Free Resources
Marketing Guide
A useful workbook for authors at any stage of your publishing journey.
It also includes a 45-minute video mini-course going through the guide in more detail.
Guide to Comp covers
A comprehensive visual guide to comp covers in a wide variety of genres and subgenres. This resource is designed to help you brief your cover designer.
Last updated July 2023.
More Resources Soon
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Resources I Recommend
For reading
Blackwells is a UK bookshop that offers free shipping worldwide. A great alternative to Amazon.
Libro.fm is an ethical alternative to Audible that supports indie bookshops with every audiobook purchase. You can choose which bookshop to support. Mine is set to support Volume.
For reading and editing
Speechify is a wonderful text-to-speech app that uses AI voice technology to read a piece of text to you out loud. While it’s no match for a real-life audiobook narrator, it’s much better than a robot voice and can be an invaluable tool when editing. I find it incredibly helpful for picking up awkward phrasing and typos in my manuscript.
They are also disability advocates and offer a range of human-read audiobooks with read-along text.
Blurb writing
Book Blurb Magic. Jessie is a font of knowledge when it comes to book blurbs. She offers a range of services from DIY to DFY (done for you).
1:1 Blurb Audit — get feedback on an existing blurb.
Custom book blurbs — get Jessie to write a blurb for you.
Spicy Blurb Playbook — a guide specifically for romance writers.
Marketing help
Marketing by Shelby is a great place to start as a beginner or seasoned author. She has a range of courses and free content to help you find your readers and sell more books.
