Writing has taken me into boardrooms, Indigenous villages, museums, and countless conversations around kitchen tables.
Over the years I’ve collaborated with entrepreneurs, CEOs, memoirists, novelists, artists, advocates, and people who simply knew there was a book inside them but weren't quite sure how to bring it into the world.
Every project has taught me something new. Meaningful writing starts with listening.
Discovery has always begun there.
Whether I’m ghostwriting, collaborating, editing, coaching, or helping rescue a manuscript that has lost its way, my role remains the same: to ask thoughtful questions, recognize the thread running through the story, and help shape a book that feels unmistakably like its author.
Every author already has a voice. My work is to listen carefully enough to help it emerge with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Let’s solve the disconnects by weaving your whimsy into a structured layout that speaks beautifully to both the CEO/Thought Leader and the Memoirist.

In 2006 I founded Art of Discovery™ to reflect a philosophy forged across a diverse career—from marketing director of a regional opera company, to an American Express financial planner with my own practice, to a fine-art gallery owner. 

These seemingly disparate worlds taught me a singular truth: every author’s great legacy begins with listening.

• A COLLABORATIVE BRIDGE: Bridges represent connection, journey, transition, and arriving. At every point along the way our perspective changes—the view looks different, the goal sharper, increasingly focused. I enter into your vision. 
• THE POWER OF DISCOVERY: Every great book spans the gulf between a raw idea and the realization of a lifelong ambition. To cross that gap, my bespoke inquiry process engages your emotional intelligence, protects your concept, and builds on your experience. Together, we channel collaborative creativity while honoring your style, pace, and voice—sharpening how we measure success as we overcome obstacles and forge toward the territory
ahead.
• ROOTED IN TRUST: True discovery is possible in a warm environment of psychological safety, where vulnerability is a strength, and failures are filtered through the lens of lessons: mistakes are data—catalysts for inspiration and experimentation.
• PHILOSOPHY IN PRACTICE: You’ll find my project proposal and contract agreement mirror my belief that “books worth writing deserve relationships worth building.” The way is paved with shared values, good faith, and mutual respect.

listening | discovering | building

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