Help & how-to
A little help, whenever you need it.
Everything you send goes to one place: hello@coachlibra.com — just reply to any of my emails, or start a new one. Below: how to record and send a voice memo from your phone, and answers to the questions authors ask most.
Record & email a voice memo The easiest way to work with me is to talk. Here's how, in under a minute.
📱 iPhone
Using the built-in Voice Memos app
- Open the Voice Memos app. Can't find it? Swipe down on your home screen and search “Voice Memos.”
- Tap the big red circle to start recording. Just talk naturally.
- Tap the red square to stop when you're done.
- Tap your new recording in the list, then tap the ••• (three dots) and choose Share.
- Pick Mail (or your email app), address it to hello@coachlibra.com, and tap send.
🤖 Android
Using your phone's Recorder app
- Open your Recorder app — it may be called Recorder, Voice Recorder, or similar. Can't find it? Search your apps for “recorder.”
- Tap the record button and talk naturally.
- Tap stop (and save, if it asks) when you're done.
- Open the recording, tap Share, and choose Gmail (or your email app).
- Send it to hello@coachlibra.com.
Even simpler: there's no need to be polished. Talk like you're telling a friend — stumbles and “let me start that over” are completely fine. I listen for what you mean, and I shape it into your book.
Questions authors ask
Do I have to use voice memos?
Not at all. Type a reply, attach a document, or record a voice memo — whatever's easiest for you, at any step from start to finish. If talking is easier than typing, talk. I'll handle the rest.
Where do I send everything?
Always hello@coachlibra.com. The simplest thing is to reply to whatever email I last sent you — but a brand-new email to that address works just as well.
Which email should I write from?
The one you signed up with — that's the address I know as you. To keep your writing and your book private, I only ever reply to, and accept materials from, the email you joined with. If you write in from a different address, I won't recognize it as you, so your message might not reach your project. If you'd like me to also listen for another email address of yours, just tell me from your signed-up address — “please also accept mail from name@example.com” — and I'll add it.
What should I share so you can learn my voice?
Writing you've already done — nothing new to write. Old emails, an article or blog post, a journal entry, a chapter you started, a Word doc or PDF, a Google Doc link, even a link to a talk or podcast you've given (I'll listen and learn from it). The more I see, the more your book sounds exactly like you.
What kinds of books can you help me write?
A wide range — nonfiction (business, leadership, self-help, how-to, a book that builds your authority), memoir and personal story, and fiction across most genres. If it's the book you've been carrying around, there's a good chance this is for it.
The one thing I don't take on is explicit/adult (erotica) work. That's a deliberate choice: I hold every manuscript to an exceptionally high quality bar. The writing craft here is the best I've found anywhere, and the engine that delivers that quality won't produce explicit material. I'd rather keep that standard than switch to a lesser one to cover it. (Romance, emotional intimacy, and tension are welcome — it's only the explicit end I steer clear of.)
The one thing I don't take on is explicit/adult (erotica) work. That's a deliberate choice: I hold every manuscript to an exceptionally high quality bar. The writing craft here is the best I've found anywhere, and the engine that delivers that quality won't produce explicit material. I'd rather keep that standard than switch to a lesser one to cover it. (Romance, emotional intimacy, and tension are welcome — it's only the explicit end I steer clear of.)
How do I send a document or a Google Doc?
Attach the file (Word or PDF) right to your email, or paste in text. For a Google Doc, paste the share link — and set it so “anyone with the link can view,” so I can open it. Lost track of what you've sent? Ask me, “what have I sent so far?” and I'll list it back.
How long should a voice memo be?
There's no rule — a minute or twenty, whatever the moment calls for. Answer the question I asked in your own words, the way you'd say it out loud to someone you trust.
Do I have to sit down and write it myself?
There's no blank page to face and no chapters to grind out alone — but make no mistake, the book is your work. You talk, you answer my questions, you share what you've already got; I draw it out and shape your own words and stories into each chapter. The ideas, the substance, and the voice are entirely yours. What I take off your plate is the friction — the staring, the organizing, the slow work of turning it all into a finished book.
How fast does this move? Can I take a break?
Entirely at your pace — one clear step at a time, and I only move forward when you're ready. Reply whenever suits your life; take a week off if you need to. Nothing is lost, and I'll gently check in if it's been a while. You can also ask for one step a day instead of as-you-reply.
