Realizing dreams and a writing studio in a 111-year-old farmhouse I just acquired. Been a while since you helped me get that book out. It’s needed more than ever considering the times. Tom, you are riding shotgun with me even if you don’t know it! You have given me permission to be ‘OK’ with my time line for my writing! Love to you and yours!

This retreat has opened the door to the rest of my life – the life I am meant to be living as an author, speaker, and coach. It has shown me what I already knew but had to be reminded of: that all the answers and power are inside of me, they just had to be accessed and Tom has shown all of us at this retreat how to do that.

The retreat has given me both practical and inspirational ways to let my books that are already written in another dimension, reveal themselves to me: how to write, revise, complete, publish, and begin the next… and the next. I have tools to get the left brain out of the way so the right brain can receive inspiration to write and revise my books. Then the left brain can do its job of projecting sales, etc. It has been a life-changing, inspiring, and practical experience.

I am so thrilled to be able to be in this retreat and be treated to learning a totally new creative process… This is the exact opposite of what I was previously taught about writing…I finally learned to LOOSEN UP…

It was a great adventure… I really surprised myself… When the student is ready, the teacher appears…

The most memorable part was finishing…only because it was a process that has been a part of me for a long time…

Thank you for teaching me this valuable method…it really works…

It could be the first time I felt the shift and felt the words pouring out of me faster than I could type…thank you for allowing me to accomplish something I always felt I would do…

Life changing…Ground breaking…I will never go back to old methods

My novel, ‘Reflections,’ that I wrote in your retreats has won its 8th win BEST Screenplay. The last three days I’ve had five producers asking for the script for consideration. I plan to attend your November retreat in Sedona. Your teaching affects my writing with every pen to paper stroke.

I just wanted to express my sincere gratitude for all you provide to up-and-coming writers/authors. I listened again to your webinar, “Write Your Book in a Weekend,” and I realize now, that because of how I was robbed of my career, then black-listed, and then the continuation attempts…I was scared to death that I was going to get attacked again when this book comes out, but I am not afraid anymore. I am standing for what I know is right.

His intuitive writing method exactly matches the way I like to work. When I talked to Tom before the retreat, I told him I didn’t have to be published or make money. I told him I wanted to learn his system because I wanted to do it for me, for the healing aspects of writing in his intuitive style. He said he wished all his authors felt that way. Writing is very healing. In this book I still feel pressing upon me, I’m speaking from experience. I knew I would have to share deeper about my life to establish my authority to write it. I shared with him my fear of writing about things I did not usually talk about. Tom assured me that writing the book does in fact offer a complete release from past pain and that I was in good hands. He didn’t mean just his team, but was subtly referencing the Divine help surrounding the entire experience as well. I had already gotten quite an amazing number of insights while I did the preparation exercises they ask you to complete prior to coming.

I always knew there was a way to [write and channel my books] but couldn’t quite figure it out… I have known for many years I needed to write this book but it was one that I had difficulty writing due to the subject matter. When I remotely attended your retreat in June I was able to write the story for the third time, as young adult fiction this time and love how it ends.

After 56 years, I have started writing the book I always wanted to write as a direct result of buying your book: “Call of the Writer’s Craft.” You are the one who opened the blockages that were making me attend classes and read book after book on Creative Writing. I think you are a genius. Thanks so much for sharing your secret with aspiring but frustrated writers like me.

Tom Bird reminds us that we can do anything through our connection with the Divine, and that writing is a divine way to do it.

A professional writer, no matter how talented, is nothing if he can’t get his work published…Bird has a system.

Thanks for showing me how to get published….half a million copies sold to date.

Tom Bird is simply the finest writing instructor in the world.

There are no words to describe the breakthrough I had tonight from doing Tom’s homework assignment this week… I LOVE this work. Tom Bird is a frigging genius.

Without Tom Bird my book simply would not be. His unique approach helped me dig deep and push myself beyond what I could have even imagined. Through his writing retreats and publishing programs I was guided in a very logical way from writer to author, complete with a platform and an understanding of how to navigate today’s complex social [networks]… [It] is clear from his vast experience that he provides the method; we provide the magic.

