About Alexandra

Alexandra is an award-winning book editor and writing coach who has been working with indie authors since 2012. In her first workbook, Lean Into Your Yuck: 7 Steps to Mastering Nonfiction Book Structure, she challenges writers to push through the messy (but necessary) process of writing a great first draft, and gives you a game plan for doing so. To date, she has worked with over a hundred writers, many of whom have become award-winners and bestsellers.

A voracious and passionate reader all her life, Alexandra likes nothing better than to talk story structure and craft. (She is also nerdy enough to track all of the books she reads, and re-reads.) On book launch day, she is notoriously as excited as the authors themselves.

Alexandra is a past president and former marketing chair of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association, a nonprofit statewide cooperative of authors, independent book publishers, and publishing professionals. She is a bilingual German and English speaker with a master’s in applied linguistics from Trinity College, Dublin; a graduate certificate in linguistics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and a bachelor’s from The College of William and Mary.

You can find her on LinkedIn and Twitter. In her free time, she loves almost anything that gets her outdoors. Other than reading, that’s the best place to be!

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