Melanie Votaw has been a full-time professional book author, ghostwriter, editor, and book coach for nearly 20 years. She specializes in self-help books and book proposals as a coach, ghostwriter, and developmental editor. Literary agents and publishers like Hay House regularly recommend her to authors as a ghostwriter, editor, or coach.

She has authored, ghostwritten, or edited more than 100 books, many of which have been published by such houses as Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Hay House, Perseus, and Hyperion, among others. The books she has worked on have won 32 awards, including the Best Beach Books Festival Grand Prize, and some have landed on the New York Times Best Seller List.

She works with authors who want to write their own self-help books in her robust Finish Your Book Group Coaching Program, teaching them best practices for structuring and writing their books and helping them stay motivated from the first page to the last page.