<aside> 💡 Brought to you by Jenny Blake, author of Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, and host of the 🎙 Free Time podcast. 🎧 Check out the full Behind-the-Book podcast playlist on Spotify (also embedded below).

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💻 Video & Screen-Sharing Walkthroughs

🙋🏻‍♀️ Note from Jenny: There's a lot in here, but If you start with a few templates and organizational set-up exercises, you will be well on your way toward freeing your mind to do its best writing work :)

• 🎥 Masterclass: Your Book and Big Idea (1 Hour)

• 📝 Key Templates: Writing Tracker, Marketing Tracker, Book Proposal

• Organizing Research and Ideas in Notion (Walkthrough #1)

• Shaping Big Ideas in Notion (Walkthrough #2)

• Setting up an Essay Tracker in Notion (Walkthrough #3)

• Book Marketing Task Tracker in Notion (Walkthrough #4)

• Podcast Tour Tracker in Notion (Walkthrough #5)

• For Podcasters: A Day in the Life of a JB Episode

• Free Time Business Operations Dashboard

• Notion for CRM & Content Collection (Walkthrough)

• 📚 Helpful resources for authors

🎥  From Phil M. Jones: Exactly How to Sell 1 Million Books

JB’s Full Behind-the-Book Playlist on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RivVMiLRUsu94HiHEMSeR?si=63c9c77b80df4ad0

📒 Pivot’s Behind-the-Book Playbook

This guide outlines my process for researching, outlining, writing and marketing Pivot. There’s a lot of information in here! I provide all the templates I created and tools that came in handy along the way. Take what works and ditch the rest :)

• Proposal Writing
• Harvesting & Research
• Research: Reading other books
• Organizing & Structure (see also: Notion walk-throughs below)
• Writing
• Interviewing (for shaping stories)
• Editing
• Early Readers
• Finalizing: Galleys & Blurbs
• Brand & Website
• Marketing & Book Tour Planning
• Overall Stats for working on Pivot: Start to Finish

Insights from Others

Alexandra Franzen’s list of Business, Book, Podcast, and Media Awards You Can Apply to Win:

Business, Book, Podcast, and Media Awards You Can Apply to Win [2024] - Alexandra Franzen

Lessons Learned from Hybrid Publishing by Sarah Young, author of Expansive Impact:

Book Publishing Resources by Zing Collaborative

Lessons Learned via Self-Publishing by Paul Millerd, author of The Pathless Path

My Self-Publishing Journey & Lessons Learned (71 Page Slide Deck)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2oSca2FEnyJ8Ro4p2YokNo?si=UC5MkVL6Qom6LEBwMCx1ng

https://speakerdeck.com/pmillerd/self-publishing-journey-and-perspective

Here are a few more tools to support you in your biggest creative projects this year:

• [ ] 🎧 Subscribe to the Free Time podcast wherever you listen by visiting pod.link/freetime (If you enjoy it, I would be super grateful for a rating and/or review on iTunes!)

  Free Time with Jenny Blake

• [ ] 📘 Free Time Toolkit: Free tools and templates for each stage of the Free Time Framework: Align, Design, Assign. Visit ItsFreeTime.com/toolkit

  Toolkit - Free Time with Jenny Blake - Book & Podcast for Heart-Based Business Owners

• [ ] Join us in our private community! BFF with Jenny Blake: For added support applying the principles throughout this book, I encourage you to join our close-knit insider community of smart, generous, Heart-Based Business owners. You will get access to a monthly Q&A call, a private podcast feed for call recordings and bonus content, and a community forum. Learn more and join us at ItsFreeTime.com/bff.

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🎁 Help Give the Gift of Free Time

As my first book mentor Michael Larsen told me, “Authors don’t keep books alive, readers do.” Beyond this author toolkit, if you think others could benefit from Free Time, I would be grateful for your help in any way:

• [ ] Rate and/or write a review on Amazon, Goodreads, or the retailer’s site where you purchased the book
• [ ] Gift a copy to a friend or to fellow team members
• [ ] Share your ahas! on social media by tagging #ItsFreeTime
• [ ] Send your favorite episode of the Free Time podcast to a fellow Heart-Based Business owner

Thank you for checking out the Author Toolkit — may your book reach everyone who can benefit!

🎧 Full Behind-the-Book Playlist on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RivVMiLRUsu94HiHEMSeR?si=63c9c77b80df4ad0