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Today
See the one thing to do
What changed, how solid the data is, what not to touch, and the one move worth your time this week.
- 1,487 books on today’s charts
- 48 genres read every day
- last read 2026-09-12
Sell more of the books
you’ve already written.
Paste your Amazon author page. Your Desk reads your books and today’s bestseller chart for your genre, then tells you what to do next.
Free. No card. Nothing is saved until you ask for it.
After that it keeps working: scoring your listings, watching the chart, finding the book clubs, podcasts and bookstores that fit your book, and writing the pitch for each one.
Genre chart · Catalogue strategy · Listings · Launches · Advertising · Results
While you sleep
Your Desk runs the whole job.
You write. Overnight it reads the market, scores your listings, finds the people who can put your book in front of readers, and writes the pitch for each one. You approve what goes out.
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Reads the books you’ve published
amazon.com/author/example
ExampleFour books, two in one series. Newest release 14 months ago.
Reading each listing…
- The Quiet Part412 reviews · 4.3★ · $4.99
- What She Left Behind188 reviews · 4.1★ · $3.99
- The Quiet Part: Book Two96 reviews · 4.5★ · $4.99
- Small Mercies31 reviews · 4.0★ · $2.99
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Watches your genre’s chart every day
Psychological Thriller · read today
ExampleRank Title Price Week 1 The Housemaid $4.99 +3 2 Never Lie $5.99 — 3 The Divorce $9.99 +8 4 Dear Debbie $4.99 −2 5 Brain Damage $12.99 new Median price $7.99 across 18 priced titles. One author holds 5 of 20 slots.
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Scores every listing you have
The Quiet Part · listing score
Example62/ 100Title14/20Description21/40Keywords12/20Price vs page count15/20Biggest single gain
The first line of your description names the setting, not the danger. Readers on this chart decide in that line.
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Finds the people who can sell your book
Found this week
ExampleWho Fit Modern Romance Reading ClubBook club · online 85% The Turn of the PagePodcast · interviews authors 78% Mirror & Key BooksBookstore · hosts local authors 74% Thriller Readers CollectiveARC team · 340 readers 71% Each one comes with the reason it fits and a dated screenshot of where it was found.
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Writes each of them a real pitch
Draft · waiting for your approval
ExampleToThe Turn of the PageSubjectA thriller about the lie a family agrees to keepHi Marta,
You spent most of the August 14 episode on why unreliable narrators fail when the reader is ahead of them. That is the exact problem my last book is built around.
The Quiet Part has 412 reviews and readers keep naming the same twist. Happy to send a copy, or bring the structure argument if you would rather have the conversation.
Nothing is sent until you press send. The Desk drafts; you approve.
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Keeps what worked, drops what didn’t
What you changed, and what it did
ExampleChange Result New description, Book 1Working +31% page reads Price $4.99 → $3.99Working +18% units New cover, Book 3Too early 9 days in Keyword swap, Book 2No change reverted A change that did nothing is written down too, so it is not tried twice.
Panels show the shape of the Desk’s real output with example books and contacts. The Desk never sends an email, changes a listing, or spends a dollar without you pressing the button.
Advertising
It writes the ad — and tells you when to stop.
Ask it to advertise a book and you get the whole brief: who to reach, the one promise to lead with, two headlines to test against each other, the budget and daily cap, and the exact point at which you review, stop, or scale. Already running ads? Upload the report and it finds where the money leaks.
It drafts and measures. It never connects to your ad account, spends a dollar, or launches anything — you do that, on purpose.
Ad brief · waiting for your approval
ExampleBudget cap
$120.00
Daily cap
$17.14
Test these two, change nothing else
A.For readers who want more than a familiar story — meet The Quiet Part
B.The Quiet Part: the promise readers recognise in one glance
When to look, and what would stop it
Review after 50 qualified clicks per version. Stop at $30 spent with no sale. Scale only at break-even for seven straight days.
Destination, audience, visual and CTA stay fixed. Only the headline is under test.
The whole business
It runs your catalogue, not just one book.
It reads every book you have, your KDP royalties, and your genre's chart together, then says which single book deserves the next ninety days and what to do each week to move it. Not a list of everything you could do — the one thing worth doing, in order.
Every number it uses says where it came from: observed, supplied by you, inferred, or unknown. A missing number narrows the advice instead of being invented.
90-day plan · 4 books read
ExampleThe book that deserves the next 90 days
The Quiet Part — 412 reviews, the most reader proof in the catalogue and the weakest listing of the four.
- W1Rewrite the description on Book 1It converts the traffic you already have
- W2Rebuild the 7 keyword slotsThree are duplicates of the title
- W3Hold. Measure the first two.Two changes at once teaches you nothing
- W4Put the team on book clubsReviews are the constraint, not traffic
One move at a timeEvery claim citedMonday brief by email
How it works
Five sections take you from data to a recorded result.
Today names the move. Team works on opportunities while you write. Create builds the work. Results runs the test and keeps what you learned. Library holds your books and records.
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Team
Hire jobs that run without you
Interviews, book clubs, early readers, bookstores, awards. Your team finds the opportunities and drafts the approach. You approve.
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Create
Make the work
Ask for a listing rewrite, a launch plan, title ideas, a cover brief, a campaign, or an ad test. Get a draft back.
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Results
Run one test at a time
Each test changes one thing, has a budget cap and a review date, and ends with a recorded result you can reuse.
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Library
Keep everything in one place
Every book, report, campaign, decision, file, and lesson in one Author File that belongs to you.
Notes from the Desk
The useful parts of publishing, in your inbox.
Get a note when a meaningful Author Desk improvement goes live, plus occasional field notes grounded in publishing evidence—not generic motivation.
