It's here! The Lighthouse Letters is out today. A widowed bookstore owner, a harbor town in the off-season, and a bundle of letters someone wanted kept hidden.
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For authors, not marketers
Your book is written.
Your book is written.
Now let's get it read.
The Author's Helper writes your whole launch for you — a week of posts, pictures made from your own cover, emails to your readers, a press release and your author website. You check it, and you press Post.
For traditionally published, hybrid and independent authors. Nothing is ever posted without your OK.
Your next step today
Review today's launch email
It's written and ready: it shares your story, introduces your book and invites your readers along.
See it in the demo ›
How it works
Three steps. The middle one is ours.
No marketing degree, no new vocabulary, nothing to set up first. Each day the app tells you the one thing to do next.
Tell us about your book
Your title, your cover and a few words about the story. Published with Biblio Nova? Your book arrives already filled in.
We make your launch
Posts for every day of launch week, pictures made from your cover, reader emails, a press release, your Amazon description and your author website — written for your book, not a template.
You press Post
One click opens your own Facebook or Instagram page with the post already filled in. On your phone, tap Share. You read it, change what you like, and post it yourself.
Everything in one place
Your whole launch, on seven simple pages.
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My Book
One record for your book — every piece the app writes reads from it, so everything sounds like your book.
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Launch Kit
Made for you the moment your book is in: posts, press release, Amazon text, bookstore pitch and more.
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Posts
A week of ready posts. Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and more — one click each, and you press Post.
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Pictures & video
Social pictures made from your own cover, sized for each place you post — plus trailers and more.
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Readers
Keep your reader list and send them news of your book, written for you and sent from our email service.
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Your website
An author website built from your books, hosted by us — your one home online that's fully yours.
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eBook Maker
Turn your Word file or print PDF into a store-ready eBook for Amazon, Apple, Kobo and Barnes & Noble — picture books too, every page exactly as designed.
Launch week, written for you
This week's posts are ready.
Each one has its words and its picture. Read it, change anything you like, and share it in one click.
Day 1
Day 2
"Some letters wait forty years to be read."
Every town keeps its secrets. Seabridge Cove kept one for forty years — until Clara opened the box in the attic.
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Day 3
Thank you to everyone who has shared, read and cheered this week. If you've finished it, a review helps more than you know.
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From our demo book, The Lighthouse Letters. Yours are written from your book. On a computer, the free Post Helper fills in your page for you — Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
✨ AI help on every page, if you want it
Need a blurb, a post, a press release or a picture? AI help is built in everywhere you make something, and it drafts from your own book — your story, your facts. Then it's yours: edit it, adjust it, or start again.
✍️ Your own work, if you already have it
Already wrote your blurb, or made your own graphics? Use them — the app fills, schedules and shares your work and never rewrites it.
You're always the author. Nothing posts without your OK — ever.
Built by people who print and publish books
From the folks behind Biblio Publishing.
The Author's Helper is built by Bob Sims, founder of Zip Print & Copy and Biblio Publishing in Columbus, Ohio — businesses that have helped authors print, publish and sell their books for decades. It's the toolkit those authors kept asking for: shaped by what authors actually struggle with after the book is done.
Still need to publish? Biblio Nova takes your manuscript to a finished, printed book — and your launch here starts already filled in.
Pricing
Plans that match how much you write.
Whether you publish a book a year or a book a month — there's a tier that fits.
Starter
For authors testing the waters or planning their first launch.
$14.95 / month
$135 / year — save 25%
- 1 book project
- 50 AI images / month
- 5 book-trailer renders / month
- 1,000 marketing emails / month
- Every tool, plus generous AI writing & chat
Pro
For active authors running real launches and ongoing campaigns.
$24 / month
Save 20% with annual billing
- 5 book projects
- 100 AI images / month
- 10 book-trailer renders / month
- 2,500 marketing emails / month
- Every tool, plus generous AI writing & chat
Studio
For prolific authors, hybrid publishers, and anyone running multiple campaigns at once.
$99 / month
Save 20% with annual billing
- Unlimited book projects
- 300 AI images / month
- 30 book-trailer renders / month
- 10,000 marketing emails / month
- Every tool, plus unlimited AI writing & chat
Image, trailer, and email allowances are per month and reset each billing period. Need more email? Add 5,000 sends for $10 — one-time, and they never expire.
Everything in the app — included on every plan
Plans differ only in the monthly allowances and book count above. Every tool below is on every tier.
✍️ AI Writing & Copy
- Book descriptions & blurbs
- Press releases
- Sell sheets
- Query & cover letters
- Author bio
- Amazon Author Central bio
- Taglines & loglines
- Ad & social copy
- Email subjects, preheaders & body
- Media kit
🎨 Graphics & Design
- AI-generated book cover designs
- Social media graphics
- Quote cards
- Event & signing flyers
- YouTube thumbnail text
- Ad visuals
🎬 Book Trailers
- Trailer scripts with scene cues
- 30-second vertical trailer videos
- Motion, music & text overlays
📣 Social — 15 Platforms
- Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter
- Threads, TikTok, LinkedIn
- Bluesky, Pinterest, Reddit
- YouTube, Goodreads, BookBub
- Substack, Medium, Discord
- AutoPost + guided handoff
- Content calendar & scheduling
🌐 Author Website
Your social accounts are rented land — a website is the one home base online that's fully yours.
- New: hosting included — no web host to buy or set up
- Your free address: books.theauthorshelper.com/your-name
- Nightly backups
- One-click full site build (theme, pages & store)
- Genre-matched style packs
- Automatic book publishing from the app
- Built-in store for selling print books
- Blog post publishing
- Reviews preserved on every sync
- Guided setup wizard & host picks
- Automatic plugin updates
📧 Email Marketing
- Campaigns & newsletters
- Contacts & lists
- Automated sequences
- Open, click & bounce analytics
📅 Events
- Signings, launches & readings
- Podcasts & book-club visits
- Library talks & festivals
- Virtual events
- Auto 24h & 1h email reminders
📈 Amazon & KDP
- Keyword research
- BISAC categories
- A+ Content modules
- KDP promotions
- Sales-rank (BSR) tracking
🛒 Sell & Distribute
- Print quotes & book printing
- Publishing with Biblio Nova
- Shopify sync
🧭 Plan & Learn
- AI marketing game plan with tasks
- AI help assistant
- Education library of guides
- Analytics dashboard
- Manage multiple books
- Cancel anytime
Not ready? Try the free demo — every screen, no card.
Your story deserves to be read.
Give your book the launch it deserves — without becoming a full-time marketer.