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Indie Author Planner — Book Project Workbook for Self-Published Writers — Overview & Mockup
Your book, on one calm track
The Indie Author Planner by Dovlee is a printable book project workbook for independent, self-published authors. It includes a book project overview page (title, genre, deadline), a manuscript tracker that follows chapters, draft stages and word counts with a progress bar, a chapter checklist, an eight-month launch timeline from draft to launch day, and marketing pages for a newsletter, social posts and an ARC reader team, as a printable PDF in US Letter and A4. It is an instant digital download — no physical workbook is shipped.
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Writing a book is one enormous project pretending to be a hobby. This workbook treats it like the project it is: the overview page holds your title, genre and deadline; the manuscript tracker turns 'somewhere in chapter nine' into a word count and a progress bar you can watch move; the chapter checklist closes each stage — draft, edit, proof — with a tick; and the launch timeline lays the last eight months out backwards from launch day, so the cover, the beta readers and the ARC team each land in their own month instead of all in one panicked week.
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Who it is for: Indie and self-published authors writing novels or non-fiction, first-time authors who want one home for the whole project, and writers juggling drafting with a day job
Instantly. After checkout you get a download link (on Dovlee, Etsy or Gumroad, wherever you purchased). Open the PDF and print the pages, or load it into a tablet notes app.
A planner workbook. It gives you the pages to organise a book project — tracking, checklists, a timeline and marketing planning. It does not teach writing craft, and it is not publishing or financial advice.
Each chapter's draft stage (outline, first, second draft), its word count and a done status, with a total word-count progress bar against your target — the sample in the images shows 62,400 of 80,000 words.
It maps eight months backwards from launch day: drafting, self-edit, beta readers, cover and formatting, ARC and buzz, then launch — one focus per month so nothing piles into launch week.
Simple planning pages for the things indie authors juggle at launch: a newsletter list, a social posts plan and an ARC (advance reader copy) team, each with space to plan and tick off.
US Letter and A4, as a printable PDF. It is a digital download — nothing is shipped; print a fresh tracker whenever a new book begins.
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