I’m Heidi Reimer, novelist, essayist & creative writing coach.
I help writers see what their novels want to become, then bring those novels to completion without losing faith in themselves or their work. My debut, The Mother Act, is coming from Penguin Random House in April 2024.
The Mother Act
Smart and propulsive, The Mother Act is a bold debut novel about a mother who refuses to abandon her art and the daughter she abandons instead.
This compelling exploration of motherhood, gender roles, theatre, and identity is coming in April 2024 from Dutton and Random House Canada.
Ways We Can Work Together
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First Draft Novel Coaching Program
A full novel-writing program and coaching container that gives you the tools and accountability to create a quick, rough first draft in just three months. The focus is on learning to quiet your analytical mind and access your intuition, supported by a strong framework to contain the wildness and give your story an engine that will drive it forward.
My goal in creating this program was to put everything I learned through painful trial and error into a nourishing, manageable, structured-but-intuitive approach that shaves years and a lot of angst off the process.
It’s a little bit magical.
Offered through Sarah Selecky Writing School.
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Manuscript Evaluation & Revision Coaching
A thorough, thoughtful manuscript assessment with the option to add an eight-week coaching container for ongoing revision support. This is for you if you’re looking for a co-creative partner who will hold your novel in gentle hands—but also give you incisive feedback and direction on its structure, characters, and plot.
Completing a novel and turning it over to someone else for assessment can be an incredibly vulnerable, even activating experience. Especially if you add revision coaching to your package, I also make sure we address the complexities of this transition from writing as private process to public product so that you feel protected as you expose your work to scrutiny.
Offered through Sarah Selecky Writing School.