I make a lot of free stuff for writers: books, templates, courses and tools. It’s spread all over this site, so here’s the best of it in one place. Pick the one that fits what you’re working on right now.
Writing and editing
Fix the story before you pay an editor
My free video course, How to Self-Edit Your Book: seven lessons, about an hour and a half, and the four-pass editing process I use. Self-paced, with lifetime access.
Start the free courseYou’ll make a free account on my course site to watch it.
Book covers
Start your cover from a professional layout
6 free cover templates you edit in Microsoft Word, plus video lessons on using them. Over the next week I’ll email you the best fonts for your genre and the mistakes that make a book look unprofessional.
Get the templatesDownload them on a computer: the ZIP is about 280 MB.
Book marketing
Sell more books for years, not just on launch day
My book Guerrilla Publishing and its companion workbook, free, with a roadmap and timeline for your launch. You also get the Indie Author Survival Guide, four bonus guides and a 4-step video bootcamp.
Get the free bookThen I’ll send you my 5-day Bookseller Bootcamp by email.
Not sure which? Pick the one you’d use this week. You can always come back for the others.
More free stuff
No sign-up needed for any of these.
For writing
- A word tracker for November: type in today’s words and it shows your total, your streak and the 1,667-a-day pace for 50,000 words. Your counts save in your own browser.
- My 24-chapter novel outline: a free template for Word, Google Docs or PDF, with notes for every chapter.
- The Plot Dot: my 8-point plotting guide for novelists, as a free PDF.
- Writing a novel in November? My prep checklist and plotting cheatsheets.
- All my free writing tools
For publishing and marketing
- Publishing FAQ: 117 questions about publishing a book, answered.
- Book Marketing is Dead: my free PDF on selling your first 1,000 books without spammy tactics.