Ready to write your book, but need guidance, accountability, and professional expertise?
This is your solution.
Scribe Guided Author
The Scribe 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 23 New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestsellers. You receive the best book coaching, support, editing, and publishing services available.
This program is designed for entrepreneurs, consultants, 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.
What’s Included in Scribe Guided Author?
The Scribe Guided Author Program is a proven program that provides you with everything you need to write, publish, and market your book.
North 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 “North 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 two 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: Scribe 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 Scribe editor will do a full round of content edits.
The Scribe 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 Publishing Services
Once you’re finished editing, we do everything necessary for a professionally published book.
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 (detailed here). Sold by itself, this is a $24k 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 Scribe Book Launch Blueprint Course.
Launch and Promotion
- Targeted Amazon Best Seller Strategy, including discounted eBook campaign and category selection
- Social media graphics and banners to promote your book
- Email strategy and templates to help leverage your network to generate early reviews and sales
- Goodreads eBook giveaway to introduce your book to new readers and encourage additional reviews
- Enroll your book to an exclusive international rights marketplace
- Added media opportunities to post and share your book to our network
All Creative Control, Rights & Royalties
You retain full creative control of your book, plus all rights and royalties.
Audiobook
As a part of our writing and publishing services, Scribe can facilitate the creation, production, and distribution of an audiobook version of your book. The audiobook will be recorded by a voice actor at a professional studio and available for purchase on Audible.com, Amazon.com, iTunes, and Spotify.
See What Authors Have to Say About Our Services
Cameron Herold
Meetings Suck, Vivid Vision, and Free PR
Brita Long
The Happier Attorney, and Soon She Will Be Dead
I have said it before and I will say it again. Going through this entire process has been amazing and has changed my life.
Brita Long
The Happier Attorney, and Soon She Will Be Dead
I have said it before and I will say it again. Going through this entire process has been amazing and has changed my life. I don’t know that I have ever had such an amazing team who TOTALLY has my back, in my entire life. I absolutely can’t imagine trying to write a book without this support, knowledge, and love.
Robin Farmanfarmaian
The Patient as CEO, & The Thought Leader Formula
Mary Hagerman
The Black Belt Investor
My scribe jumped into my socks and made my story and my teaching points come to life through every chapter. I never would have finished my book without Scribe. Everyone from my scribe to my publishing manager was always so upbeat and encouraging.
Mary Hagerman
The Black Belt Investor
My scribe jumped into my socks and made my story and my teaching points come to life through every chapter. I never would have finished my book without Scribe. Everyone from my scribe to my publishing manager was always so upbeat and encouraging.
There is a real need for women speakers, especially in the financial world. I still can’t believe it when people come up to me and say I’m a role model for women everywhere. I just want young girls and families everywhere to have the opportunities I never did.
Will Leach
Marketing to Mindstates
Quan Huynh
Sparrow in the Razorwire
Thanks to the #scribetribe for your support, love, and acceptance. I never could have got this far without you all.
Quan Huynh
Sparrow in the Razorwire
Thanks to the #scribetribe for your support, love, and acceptance. I never could have got this far without you all. Tucker, thanks for telling me to shut up and to get out to Austin (for the workshop) when I was doubting that I even had a story. Everyone else, this is so possible!
Shannon Miles
The Third Option
Josh Mantz
The Beauty of a Darker Soul
First, please let me say that the entire process has been absolutely phenomenal. After going through this process, it is blatantly obvious that I never would have been able to produce this product on my own.
Josh Mantz
The Beauty of a Darker Soul
First, please let me say that the entire process has been absolutely phenomenal. After going through this process, it is blatantly obvious that I never would have been able to produce this product on my own. Never! Your team has been a pleasure to work with at every step and are highly professional and experienced. It’s turned into what’s arguably the most therapeutic thing I’ve ever done, and I’m excited to leverage this effort to drive change within the behavioral health community.
Melissa Gonzalez
The Pop-Up Paradigm
Douglas Brackmann
Driven
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.
Book Strategy Consult
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 (and how your book will serve them)
- 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.
Assemble your Publishing Team
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.
Review Digital Course
You’ll work through our comprehensive writing course, led by Scribe’s 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 Scribe’s support—you can do it.
Book Coaching Sessions
On your first call with your Book Coach, you’ll review and finalize the “North 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 North 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.
Write
You will leave your coaching sessions and have literally everything ready to write—and you will. To ensure you stay on track, you’ll join our Guided Author Community, where our team will be there to help you through any problems, obstacles, and issues you face.
You’ll also have two writing check in calls with your Book Coach, where you’ll review a chapter of your choice to ensure you’re on track. You’ll meet one-on-one to discuss what’s working, what needs to be refined, and how to tackle the next steps of your book.
Review Your Manuscript
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.
The Full Scribe Design, Publishing & Distribution Services
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.
Launch and Promotion
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.
Who Should Use Guided Author?
Who Should
- People who are writing non-fiction books
- People who are writing memoirs
- People whose books fall within the broad genres of business, finance, medicine, education, self-help, personal development, or memoir
- People whose books will share knowledge that helps their readers
- 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 accountability from professionals
Who Should Not
- People who want to write a novel
- People who want to write a fictional book of any sort
- People who want to do a children’s book
- People who want to write a cook book
- People who don’t know why they want to write a book
- People who expect us to ghostwrite their book
- People who expect us to do the book writing for them
Frequently Asked Questions
You get everything you need to confidently write, publish, and market your book. Literally everything. The entire program is described in detail here.
Yes, editing is included. Once you finish the rough draft of your manuscript, then you hand it to us for a complete structural edit. Your manuscript will be fully edited by a member of our Executive Editing team, someone who has at least 15 years experience in book editing.
As to how we edit, we tell our authors this:
“We will hurt your feelings before we let you publish a bad book.”
Our first goal in this edit is to ensure your book is not bad. If it is, we will tell you where it’s bad and how to fix it.
Once we know it’s not bad (and they are rarely bad), then the goal is to help you take it from good to great.
We will push you to write the best book possible, because our name is on the book as well as yours.
Yes, everything necessary to publish your book is included: interior layout, cover design, distribution, everything. In fact, the publishing process is the same as what we use with our Scribe Professional authors.
You get to pay for the Guided Author service over 15 months, but you can publish in as little as 9 months. The difference depends entirely on how long it takes you to write and edit your manuscript.
The only catch is that for us to fully publish your book, you must be paid in full.
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.
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