We turn your ideas into influence.
Ghostwriting, Co-writing, and Strategic Editorial Partnerships
We specialize in working with entrepreneurs, CEOs, visionaries, and thought leaders seeking to share their expertise, convey complex ideas simply, and inspire action through storytelling.
Our partnerships have resulted in award-winning nonfiction books covering business strategy, marketing, self-help, health and wellness, leadership, and more.
Designed for how you think.
An Editorial Collective.
From your first spark of a concept to the finished manuscript, we bring strategy, structure, creativity, and narrative clarity to complex ideas.
Our authors often think in patterns, stories, and systems. They’re intelligent, highly driven, deeply thoughtful, and most often, time-constrained. Templates and a “one-size-fits-all” process don’t work for them.
As writing and editorial professionals who've worked inside global corporations, nonprofits, and agencies, and have built businesses ourselves, we’re the partner who understands and respects how you think.
And we create writing and editorial processes that work for them and will work for you.
Founded by Kerrie Ann Nauseda, former VP of Editorial and Editor-in-Chief at Forbes Books, Entrepreneur Books, and Advantage Media, Good Coterie brings enterprise-level publishing expertise to a boutique model where strategy meets effective storytelling.
We are passionate about helping our authors expand their brand, amplify their authentic voice, and align with their personal and business objectives.
Services we offer.
Our work begins with where you are—whether that’s with a full or partially written manuscript, a series of voice memos or decks, a messy Google Doc, or just a clear sense of what you’re trying to say.
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A thorough evaluation of your completed manuscript with written feedback on what's working, what's not, and what needs to change before publication. We’ll read your full draft and provide a detailed editorial memo covering structure, clarity, pacing, voice, argument strength, and marketability. You also get annotated margin notes throughout the manuscript, highlighting specific issues and opportunities. This is diagnostic work, meaning we’ll tell you what to fix, but we don't fix it for you.
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A comprehensive roadmap for your book that clarifies your vision, structures your content, and guides the writing process from concept to completion. This includes chapter-by-chapter breakdowns, target audience analysis, guiding principles for your narrative arc, and writing style recommendations—all designed around your expertise and goals.
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A collaborative process in which you are the author and we write the manuscript on your behalf, in your voice, based on your ideas, interviews, existing materials, and strategic goals.
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We write the book together. You do some of the writing; we do some of the writing, provide structure, editorial guidance, drafting support. We’ll collaborate on structure, narrative, and voice until we land on something that feels right. The work may move back and forth between us, with sections written by one or the other, depending on the needs of the project.
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Ongoing guidance, accountability, and strategic feedback for authors who want to write their own book but need someone in their corner. We’ll help you clarify your concept, develop a structure that works, stay on track through the writing process, and make smart decisions about what belongs in the book and what doesn't. You do the writing. We’re the thinking partner who keeps you moving forward.m description
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You've already written a draft (or multiple drafts), but it's not working yet. We take what you have and rebuild it by restructuring, clarifying, tightening, and transforming your rough material into a polished, publishable manuscript.
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Big-picture structural work on your manuscript. We assess the overall architecture, such as whether your argument holds together, if chapters are in the right order, where you're missing critical content, and where you're repeating yourself or losing focus. You get a detailed editorial memo with specific recommendations for how to strengthen the book’s structure, content, voice, tone, and writing style, plus margin notes throughout the manuscript. You do the rewriting.
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Sentence-level refinement focused on clarity, flow, and style. We work through your manuscript line by line, tightening prose, eliminating awkward phrasing, improving rhythm and readability, and making sure your voice comes through consistently. While we’ll fix glaring issues), line editing is about making every sentence as strong and clear as it can be.
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Technical cleanup of your manuscript. We correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and syntax. We flag inconsistencies in tone, terminology, or facts and ensure style conventions are applied consistently throughout. This is the polish that happens after the content and structure are solid.
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The final quality-control pass before publication. We’ll catch typos, formatting errors, missed punctuation, and any last-minute mistakes that slipped through earlier rounds of editing. Structural changes or rewrites will no longer be made at this stage. The focus is purely on making sure the manuscript is clean and error-free.
What People Are Saying
“From our very first conversation, Kerrie Ann brought a marketer’s mindset to my book, helping shape the strategy and structure with precision and a deep understanding of my target audience. Besides being incredibly skilled as a writer, she is thoughtfully collaborative, capturing the messages I wanted to convey and ensuring my voice was authentically coming through on the page. An exceptional partner every step of the way.”
— Ron Harvey, Entrepreneur
“Kerrie Ann is a remarkably versatile ghostwriter, editor, coach, and book planner. It's a rare individual who can both disappear into research and uncover gems, and who can evoke just the right amount of intended emotion in a handful of well-placed words. She can find salient, eureka-moment connections in the most unexpected places, revealing them in a way that brings her authors' concepts to startling life. I enjoy working with her to this day, and she is the first writer we go to with book ideas that require both inside and outside of the box thinking.”
— Kristen Hackler, Director of Book Architecture, Forbes Books
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“Kerrie Ann is a true trailblazer for anyone on a mission to achieve their goals and dreams of writing a book! She doesn’t just help you stay on course—she inspires you to stretch further and reach destinations you never imagined possible. If dreams are a marathon, Kerrie Ann is the pacesetter running beside you, offering encouragement and a shot of GU for energy. She makes sure you not only finish, but that you finish strong and at the top of your game. My project wouldn’t have soared to the heights it did without her transparent, gritty, and humor-filled cheerleading.”
— Dr. Michaela Renee Johnson, author of 7 Primal Wounds