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Guided Author
The Guided Author Program is a proven program that provides you with everything you need to write, publish, and market your book.
Led by the same Book Coaches & editorial team who have helped us produce New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestsellers. You receive the best book coaching, support, editing, and publishing services available.
This program is designed for coaches, consultants, entrepreneurs, executives, and other professionals who want to write their book themselves, get high-level publishing and marketing services, but must ensure their book is absolutely of the highest quality.
Guiding Star And Book Roadmap Sessions
Over the course of up to two in-depth and collaborative conversations with your Book Coach, we’ll help you first settle on your book idea, and then take that book idea and turn it into a tight, professional book positioning by clearly articulating your objectives and identifying your audience.
This document serves as your “Guiding Star” throughout the writing process.
You’ll also have a call with your Book Coach to help you craft your book’s Table of Contents. From there, over the course of up to four calls, we’ll create a chapter-by-chapter outline—what we call a Book Roadmap—that lays the foundation for your book.
Book Coaching And Review Sessions
You’ll have weekly coaching sessions with your Book Coach during your manuscript writing process. Your Book Coach will review selected chapters, provide feedback, advice, improvements, and accountability as you write. When you’ve finished your first draft of your manuscript, your Book Coach will review the entire document and provide you with an evaluation memo.
You’ll have a call with your Book Coach to review their feedback, discuss editing and revisions, and ask any questions you may have to ensure you’re ready to begin editing.
Author Community Platform
Once you begin writing your manuscript, you’ll be added to our Guided Author Community platform, Circle, where you can interact with other Authors, Book Coaches, and Author Success Managers. You’ll have the opportunity to engage in weekly accountability prompts and ask all of your questions to our team of experts.
Full Digital Course Access
You will begin by working through the best book writing course available: Guided Author Digital course. This course walks you through each step of starting your book, including the positioning, the book structure, the outline, and more. You will begin your book there, before even working with a Book Coach.
A Full Edit Of Your Manuscript By Professional Editors
When you’ve finished writing your manuscript, a Pixel Publishing editor will do a full round of content edits.
The Pixel Publishing editorial team will dig in and give you high-level developmental notes to help you polish and finish the manuscript. Your editor is an experienced professional who has worked on dozens of bestselling books in their career, and their job is to make sure your book is good enough to publish.
We call this edit the “Hurt Your Feelings” edit because we promise that we will hurt your feelings before we let you put out a bad book. Sold by itself, this is a $5k value.
Full Distribution Services
Full printing services with the ability to order unlimited copies at production cost
Full distribution through major online retailers (Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com, etc.)
You keep 100% of royalties.
Marketing Strategy
Your Author Success Manager will get on the phone with you to review our Launch Promotions plan for your book and review your marketing options. To further assist you with strategy, we’ll also provide you with free access to the Book Launch Blueprint Course.
Launch Promotions
- First-week promotion to become an Amazon Best Seller
- Complete strategy and templates to secure early Amazon reviews
- A full set of social media posts and graphics for launch week
- Strategy and templates for you to leverage your network
- Access to our Book Marketing Course
- Sold by itself, the Launch Promotions package is a $3k value.
All Creative Control, Rights and Royalties
You retain full creative control of your book, plus all rights and royalties.
How the Guided Author Process Works
We have a proven process that will not only get the best possible book out of you—but help you at every step along
the way.
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The first step—before you begin your book—is to make sure you actually have a book in you and determine whether our method is the right one for you.
To do this, you will speak with an Author Strategist who will help you get clear on three things:
- Your book idea
- The audience you’re trying to reach (building a passive income, creating greater visibility for yourself, increasing your authority in your area of expertise or getting onto the speaking circuit)
- The objectives you hope the book will help you achieve (like making money with a book, or using a book to build your brand)
Note that this is not a sales call. This is about determining whether you have a book in you and whether our company is the right fit to help you write it. Our process does not work for everyone. If we determine that we’re not a good fit for each other, we’ll happily refer you to a service or company that can meet your needs.
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To begin the process, you’ll meet your Author Success Manager.
They’re your main point of contact and will assemble your creative team.
Your Author Success Manager’s primary job is to ensure that your book is as good as possible and publishes on time. On the introduction call they will get to know you and your book idea to collect enough information from you to match you with a Book Coach.
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You’ll work through our comprehensive writing course, led by our expert editorial team.
The course will walk you through every step of the process.
You will first position your book, then outline it, then create your writing plan, then go over everything else you need to know to write and edit your book. Our goal for each workshop module is that you leave knowing exactly what you need to do, and full confidence that—with our support—you can do it.
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On your first call with your Book Coach, you’ll review and finalize the “Guiding Star” of your book.
This will be similar to the Book Strategy consult call, but will go into much greater depth and accomplish these things:
Specifically articulate what your book is about
Define exactly who your audience is
Understand precisely how your book will serve that audience and why they will care about your book
Specifically articulate how you will use the book to benefit you
Once you’ve locked in your book’s Guiding Star, you’ll work with your Book Coach to review and finalize your Table of Contents and Book “Roadmap.” The Roadmap will be a guide for your writing and will help you define your ideas, sharpen your thinking, and lay the foundation for your book.
