Private writing sessions and one-on-one coaching are very effective ways to hone your skills and launch your writing career. Lisa Alpine will spend one hour with you and your writing, whatever stage it's in (or not in). Lisa has been hired many times over to work with authors on birthing their books. She provides several services for authors.

Lisa also teaches writing workshops at The Writing Salon in San Francisco & Berkeley, at her studios in Marin County, CA and Port Townsend, WA and at workshops worldwide.

Lisa has also been a professional freelance writer for 23 years and is the travel columnist for the Pacific Sun in Marin County. Her articles, interviews and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including the recently released, Tales From Nowhere by Lonely Planet Guides, I Should Have Stayed Home, the Los Angeles Times, SF Chronicle and Examiner, Paddler Magazine, San Diego Union, Physicians’ Travel & Meeting Guide, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Atlanta Journal, Parenting and Specialty Travel Index. She has been a guest speaker at the Book Passage Travel Writer’s Conference, Joining Our Voices: An Evening of Author Readings to Benefit the Global Fund for Women, the Women’s Adventure Travel Faire in San Francisco and the Women’s Travel Faire in La Jolla, CA.

Editors can order reprints or customized articles for their publications.