Can I change how you work with me — tone, pace, how much at once?
Yes — just tell me, anytime, and I'll adjust on the spot. Want me more direct, or one question at a time, or gentler? Say so. The full set of dials lives on the options page, and the handful of things you can just say to me is on the shortcuts page.
What if I forget what I've already sent you?
Just ask — “what have I sent so far?” — and I'll list everything I have from you, by name. More handy phrases like this are on the shortcuts page.
How do I know you got my email?
I reply to everything, usually within the hour. If you don't hear back, resend — no harm done.
What happens to my writing — is it private? Who owns it?
You own everything — full stop. What you create and what you upload belongs to you and you alone. We don't claim any rights to it. Your material is used for one thing only: creating your book. It's never used to write anyone else's, we don't train any model on it, and we've intentionally opted out of letting the AI providers we use train their models on it either. The full details — what we store, who can see it, and how to have it all deleted — are on our privacy page.
Where did the idea for Coach Libra come from?
Honestly? My own writing. I found myself reaching for new technology to capture voice notes, talking ideas out loud, and then using those notes to nudge my own writing along. Bit by bit, that turned into a real system, and it helped me more than anything else I'd tried. Coach Libra simply formalizes that system and shares it with everyone else — so the thing that finally got my words onto the page can do the same for yours.
Is Coach Libra a ghostwriting service?
No — this is a writing coach service, not a ghostwriting service. The book is your work: your ideas, your stories, your voice, your thinking. What I provide is the support to get it out of you: asking the right questions, organizing all of your notes and answers into shape, so you can put it together far faster and more easily than you could on your own. A ghostwriter hands you words that aren't really yours; I help you shape the ones that are.
When Amazon (KDP) asks if my book is “AI-generated,” what do I say?
No — and you can say it with a clear conscience. You wrote this book. Every idea, story, lesson, and hard-won insight in it is yours, drawn from your own answers, voice memos, and writing. My role is a coach's: I ask the questions that pull your thinking out of you, and I help organize and shape your words and material into finished chapters in your voice. The substance, the point of view, and the authorship are entirely yours — I didn't dream up your book, you did. That's the real heart of what KDP and other platforms are asking: whether a machine invented a book on its own, or whether a real author with real expertise created it. For your book, it's unmistakably the latter.
Does my service include getting the book published and launched?
Honest answer: no — and that's on purpose, not a catch. Writing your book is one stage; publishing it (getting it live and purchasable, usually on Amazon) and launching it (telling the world) are two further stages every book goes through. Your service covers the writing, start to finished, publish-ready manuscript — that's the whole service, and you own every word. Here's the good part: the day your book is delivered, your portal hands you everything you need to do the other two stages yourself, for free — a publishing plan and a launch plan built for your kind of book, with the pieces already written for you (your back-cover description, your launch announcement, your social posts, the works). Most authors take it from there. If you'd rather not set up Amazon yourself, or you want a custom-designed cover and someone to walk you through it, we offer optional done-with-you help for the publishing and the launch — but it's a convenience, never a gate. You can get published and launched without paying us another cent. Here's how the whole thing works →
What is the Author's Circle?
It's the community of authors writing with me. Once a month, everyone currently working on a book comes together on a live, private call to support each other. They trade encouragement, questions, and the occasional "me too" — people on the very same journey, all working toward the same goal: getting their message in front of a wider audience. There's a bit more about it here.
Who's in the Circle?
Every author actively working on a book with me — a room full of people doing exactly what you're doing. You're part of it for as long as we're writing your book together.
Is the Circle recorded? Is it private?
It's confidential and not recorded. The room is closed to anyone who isn't actively writing a book with me, and what's shared there stays there — so you can come as openly as you like.
Do I have to attend the Circle?
Not at all — it's an open invitation, never an obligation. Come to the months that fit your life and skip the ones that don't; nothing is required, and nothing is lost if you miss one. You'll get the date, time, and a private link by email each month.
Still stuck? Just ask.
If anything here didn't answer your question, write to me at hello@coachlibra.com — a plain “how do I…?” is always welcome. And if you'd like the bigger picture, here's the whole journey, start to finish.