Community Membership

We’re happy to introduce you to our current Community Members, a wonderful assortment of organizations, businesses, and entities with some terrific offerings for writers. Supporting our Community Members is a great way to support our larger literary community – and also make some valuable connections that could help you on your writing journey – so check out their websites (just click on the logo) and see what might be a good fit for your own writerly needs. 

Supporting the WLT as a Community Member is a great way to share your programs & services with our community of writers. If you’re interested in learning more about the benefits of Community Membership, click the button below or email us at member@writersleague.org.

Book by Book Publicity is an online book marketing and publicity company based in Austin, Texas. The company was formed in 2005 as a book review service and expanded shortly thereafter to offer a variety of services and websites for independent authors, recognizing the need for a means to help indie authors spread the news about their books.

 

Services include: Marketing & Promotion, Contests, Publications

Book Doctor, Robyn Conley offers free critiques so writers can see first-hand if her editing style matches their needs.  As a workshop leader, Robyn encourages her students with interactive exercises, showing them how playing with words and phrasings can enhance their unique styles and help them land an invitation from an editor or agent. Because she is also a well-published author, she edits with a writer’s heart, appreciating each writer’s individual voice, yet helping him and her sear away the slag so a polished piece can shine.

Services include: Editing, Coaching, Collaborative Writing, Programs & Events

Booktique Consulting is the author’s concierge. We work one-on-one with new and established authors on writing, publishing, and marketing their books so they’ll find their perfect readers and build their writing career.

Services include: Editing, Marketing & Promotion, Coaching, Programs & Events

CSS LOGOCider Spoon Stories is Austin’s premier ghostwriting and editing company. We help people write their life stories as books! Also offering manuscript editing, writing coaching, and writing classes. 

Services include: Editing, Coaching, Collaborative Writing, Programs & Events

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Editor Amy is a Houston-based editing business that helps writers meet and exceed their goals. Amy is a passionate, seasoned professional editor of 15 years who has worked in multiple genres and with many types of writing. Her services include copyediting, developmental editing, proofreading, query letter coaching, and manuscript evaluations, and she offers free copyediting samples upon request.

Services include: Editing, Coaching

Fresh Ink offers creative writing workshops, fiction coaching, and community-building for writers in the Austin area and beyond. Fresh Ink workshops provide an inclusive and inspiring space for writers from diverse backgrounds to work toward their writing dreams. Fresh Ink also offers a unique six-month coaching program called the Writer’s Transformation Project, which transforms your relationship to writing and helps you embrace and achieve your writing dreams. In Fresh Ink’s Creative Community, writers gather together to connect, create, and get motivated – through writing sessions, online discussion forums, and more.

Services include: Coaching, Programs & Events

Inprint is Houston’s premier literary arts nonprofit organization. Serving more than 15,000 people annually, our programs include literary performances by the world’s leading authors, writing workshops for a diversity of populations, and support for the next generation of creative writers.
 
Services include: Programs & Events

Kallisto Gaia Press is a 501(c)3 nonprofit independent press that promotes social and educational justice and equality through literary excellence. 

Services include: Editing, Contests, Publications, Programs & Events, Products

Kingslandcozycottage provides space for your writing project in a harmonious setting near Kingsland, TX. Three spacious rooms plus two bathrooms (one shower, one with bubbling tub). Covered porch, deck, pergola in fenced garden. Furnished inside and outside. New carpet in bedroom. Two car carport. Birds and deer enliven nine private lots. Reasonable rates, flexible terms. Contact Sharan Linebaugh at (Three-Two-Five) 396-2181 to see this charmer near the river.
 
Services & programs for writers include: Spaces & Venues
Odessa-ArtsOdessa Arts exists to support and promote the Arts in Odessa and Ector County through Cultural Tourism, Arts Education and Arts Advocacy.
 
Services & programs for writers include: Programs & Events, Spaces & Venues

PR by the Book is a boutique firm offering public relations and social media services for authors and publishers. PR by the Book also offers a DIY option for authors on a tight budget, more information can be found at authortoinfluencer.com.

Services & programs for writers include: Marketing & Promotion

Prose Story ConsultingProse Story Consulting uses a holistic approach when working with writers looking to start projects, set goals, identify blocks, and create a plan for a completed project. Consultants counsel writers on narrative structure in non-fiction, memoirs, novels, short stories, essays, and screenplays, giving the writer guidance not only for their work in progress but for future projects. Every story is unique and understanding the special connection the writer holds with their story helps the consultant connect with the writer and their work to move more efficiently toward their goals.

Services & programs for writers include: Coaching, Collaborative Writing, Editing

Readerly Book Coaching helps authors write the novels they want to read! Writers will benefit from structures, strategies, and support, no matter where they are on their writerly journey—starting the quest, ready to revise, or preparing to query. Robin Henry is an Author Accelerated Certified Book Coach with over twenty years of experience in libraries and adult education.

Services & programs for writers include: Coaching

Sovereign Storytelling helps writers align their time, talents, and energy to write their books through weekly coaching and accountability.

Services & programs for writers include: Coaching

Typewriter Tarot offers inspiration and guidance to Creative Spirits through coaching, workshops, and creative community. Typewriter Tarot invites writers of all genres to explore and engage their creativity in deep, joyful, and meaningful ways, not only to create the projects of your dreams, but to live life as a creative act.

Services & programs for writers include: Coaching, Editing

The Writing Consultancy provides a holistic editing and writing coaching service for authors seeking traditional and indie publishing options. The focus of TWC’s feedback structure is on helping writers gain lifelong writing and drafting skills that will transfer beyond that one project and to help with the transition to a more satisfying writing career. The writer’s vision and voice are at the heart of TWC’s feedback structure as we partner with individuals passionate about their stories making their way into the hands of readers everywhere. 

Services & programs for writers include: Editing, Coaching, Programs & Events

Yellow Bird is team of professional editors and writing coaches, published authors, and former employees at major publishing houses. Whether you’re working on a novel, a memoir, a picture book, a short story collection, or a nonfiction book, the experienced team at Yellow Bird can help you polish your manuscript and guide you on your path to publication. When you hire a Yellow Bird editor or writing coach, you get all the convenience, attention, and flexibility of working directly with a freelancer—plus peace of mind. With more than 100 years of combined editing experience, all of Yellow Bird’s editors and coaches are vetted professionals who will treat you and your work with the respect you deserve.

Services & programs for writers include: Editing, Coaching, Collaborative Writing, Contests