Author.Direct earns from referrals to your books and services — so the economics always point in the same direction as yours.
Companion
$499
One-time payment
Your book as a living, interactive experience — Discover, Read, Connect, and Learn tabs built from your content.
Standard Add-Ons
$300
One-time payment
Course, Workbook, Study Guide, Journal, Toolkit, or a hosted Flipbook — we build it from your content so you can review, approve, and sell.
See an example: Compassionate Care Workbook ↓
Launch Bundle
$999
One-time · save $100
Everything you need to launch. A full companion, an add-on and a month long Social Media Campaign.
Done-for-you social media built specifically for nonfiction authors — strategy, content, posting, and engagement across the platforms that matter.
Business Essential
$300
per month
A professional LinkedIn presence, managed end-to-end — so your ideas reach the people who need them.
Business Success
$750
per month · Annual: $600/mo (save 20%)
LinkedIn plus one platform of your choice — with a dedicated Content Strategist who drafts, edits, and manages every post.
Business Premium
Custom
Limited availability
A dedicated Literary Agent who manages all platforms, drafts and edits content, and represents your interests to publishers, media, and event organizers.
Discover Tab
An authoritative overview of the author and their ideas — endorsements, audience targeting, and buy links that generate referral revenue.
Read Tab
At least eight curated Q&A pairs plus a free-text input — all grounded in the author's published work. Readers explore the book's ideas without ever leaving.
Connect Tab
Social profiles, newsletter signups, speaking inquiries, community links — the author's full ecosystem in one place.
Learn Tab
Books in all formats, courses, coaching, speaking topics, and related resources — your revenue layer, fully integrated.
Your Author Site — Simplified
Your companion can serve as your official author site — or seamlessly complement your existing one. Point your domain (e.g. YourName.com) to your companion and instantly have a fast, modern, fully structured author presence — no CMS, no plugins, no ongoing maintenance. Prefer to keep your current site? Use your companion as a high-converting destination for readers, podcasts, and social links. Either way, you control the experience — and capture the upside.
Hosting & Domain Control
Your companion lives at author.direct/YourName — fast, mobile-ready, and hosted for the long term. Use it as-is, or connect your own domain for a fully branded author presence. No monthly fees. No infrastructure. No maintenance.
Are there really no monthly fees?
Correct. You pay once. We host your companion indefinitely. Author.Direct earns from referral commissions on books and courses sold through your page — so we succeed when you succeed.
Can I add courses later?
Yes. Start with a companion and add courses at $300 each whenever you're ready. Or start with the Launch Bundle and save.
What is a standard add-on?
Add-ons include interactive Courses, Workbooks, Study Guides, Journals, Toolkits or a hosted Flipbook. Courses are learning modules designed to deliver about 30 minutes of interactive learning — built directly from your ideas and content.
Do courses include media or narration?
They can. Studio sessions are available as an add-on, allowing you to incorporate voice, visuals, or even a custom avatar with narration that reflects your voice and style.
Who builds the companion?
We do. You provide your book details, Amazon page, and any supporting content. We build the companion, generate the Q&A, and send it to you for review before it goes live.
How long does it take?
Most companions are drafted and ready for review within 2 business days of receiving your materials. Standard Add-ons typically take 1 to 2 weeks, depending on complexity and number of review cycles.
What if I'm not satisfied?
We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. If your companion doesn't meet your expectations, we'll refund your payment in full.
Don’t have a book yet? We’ll write it with you. Done-for-you ghostwriting, US-based writers, a finished flipbook and PDF, and a companion page on Author.Direct — included from $1,999. See the full service →
A published companion page on Author.Direct requires the Heartfelt Plus tier ($2,999) or Heart in Residence ($5,999+).
The reason isn’t “AI vs. no AI” — every tier uses both AI tools and human editorial work. The Heartfelt Start tier ($1,999) organizes and refines an author’s existing body of work, with human review at the outline and final-draft stages.
The Heartfelt Plus tier and above add what an Author.Direct curated listing requires: a human editor on every chapter, the full developmental → substantive → line → copyedit → proofread sequence, two explicit author-review gates, and editorial logs documenting the human review and AI-assisted process — your provenance record of meaningful human authorship.
The Heartfelt Start tier ($1,999) produces a real, finished book in your name — a manuscript, a PDF, a flipbook — but does not qualify for a curated Author.Direct companion page.
Dr. Arlene Strugar’s Compassionate Care was developed at the Heartfelt Plus tier, and a second referral project is currently in development at the same tier. Both are examples of what a successful Author.Direct ghostwriting project looks like.
Heartfelt Start
$1,999
All-in · one book
A 40–80 page manuscript drafted from your intake form — published as a PDF and a flipbook, with a free companion page on Author.Direct.
Heartfelt Plus
$2,999
All-in · most popular
A bigger book, two weeks of unlimited edits, and a fast 2-business-day turnaround on every revision round.
Heart in Residence
$5,999+
Quoted individually
A dedicated, masters-level ghostwriter who interviews you over 50–100 hours and delivers a print-ready book worth keeping on the shelf.
We are the best value in done-for-you ghostwriting. We are not the best ghostwriters in the business — and we want to tell you that plainly, because the right buyer will appreciate the honesty.
The very best ghostwriters — the global firms who quietly write for Presidents, Fortune 100 CEOs, and luminaries you’ve heard of, and the quiet artisans with thirty-plus years of experience who have built empires for major thought leaders — charge substantially more than we do, often 5× our prices and up. They are worth every dollar because they are simply the best at this craft. Most don’t advertise; you find them through editors at major publishing houses or through authors they’ve worked with.
If your book is destined for the Wall Street Journal best-seller list, a national speaking circuit, or a Fortune 500 boardroom — and your time is too valuable to spend on the editorial process — those firms or those artisans are who you should hire.
If your project ever exceeds what we can do well, we will tell you. We will share the hidden gems in the industry that match your genre and have proven best-sellers under their belt. We would rather lose a fee than write a book that doesn’t serve you.
Tell us about your book and we'll be in touch within a few business days to discuss which package is right for you.
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