Our favourite writing and publishing TOOLS & WEBSITES for WRITING

Focusmate

Virtual co-working to help you stay productive and accountable!

I Write Like

I Write Like is a website that tells you which famous author you write like based on word usage, common phrases, etc.

Masterclass

Learn from the masters on ANY given topic or skill.

Plottr

#1 visual planning software for writers! Plan out your plot faster, organize your characters into a masterlist and much more!

Scrivener

A website that tells you which famous author you write like based on word usage, common phrases, etc.

Google Docs

Write any kind of document, and be able to access it from any computer or device.

Word

The classic word processing software.

Udemy

With Udemy, choose from thousands of video courses with more being published all the time!

 

Our favourite writing and publishing TOOLS & WEBSITES for EDITING

Grammarly

Editing software that improves your writing by finding mistakes, words you overuse, or suggests stronger verbage while on many different sites such as email, messenger, and twitter.

ProWriting Aid

Editing software that improves your writing by finding mistakes, words you overuse, or suggests stronger verbage.

 

Our favourite writing and publishing TOOLS & WEBSITES for PUBLICATION

100 Covers

Real people creating a custom book cover for you for much cheaper than the other bigger companies.

BabelCube

Translate your book into many different languages.

Blueleaf

Scan your books and documents into ANY FORMAT with BlueLeaf.

BookBaby Publishing

Self Publishing platform made easy. A great place to get started on your author journey!

Calibre

A useful tool ton both collect and publish various types of eBooks.

Draft2Digital

Website that builds tools to help you with your writing while they take care of the layout, publishing and more.

Findaway Voices

Publish and distribute your audiobooks with Findaway Voices!

GoOnWrite

Premade books covers and custom cover design.

Adobe InDesign

Offers many tools to design your eBook, page layouts, and posters

IngramSpark

Publish and distribute your audiobooks with Findaway Voices!

KDP Amazon

Amazon publishing, easily one of the biggest book retailers in the whole world.

Kobo

One of the largest eBook distributors, run by real people (not just bots) that care about your book being sold. Can publish directly, create promos and offer pre sales!

Patreon

On Patreon, you can let your fans become active participants in the work they love by offering them a monthly membership. You give them access to exclusive content, community, and insight into your creative process. In exchange, you get the freedom to do your best work, and the stability you need to build an independent creative career.

PublishDrive

Sell more books! Helps with distibution, publishing and book promoting so you can focus on writing more.

PublisherRocket

PublisherRocket helps you with the marketing of your book on amazon so you can get back to writing.

Reedsy

A place to develop your book by getting connected to designers and authors and publishers!

SmashWords

eBook publishing and distributing tool that sells to many different retailers including libraries.

Vellum

Helps you layout your book in a variety of different formats such as eBook, Print and Large Print. Also assits with sorting chapters, page breaks and cover art.

 

Our favourite writing and publishing TOOLS & WEBSITES for NEWSLETTERS AND MAILING LISTS

ConvertKit

Creator marketing platform that offers many different tools such as landing page templates and layouts to increase your book sales and mailing list subscribers

Drip

Grow your revenue with powerful email, SMS, and social media marketing tools, all in one place with Drip.

MailChimp

Helps you build your brand and sell online in one streamlined place. Also offers analytics based on newsletter engagement.

MailerLite

Helps with email marketing with various tools they offer such as easy to use email campaign editor.

MailPoet

Great emails for WordPress powered websites, also finds inactive newletter subscribers with MailPoet.

SendFox

With SendFox, automatically send customizable emails to your fans, followers or customers. You can create, schedule and automate an unlimited amount of emails.

StoryOrigin

StoryOrigin helps you find reviewers, build your mailing list and boost your sales with the many tools this website offers.

Substack

Start a newsletter. Build your community. Make money from subscriptions. All with Substack!

 

Our favourite writing and publishing TOOLS & WEBSITES for SOCIAL MEDIA AND MARKETING

AuthorsXP

Free and discounted books, giveaways and ways to help authors create!

Bargain Booksy

Promote your books and get great deals on other stories.

Beacon

Use Beacon to create professional lead magnets, publish those lead magnets on your site and convert more website traffic into leads.

Book Brush

Website that offers many different services such as creating your own adds for your books. Full of templates, and fun tools to further your book sales.

BookBub

Promote yourself and/or your books and get great deals on books!

BookFunnel

Helps indie authors with a variety of tools they offer such as making a mailing list, distributing your book, promos and more!

BookSirens

Get more reviews from ARC readers!

Book Sniffer

Hundreds of deals and millions of books! Get your next read or have your book be someone else’s!

BookSweeps

Promote yourself and/or your books!

Buffer

Buffer is the all-you-need social media toolkit that lets you focus on doing what you love for your business.

Canva

Design, collaborate and share covers, videos, marketing images and more.

Depositphotos

Get royalty free images

Geniuslink

Squeeze more revenue out of every link you share

Hidden Gems

Review an unlimited amount of books for free! Also submit your own work to be reviewed!

Hootsuite

Easily manage all your social media and get results with Hootsuite.

iStock

Get royalty free images.

Adobe Photoshop

Photo and design software.

Prolificworks

Helps with mailing lists, Prolific Works offers eBook delivery support and more

PromoRepublic

Easy content creation and scheduling for social media posts

Pub Site

The Best DIY Platform for Building Author Websites

Shutterstock

Get royalty free images.

SocialBee

Social media management tools, training and teams all in one place.

WordPress

Set up your own website, quick and easy with WordPress.

 

Our favourite writing and publishing TOOLS & WEBSITES for BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

AppSumo

Marketplace for purchasing many different kinds of apps and software to help along your career.

Book Report

Great way to analyze your data from amazon and see what books are doing well.

Descript

All-in-one audio and video editing for podcasts, videos and more with Descript.

Evernote

Useful note taking software that helps you go entirely paperless. Offers many different tools like to-do lists, calendars and more!

fiverr

Find the perfect freelance services for your business, and offer your freelance services as well.

Google Sheets

Just like excel, but like google, you can access it from any device!

k-lytics

Gets you accurate and up to date information on the eBook market to sell more of YOUR books

Krisp

Krisp is an app that removes background noise during calls, meetings, or recordings. 

linkedin learning

Subjects and courses from instructors with real world experience!

Quickbooks

Small business accounting software.

ReaderLinks

ReaderLinks offers marketing and publishing tools as well as link tracking!

UpWork

Hire a pro for a project in one easy to use website!