Amanda Catarzi Hengst

I write books for founders.

What I'm good at is pulling the raw parts out of a person. The thing they've circled for years and never said out loud, the part they assumed was too much or too private or not the point. That's usually the point. I learned to do it in eight years of anti-trafficking work, sitting across from people and asking the same question until the true answer came out.

Then I put it in print in a way that moves them forward. The person on the page isn't the founder as they are today. It's the next version, the one they're already becoming and haven't announced yet. Readers meet that person first, and then the author has to go be him.

That's why people finish these books, and why the author's life changes after.

Published by Chiron Press