Digital + printable planner for authors at events
The Ultimate Author Events Planner
Plan, run and profit from signings, fairs, festivals and talks
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 22-page digital planner with clickable tabs, contents and back links
- Two designs: Classic and the colourful Pop design
- Printable US Letter versions of both designs
- Recommended Resources for Authors PDF
A hyperlinked PDF for Goodnotes, Notability, Noteshelf and other PDF note apps on iPad or Android tablets. Tap the tabs and contents to jump between pages.
About this planner
Plan, run and profit from signings, fairs, festivals and talks. The Author Events Planner has 4 sections: find, prepare, sell and review.
It comes as Goodnotes & PDF, Microsoft Word, Notion template and E-ink edition, or as a printed, spiral-bound planner, so you can plan in the app you already use.
Sample pages
Take a look inside
Real pages from the Author Events Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
4 sections, 22 pages in the PDF
Find3 pages
- Event research
- Applications tracker
- Event calendar
Prepare6 pages
- Two event plan pages
- Stock planner
- Table layout sketch
Sell3 pages
- Two sales logs
- Contacts made
- Stock counted before & after
Review2 pages
- Event review
- Year summary
- Cost, takings & profit per event
Section and page counts are for the Goodnotes & PDF edition; the other formats hold the same planning pages, arranged to suit each app.
Highlights
Inside the Author Events Planner
Pick events worth the trip
- Research each event's audience, cost and genre fit
- Track applications, deadlines and confirmations
- A month-by-month calendar of your events for the year
- See your whole event year before you commit to a table
Set up a table that sells
- Plan each event in one place, from venue to times
- Sketch your table: books, banner, card reader, sign-up sheet
- An opening question and a one-line pitch for every book
- An event kit checklist to pack the night before
Know what you sold
- Decide how many copies of each book to bring
- Log copies taken, copies sold, price and takings
- Count your stock before and after every event
- Note the readers, booksellers and librarians you met
Find your best events
- Review each event while it's still fresh
- Compare cost, takings, books sold and sign-ups
- See the profit from every event in one table
- Use your sales logs to plan stock for next time
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