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Find Your Author Stage Quiz (FREE)
Find Your Author Stage is a short quiz designed to quickly and accurately tell you what career stage you’re at as an author. Your quiz result will help you focus your time and energy on the work that’s most important for your author career right now.
Build Your Editing Checklist: A Starter Kit for Confident Self-Edits (FREE)
This Editing Checklist Starter Kit is designed to help you build a self-editing process that actually works for you. This means giving you direction and support so you’re not stuck wondering what to do next in your edits. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by editing, this is the place to begin.
Final Draft: Letting Go and Finalizing Your Manuscript (FREE)
15 tips for knowing when to let your manuscript go into the world. Because every author knows the struggle of that thin line between “done” and “perfect.”
10 Steps to Get Your Manuscript Ready for Your Editor (FREE)
This free PDF guide covers 10 steps for preparing your manuscript for professional editing – from self-editing to sensitivity reading to formatting your manuscript so it’s ready for Track Changes in Word.
Never Miss a Beat: Book Marketing Materials Template (FREE)
Create a straightforward and easily updated record of your essential marketing details with this free Book Marketing Materials Template for Google Docs and Notion. Comprehensive, easy-to-use, and customizable for all the information you need when marketing your book.
The 5-Stage Blueprint to Creating Avid Reader Fans (FREE)
How do you go from being an unknown author to a reader’s favorite writer? Get the FREE PDF and video explanation that takes you through the stages of the reader’s journey from “who are you” to “I’ll read your grocery list.”
Tools & Templates
These templates are for a very specific aspect of writing or editing. Our templates include solutions for creating front and back matter for your book, tracking how much you write each day, and an a 12-month social media content calendar.
Conversely, our toolkits are comprehensive solutions (workshops, guides, and templates) to help you with your author branding, websites, or marketing.
Front & Back Matter Templates ($7)
These publishing-standard templates in Word and PDF formats solve the question of what information needs to go before and after your story in your book. Use these customizable Front and Back Matter Templates and save time and headaches when you’re ready to publish.
Personal Writing & Editing Tracker ($9)
Track your writing or editing journey with ONE simple and powerful Google Sheet. Extensively tested by professional authors, the Personal Writing and Editing Tracker is ready to help you track your productivity and stay motivated with clear visuals of your key writing and editing stats.
EditMatch ($9)
EditMatch is the perfect tool to help you find the right editor for your book and make the editing process as easy and stress-free as possible. This tool will work for any author, whether fiction or nonfiction, whether you’re writing your first novel or you’re a seasoned author looking for an extra set of eyes on your manuscript. Put finding the perfect editor within your reach with EditMatch!
12-Month Social Media Content Calendar for Authors ($20)
Stay organized and boost your social media game with 365 days of social media posting prompts to help you engage your readers, market your author brand, and get you into the habit of posting to your socials every day. PLUS take the pain out of designing posts with our 45 Social Media Post Templates for Canva.
The Editing Checklist ($97)
Edit faster, edit smarter, and publish sooner with your personalized Editing Checklist. In this course you’ll learn to develop an editing checklist that contains everything you need to do in your edits. Trust your editing process with an editing checklist you can rely on for book after book!
Workshops & Courses
All of our courses are arranged by price (from low to high). This section features everything $20 or less, which is more topical.
Eff the Writing “Rules” ($9)
In this low-cost webinar, Angela breaks down the writing “rules” and explains exactly why they’re something you may need to say “Eff it!” to as you explore your author voice.
Email Newsletter Mini-Course ($15)
Email newsletters are your direct line to your most engaged readers. With these 5 quick videos and 20-page workbook, you’ll develop a clear strategy to get the first 6 months of your newsletter strategy planned and started in just 7 days. No advanced techniques, nothing fancy that you have to do, no expensive investments—just solid strategy and advice from a publishing expert.
AI for Authors ($20)
Unlock the power of AI for your author business! From writing elevator pitches to brainstorming newsletter ideas to planning your social media marketing, in this instant-access webinar Angela shows you how AI can help you take action on your business tasks, develop ways to track your data, and get moving when you’re stuck on a task.
Build Your Own Bio ($20)
You need an author bio! In the Build Your Own Bio video workshop, Angela walks you through the bio writing process in detail, plus you get a step-by-step template with guidelines to help you create compelling author bios that captivate readers and make a lasting impression.
Deeper POV: Making the Reader-Character Connection ($20)
Angela’s deep dive into Deep POV guides you through the theory behind getting into your characters’ heads, showing you how deep POV works and what it looks like, and giving you concrete guidance on connecting readers with characters throughout your story.
Everything below is $30+ featuring more comprehensive editing solutions.
Dirty Dialogue ($30)
Join Angela for an entertaining exploration of how you can use dirty dialogue to bring your readers closer to your characters and deeper into their innermost desires, building intimate characterization and enhancing deep POV.
Your Book's Pacing Demystified ($97)
Get your book’s pacing right! This self-study online course covers every aspect of pacing in fiction, from a micro to a macro perspective. With a strong practical emphasis, you’ll learn concepts editors use to talk about pacing, and a powerful analytical strategy for seeing how your pacing is working. Angela gives you the inside scoop on how professional editors identify and fix pacing issues.
Before You Hit Send: Special Edition ($297)
This is the comprehensive self-editing course you’ve been looking for! Before You Hit Send has one main goal: To teach you to edit your book better, faster and more efficiently in order to create a story that gains you reader fans, sells more, and makes you more money. In her signature course, Angela James teaches you comprehensive self-editing skills for all editing stages, from developmental editing through to proofreading.