Services
How we build your book
You are the builder, I provide the architecture. Together we shape your expertise into a form readers finish – and recommend.
Sound familiar?
Why the book hasn’t happened yet
Most expert books stall for one of a handful of reasons. If one of these sounds like you, you’re in the right place – the method below is built to answer exactly these.
You have the expertise, but not the proof.
Clients trust you in conversation. On paper you're invisible – one voice among many, with nothing to hand a stranger that says why you're different.
You started writing once. It's still unfinished.
A folder of notes, a few chapters, good intentions. Expertise doesn't turn into a book by itself – it needs a structure to hang on, and a deadline that isn't just “someday.”
Every book in your space sounds the same.
Same promises, same chapter titles, same stock advice. Readers can't tell you apart from the last consultant who “wrote a book” – because most weren't written to stand out.
You know a book would open doors. You're not sure which one first.
Speaking gigs, higher fees, a course – without a clear architecture a book tries to do everything and ends up doing nothing well.
You could get something written fast. It wouldn't be yours.
AI tools and ghostwriters produce pages quickly. What they can't produce is your actual voice – the thing a reader remembers you by.
You'll finish the manuscript. Then what?
A finished file isn't a published book, and a published book isn't a reader. Without a plan for the cover, the listing and the first thousand readers, most manuscripts just… stop.
The method
Write your book backwards
Most authors start on page one and hope the book carries them somewhere. My approach flips that: we start at the result or impact. What should the reader think, feel and be able to do at the end? From there we build backwards – promise, structure, chapters, and only then you will write the words.
That blueprint is the difference between a manuscript that sits in a drawer and a book that gets finished. That is where I come in, with the experience of more than 30 of my own titles and many examples of helping others publish theirs towards happy readers and Amazon Bestseller status.
The build process
From first idea to found by readers
Shape
The blueprint: who the book is for, what it promises, and how it will sell.
- Book Architecture Strategy · from $700
Write
You write, I keep you moving. Introductions to editors when you need them.
- Monthly accountability · from $300/mo
- Editor referral · free
Produce
Layout, cover, formats and upload – a finished book in the shops.
- Production & Distribution · from $400
- Cover design · from $300
- Audiobook · from $500
Launch
The part most authors underestimate: getting the book actually read.
- Author website · from $400
- Email funnel · from $500
- Newsletter setup · from $250
I don’t edit manuscripts myself – but I’ll introduce you to editors I trust, and we’ll pick the right one for your book.
Two ways
Choose how far I build with you
Strategy & Implementation
Steps 1 and 2: we develop your book's architecture and guide you through the writing to a finished manuscript. You handle publication yourself.
from $2000 USD
Book a callFrom idea to launch
All three steps: strategy, implementation and visibility. I guide you from the first thought to a published book that finds its readers.
from $3500 USD
Book a callThe starting point covers a book up to about 80,000 words. We agree the final scope in the strategy session.
Your book is nearly written and you are not sure of the next steps? I can help you there as well. Just book a call here.
Building blocks as needed
Add-on services
Each of these is available on its own, with clear pricing – whether or not you work with me on the book itself.
Book Production
Interior formatting, e-book conversion, metadata and distribution – your finished manuscript, live in the stores.
From manuscript to publishedCover Design
Genre research, front, back and spine across every format, plus 3D mockups for your marketing.
Covers across genresAudiobook Production
A real recording for Audible, or your own voice cloned for the platforms that welcome AI – both honest paths.
Recording & voice cloneAuthor Websites
A full author site or a single book landing page – designed, built and hosted, in the style of this website.
Author websites & book pagesEmail Funnel
A welcome sequence or a full funnel that turns readers into a relationship – built in Kit, GHL or ActiveCampaign.
Welcome sequence & funnelsNewsletter Setup
A full build for a new newsletter, or an audit and improvement of one you already have – on Substack or your own email provider.
See it live on Happy HabitsOngoing, not one-off
The book you started, finished.
Most unfinished books are not stuck for lack of ideas. They are stuck because nothing in the week forces the next chapter to happen. A call in the diary does that – quietly, fortnightly, until the draft is done.
Seven calls, one every two weeks
How this works
Your book stays yours
The accounts are in your name
Amazon KDP, IngramSpark and Draft2Digital are opened under your details. I work in them alongside you, or walk you through each step.
Royalties are paid to you directly
The platforms pay into your bank account. Nothing passes through me.
I am a service provider, not your publisher
No percentage, no rights held, no lock-in. Connect & Act Media is my own imprint, for my own books – not yours.
Let’s design your blueprint
A free strategy session shows whether your topic holds up and which path fits you and your book best.
Book a strategy call