Write Back Publishing

Author VIP

$3,997 · Most Hands-On

The 30-Day Author System™

You Write It. Sarah Makes Sure It Works.

Everything in Guided Author, plus Sarah's hands directly on your positioning, your manuscript, your cover, and your launch, so the parts that decide whether the book actually sells aren't left to guesswork.

Book Your Strategy Call→ 90-minute call · $3,997 · limited spots each month

Guided steps

Ongoing

Private meetings with Sarah, as needed

Launch strategy built for your book

Chapter One

The Book You Keep Almost Starting

You know the file. It's called something like "Book Draft 3 FINAL" and it hasn't been opened since spring. Somewhere between client work, the podcast interviews, and the framework you've taught a hundred times but never written down, the book keeps sliding to next quarter.

Maybe you've tried the workaround: eight separate AI chats open at once, a Google Drive folder tree nobody can find twice, hours spent copying an answer from one tab into the right document in another. It works, technically. It also feels like a part-time job you never signed up for.

Hire a ghostwriter and you get someone else's book with your name on the cover. Try to do it alone and most experts stall around chapter three.

Use AI carelessly and readers can tell within a page. None of that is good enough for what you've actually built your career on.

Chapter Two

One System. Five Specialists. Your Voice the Whole Way Through.

The 30-Day Author System replaces the tangle of separate tools with one guided platform. Instead of juggling eight disconnected AI agents, you work with five specialists, each built for exactly one job: a Coach to keep you moving, a Content Strategy Architect to shape your ideas into structure, a Story Specialist to find what makes your book different, a Publishing Specialist for the technical path to Amazon, and a Business Development Specialist to help the book work for you after it launches.

Every deliverable saves itself into your Book Binder automatically, in the right place, the first time. No file tree to manage, no copy-paste, nothing to lose track of.

Underneath the thirteen steps sits a piece of real publishing craft the whole system is built around: what we call the governing law. It's the idea your book is actually built on, uncovered early and woven through every chapter until it lands once, exactly where a reader is ready to hear it.

The AI does not write your book for you. It organizes what you already know, sharpens it, and shapes it into something a reader can follow, in your words. Sarah is using this same system to write her own book right now.

Chapter Three

Inside the Thirteen Steps

Grouped into four acts, the same shape any good book takes shape in.

Act I · Foundation

Know exactly what the book is

Premise
Avatar
IP Capture
Sift Signal
Promise

Before a single chapter gets written, you nail down what the book is, who it's for, and what only you can say about it.

Act II · Architecture

Turn ideas into a real structure

Table of Contents
Blueprints
Voiceprint

Your material becomes a chapter-by-chapter shape a reader can follow, calibrated to sound unmistakably like you.

Act III · Manuscript

Write the book, chapter by chapter

First Pages
Rolling Drafts

This is where the book actually gets written, with your Book Binder filling in behind you as you go.

Act IV · Launch Ready

Get it ready for readers

Titles
Marketing Copy
90-Day Activation

A title readers will pick up, the copy to sell it, and a plan for the ninety days after launch so the book keeps working.

Chapter Four

What's Inside Author VIP

✓Everything in Guided Author: the full app, Book Binder, and weekly Author Lab calls
✓Ongoing private meetings with Sarah, scheduled as needed for the full length of your project, not capped at a set number
✓Positioning and premise review with Sarah directly, before you build the rest of the book on top of it
✓A full manuscript review and QA pass from Sarah before you publish
✓Title and subtitle consultation, and direct cover direction, not just tools and templates
✓Amazon listing optimization, so the book converts once it's live, not just once it's finished
✓A launch strategy built specifically for your book and your audience

This is where Sarah gets the most personally involved. The app still runs the thirteen-step system underneath, the same one every tier uses, but the strategic calls, the ones that decide whether a finished manuscript actually becomes a book people buy, are made with her, not guessed at alone.

Limited monthly spots: Author VIP starts with a strategy call, not a checkout page, so Sarah can make sure it's the right fit before you commit $3,997. If you want the system with standing coaching but not this level of involvement, Guided Author is $1,497 founding price. If you want the app alone, Self-Guided Author is $997.

Author VIP

$3,997

One payment. Begins with a 90-minute strategy call, not a blind checkout.

Book Your Strategy Call→

Already know this is the right fit? . Want less involvement? See Guided Author at $1,497.

Chapter Five

Who This Is Built For

This is for you if

✓You're publishing for a specific business outcome, leads, authority, a launch, and want that outcome protected
✓You want Sarah personally involved in the decisions that are easy to get wrong: positioning, title, cover, listing
✓You want a manuscript review from a real person before it goes live, not just a save gate in an app
✓You'd rather talk it through on a call than guess which tier fits

This isn't for you if

–You mainly want to write without much oversight (Guided or Self-Guided already covers that)
–Budget is the deciding factor right now: Self-Guided gets you the same core system for $997
–You don't have a business reason driving the book, VIP is built around outcomes, not just finishing

A Note From Sarah

I built this because I watched too many good books die in a Google Drive folder, mine included some years. You already did the hard part: you lived the expertise. VIP is where I get the most involved, book by book, because some authors aren't just trying to finish a manuscript. They're trying to make sure it works once it's out in the world, and that part I don't hand off to an app.

Sarah DeLane BackFounder, Write Back Publishing

Questions

Before You Start

Will this actually sound like me, or like AI wrote it?+

That's the one thing the whole system is built around. The AI never writes from nothing, it pulls from what you put in: your stories, your language, your framework. There's a dedicated Voiceprint step whose only job is making sure the finished manuscript sounds like you, not a template. The AI organizes and clarifies. It doesn't replace you.

How many private meetings do I actually get?+

There's no cap. Meetings are ongoing, scheduled as needed for the full length of your project, wherever your book needs a real person most: premise, structure, manuscript review, cover and title decisions, launch. Between meetings, the app and the weekly Author Lab carry the day-to-day work.

What's the Author Lab?+

A standing weekly group call for every author currently writing. Bring what you're stuck on, hear what other authors are working through, and keep momentum with a room instead of a closed laptop. It runs for as long as you're actively writing.

How is this different from Guided Author?+

Guided Author gets you the app plus standing coaching: four private meetings and weekly Author Lab. VIP replaces that fixed count with ongoing private meetings for as long as your project needs, plus Sarah's direct involvement in the decisions that determine whether the finished book performs: positioning, manuscript QA, title and cover direction, Amazon listing, and a launch strategy built for your specific audience. It's the difference between finishing the book and having someone accountable for what happens after.

Why does this start with a call instead of a checkout page?+

At this level of involvement, Sarah wants to understand your book and your goals before you commit $3,997, and make sure VIP is actually the right fit rather than more than you need. The call is short, 90 minutes, and if you already know it's right for you, there's a direct checkout link in the pricing section above.

What do I actually own when I'm done?+

Everything. You retain full ownership of your manuscript and your content. Write Back Publishing's name appears only on the copyright page, the way any publishing imprint would.

How long does it actually take?+

Most authors move through the thirteen steps over roughly 60 to 90 days. Timing on the strategic pieces, positioning, cover direction, launch planning, gets set together on your calls, based on what your book and your launch actually need.

What's a "Book Binder"?+

It's your book's home inside the app. Every deliverable, from your Premise to your Marketing Copy, saves itself into the right place automatically. Open it any time to see the whole manuscript taking shape in one spot, instead of a folder tree twelve tabs deep.

You're Not Too Late. You're Right on Time.

Every year you wait, the book gets a little further away and the expertise stays exactly where it's always been: in your head, helping the people in front of you, and nobody else.