Check out what you need. All ten guides and toolkits cost nothing and always will.
The tools at the reference desk look at your own book, your own contract, your own numbers.
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Four guides that answer the questions most authors do not know to ask until it is expensive. Priced honestly, then struck through, because they are free and always will be.
Developmental, line, copy, proof. Four different jobs at four different prices, and most authors buy the wrong one first.
Traditional, self, or hybrid. What each one actually pays, using real numbers instead of the ones quoted at conferences.
A line-by-line worksheet with three worked budgets, so you know the number before you commit to it.
The full route from finished draft to launch day, with the order things actually have to happen in.
The shelf downstairs is about deciding. This floor is about selling. Six working toolkits for the part nobody warns you about, which is that finishing the book was the easy half.
A week by week countdown from finished draft to release day, with the assets you need built in the order you need them. Fill in your title and launch date and the schedule writes itself.
The words readers actually type are rarely the words authors think to use. This is how you find the ones with demand and little competition, and where to put them once you have.
Your list is the only audience no platform can take away from you. How to build one out of readers who want your genre, and what to send so they stay for the next book.
Your first campaign without setting money on fire. What to bid, what to watch in the first two weeks, and the point at which you turn an ad off instead of hoping.
Written for fiction, where the sale is made on mood and promise rather than features. Audiences, creative, and how to read the numbers without a marketing degree.
The daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly rhythms that keep an author business from living entirely in your head. Checklists, not theory, including what to look at and what to ignore.
All six are yours the same way the first four are. No account, no card, no expiry.
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The shelves upstairs answer the questions every author has. Downstairs we open your contract, your website, your royalty statement, and tell you what we find.
Both floors upstairs teach you the rules. Down here we read the actual document, page, or number you are worried about and tell you what it means. Two of these desks are still being set up and open soon. The third is open now, and it is always free.
Nothing at this desk goes in your bag. These are hands-on tools that look at your own work. Each button takes you straight to the tool and opens it in a new window, so your bag and your place in the library stay right here.
Send us the contract, the quote, or the email that showed up out of nowhere offering to publish you. We read it and tell you plainly whether it is predatory.
We go through your website the way a reader who has never heard of you would, and report back on every place you are losing the sale.
Fifteen questions about how you actually sell books. It finds the places your catalogue should be earning and is not, and names the income you are leaving on the table.
Beyond the library
The library tells you what to do. It cannot do it for you twice a year, every year, without you rebuilding it from scratch each time.
Most authors who feel stuck do not have a writing problem. They have a business with no system behind it, so every launch starts from nothing and every month is improvised.
The Author Command Center is where that gets fixed. It is not another course or another empty login. Our team sets up the business behind your books for you (your reader list, launches, ARCs and reviews, email, direct sales, and reporting) and then walks you and your assistant through it, so it runs on systems instead of memory.
It is the difference between having launched a book and having a repeatable way to launch the next one. The system stays in place between books, so the fourth release is easier than the first rather than the same work again.
See the Setup IntensiveSome decisions do not need a worksheet. They need somebody who has published books to look at your situation for half an hour and say what they would do.
Mystic Valley Press is a working imprint, not a course about publishing. These are the books that carry it.
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