Everything AuthorChecklist.com does

Thirteen categories of work around a book, each step explained: what it is, when it matters, who usually handles it, and how to tell it got done.

Mark steps done for one book, set dates, owners, and reminders, and narrow the list to what your publishing path actually needs.

Every term the industry uses, explained in plain English, with the acronyms spelled out.

Longer reads on the parts of publishing that need more than a checklist step.

The numbers and records a book needs, from the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) onward, with what each one is for and where to get it.

The records that say who you are across catalogs and search engines, and how to claim each one.

Type an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and see what the public catalogs say about it, with no account.

Every date on your books in one month grid or agenda, with a feed your own calendar app can subscribe to.

Ready wording for review requests, library questions, award entries, and notes to your publisher, filled in with the book facts you have saved.

Add a book by its ISBN or title and we offer the title, publisher, publication date, and genres from Open Library for you to accept or change.

A book published more than two years ago is added to your Author Profile at no charge, with its pages, records, and checklist progress.

Who runs each program, what it costs, what it is eligible for, and when the window opens and closes, with the official link and the day we last checked it.

The outlets librarians and booksellers read, with each one's submission route, lead time, and rules in their own words.

Four directories of the people an author pitches, with what they work on and how they want to be approached. Searching by name or place is free for everybody.

Every award and review submission for your book: what you sent, on what day, what it cost, and what came back, as a page and a spreadsheet.

Every agent, editor, publisher, reviewer, or bookstore you wrote to yourself, with the date, the answer, and what to do next.

The awards, review outlets, and agents whose own published rules fit the facts of your book, with the reason for each suggestion.

The records, pages, and plan for one book, done for you and recorded in your Author Profile, as a package or one step at a time.

A page for you, your books, your bio, and your press links, yours to edit and publish, and it costs nothing.

One public page per book with its editions, identifiers, reviews, buy links, and news.

Cover art, your bio in three lengths, and the facts a journalist or event organizer asks for, on one link you can send.

Every settled fact about the book, printable, for the forms that ask for all of it at once.

We ask the Library of Congress, Open Library, Google Books, and Apple Books what they hold about your ISBN and say where they disagree with your own record.

Authors named as clients on their agencies' own pages, one listing each, with the books we could confirm. Free to read, and yours to claim if it is you.

Library systems by state, population served, and number of branches, with each one's own purchase suggestion or author submission policy.

The identifiers, catalog records, confirmations, costs, and results for one book, kept together and exportable.

Deals reported to us, who represented them, and who bought them, with a form for reporting your own.

Headlines out of the publishing press, straight from each publication's own feed, with links and nothing written by us.

The reviews the trade press published today and over the last two weeks, on their own page.

The week's headlines from the sources you choose, sent once a week, with a stop link in every one.

The magazines, newsletters, and sites that cover publishing, with what each costs and who it is for.

Writing associations and member organizations, with membership cost, scope, and what belonging actually gets you.

The people who should be able to reach you, listed on your author page so a journalist or bookseller writes to the right address.

Add the reviews your book received and the news about it, each with its source, so one page carries the evidence.

The addresses where your publishers show you your sales, kept with the books they cover. We store no login of any kind.

Invite an editor, publicist, or anyone else to the books you choose, $20 once per person, and decide what they can edit.

Say who has each step, what it is waiting on, and what was agreed, on the step itself instead of in an email thread.

Your publisher, editor, agent, publicist, and everybody else on the book, with what each one handles.

Every book on your account as a card with its stage, its next date, and how many steps are still open.

Download your whole account as one file, or a book's submissions as a spreadsheet, whenever you want it.

Set up an account at no charge as an agent, editor, publisher, publicist, book coach, or marketing consultant, with a book of your own and a book for an author you work with included.

Confirm the listing we already hold for you or your company, correct it, hide it, and say who you are open to hearing from.

A page of your own on the site, with what you do, who you work with, and how to reach you.

Once a month we email what your listing did: how many people saw it, how many wrote to you, and one link to confirm it is still accurate.

What is overdue, what is due in the next thirty days, and what moved, across every author book you can see.

Buy a book for a client author, at a lower price per book as the order grows. Their Author Profile is free either way.

The advanced filters on every directory, several criteria at once, for using the whole database as a research tool.

Keep a search you will run again, build a list of people with your own notes on it, and export either one.

Hear when a listing on one of your lists changes, or when a closed submission window opens again.

A daily or weekly email of the headlines that match what you follow, with a stop link in every one.