How the SHTL Author Guide Process Works

Book Strategy Consult

The first step—before you begin your book—is to make sure you have a book in you and determine whether our method is the right one for you. To do this, you will speak with an Author Strategist who will help you get clear on three things:

1. Your book idea
2. The audience you’re trying to reach(and how your book will serve them)
3. The objectives you hope the book will help you achieve (like making money with a book or using a book to build your brand)

Note that this is not a sales call. This is about determining whether you have a book in you and whether our company is the right fit to help you write it. Our process does not work for everyone. If we determine that we’re not a good fit for each other, we’ll happily refer you to a service or company that can meet your needs.

Attend Kickoff Workshop

To begin the process, you’ll attend the three-day kickoff workshop. Each workshop is led by the Scribe co-founder, Tucker Max, a 4x New York Times Bestselling author. He created the Scribe Method and, along with Scribe’s editorial team, will personally walk you through every step of the process. You will first position your book, then outline it, then create your writing plan, then go over everything else you need to know to write and edit your book. Tucker’s goal for each workshop is that you leave knowing exactly what you need to do, and full confidence that—with Scribe’s support—you can do it.

Write

You will leave the workshop and have everything ready to write—and you will. To ensure you stay on track, there are weekly coaching calls and 24/7 access to the Scribe senior editorial team on a private mastermind group. Any problems you have, any obstacles that come up, or any issue you need help with, Tucker and his team will be there to help you out.

Use Your Three 1-on-1 Consults with our Editors

Whether to validate your book idea, clarify your structure, or assess your writing, you’ll need guidance along your book journey. At three key milestones of your choosing, you can share a selection of your work with an editor and meet one-on-one to discuss what’s working, what needs to be refined, and how to tackle the next steps of your book. Typically, Authors meet with an editor early in the book journey to make sure they’re starting in the right direction. You can review your completed outline with an editor to make sure you’ve set a strong plan for your initial draft. Authors often use their last two calls for chapter reviews. When you’re ready to refine your work, you can share a single chapter of your book with an editor to get detailed comments on what to shape up. On your call, you can discuss strategies to apply what you’ve learned from your sample chapter to the whole manuscript, so you can improve your organization, clarity, and style.

Get the “Hurt Your Feelings” Edit

When you are done with your rough draft, you will give the manuscript to us for editing. The Scribe editorial team will dig in and give you both high-level developmental notes, as well as deeper content on each line to help you polish and finish the manuscript. Your editor is an experienced professional who has worked on dozens of bestselling books in their career, and their job is to make sure your book is good enough to publish. We like to call this the ”hurt your feelings” edit because we tell authors that we’ll hurt their feelings before we let them publish a bad book. You can be 100% confident that we will make sure you do not write a bad book.

The Full Scribe Design, Publishing & Distribution Services

After our edit and your revisions, when you are finished with your manuscript, you hand it to us and we do all the publishing. This includes a beautifully designed cover and interior layout, full coordination of all publishing details (ISBN, bio, description, etc.), hardcover, paperback, and eBook formats included, and everything else we do when publishing a book.

Marketing Consult & Course

Our Author Marketing team will get on the phone with you and help determine the exact best way you can ensure your book gets in front of the readers you want. We will help you lay out a step-by-step marketing plan that you can then execute. As part of this consult, we will also provide you with free access to the Scribe Marketing Course. This includes detailed instructions and templates to help you through every part of your book marketing, including generating media attention, gathering leads, and raising your visibility with potential clients.