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As we journey together through the book-writing process, your coaching sessions will provide you with more than just a plan – each week, you’ll have actionable steps to move your book forward with feedback from your publishing team. Additionally, in our Guided Author Community, our team doesn’t just offer help; we actively engage with you to navigate every challenge, be it plot problems, character development, or pacing issues.
Having trouble with getting the story out? We’ve got exercises to get you out of it. Having an issue with how to make a specific point on a topic, our writing team will come up with suggestions to make sure your voice comes through on the topic.
During your weekly check-ins with your Publishing Coach, you won’t just review your writing; you’ll collaboratively dissect a chapter of your choice, identifying strengths and areas for improvement. This one-on-one time is dedicated to ensuring that what you’ve written resonates with your intent and to plotting the course for what you’ll write next—with us by your side every word of the way
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You’ll have a final call with your Book Coach to review their notes on your entire first draft manuscript. On this call, you’ll discuss editing, address their feedback, and ask any questions you have so that you’re ready to revise your manuscript and submit it for publishing.
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After our edit and your revisions, when you are finished with your manuscript, you hand it to us and we do all the publishing. This includes a beautifully designed cover and interior layout, full coordination of all publishing details (ISBN, bio, description, etc.), hardcover, paperback, and eBook formats included, and everything else we do when publishing a book.
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As the book’s release approaches, we’ll prepare for your book release by designing social media graphics for you to post and drafting emails to send to your contacts.
When the book launches, we’ll run a pricing campaign on Amazon to spur initial sales, during which we’ll coordinate a review campaign to get early reviews for the book and provide you with a strategy and templates to launch an email campaign to your contacts.
The goal of this first week is to finish with a baseline of reviews, readers, and media attention to continue building from as you begin your life as a published author.
- People who want to write non-fiction books
- People who want to write a children’s book
- People who want to write a cook book
- People who want to write memoirs
- People whose books fall within the broad genres of business, finance, medicine, education, self-help, personal development, or memoir
- People who’s books will advance the public interest by sharing something valuable
- People whose books will share their story to help others
- People who want to write their book but need guidance and assistance
- People who need a partner through the book writing process to provide guidance, accountability and coaching
- People who don’t know why they want to write a book
- People who expect us to do all the book writing for them
- People who don’t have a unique opinion on their topic of choice
- People who are too busy to stick to a plan and timeline
Frequently Asked Questions
The Guided Author program offers a comprehensive suite of services to support authors through every stage of the book creation process. This includes structured writing guidance, editorial support, professional cover design, formatting for various publishing platforms, marketing strategy development, and distribution channel setup. The program is designed to provide end-to-end assistance, ensuring that you can navigate the complexities of book writing and publishing with ease.
Yes, editing is an integral part of the Guided Author program. Our editing process begins with a thorough evaluation of your manuscript to understand its strengths and areas for improvement. A dedicated editor will work closely with you to refine your voice, enhance clarity, and ensure that your narrative is engaging and unique. This includes developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading stages, tailored to meet the specific needs of your book.
- Publishing is a key component of our services. Once your manuscript is edited to perfection, we’ll assist you with the publishing process. This involves selecting the right publishing platform for your book, whether it’s digital (eBook), print-on-demand, or through traditional publishing channels. We’ll handle the complexities of formatting, ISBN assignment, and distribution agreements to ensure your book is published professionally and available to readers worldwide.
The 3-month timeline is a guideline to ensure that each phase of writing, editing, and publishing is given the attention it deserves. However, we understand that every author’s journey is unique. If you are able to commit more time to your writing and move through the process quicker, we offer accelerated paths to suit your pace. We’re committed to supporting your timeline while maintaining the quality of your book.
We offer a range of marketing services designed specifically for new authors, including the creation of a marketing plan, social media strategy, book launch campaigns, and reader engagement tactics. Our marketing team specializes in building author brands and creating buzz to ensure your book reaches its target audience.
Absolutely, our team of professional designers will work with you to create a book cover that is not only visually appealing but also resonates with your book’s theme and genre. We understand that a cover is crucial in attracting readers, so we ensure that it will stand out in the marketplace.
Yes, our post-publishing support includes monitoring sales, managing royalties, and providing ongoing marketing support to keep your book in the spotlight. We also offer advice on how to gather reviews and how to leverage your book for speaking engagements, workshops, and other author opportunities. Some aspects of this are offered at an additional cost.
Don’t worry if you’re unsure about the direction of your book. Part of our Guided Author program includes mentorship and coaching where we help you refine your ideas, clarify your message, and structure your book in a way that best conveys your story or message to your readers.
It’s time to write your book.
We can help.
If you’re serious about writing and publishing your book this year, let’s talk.
We’ll discuss your book idea, see if it makes sense, and help you understand the best next steps.
Professional
$15,000
*can be split into three payments
$15,000 TOTAL
Elite Ghostwriting
$30,000 +
CUSTOM PAYMENT PLAN
$16,800 MIN. INVESTMENT
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