I’m a writing coach with Sarah Selecky Writing School and the creator of the small-group coaching programs Novel Alchemy & Novel Refinery, in collaboration with meditation guide (and my sister) Leah Fae.
I help writers see what their novels want to become, then bring those novels to completion without losing faith in themselves or their work.
Ways We Can Work Together
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Novel Alchemy: 1st draft group coaching
Novel Alchemy is a 3-month small group coaching program that brings mindfulness, supportive structure, and co-creative partnership to the process of writing a fast, rough discovery draft of your novel. We focus 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 co-facilatator is my sister Leah Fae, a yoga and meditation teacher whose breathwork and guided visualizations help us get out of our analytical brains and create an embodied container for grounding and nervous system regulation as we write.
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: 1:1 support
My manuscript evaluations are thorough, thoughtful, and compassionate, always holding you and your vision in highest respect.
This is for you if you’re looking for a co-creative partner who will carry your novel in gentle hands—but also give you incisive feedback and clear direction on its structure, characters, and plot.
If you’re looking for ongoing coaching to implement my feedback and complete your revision, I also offer the option to add an eight-week coaching container for ongoing support.
Completing a novel and turning it over to someone else for assessment can be an incredibly vulnerable, even activating experience. So 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.
Sign up to receive my free mini e-course. I’ll send you my 4 Creativity-Sustaining Principles, one every 2 days, to help you:
Get out of your own way and tap into your meaningful material with more ease and flow
Say goodbye to confusion and fear without sacrificing the vibrancy of intuition and creative discovery
Step into a sustainable, fruitful relationship with your creativity (then use it to write a novel).
About Heidi Reimer
Heidi Reimer is a novelist, essayist, and the creator of the coaching programs Novel Alchemy and Novel Refinery. Her debut novel, The Mother Act(2024), received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, praise in the New York Times BookReview, and attention from Chatelaine and People. Her second novel, What We Found Instead (2026), is a story of two women who meet as romantic rivals and end up choosing each other. Early readers have called it “the rom-com I didn’t know I needed” and “an inspiring take on the true meaning of partnership.” Her work has appeared in Chatelaine, The New Quarterly, Literary Mama, Lit Hub, and the anthologies The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood and Body & Soul: Stories for Skeptics and Seekers.
Heidi has tried to write or longed to write or resisted writing or feared writing or, finally, actually written for 41 years.
