Hi, I’m Samantha Bagood…

Story Coach. Writing Mentor. Publishing Consultant.

My clients come to me with a book they want to finish…and discover the stories they’re meant to tell.

I’m on a mission to inspire

healing, imagination, and diversity

through meaningful storytelling.

How?

By helping people like you—ambitious dreamers, diverse leaders, creative visionaries—move the world with your stories.

But to move the world

you, first, must move and be moved.

That’s why I don’t call myself a book coach.

The finished product isn’t my focus.

You are.

I work with you, not only your book,
so that your relationship with writing is transformed. So that you have a long and satisfying creative journey ahead. So that you feel confident about and comforted by the longevity of the legacies you leave behind.

See what it’s like to work with me.

Regina Linke

creator of Oxherd Boy

Quoting Morgan Harper Nichols, "the bibliography is more than a list of every book the author references in their work; it's a paper trail of wisdom that has in one way or another affected the author's message." These quotes are a glance at my life’s bibliography.

Moving Words:

  • We shouldn't inhale with the anticipation that everything we take in will someday turn into a product or a poem. Some things maybe we are just meant to take in for now, and that alone is enough.

    — Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace is a Practice

  • Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual's consciousness is a collection of memories we've cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived. It is something that no one else can entirely share, one that burns down and disappears when we die. But if you can take something from that internal collection and share it—with one person or with the larger world, on the page or in a story recited—it takes on a life of its own.

    — Susan Orlean, The Library Book

  • We're never as far along as we think, because the spiritual journey is circular. We are always repeating ourselves, returning to old themes, reexamining the same issue from a different angle and from the vantage point of a different season. We don't move on; we return wiser.

    — Renita J. Weems

  • You’re smart, passionate book people. You can forego the distance of needing to be taught what you can learn through trial and error. You can figure out how to be more inclusive in all ways. You can get political. You can get uncomfortable. You can remember that you are not just selling books. You are providing sanctuary. You are the stewards of sacred spaces. Rise to the occasion. Rise.

    — Roxanne Gay, speech from Winter Institute 12

  • Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • "How do you know which path to take?" the rabbit asked. "Maybe there is no path," replied the boy. "Maybe the path is simply made by walking."

    Regina Linke, Oxherd Boy webcomic

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