Write Back Publishing

Self-Guided Author

$997 · One Payment

The 30-Day Author System™

You Already Have the Book. You Just Never Had the System.

Thirteen guided steps. One AI-guided platform. Your voice, start to finish, no ghostwriter and no sales call required to begin.

$997 one time · instant access · work at your own pace

Guided steps

Specialist AI guides

Finished manuscript, verified start to finish

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 the Self-Guided Author Tier

✓Full access to the 30-Day Author App: all thirteen steps, all five specialists
✓Your Book Binder, auto-organized from Premise through 90-Day Activation
✓Full manuscript export as a formatted .docx, ready for the next step
✓Publishing instructions and templates for every stage, including KDP-ready formatting guidance
✓Work at your own pace: no calendar, no weekly deadline, no cohort to keep up with

This tier is exactly what it says: self-guided. You get the entire system that replaced Sarah's eight ChatGPT agents and years of client trial and error, built into one platform that runs the process for you.

What it doesn't include: live calls with Sarah. This is built for authors ready to do the writing themselves, on their own schedule. If you'd rather have Sarah coaching you week to week, that's the Guided Author tier, available separately.

Self-Guided Author

$997

One payment. No subscription. Lifetime access to this book's project.

Prefer coaching with Sarah built in? See the Guided Author tier.

Chapter Five

Who This Is Built For

This is for you if

✓You have real expertise, stories, or a framework you've taught for years, just never in order on a page
✓You're ready to do the writing, with a system doing the organizing
✓You want a finished, KDP-ready manuscript, not a ghostwritten one
✓You'd rather work at 9pm on a Tuesday than wait for a Friday call

This isn't for you if

–You want someone else to write the book for you
–You haven't done any of the thinking yet and are hoping the AI invents your expertise
–You want live weekly coaching from day one (that's Guided Author)

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. This system just makes sure it finally gets out of your head and onto a page, in your words, on your timeline.

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.

I'm not very technical. Can I really do this without help?+

Yes. If you can type a message and answer a question, you can run this system. There's nothing to install beyond the app itself, no prompts to engineer, no settings to configure. Each specialist tells you exactly what it needs from you, one step at a time.

What if I get stuck without live coaching?+

Every specialist is built to guide you, not just wait for perfect instructions. If a step feels unclear, ask it directly. And if you decide partway through that you want Sarah's coaching too, you can upgrade into the Guided Author tier at any point.

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?+

That's up to you. Most authors move through the thirteen steps over several weeks of focused work. There's no clock running and no cohort to keep pace with. Slow and finished beats fast and abandoned.

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.