About
Book Coaching
Alyssa is a developmental editor and book coach with 3 years of professional experience in supporting burgeoning authors and graphic novelists start, refine, and work towards publishing their books. Alyssa offers dedication, care, and valuable skillset building to clients, and loves providing insights on how to work through the setbacks writers might face on the path to becoming authors.
Alyssa has a certification from Author Accelerator in Book Coaching for Fiction, a bachelor’s in Creative Writing, History, Classical Fencing, and Literature, and has spent many years refining their craft as a writer, editor, and mentor.
Alyssa is a member of Editor’s Freelance Association, the LBGTQ+ Editor’s Association, Author Accelerator, Mystery Writers of America, and has a partnership with the LOFT, an LGBTQIA+ Writing Center in New York.
As an Author Accelerator certified book coach, Alyssa is qualified to coach writers using Author Accelerator’s strategy, methods, and materials, but they operate independently of Author Accelerator and are not affiliated with them.
Writing
Alyssa has been writing books since 7th grade, where they filled the whole of a small notebook with a complicated plot that engaged teachers and classmates alike. They loved creating something so important, and bringing others into the same world by sharing it.
Becoming a Book Coach has made them approach their own writing process in a completely different way, one that has revolutionized their time and energy towards writing. Alyssa has written a novel titled I, Ophelia (a retelling of Hamlet from Ophelia’s POV), and is working on publishing a short story and a novella.
Art & Comics
Before Alyssa wrote, they drew, and if there was anything possibly more exciting for them than writing a story, it was seeing it come to life on a page. In their junior year of high school they were accepted into a pre-college cartooning program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and spent 3 weeks in sleepless bliss working hard on a 10 page comic they loved. Alyssa ended up moving to a different college for long term study, but still continues their journey with comics and comic book development, and has worked extensively to hone skills in both.
Classical Fencing
Alyssa started their journey with the martial art of fencing in the fall of 2014 at SUNY Purchase where they met their teacher Jared Kirby. While in college they created their own major in Classical Fencing, and have continued their studies with Maestro Kirby and the Martinez Academy of Arms. If you would like to learn more about Classical Fencing, please visit Maestro Jared Kirby and the the Martinez Academy of Arms websites below.
Fun Facts
- I’ve worked in the medical field for 4 years
- I’m in a polyamorous relationship. I use she/her, they/them pronouns
- I grew up in the deaf community (no, I unfortunately didn’t learn sign language, but it’s a goal!)
- I speak intermediate Japanese
- I’m studying to be a classical fencing instructor