No daily dripConfirm before joiningLeave anytime
Ask in plain words
Say what you want. The Desk works out how.
You should not have to know which feature, form, report, or ad metric to open. Start with the real problem in your own words.
Author question 01
“My ads are getting clicks, but the book is not selling. What should I test next?”
Author question 02
“I have six books and no idea which one deserves the next ninety days.”
Author question 03
“Readers love the found-family angle. Turn that into a launch campaign without changing the cover.”
Author question 04
“Book 1 is quiet. Should I write Book 2, relaunch Book 1, or move to a new idea?”
Every answer includes
What happenedHow solid the data isWhat not to changeThe next test
From your data to finished work
Your books, your decisions, and your results stay connected.
The Desk sees all your books, prepares the work, records the decision, and measures the result. You approve every public change and every dollar.
Catalogue strategy
Your books, series, reading order, formats, release dates, and the job each title does for the whole catalogue.
Listings and launches
Score the listing, draft a stronger blurb and title, build the launch assets, and decide what success looks like before changing anything.
Advertising intelligence
Understand your ad reports in plain language, find where the money leaks, build one test, and keep the lesson for the next campaign.
Sales and reader data
KDP reports, read-through, reviews, formats, and your own costs, all in one place. Unknown numbers stay unknown.
Creative production
Turn your data and the words your readers use into titles, hooks, cover briefs, ad variations, social posts, and ready-to-approve drafts.
Career direction
Pick the move that matters most across all your books, instead of treating every book, launch, and problem as equally urgent.
The Book 1 rule
Don’t write a sequel to avoid fixing Book 1.
A sequel only sells to people who finished Book 1. Author Desk treats Book 1 as the way new readers find you: grow its audience first, before counting on series value.
If Book 1 is already selling and readers are continuing to Book 2, the plan can expand. If not, the Desk will not use imagined future sales to make a losing campaign look fine.
Book 1 · finds new readers
Grow this audience first.
Blurb, conversion, reviews, price, and a repeatable way to find readers.
Book 2 · keeps them reading
Earn the expansion.
Based only on measured sales and read-through.
Desk rule
Market Book 1 until its audience is clearly bigger, or the data says a different direction deserves your time.
Numbers you can trust
Every important number says where it came from.
Author Desk knows the difference between data and a plausible story. Missing data makes a recommendation narrower, not more inventive.
Observed
A number from a report, a listing, a set of reviews, or a recorded test.
Author supplied
A price, royalty, cost, goal, or business fact you entered yourself.
Inferred
A careful estimate from the data, labelled as an estimate.
Unknown
A missing number the Desk will not quietly guess.
Limits you can read before paying
Start free. Upgrade for higher enforced limits.
Free keeps your Author File, one clear move each visit, export, and a monthly production allowance. Unlimited raises the limits below and adds the full catalogue audit.
Author Desk Free
$0
- One clear move every time you open your Desk
- Unlimited books, full history, and export
- 1 Advertising Truth report and 4 ad drafts per month
- 1 saved campaign, 5 title directions, and 10 action packets
- A guided Launch Pack and one active ad test
Higher monthly limits
Desk Unlimited
$9.99/month
- 20 saved campaigns and 100 action packets
- 20 Advertising Truth reports and 20 ad drafts per month
- 3 full-book reviews per month
- Reviews already on file stay readable; live review retrieval is not sold yet
- Catalogue-wide Deep Audit and 90-Day Plan
Ad spend is never included. Connected ad-account actions are not available on Free or Unlimited.
“The author should understand the decision, own the approval, and keep the lesson.”
David Weaver
National bestselling author · Award-winning publisher
Built from publishing experience
Software with a publisher’s discipline.
Author Desk was built around the decisions working authors face after the manuscript: where to focus, what not to touch, how much data is enough, and how to stop repeating expensive mistakes.
No silent public changes. The author remains the decision authority.
No retailer password. Upload only the reports you choose to use.
Questions · Updated 2026-08-22
What authors should know before they start
What is Author Desk?+
Author Desk is the publishing side of BookWriter. It keeps your Author File, reads the data across your books, recommends one move that matters, helps you build the work, and saves the result so your next decision starts smarter.
Is Author Desk really free?+
Yes. Free includes one clear move every time you open your Desk, unlimited books in your Author File, 1 Advertising Truth report per month, 4 ad drafts per month, a guided Launch Pack, and your full history. No card and no trial countdown.
Do I need to have written my books with BookWriter?+
No. Bring books written in Word, Scrivener, Google Docs, another writing app, or BookWriter. Author Desk works from your books and your sales data, not from where the manuscript was written.
Does Author Desk need my Amazon password?+
No. Public book information is imported from links you provide, and sales data comes from reports you choose to upload. Never give your retailer password to Author Desk.
Can it run advertising campaigns for me?+
Today, Author Desk can read your ad reports, work out the economics for each book, build a campaign with ad variations, prepare a guided Launch Pack, and track what you learn. It does not connect to, publish, change, pause, or spend through your Meta or other ad account.
Why does it recommend only one move?+
Because more noise does not help. Author Desk ranks the work, names what matters now, says what not to change, and turns that into a measurable test instead of another endless checklist.
What does Desk Unlimited add for $9.99 a month?+
Unlimited raises the monthly limits: 20 saved campaigns, 20 Advertising Truth reports per month, 20 ad drafts per month, 3 full-book reviews per month, and the catalogue-wide Deep Audit and 90-Day Plan.
Start with your genre, not a profile form
Pick your genre. See today's chart. Add your books when you're ready.
Start with a book link, a list of titles, or just your genre and goal. Your first Author File takes about a minute.
Start my free Author DeskNo card · No retailer password · Your history remains exportable