known for, in as little as 60 days.

SOUND FAMILIAR?

You've been saying

"when I write my book..."

for years.

SOUND FAMILIAR?

You've been saying

"when I write my book..."

for years.

You have notebooks full of ideas and Word documents with half-written chapters. Maybe you've rewritten Chapter 1 so many times you've lost count. You've watched someone with half your experience publish a book and felt that quiet pang of, "That should have been mine."

You've told yourself you'll start when things slow down: when the kids are older, when you have a proper block of time, when you feel ready...

The book is stuck because no one has helped you develop it.

Not just the chapters, but the thinking behind them. The structure. The reader transformation. Your methodology. Your voice.

That's what StoryLed™ Book Development is designed to do.

WHY A BOOK STILL MATTERS

Authority doesn't come from publishing a book.

It comes from publishing the right one.

The purpose of a business book isn't royalties. It's authority. A well-developed book shortens the trust gap between you and your ideal client in a way that no amount of content, speaking or social media can replicate.

People don't buy your book because they read every page. They buy into your expertise because you wrote it.

Shortens trust

A book does in 200 pages what years of content marketing attempts to do. It positions you as the definitive voice in your field before the conversation even begins.

Packages your methodology

Your frameworks, your process, your thinking captured in a form that travels without you. Your IP, protected and published.

Creates lasting opportunity

A well-written book generates speaking invitations, media coverage, premium clients and partnerships long after publication.

Locks down your intellectual property

Your methodology exists in your head and in your client work. A book makes it permanent, citable and undeniably yours.

WHY STORYLED™

Most people start with chapters.

StoryLed™ starts somewhere earlier.

Everyone seems to think writing a book starts with Chapter

One when it starts much earlier than that.

Long before the first chapter comes the thinking, your methodology, your lived experience and your reader. We need to understand the transformation you want them to experience. Because without those pieces, a book quickly becomes overwhelming because you're trying to build something without knowing exactly what you're building.

StoryLed™ fixes all of that.

Before we write a single chapter, we uncover your thinking, shape your methodology, define your reader and map the transformation they'll experience. Only then do we build the architecture and capture your voice.

StoryLed™ explores:

01

Who are you beyond your credentials?

02

What have you lived that gives you the right to write this book?

03

What unique lens do you bring that no one else can replicate?

04

What transformation do you create for the reader?

05

Why should this book exist and why should you be the one to write it?

Only then do we develop the book.

WORK WITH ME

Every option starts with your voice.

Every word ends up as yours.

StoryLed™ Book Development

£7,000

A professionally developed manuscript that captures your voice, your methodology and your lived experience and positions you as the recognised authority in your field.

You talk I build. Every word stays yours. Delivered in as little as 60 days, without disappearing from your business or sacrificing your family life.

What's Included:

StoryLed™ Blueprint

Audience transformation mapping

Voice extraction

Book architecture

Chapter interview framework

Transcript-to-chapter editorial development

Complete manuscript

Editorial revisions

Delivered entirely via Zoom.

Manuscript delivered for proofreading and design.

You remain the author, always.

Supporting Offers:

NEED CLARITY FIRST?

StoryLed™ Blueprint

£2,500

For women who know they're sitting on something important, but can't articulate it. A strategic clarity experience that surfaces your story, message, voice, methodology and ideal client.

  • Story, message & voice

  • Methodology articulation

  • Ideal client definition

  • Messaging foundations

  • 100 content ideas

WRITING IT YOURSELF?

Book Architecture Intensive

£1,200

A 3-hour intensive for women who intend to write the book themselves but need a professional structure. You get with a complete chapter-by-chapter architecture and reader transformation map.

  • Reader transformation map

  • Book positioning

  • Chapter sequence

  • Written architecture

WANT PUBLICATION SUPPORT?

Authority Launch

£10,000

Everything in StoryLed™ Book Development, plus creative direction, designer liaison, publication guidance, launch strategy and authority content planning.

