Project management for publishersEvery title on schedule, from first edit to launch day

When you start a production schedule for a book, Familiar creates a task for every stage in the template you pick, dated back from your target publication date. The stage library has 29 stages, from developmental edit to launch, in six tracks: editorial, cover design, marketing, print, ebook and audio. The print, ebook and audio tracks are only added for the formats you are producing. Two templates are ready to use: a standard schedule of about nine months and an extended trade schedule of about twelve.

Yes. Templates are yours to edit: change any stage’s day offset, turn off stages you don’t use, add your own tasks (including forms with questions for the author), set what each stage waits on, and pick who it goes to. On a book, you can edit any task’s title, description, due date, assignee or category, and add or remove tasks.

The Timelines calendar shows the tasks of every book in your organization, each book in its own color, so you can see what is due across the whole list in a given week or month. Narrow it to the books you care about with the book filter.

Yes. Any task can be assigned to a member of your organization, and each stage in a template can have a default assignee. A stage can also go to the book’s credited authors, so each author gets their own task. The task list shows everyone’s tasks across all books, filtered by book, assignee, status or category.

Tasks are Editorial, Production, Marketing, Metadata or Custom, and each stage of a schedule also belongs to one of the six tracks. Filter the task list by category to focus on one part of the work.

Production schedules, tasks and book notices come with every publisher plan, from $39 a month. There are no per-seat fees, so the whole team can use them.

Yes. The Timelines calendar shows every book’s tasks together, color-coded by title, and the task list can show every open task across your catalog. Together they show where two books need the same person in the same week before it becomes a problem.