Manuscript Draft

Speak the book you've been meaning to write.

We start with the idea: what the book has to do for your business, the reader it has to win, and the argument only you can make. Then we build the manuscript in your voice, ready to publish anywhere.

The method

Speak your book.

A team behind four New York Times bestsellers begins by clarifying your goals, your ideal reader, and the book's structure, so every chapter drives a business outcome and a human one.

Then, over two focused recording days, you think out loud while a Book Director guides the conversation. Our award-winning voice-to-book technology turns your spoken insights into a manuscript that reads like you wrote it on your best day. Every idea originates in your own recorded words.

No AI writing, no ghostwriter guessing at your voice or expertise. When Draft ends, you hold a manuscript you love, in your voice, positioned to reach your goals.

You say itRecording day two · 2:14 pm

“so pricing, right, this is the thing i tell every founder, it's a system, you can build it the same way you build anything else in the company…”

Two weeks later, in your first edited draft
You read it · Chapter three41

Pricing is a system, and you can build it the way you build anything else in your company. The chapters that follow show the build, one decision at a time.

Illustration.
What's included

Everything the writing needs.

Strategic positioning and a book plan

A dedicated Book Strategist defines your angle and the bullseye reader the book has to win.

Chapter talking points

The whole book mapped before your first recording session.

Two full days of recording

Guided interviews with a Book Director, scheduled around a founder's calendar.

A finished manuscript in your voice

Every idea originates in your own recorded words, written to hold up when your peers read it.

An editing and publishing plan

A clear map for what the manuscript needs next. Publishing itself is not included in Draft.

Six months of weekly Author Hour calls

Live with the Author.Inc team, open to your questions for the length of the engagement.

Full project management

One team accountable from kickoff to the finished manuscript.

Upgrade to Publish anytime

Your Draft work carries straight into editing, design, publishing, and launch.

After Draft

Leave with the manuscript, or keep going.

The manuscript is yours: 100% of the IP and every right. Publish it however you choose, or step into Publish and we carry it through editing, design, publishing, and a launch built around your first 1,000 copies.