  • Full book development

  • Creative direction

  • Designer liaison

  • Launch strategy

  • PR planning

  • Authority content strategy

THE STORYLED™ METHOD

Designed to be easy for you.

Rigorous in its results.

The best business books are developed before they're written. Every StoryLed™ stage is designed to extract what already exists you and shape it into the book only you could have written. Isn't that a reassuring thought?

01

Blueprint

We excavate your story, your mission, your values, your methodology and your ideal client. This is the foundation everything else is built on.

02

Architecture

Using your methodology and client transformation stories, we build the chapter-by-chapter structure. You leave with a complete, bespoke outline.

03

Voice Extraction

We excavate your story, your mission, your values, your methodology and your ideal client. This is the foundation everything else is built on.

04

Interviews

Structured conversations that draw out the depth, nuance and lived experience behind each chapter, the material that makes a book worth reading.

05

Editorial Department

I take your transcripts and develp them into your complete chapters. Every phrase, every cadence, every idea is yours. I'm the editor who makes it readable because I bloody love words.

06

Publication-ready Manuscript

A complete, professionally developed manuscript in your voice, with your IP, ready for proofreading and design.

ABOUT LAUREY

I develop authority-building books for experienced women.

Books are the product. Authority is the outcome

I'm a former journalist, English teacher and NLP practitioner. I've spent my career listening for the story beneath the story. Asking better questions. Finding the thread that ties everything together. That's exactly what StoryLed™ Book Development is built on. Before we ever think about writing chapters, we uncover the ideas, experiences and methodology that only you could have written.

I became a mum and rediscovered the sisterhood. I found myself surrounded by extraordinary women who had spent decades building businesses, changing lives and becoming experts in what they do. Yet so many of them were still saying, "I'd love to write a book one day."

WHAT LAUREY IS NOT

  • A ghostwriter

  • A writing coach

  • A publisher

WHAT LAUREY IS

A Book Developer.

And StoryLed™ is the methodology that makes that possible.

Not because they didn't have something worth saying... but because putting their name to their ideas felt vulnerable. It meant taking up space. Inviting opinion. Stepping out from behind client work and saying "This is what I believe."

I want to change that.

I want more experienced women to stop whispering what they know and start roaring about it. Because your voice matters. Your story matters. And somewhere, someone is waiting for the book that only you can write.

StoryLed™ exists to change that. Your methodology deserves to become the work you're known for.

ABOUT LAUREY

I develop authority-building books for experienced women.

Books are the product. Authority is the outcome

I'm a former journalist, English teacher and NLP practitioner. I've spent my career listening for the story beneath the story. Asking better questions. Finding the thread that ties everything together. That's exactly what StoryLed™ Book Development is built on. Before we ever think about writing chapters, we uncover the ideas, experiences and methodology that only you could have written.

I became a mum and rediscovered the sisterhood. I found myself surrounded by extraordinary women who had spent decades building businesses, changing lives and becoming experts in what they do. Yet so many of them were still saying, "I'd love to write a book one day."

Not because they didn't have something worth saying... but because putting their name to their ideas felt vulnerable. It meant taking up space. Inviting opinion. Stepping out from behind client work and saying "This is what I believe."

I want to change that.

I want more experienced women to stop whispering what they know and start roaring about it. Because your voice matters. Your story matters. And somewhere, someone is waiting for the book that only you can write.

StoryLed™ exists to change that. Your methodology deserves to become the work you're known for.

WHAT LAUREY IS NOT

  • A ghostwriter

  • A writing coach

  • A publisher

WHAT LAUREY IS

A Book Developer.

And StoryLed™ is the methodology that makes that possible.

READY TO BEGIN?

Your expertise already exists.

You simply haven't developed it into a book yet.

If you've been carrying the idea of a book for a while, let's have an honest conversation about what's possible. No pressure. No pitch. Just a conversation about your book, your expertise, and whether StoryLed™ is the right way to develop it.

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