You've finished your book but feel stuck on what to do next—editing, cover design, ISBNs, distribution, and launch strategies can be overwhelming. This course provides a five-phase publishing roadmap: book packaging, business setup, platform building, pre-launch marketing, and launch execution. Compare editing options with budgets, find cover designers who get your genre, and choose time-saving formatting tools. Learn about ISBNs, copyright, business accounts, and tax structures. Set up distribution on Amazon KDP and other platforms. Build author websites and email lists tailored to you. Manage ARC distribution, pre-orders, and content marketing to create buzz without burnout. Master launch tactics and backlist strategies for sustainable income. Our instructor draws on her 4 years of experience publishing 15 books, offering budget insights, tool recommendations, and platform-specific strategies. Stop wasting time and money on ineffective tactics.

Social platforms can change algorithms overnight and erase your audience, but an email list you own lasts forever. This course reveals a veteran romance author's system to achieve 50–60% open rates, sell books weekly, and stay legal worldwide. Set up domain email with DMARC, SPF, and DKIM in under 30 minutes. Build a 25-email welcome funnel to convert subscribers into buyers on autopilot. Master GDPR, CAN-SPAM, CASL, and one-click unsubscribe with legal language. Discover the content mix and strategies to boost deliverability and avoid spam folders. Use the ChatGPT prompt vault to craft engaging emails and schedule a month's content quickly. Access templates for consent language, welcome sequences, polls, re-engagement scripts, quarterly clean-up SOPs, and provider comparisons. Make your mailing list a reliable, ROI-positive asset no algorithm can touch.

What if you could produce a hundred pieces of book marketing content in twenty minutes? How to Bulk Create with Canva shows you exactly how — no design skills required. This course walks you through Canva's Bulk Create feature step by step, showing you how to pair a single template with a spreadsheet of your content to mass-produce TikTok slides, Instagram reels, Threads-style graphics, quote posts, review cards, and trope graphics on demand. You'll get ready-made Canva templates and spreadsheet files for every format, plus the workflow logic behind each one — like why TikTok slides use one-design mode while reels need individual exports, how to add your own audio so reels are scheduler-ready, and where a QR code on the final slide can drive read-through. If social media content creation feels like a second job, this course turns it into a batch process.

Every author needs a brand. Most just figure it out by accident over years of trial and error. This course skips all of that. Using AI, you'll build your author brand from scratch, covering everything from your voice and bio to your colors, logo, ideal reader profile, and website copy. You'll finish with a complete brand guide in one document that you can hand to any AI tool, any time, and get marketing output that actually sounds like you. No guessing what your brand is. No re-explaining yourself every time you sit down to write a newsletter or a blurb. Just a clear, professional author brand built on purpose from day one.

Learn how to use AI for marketing fundamentals including metadata and keywords, pitch materials, branding, newsletters, and more.