Guides

Every step from finished draft to launch day and after: editing, ISBNs, formatting, covers, distribution, ARCs, and launch week.

A line-by-line budget for editing, cover design, formatting, ISBNs, and marketing, with three sample budgets and where you can spend less.

A step-by-step plan for finding advance readers, sending review copies, and turning them into launch-week reviews.

Linktree, Beacons, Carrd, Books2Read, an author website, or Familiar Pages: what each does well for authors and where it falls short.

Complete guide to understanding, calculating, and managing book royalties across traditional and self-publishing.

What royalties are, how they are calculated, types of royalties, reserves against returns, advances, expenses, and revenue sharing models.

How advances earn out, what income counts toward recoupment, and how installments and reserves affect the balance.

How tiered royalty rates work, what happens when a period crosses a threshold, and the contract terms that decide how sales count.

Why publishers hold back part of print royalties, how holds and releases work, and what a reasonable reserve looks like.

Moving royalties off spreadsheets or another system: what to gather, what transfers, and how to switch without a gap in statements.

Learn how to manage royalties across multiple platforms like Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, and Draft2Digital.

Managing collaborative book projects with multiple contributors, multi-author royalty splits, and anthology contracts.

Give your authors complete transparency with real-time royalty dashboards, sales tracking, and downloadable statements.

Find the ideal word count for your book based on genre, with guidelines for fiction and nonfiction categories.