John Adamus, The Writer Next Door — The Writing Coach 065

March 19, 2018

**Welcome to The Writing Coach. On this podcast, I speak with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors who help writers and authors create their art, build their audience, and sell their work.**

In episode #65 of The Writing Coach podcast, I speak with John Adamus.

Since 1997, John’s entire career has been focused on working with people to tell their stories. Whether in television, film, stage, or publishing, he has worked with talented creatives who have all different kinds of stories to tell.

Through his website, The Writer Next Door, John offers a full suite of tools to help writers reach their creative goals, from story design and coaching to first chapter diagnostics and help with query letters. John is the executive editor at Parvus Press, a publishing company focused on science fiction and fantasy, and he also extremely active on Twitter, where you’ll find him sharing writing tips and advice throughout the day.

During our conversation, John describes:

How he’d been helping people for years before he realized “creative coaching” was the name for what he was doing
Why he got fired from his slush pile reader job at a New York publishing house
The challenge of learning how to determine your value and charge what you are worth for your services
The important role a mentor played in his life and his development as a writer and editor
And much more

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