The Author Studio
The career is the point. The book is how it starts.
Most authors are handed nothing between books and are then asked why the second one sold less than the first. The Author Studio is the part nobody sells you: platform, audience, and the work that makes a second contract possible.
What we do
The work, and what it costs
Author platform
The things a publisher will look up before they offer on book two.
- Author site and press kit
- Photography direction
- Bio and positioning
- Social presence set up properly once
Newsletter build
The only audience you own outright and can take to any publisher.
- Setup and list migration
- A quarter of scheduled letters
- Growth from the back of the book
- Reporting on open and reply rates
Ghostwriting & collaboration
For people with a book in them and no realistic way to write it themselves.
- Interview and research programme
- Full drafting with a named writer
- Your voice, verified chapter by chapter
- Confidentiality as standard
How it works
Four steps, in this order
Audit
What exists now — site, list, press, presence — and what an acquiring editor finds when they search you.
Build the owned things first
Site and newsletter before social. One you keep; the other is rented from a company that changes the rules.
Feed it
A quarter of scheduled work, so the platform is alive before the next book needs it.
Point it at the next contract
A proposal, a track record and an audience are three things. Publishers buy the three together.
Nobody can buy you a following
Bought followers are visible to anyone who looks, including the editor considering your next book, and an audience that does not read is worse than no audience because it makes every engagement rate look like a failure. This work is slow and it compounds, which is the same sentence.
Talk to The Author Studio
What happens between books: platform, newsletter, speaking, the second contract. Most authors are handed none of this and are then asked why book two sold less.