You want to write a cookbook. You could get a book deal to do that. Honestly, you could: publishing houses are looking to put out more books than ever. But did you know: - The deals being offered to cookbook authors are worse than ever (small advances, sometimes no royalties, really tight timelines). - All costs of creating the book come out of your advance (recipe development, recipe testing, photography, indexing). - If you want to go on a book tour, that's on your own dime, too. - You lose all creative control. You wanted that photo for the cover? Too bad. That color scheme? Not your choice. The book is only partially yours.

Being somewhat familiar with the Adobe suite makes things easier, but we start from step one learning only InDesign (an Adobe program), teaching only what you need to know to design a book. InDesign is technically easier to learn than other Adobe programs like Illustrator or Photoshop because it only has one function (formatting long documents and posters) and doesn't create graphics or edit photos. I have seen many people with little or no design experience get comfortable with the program in a short amount of time.

We’ve got you! We help you come up with ideas and test those ideas with your audience.

Writing a cookbook opened so many new doors for Chelsea! She’s had the opportunity to do live cooking demos at events, multiple TV appearances, podcast interviews, a magazine feature, her new full time job, and even been presented with cookbook offers from publishers (to which she has said no), all because of her book.

Chelsea finished her book in 6 months with a fair amount of distraction. If you really wanted to push it, you could probably do it in as short as 3 months.

Carly covers that, too! Learn how to style your photos and create a cohesive look for all of your food photos.

All of the skills you’ve built food blogging over the years have prepared you for this day! Some organizational and time management skills are helpful, as well as photography and basic design. But even if you don’t have the latter two, Carly is here to help!

The final costs are dependent on what you choose to spring for, but Chelsea estimates you’ll spend between $1200 and $1800, including groceries.

You’ll be invited into a private Facebook group that we’re both active in daily. You can email us with questions, and you get an hour of phone time with each of us when you enroll.

That’s okay! Chelsea only had about 3000 Instagram followers when she launched her book (and frankly, doesn’t have much more now). As long as there’s demand for your book, which we talk about, you can sell it.

That’s okay! Carly designed her section, Designing Your Cookbook, so that anyone, regardless of their skill level, could design their very own book with her handy cookbook template.