Chapter one. The kitchen at six in the morning, before anyone else is up. The notebook you bought for this and never opened. The first line you've rewritten in your head four hundred times in the car. The story your grandmother told only once. The thing that happened that summer. The novel about the lighthouse keeper. The essays you'd call something else if anyone asked. Chapter one. The kitchen at six in the morning, before anyone else is up. The notebook you bought for this and never opened. The first line you've rewritten in your head four hundred times in the car. The story your grandmother told only once. The thing that happened that summer. The novel about the lighthouse keeper. The essays you'd call something else if anyone asked. Chapter one. The kitchen at six in the morning, before anyone else is up. The notebook you bought for this and never opened. The first line you've rewritten in your head four hundred times in the car.

Begins February 2027 · Enrollment opens in December

The Book
Club

A book club where the book is yours.

Sixteen weeks. A small circle of writers. And on the other side of it, the book you keep saying you’ll write someday.

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Everyone has a book in them.

If only I knew where to begin.
If only I had the time.
If only it were any good.
If only someone would sit with me while I wrote it.

You’ve said some version of these for years. The book is still waiting. It doesn’t need a better reason. It needs a chair, a schedule, and some company.

The Book Club

Here’s what this is.

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Sixteen weeks, beginning in February. One season of your life, given to one book.

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For years I’ve worked with people who want to write. I’ve helped them start the book, finish the book, and publish the book.

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This is a program designed for you to work through what inspires you, the ideas you have, the challenges you experience, and the practical, everyday steps you need to take, alongside other people doing the same.

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Come with a manuscript, an idea, or nothing but the itch. You leave with a book underway, habits to finish it, a completed product, places to put it, a map to publishing, and more.

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Detailed curriculum
Weekly teaching
Guest teachers and authors
Community forum
Peer mentorship
Ongoing guidance
Publishing opportunities
Promotional assistance
And much more

week one: a blank pageweek sixteen: a book

About Rainier

I’ve walked the whole road.

As You Are Self-published · Amazon Best-Seller
A novel, and a book of poetry Written, finished, and kept for myself
A book on the creative process St. Martin’s Essentials · Spring 2028

I’ve self-published a best-seller. I’ve written a novel and a book of poetry and decided they were only for me. And I’m publishing a book on the creative process with a major publisher. I’ve done the whole book-writing journey.

I’ve also helped other writers down every one of those roads. Authors who self-published. Authors who got agents and made a traditional splash. Authors who finished a book and knew it was only for them and their kids.

The Book Club is built on all of it.

Think of it as a gift

Sixteen weeks you give to the person who has been carrying this book around. Maybe for years. Maybe since you were a kid with a notebook nobody was allowed to read.

This is the season you stop carrying it and start writing it.

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February 2027

The Book Club

Enrollment opens in December, with a limited number of founding spots at an early-bird rate. Get on the list and you’ll hear about them before anyone else.

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