Twenty questions that start *what is*, twenty that start *how do I*, and a cost page for each. They are written to be useful on their own, with the comparison tables and checklists that a summary cannot reproduce — and every one is honest about when a person does the job better than a tool.
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Straight answers about writing and publishing a book
Which guide do you actually need?
Tell us where you are with your book and we'll email the three guides that apply, in order — plus the templates that go with them.
How these are organised
In pairs. For each part of making a book there is a what is it guide, for the moment you are learning, and a how do I guide, for the moment you are doing it. Then a cost page, for the moment you are buying.
They are the same subject at three different moments, and most people arrive at one and need the other two shortly afterwards. Each guide links to its pair.
What is in them that a summary can't give you
Every guide carries something a search result cannot reproduce: a comparison table of four things authors confuse, a decision aid, a checklist you can work through, a worked example.
That is deliberate. A page that is only a definition gets summarised and never read. A page with the actual brief template, the actual contract checklist, the actual scoring bands is worth arriving at.
And what they will not do
They will not tell you that everything can be done cheaply. A publicist's relationships, a solicitor's legal read, a cover designer who knows your shelf, and real readers in your actual audience are real purchases at real prices, and every relevant guide says so.
The pages carrying legal content — defamation, privacy, writing about real people — say plainly that they are general information and not legal advice, because that distinction matters more than any traffic they might earn.
What Your Book Pro is
Your Book Pro is a British book-writing platform. You bring a book — an idea, a folder of notes, half a draft, or a finished manuscript written somewhere else — and it gives you the editorial process a publisher would run: a plan, structured feedback, a simulated beta read, a line edit, a proofread, a cover, a blurb and a print-ready file. You can type it, upload it or speak it. The tools sit in one place and work on the same manuscript, so the feedback compounds instead of arriving as twelve disconnected opinions.
Each guide ends with what the platform does for that particular job, and what it does not. Plus lets you upload a manuscript written anywhere, run whichever tools you need, and export it again — with 1,000 non-expiring welcome credits on every account and a plain export of your own words free forever.
Two things are free with no account at all: the Book Coach at yourbook.pro/book-coach, for working out what your book is, and Writer's Block at yourbook.pro/free/unstick-my-book, for when you have stopped.
Try the Book Coach — free, no account
Upload a manuscript written anywhere
Email me the shortlistQuestions people ask
- Where should I start?
- If you don't have a draft: what is a book coach, and how to outline a book. If you do: what does a book editor do, and which edit your manuscript actually needs.
- Are the prices UK-specific?
- Yes. Sourced to CIEP suggested minimum rates effective 1 March 2026, Reedsy's published averages, Books.by and The Ghostwriters Agency, all dated.
- Do I have to buy anything to use these?
- No. Every guide is readable in full on the page. The printable versions and templates are emailed, and the Book Coach is free with no account.
- Is any of this legal advice?
- No. The guides on defamation, privacy and writing about real people are general information for authors and say so explicitly. Take a book that names living people to a publishing solicitor.
- How often are these updated?
- Prices are dated and reviewed annually. Platform policies — AI disclosure especially — change more often, so verify those at the point of publication.