Your Author Business
in a Box.
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The villain isn't writer's block.
It's the stack.
Seven subscriptions. Eighteen tabs. Dashboards that never talk to each other. Every minute you spend wrestling the stack is a minute stolen from your next book.
Tool Overload
Logging into 18+ different platforms just to run your author business. One for writing, one for covers, one for email, one for social, one for scheduling...
- Context-switching kills your creative flow
- Nothing talks to anything else
The Social Drain
Posting everywhere, engaging with everyone, chasing trends that die in 24 hours. Creatively bankrupt before you even open your manuscript.
- Hours lost to algorithm-chasing
- No energy left for actual writing
The Subscriber Tax
Your email platform charges you more every time your list grows. Success literally raises your bills — before you send a single email.
- $200+/month just to HAVE 25,000 subscribers
- Plus formatting tools, plus schedulers, plus, plus, plus
Money Flying Blind
Ad spend in four consoles, sales in five dashboards, expenses in a spreadsheet. Nothing meets, so nobody can tell you if a book is profitable.
- Retailers own your customer relationships
- Your P&L is a guess reconstructed at tax time
Everything an author business does.
All of it. In the box.
Not integrations bolted together — one platform that writes, publishes, sells, markets, advertises, and keeps the books.
Write
Every word, every world, one workspace.
- Pen names, series, titles, chapters, and scenes
- Living story bibles — characters, places, lore, timelines
- Beat sheets, brand guides, and translations
- Version history on every save
Publish
Manuscript to bookshelf, no extra tools.
- Validated ebooks with professional themes
- Print-ready PDFs — spine math and cover wrap included
- Audiobook packages and per-retailer bundles
- One-click publish to your own store
Sell
Direct sales and every retailer, one dashboard.
- Your own Direct2Readers storefront — keep up to 90%
- Shopify, WooCommerce, and Stripe alongside
- Amazon KDP sales data in the same view
- Per-book revenue you can actually see
Market
Email, websites, blogs, and social — included.
- Full email platform, unlimited contacts — built in
- Automations, forms, tags, and campaign analytics
- Author websites and blogs per pen name
- 15 social platforms from one calendar
Advertise
Know which ads sell books.
- Amazon Ads connected first-party
- Meta, Google, and TikTok in the same workspace
- P&L tied to real sales — including KU page reads
- Profitability scored per book, against your targets
Run the Business
The books-and-taxes side, handled.
- Income, expenses, and vendors — per book, per series
- Tasks with reusable launch checklists
- A release calendar that ties it all together
- Time tracking and writing goals
A full email platform. Built in.
Unlimited subscribers.
Campaigns, automations, forms, tags, segments, templates, and open/click analytics — with no per-subscriber pricing, ever. Connect any sending provider and pay only for the emails you actually send.
| Your list size | MailerLite / Mailchimp / Kittypical published pricing | StorytellerOS |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 subscribers | $100–135 / month | Included |
| 25,000 subscribers | $190–270 / month | Included |
| 50,000 subscribers | $290–385 / month | Included |
Your only sending cost is your own SMTP provider — Amazon SES runs about $0.10 per 1,000 emails. A weekly newsletter to 10,000 readers: roughly $4 a month.
The first author platform
Claude can run with you.
Connect Claude Cowork and Claude stops giving generic writing advice and starts doing real work — in your books, your story bibles, your sales data, and your calendar.
“Claude, draft next week’s newsletter from my launch calendar.”— done in your voice, from your data.
150+
tools
15
skills
7
slash commands
Full
story-bible access
Never want AI near your business? Turn it off. Every feature works 100% without it. Nothing is sent to any model unless you invite it.
Your work stays yours.
Period.
Every feature works without AI — it's a complete platform first, an AI platform second. When you do want AI, you bring your own API keys, so providers can't train on your content. And your entire business exports on demand: Airtable, GitHub, Google Drive, or zip. No lock-in, ever.
100% AI-Optional
Every feature — writing, publishing, email, sales, finance — works completely without AI. Nothing is ever sent to any model unless you explicitly invite it.
100% BYOK
Bring Your Own Keys for AI providers. Your content goes directly to them under THEIR API terms — which protect against training. You control costs and usage.
Your Data, Exportable Always
Everything you create is yours. Back up or export the whole business — to Airtable, GitHub, Google Drive, or a zip — anytime, on demand or on a schedule.
Add up what the stack costs.
Then put it in the box.
A working author business runs on six to nine separate subscriptions. StorytellerOS replaces the lot — and the hours you spend making them talk to each other.
| The job | The tools you’re paying fortypical published pricing | In StorytellerOS |
|---|---|---|
| Email marketing | MailerLite, Mailchimp, Kit$100–290 / mo at 10–25k subscribers | Included — unlimited contacts, pay only your sending provider |
| Social scheduling | Buffer, Hootsuite, Later$30–100 / mo | Included — 15 platforms, one calendar |
| Book formatting | Formatting software$150–250, some Mac-only | Included — ebook, print PDF, audiobook |
| Direct sales storefront | Shopify + storefront apps$30–80 / mo + fees | Included — Direct2Readers storefront (plus connect your own stores) |
| Ads reporting | Spreadsheets & console-hoppingHours of your week | Included — Amazon, Meta, Google, TikTok with per-book P&L |
| Author bookkeeping | QuickBooks, spreadsheets$20–35 / mo | Included — income, expenses, per-book profit |
| Tasks & launch planning | Notion, Trello, Asana$10–20 / mo | Included — launch templates, release calendar |
| Story bible | Worldbuilding apps$10–25 / mo | Included — and it’s live data, linked to your books |
| Time tracking | Toggl, Clockify$10–20 / mo | Included — Pomodoro and writing goals, per book |
| Hundreds of dollars a month of stack… | …replaced by one subscription. | |
The real savings? Your time.
Authors report spending 15+ hours a week on non-writing business tasks. When your tools actually talk to each other, you cut that in half — or more. That's hours back for writing every single week.
One platform for your entire author business
Everything an author business needs. Literally.
Your Path to Creative Freedom
Authors are already
transforming their business.
One price, locked in.
Your rate for everything in the box stays the same for as long as your subscription is active — including an email platform with unlimited contacts that would cost $100+/month on its own.
StorytellerOS
Less than $5/day
Locked-in rate for everything in the box
7-day free trial · Cancel anytime
- Write, publish, sell, market, advertise, and run the business — all included
- Email marketing with UNLIMITED contacts — an ESP that costs $100+/mo elsewhere
- Ebook, print PDF, and audiobook production — no formatting software needed
- Sell direct with your own storefront — keep up to 90%
- Post to 15 social platforms without living online
- Amazon, Meta, Google & TikTok ads with per-book P&L
- Claude Cowork integration — optional, like all AI here
- 7-day free trial · Cancel anytime — export everything
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Common Questions
The answers authors ask before joining.
