The Backlist Audit

Description

There is more money sitting in the books you already wrote than in the one you are writing. Not because they are better — because nobody has looked at them since release day, and the blurbs, categories, back matter and covers have all quietly gone out of date.

This is one sweep. Catalog-wide checks first, because a broken series page affects every book at once. Then one page per book, starting with the two that matter most.

Nothing here asks you to write anything new. Every fix is an afternoon’s work that keeps paying afterward.

What’S Inside

• The whole catalog — catalog-wide checks, a full published-works inventory table where the orphaned editions surface, and a where-to-start six for an afternoon
• Book by book — book details, the twelve checks, a blurb review, a metadata-as-it-stands table per retailer, and an actions page
• How it looks now — the cover assessed honestly at thumbnail size, series presentation, and twenty-four ways to revive a book without writing a word
• A twelve-month backlist promotion rotation
• What it’s worth — before and after numbers, and what this audit found for next time

What You Get

21 pages, completely undated — start any month, any year, any book.

3 color editions: Advocate (warm brown and copper), Harbor (deep blue), Press (black and slate blue). Choose one or print a mix.

Both paper sizes: US Letter (8.5 x 11) and A4.

6 PDF files in one instant download.

Print it as often as you like, forever. No subscription, nothing expires.

Format — Please Read

These are print-quality PDF files, designed to be printed at home, sent to a print shop, or added to a disc-bound or ring binder. They are not hyperlinked and they are not set up for tap-to-navigate use in GoodNotes, Notability, or similar note-taking apps. If you want to write on them on a tablet you can import and write over the pages with your stylus, the same as any PDF, but there are no clickable tabs.

A type-in edition is in progress and will be sent free to everyone who has already bought this.

Delivery

Instant download. Your files are available the moment your payment clears — nothing is mailed to you and there is no wait.

Terms

For your personal use, or for use inside your own author business, including work you do for your own pen names. Please don’t resell, share, or redistribute the files or their contents. A commercial and assistant license is coming for anyone who wants to use these with clients.

About

Made by The Indie Author’s Advocate. I’m an author with three pen names and an assistant to a good many more, and every one of these started as something I built for myself because the version I wanted did not exist.

Questions before you buy? Message me. I answer.