The Real Cost of a Book Writing Retreat (And Why Ours Includes What It Does)

Most retreat pricing pages are designed to make the number feel like a vibe instead of a receipt. Mine isn't. Here's exactly what $3,500 buys, itemized, so you can decide with your actual brain instead of your anxiety.

The Sticker Price

$3,500 in your local currency, or $3,000 if you book early. Six seats per retreat. That's the whole pricing structure. No "premium coaching tier," no surprise resort fee, no upsell email three days before you arrive.

What's Actually Included

• Three nights' accommodation, your own bedroom
• Every meal, provided and built around any dietary needs you flag early
• All coaching and workshop time for the full four days
• The Quantum Copy Method™ framework
• The 106-page Createcation manual
• A pre-retreat 1:1 call with me before you even arrive
• Your own publishing roadmap to go home with

What's Not Included, and Why

Travel to and from the retreat. I can't control international flight prices, and building them into the sticker price would mean charging the person flying twenty minutes the same as the person flying twenty hours. Instead, everyone pays the same fair number for the actual retreat, and you handle your own travel like the capable adult who was going to apply anyway.

What You're Really Paying For

Not a hotel room. You could book a nicer room for less money on its own. You're paying for a working ghostwriter's actual attention on your actual manuscript, compressed into four uninterrupted days, plus a room full of people who showed up as obsessed with finishing as you are. That combination is the entire product. Everything else is logistics.

Why the Group Stays at Six

A bigger group would lower the price and the value at the exact same rate. Six is the number where everyone gets real 1:1 time, not a shared Q&A slot. I'd rather run a smaller retreat that actually works than a bigger one that just looks better on a spreadsheet.

The Honest Math

Split across four days, you're looking at roughly $875 a day for accommodation, every meal, a proven framework, a 106-page manual, and direct coaching on your manuscript from someone who's actually shipped books. Compare that to what a single developmental edit costs on its own, or what a year of circling a Facebook group costs you in time you didn't spend writing.

The Bottom Line

If the number feels big, it should — it's four days that are supposed to change how your book exists in the world. If it feels fair once you see the full list, that's because it is. That's the whole pitch.