About Me
P. June Diehl
Short version
I provide one-on-one coaching and mentoring to help aspiring and published authors throughout their writing journey.
I'm a fiction and nonfiction writer, certified writing coach, and mentor. I work with writers from aspiring to published in all genres.
I've been teaching writing-related classes and workshops online for over fifteen years and have helped writers through my mentoring and coaching for over a decade.
Long version
Growing up on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, I was encouraged to engage in creative pursuits. My mom and siblings were artists—drawing and painting. Not talented in this way, I fell in love with the piano and writing stories.
Some of my relatives on my dad’s side also enjoyed writing. I was encouraged to follow what excited me.
While I didn’t follow my interests in music or writing for my college degree, I continued to play piano and write. I thought education would be something I could make a living at, the idea of teaching others did appeal to me, and I became a teacher in the public schools. I even got a master's degree in education.
It wasn’t until my mid to late twenties that I discovered that I was learning disabled and also diagnosed with auditory processing disorder. At this point, I began to understand why I struggled to learn in my first three or four years in elementary school.
I continued to write, often not doing so for years at a stretch. I always came back to my writing.
In 1999, I found other writers on the internet and writing became a focus in my life. Wanting to learn all that was available, I took classes and read everything I could find on writing fiction.
During this time, I completed the UCLA Certificate Program with a focus on long and short fiction.
While I was also drawn to teaching, I discovered that I loved sharing knowledge with other writers and seeing them grow in their writing.
Outside of my day job working in IT, I found part-time work as an editor for several small, online publishing companies (ePress Online, Virtual Tales, and MuseItUp Publishing). One of the publishers held an online writing conference and asked me to be one of the presenters.
A member of an RWA chapter attended my presentation and asked if I would conduct some workshops for their chapter, Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal RWA. Afterward, I was encouraged to present workshops at Savvy Authors.
A few years later, I began offering coaching/mentoring services to fiction writers which I’ve been doing for over a decade.
I live in Virginia with my seven-year-old dog, Franklin, who has special needs.