In the one month since I attended Tom Bird’s Retreat, remotely, I wrote and revised a book, [wrote] 3/4 of my second book, produced, and hosted Episode 1 of a Documentary series that I dreamed of doing 5 years ago, reprinted an out-of-print documentary that I’ve been meaning to do for two years, won an audience award for my live solo show in a fringe festival, started waking up an hour earlier, [and] lost a few unwelcome pounds. I have written almost every single day and maintained my daily yoga and exercise routine… And this week, my editor for one of the books contacted me to reaffirm her interest from over a year ago.

There were times in the days before [the retreat] that I almost cancelled because I could feel my fear wanting to keep me in a place that was familiar. With Tom’s expert guidance and amazing support team, I was able to show up and stay the course. I finished my book, a first step toward a new way of living. Fully participating in this retreat has given me confidence to know that I can, despite my fears and limiting self beliefs, take a chance on myself and leap into a new life experience.

This retreat moved me through much that blocked the writing flow. It pushed me to a greater degree of connection with my inner author and showed me I can connect with the Theta state while writing, which really brings flow and fun to my writing. Plus, book one is almost ready to move into review by Tom and the final editors. Book 2 is cleaning up to soon be another ready for the final steps towards publishing. And book 3 is asking for release and expression so I’ll start it in one week. I’m also ready to blog weekly. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. You’re a life-changing agent!

I knew, coming in, that I would exit this retreat as a different kind of writer and a very different editor. I even knew that I would be different emotionally. I did not realize that I would have or develop such a different relationship with chaos (that it’s necessary to just give into the whole tornado as it’s coming at you) with destruction (tearing it all to the ground and building it back up again), or leaving behind what I have always considered my greatest strengths. I have become something very unfamiliar to myself at this retreat. I look forward to meeting this woman and author in the days to come. Thank you.

Together, through the processes developed by Tom Bird and delivered seamlessly through his Write Your Bestseller In A Weekend workshop I awoke to my inner genius. This weekend my genius came out to sing, dance, and play; and to write! And what a writer! He wrote and wrote and wrote — longer and faster than I had dreamed possible. Writing is not the chore I had thought it to be. It doesn’t need hours of preparation, or pages of notes, outlines, and a ‘special pen.’ It’s none of those things and what a relief!

Tom’s method has opened up my career, my options, and a lifestyle that I have yearned for, but could never quite access before.

Tom’s Write Your Best Seller in a Weekend workshop is more than about becoming an author. It is about finding your place in the world. It is about having a spiritual awakening and moving forward on your life’s purpose. I feel blessed that I was guided to attend this very important event.

I couldn’t have written my book without the three-day weekend I spent with Tom Bird.

I wrote my best-selling book in three days, at a Weekend Retreat with Tom

Thank you for allowing me to be part of this new amazing journey in my life…the writing for me was easier than the sitting…

Thank you isn’t enough… Tom Bird’s method healed my heart and soul…

Someone once asked me why I have to pay someone to teach me how to count words…I said I pay him to get me to show up, shut up, and write…something I find hard to do on my own…

I loved writing as a kid and wrote stories all the time…I was glad to be able to get back to that feeling…

I needed help focusing and getting a full first draft completed from front to back… After that the process becomes easier for me…

This has been a profound experience, it’s changed me in ways I can’t fully articulate in words…There’s a catharsis that I’ve experienced here…

Thank you for this amazing opportunity… It truly has been a gift to my life…”

This has been a unique and fabulous experience… I didn’t believe the book would tell me when it was done, but it DID…

I’ve always loved writing, taken classes even, but before this weekend I’ve never had the motivation or drive to write the way I am now…

Even Stephen King could learn something about writing from Tom.

I was a washed-up attorney until I met Tom Bird, but now I am delighted to tell you that Fractal Murders has been honored on the Fall Book Scene Mystery Top Ten List.

Tom is definitely one of the holders of the vision.

Tom’s Method made me think of the way I blog, but went beyond in that I had to apply that to the structure of a book. This was such a gift as I had lost the joy of writing and had gone on a writer’s strike because of it. Traditionally published multiple times, I felt like my work was no longer my own, and I certainly didn’t ever feel the freedom to listen to the bigger story that wanted (that needed) to be told. Tom’s Method created a container for that, for me to listen with the ears behind the ears and co-create with Spirit a book that will transform those who read it. What a unique experience, and one I am profoundly grateful for, Tom. A million thanks.

