About Me (and you)
It’s time to write that book you keep talking about.
You know it is.
You have something to say that can help people. You know how to inspire people to make profound shifts in their lives, but you’re just so busy doing your work—seeing clients and patients and producing content that helps them in so many ways—that slowing down to actually DO it has been way too difficult.
When it’s time (now), you need the process to be efficient. Clean. Clear. You need to stay on track and have a guide to help you know what you should include and what you shouldn’t so your book can help as many people as possible as fast as possible.
Accountability.
Deadlines.
Professional feedback every step of the way from a publishing pro who will not just help you finish, but who can help you get published.
That’s where I come in.
My name is Gretel Hakanson, and the thing that lights me up the most in the world is helping experts develop a book that ignites readers to make transformations in body, mind, or spirit.
After 15 years of editing health, wellness, and lifestyle books for authors and trade publishers, one thing became very clear:
Writing a transformational nonfiction book is not easy.
Authors do not sit down start at page one and sail through until “the end.” There’s often lots of rewriting, revising, deleting huge swaths of text, confusion, incoherence, frustration, insecurity.
My zone of genius is helping you get clarity from the very beginning so you stay on track the entire time—from idea to proposal to manuscript. And I have tools and processes to do that—a system, which is about turnkey as you can get in the publishing industry. I have worked on more than 150 published books in the health and wellness space, and I’m a certified book coach with Author Accelerator.
What I do
I help brilliant, health-minded leaders get their ideas out to the world. From proposals to publishing, start to finish, let’s do something amazing together.
A Few of the Books I’ve Worked On


