The Complete Author Assistant Training Bundle: Workbooks 1–10

Learn how to support a professional author business from the inside out with the complete 10-workbook Author Assistant Training series.

Being an author assistant takes more than knowing how to schedule a social media post or update a spreadsheet. Authors operate complex businesses involving books, publishing platforms, email lists, websites, direct stores, releases, promotions, readers, files, deadlines, and dozens of interconnected systems.

The Complete Author Assistant Training Bundle was created to teach aspiring and developing author assistants how those systems actually work—and how to support them professionally.

This bundle includes all 10 Author Assistant Training workbooks:

1. Understanding the Author Business
   Learn how an independent author business works, how its major systems connect, and where an author assistant fits.

2. Managing the Author Catalog
   Learn to organize books, series, formats, metadata, files, links, and the information an author needs to keep a growing catalog under control.

3. Publishing Platforms & Distribution
   Learn how books move through major publishing and distribution platforms and what an assistant needs to understand when supporting them.

4. Reader Magnets & Email Lists
   Learn how signup forms, landing pages, subscriber groups, delivery systems, automations, and reader-magnet funnels work together.

5. Newsletter Support
   Learn to prepare, build, QA, schedule, and support author newsletters, including swaps, group promotions, and recurring newsletter systems.

6. Release Support
   Learn to organize book releases, work backward from launch day, manage dependencies, maintain release trackers, and perform release-day and post-release QA.

7. Website & Store Maintenance
   Learn to support author websites and direct stores using systems such as WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Webflow.

8. Promotions, Marketing & Social Media Support
   Learn to coordinate promotions, marketing campaigns, newsletter swaps, social media, scheduling, assets, links, tracking, and basic reporting.

9. Quality Control & Proactive Support
   Learn how to catch problems, trace downstream effects, prioritize issues, build QA systems, and think one step ahead without overstepping.

10. Your First Mock Author
    Put everything together by managing fictional author Delaney Vale and Fable & Fiction Publishing through a complete, interconnected mock-client simulation.

This Isn't Just Reading Material

Throughout the series, you’ll complete practical exercises based on realistic author-business situations so you can practice applying what you learn.

Each workbook includes:

• Practical exercises
• Realistic publishing scenarios
• Fable & Fiction Publishing assignments and simulations
• Skills Checks
• Answer & Discussion Guides
• Suggested Answers
• Completion Checks

By Workbook 10, you’ll be expected to work through messy client requests, conflicting information, publishing issues, websites and stores, reader funnels, newsletters, promotions, social media, release-day problems, reporting, and proactive recommendations—just as you would when supporting a real author.

Built Specifically for Author Assistants

This is publishing-specific training, not generic virtual assistant advice.

The goal is not to memorize every button on every platform. Platforms change.

The goal is to understand the author business well enough to organize, execute, verify, troubleshoot, communicate, document, and think one step ahead.

Includes all 10 digital Author Assistant Training workbooks. No physical products will be shipped.

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