01The Author’s Best Friend

You have a story.
Let’s get it out of your head
and into their hands.

From “I think I want to write a book” to “OMG, I’m a published author!” — get the structure, support, accountability, and professional publishing services you need to finally bring your book to life.

“Write it messy, bestie. We’ll clean it up later.”

Kimi Johnson, publisher and book coach, in a teal blazer and yellow top

Your book is not too late. It’s just unfinished.

Publisher & Book Coach
02Let’s Be Honest

Your book doesn’t have to keep living in your head.

01

You’ve been talking about this book for years.

02

Your notes live in three notebooks, two apps, and the Notes app.

03

You started strong… then life happened.

04

You keep re-editing chapter one instead of writing chapter two.

05

Publishing sounds like a whole second career.

06

You genuinely don’t know where to begin.

07

You don’t need another course. You need accountability.

You don’t need a perfect manuscript. You need a starting point, a plan, and somebody in your corner.

That somebody is me. 💕

03Choose Your Starting Point

Okay bestie, where are we starting?

Pick the sentence that sounds like you. I’ll take it from there.

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“I have a book idea…but that’s about it.”

You need

Jumpstart Your Manuscript

We turn the idea in your head into a real concept, a real audience, and a real chapter outline you can actually write from.

Let’s Start Writing
02

“I started writing, but I’m stuck.”

You need

Manuscript Development / Book Coaching

Structure, developmental feedback, milestones, and the accountability that gets the draft across the finish line.

Help Me Finish
03

“My manuscript is DONE.”

You need

Full-Service Publishing

Editing, design, formatting, ISBN, distribution, and launch — handled by the PurposePals publishing team.

Let’s Publish It
04The Movement

Write It Messy.

Perfect is not the goal. Finished gives us something to work with.

Write It Messy is my philosophy for getting real books out of real people. It silences the perfectionism, ends the endless chapter-one rewrites, and teaches you to trust your own voice long enough to get the story onto the page. Typos, tangents, and half-formed thoughts welcome — that’s what editing is for.

  • Stop editing while you draft.
  • Write out of order. On purpose.
  • Momentum beats polish, every single time.
Join the Write It Messy Movement
Kimi J wearing a Write It Messy t-shirt — the movement's signature look

Draft one is perfect allowed to be terrible.

#WriteItMessy
Kimi journaling at a sunlit desk surrounded by manuscript pages

90

Days to a draft

05Jumpstart Your Manuscript

Stop saying “one day.” Let’s write the book.

Jumpstart Your Manuscript is the signature pathway that takes whatever you have right now — an idea, a folder of notes, lived experience, hard-won expertise, or forty abandoned pages — and turns it into an organized, finishable manuscript.

Clarity on what your book actually is
Book concept development
Audience & positioning
Chapter-by-chapter structure
A writing strategy that fits your life
Accountability check-ins
Developmental guidance
Manuscript milestones
Encouragement (loud and often)
Preparation for publishing
Explore Jumpstart
06Meet Kimi

Your publisher. Your book coach. Your biggest cheerleader.

Hey, I’m Kimi J.

I’m a publisher, book coach, instructional designer, and project leader — which is a fancy way of saying I know how to take a big, messy, meaningful idea and build a real plan around it.

I’m also a wife, a mother, a woman of faith, and an unapologetic author advocate. I believe your story matters, and I believe you can finish it with the right structure and the right person in your corner.

Here’s the difference: I don’t just hand you a checklist of what needs to happen. I walk the process with you — decision by decision, chapter by chapter, all the way to the day you hold your book.

“I’m not letting you quit on that book. 💕”

Meet Your Publisher
Kimi J smiling at her desk surrounded by published books, a notebook, and a warm cup of coffee
The author’s best friend
07The Author Journey

From messy idea to published author.

01

Dream It

Clarify the idea, the purpose, and the reader you're writing for.

02

Write It

Develop and complete the manuscript — messy first draft encouraged.

03

Shape It

Developmental support, structural feedback, and professional editing.

04

Design It

Interior formatting and a cover that earns the shelf.

05

Publish It

ISBN, copyright, KDP setup, and publishing registrations.

06

Launch It

Prepare the author and the book for release day.

07

Celebrate It

Your book is officially in the world. Author era: unlocked.

We cry, we celebrate, we sign books. 🎉

08PurposePals Publishing

You write the story. We’ll help handle the rest.

PurposePals Publishing is the professional publishing house powering Publishing with Kimi J. Same warmth, same encouragement — plus a full production team, real timelines, and the kind of project management that keeps your book moving.

Explore Publishing Services

*Where applicable by title and format.

01Editing
02Developmental support
03Book cover design
04Interior design & formatting
05ISBN & publishing registrations
06KDP setup
07Expanded distribution*
08Project management
09Author support
10Launch assets
09Published Books

Look what happens when you finish the book.

Five published PurposePals books — Strong Yet Broken, Show Me the Way, Scars That Speak, The Last 48 Hours, and Rekindling My Rose Petals — styled on a cream surface with journals, a gold pen, and white flowers

Poetry

Emerge from the Vine

Letitia Crumity

Kimi made the process feel possible.

Personal Growth

The Evolution of a Woman

Felisa Kendall

Devotional

The Last 48 Hours

Danny & Rhoda Whitfield

We finished a book we carried for nine years.

Memoir

Searching for the Good in Me

Deidra Jackson

10Author Love

Authors need more than a publisher. They need a partner.

“I'd been 'writing a book' for six years. Kimi got a full draft out of me in one season — and never once made me feel behind.”
T

Tasha R.

Author, faith & family

“She is equal parts hype woman and project manager. The deadlines were real, the encouragement was realer.”
D

Denise M.

Author, memoir

“PurposePals handled everything I was dreading — editing, cover, ISBN, KDP. I just had to show up and write.”
A

Angela B.

Author, business

Free Resource

Still staring at the blank page?

Start Writing Your Book: The Write It Messy Starter Guide

A short, no-fluff guide that gets your first messy pages out of your head today — plus the three questions every book needs answered before chapter one.

No perfect sentences required.

No spam. Just writing encouragement.

Kimi J with arms open wide, welcoming authors, surrounded by bookshelves and PurposePals Publishing signage
One Last Thing

Your story isn’t going to write itself, bestie.

But you don’t have to write — or publish — it alone.

See you in the messy pages. 💕