Collaboration empowers!
Benefit from the voices of experience:
Yours and mine
As the phrase “writing with you or for you” on my opening page suggests, I adapt to my authors’ needs. Sometimes I’m invisible. Sometimes I’m right beside them. Sometimes I’m a few steps ahead, reaching back with an encouraging hand.
I’ve learned to be flexible and responsive. When the prevailing winds change, we chart a new course—one that embraces an author’s realigned goals and creates the freedom to discover exactly where the book is meant to go.
Of course, I love writing. Even more, I love building the collaborative bridge that carries an author forward on a journey entirely their own. For one author, that journey may open an unexpected door. For another, it may bring hard-won release, renewed purpose, or movement where life felt stalled. Whatever the journey asks of us, the book that emerges should feel unmistakably true to the person whose story, vision, or wisdom set it in motion.
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 in Santa Fe, to a fine-art gallery owner.
These seemingly disparate worlds taught me a singular truth: every author’s great legacy begins with listening.
Bridges symbolize connection, journey, transition, and the steps we take before arriving somewhere intentionally. At every point along the way our perspective changes, the view looks different, the goal becomes sharper, increasingly focused. I enter into your vision.
• DISCOVERY: Every great book spans the gulf between a raw idea and the realization of what for some is a lifelong ambition. To cross that gap, my bespoke inquiry process protects your concept, engages your emotional intelligence to flesh it out, and builds on your experience to enhance its value. 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.
• TRUST: True discovery is possible in an environment of psychological safety, where vulnerability is a strength, failures are filtered through the lens of lessons, and mistakes are data—catalysts for inspiration and experimentation.
• PHILOSOPHY: 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
around the block a time or two
the collaborative bridge
Every lasting book begins with one decision: to begin.
Find the thread that brings your ideas—and your readers—together?
Continue the conversation long after you've written “"The End"?
Transform experience into a book others will remember?
See amazing possibilities when you're standing inside your own story?
Steer toward the story only you can tell
Discover ten ways collaboration can strengthen your book.
the draft is written
from manuscript to book
the book is still taking shape
from idea to manuscript