Sometimes you just need to get away and focus on your manuscript.

If you’d like to do that at a beautiful Tennessee Bed & Breakfast, I offer intensives and retreats for all levels of experience. Each lasts for three days and two nights, and you can choose between between intensive, guided work on your novel, exercises to jump-start your creativity and passion, or quiet time with your book and guidance and advice as needed. For testimonials or more about my philosophy as an editor, click here.

If you’d like to schedule one of these retreats or intensives, email me at [email protected], and we’ll work out a date. See below for more detailed descriptions of each workshop or intensive.

 

Jump Start Your Novel Intensive

2-3 Writers. Spend three days and three nights in a beautiful Tennessee Bed and Breakfast. Bring your idea or just a dream of writing. Learn how to create a plot and characters and write a first draft. Jump start your novel and find the creative process that’s right for you. Includes meals and lodging. (Spouses/partners/companions welcome for the cost of their meals.)

Cost: $1500 per participant

 

Beginning Writers’ Intensive

Up to 3 Writers. Spend three days and three nights in a beautiful Tennessee Bed and Breakfast. Send your partial or completed manuscript, synopsis, or outline beforehand, receive individual and small-group instruction in writing, revising, and editing your novel. Addresses plot, character, pacing, point of view, language, and more. Includes meals and lodging. (Spouses/partners/companions welcome for the cost of their meals.)

Cost: $1500 per participant

 

Advanced Writers’ Intensive

Up to 3 Writers. Spend three days and three nights in a beautiful Tennessee Bed and Breakfast. Send your partial or complete novel beforehand, receive individual and small-group instruction in writing, revising, and editing your novel. Learn how to increase tension, deepen characters, and make your writing sing. Includes meals and lodging. (Spouses/partners/companions welcome for the cost of their meals.)

Cost: $1500 per participant

 

Individual Intensive

Spend 3 days and nights in a beautiful Tennessee cabin or Bed and Breakfast. Send your partial or complete novel beforehand, receive a full weekend of individualized instruction, or just bring your idea and let me help you with your novel or other writing project. Includes meals and lodging. (Spouses/partners/companions are welcome for the cost of their meals.)

Cost: $2500 per participant

 

Retreat for Writers

3-5 Writers. Spend three days and three nights in a beautiful Tennessee Bed and Breakfast. Participate in discussions and activities designed to recharge your batteries, or just spend your time alone with your manuscript. (Spouses/partners/companions welcome for the cost of their meals but may not participate in the manuscript discussions.)

Cost: $1500 per participant

 

“Jared McKean’s Nashville” Readers’ Retreat

Up to 5 guests. Spend 3 days in a beautiful Tennessee cabin or Bed and Breakfast. Eat at Jared’s favorite restaurants, go to his favorite hangouts, get a drink at his favorite bar or brewery, even meet his rescue horse and get behind-the-scenes information about Jared and his adventures. Includes meals and lodging.

Cost: $1500 per participant