Products & Services

Tools, templates, and resources for independent authors — built from real experience taking two books from manuscript to market.

Digital Products

Print & Ebook Formatting Templates

Pre-built, print-ready templates for interior layout — margins, chapter breaks, front and back matter already set to publishing spec. Load your manuscript in, export, done.

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Cover Design Templates

Editable cover templates sized correctly for common trim sizes and both print and ebook formats. Built for authors who want a professional look without hiring a designer.

Editable

Author Website Starter Kit

A ready-to-launch website template for authors — bio, book pages, and buy links — built from the same structure used for apollo1catalogue.com.

Starter Kit

Book Launch Checklist & Planning Kit

A step-by-step launch timeline covering pre-order setup, review copies, and launch-week promotion, packaged as a downloadable guide.

Guide

Author Listing Agreement Template

A ready-to-use agreement template for authors who want to license their book for listing on a third-party site or catalog.

Legal Template

Built From Real Experience

Every template here came out of publishing two titles under two different ISBN structures — not theory, but the actual files and checklists used to get books onto shelves.

Why It Works

Self-Publishing Course

From Manuscript to Market

A guided course walking through the full self-publishing process — ISBN and copyright registration, distribution setup across IngramSpark, KDP, and B&N Press, and what to do when a platform account runs into trouble. Built from firsthand experience publishing two titles under two different ISBN structures, including navigating a KDP account issue in real time.

ISBN & copyright registration, start to finish
Distribution setup on IngramSpark, KDP and B&N Press
What to do when a platform account runs into trouble
Two ISBN structures compared, from lived experience

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What the Course Covers

01Preparing the manuscript for distribution
02Registering ISBNs and copyright correctly
03Setting up IngramSpark for print distribution
04Publishing on Amazon KDP without the common traps
05Listing on Barnes & Noble Press
06Recovering a suspended or flagged platform account

Global Catalog Placement

Annual Listing Fee

Authors' books featured on the Apollo 1 Catalogue site with a dedicated listing, cover art, description, and direct buy links — for a flat annual fee. No per-sale commission, no sales tracking, and no payout processing required.

Dedicated listing page Cover art & description Direct buy links Flat annual fee No per-sale commission

Note: this only delivers real value to authors once the site has established traffic. Worth holding this offering until visibility is actually there to sell.

Still to Decide Before This Goes Live

1Pricing for each digital product and the course
2Platform to host and sell the digital products (e.g. Gumroad, or your own site with a payment processor)
3Whether the course is self-paced / pre-recorded or requires a live component
4Annual fee amount for Global Catalog Placement, and what site traffic or audience exists to justify it

What's Not Offered

Manuscript editing, custom one-off cover design, hands-on formatting, book launch management, and event representation are not offered as ongoing services. These require direct hourly work and don't fit a passive income model — they're better left to freelance editors and designers, or added later as a separate active-services arm if desired.

Manuscript editing Custom one-off cover design Hands-on formatting Book launch management Event representation

Let's Turn Your Book Into Reality

From manuscript to marketplace – we're with you every step of the way.