“Thank you for providing these opportunities to prioritize time for writing. I really appreciate knowing you are there rooting for me and my book. The idea of going into a meditative state and staying there for an extended period of time is effective and life-altering. It is a different way to approach writing, because I understand now that part of why my voice has been so blocked for most of my life has to do with having an idea, but then feeling like I can’t organize it. This is more than a technique, but I call it that for lack of better words (ha ha for a “writer”). It is life-altering for me to let me open my voice and let myself be heard by others.”

This experience was life-changing for me. This was my second time going through the process and from the preparation work through the revisions I continually had ah-ha moments and much healing through facing my limited beliefs and moving beyond them. This is not just a writing retreat where you end with a book completed, but a powerful healing process that Tom has orchestrated beautifully with precision and one does not walk away without being profoundly changed by the experience. Thanks Tom & Janelle for the safe container you provide for the participants. I will be back to do it again next year for sure! Aloha.

The retreat was a sacred experience. I greatly appreciated the guidance, support and time to focus on my writing. Because of the connection with God/Spiritual approach, I felt like my words were Divinely offered. The writing prompts were powerful and really got me go deep. I am filled with gratitude for it all!

This is the third book-writing retreat I’ve taken with Tom and each time my journey and creativity deepen further beyond what I ever expected!

From that very first time when the first book blew through and healed and uncorked my heart and led to such a fountain of joy and gratitude, inspiration, and calling, to this most recent weekend, when an entire procession of marvelous and soulful characters came to co-create such a surprising story: my experience in Tom’s sacred alchemical vessel of transformation has been so incredibly delightful, profound, and deeply moving!

I wholeheartedly recommend to you to courageously step out of any smallness and self-doubt you may feel and go through Tom’s mighty heart-doors into this collective sanctuary! I assure you, the Divine Author Within will be joyfully waiting there, along with so many smiling, blessing, encouraging others from the invisible realms, offering you the most exquisite of holy gifts: your book, your calling, and your future filled with Love and Creativity!

Leap! Trust! Listen within! Witness! Transform! Receive Blessings! And be the Divinely-Authorized Author you are being called to be in service to the world, these times, and those who need your unique story and message!

Every workshop I have done with Tom Bird has far exceeded my expectations. His material is phenomenal and the delivery perfect. I am so grateful and so thrilled that I found Tom and his work. It has really impacted the writing of my book which I am so excited to finish and get published with his company.

This retreat has been heavenly. I was able to enter into a zone that dismissed the normal interior and exterior distractions. Each day I just allowed the words and stories to flow out of me. Tom Bird and his assistant held a sacred space of trust for me that was so empowering and so productive. I am in awe and so grateful for this experience. It was worth every penny! I highly recommend to anyone who wants to write their book and is ready to surrender. I completed about 75% of my book.

Participating in Tom’s writing retreats inspires me to trust in my writing and to give it a life.

The safe space provided along with writing from the heart has been healing, allowing me to recognise an old fear and make peace with it, giving me a new outlook and freedom. Thank you.

I was inspired to attend Tom’s ‘Write Your Book In A Weekend’ after meeting him at church and attending a sampling of the Tom Bird Method. The weekend course was extremely well organized from the pre-course communication all the way through the completion of the course. I was not only able to finish the draft of my first book but I was able to start my second. I have signed up for the Author Revision workshop and look forward to continuing the process!

I’m very grateful for this Weekend retreat and surprised that I got through and wrote about 14,000 words. I did it with time differences because I live in Sydney, Australia. This is the first time I did a writing retreat and never thought I was a writer. This certainly opened my eyes to another world and inspires me to keep writing. Thank you Tom and Janelle for leading us through the process with so much grace

Oh my . . . .words, can be the letter blocks for the grace of God. I believe each of us human beings has a unique heart, with a unique song to sing (book to write) and Tom Bird, you are the cave, where one can always go, in just one weekend, to remember the song of our heart, the letter blocks of the grace our soul wishes to share here in this beautiful biological place.

I have written 10 books at Tom’s retreats. It is the only way for me to go.