While not intended to replace traditional accounting methods, the Author Income and Expense Tracker is a quick and easy way for authors to track the profitability of each title, each series, or their writing career overall. Knowing which titles and series are making money helps us build a strategy to market both new releases and our backlist. By entering our income and expense transactions and tagging respective titles, we can view profit and loss by series specifically, by year, and by month. Pro members of Airtable have access to a variety of charts and graphs that allow us to view...
Writing Production Schedule Walkthrough
The Writing Production Schedule base template is designed to help us take full control of your writing workflow, keep ourselves accountable, and never miss a deadline again. This base is our go-to for managing our writing and tracking our daily progress. It auto-calculates daily word counts as well as deadlines based on release date. In this base, titles are grouped by current, future, and archived titles. The template as it’s designed allows for writing, editing, proofreading, and audiobook production. Each of the auto-calculations can be customized for your particular work schedule. To get started, we’ll enter our final work count...
Social Media Content Manager and Schedule Walkthrough Part Two
In addition to being a great place to store, plan, and organize social media content, the Social Media Content Manager and Schedule also contains our Newsletter and Blog content manager, a Podcast and Clubhouse content manager, and a digital content guest pipeline to use to manage the process of finding and recruiting guests for your podcast, Clubhouse, YouTube, or other digital media. Paired with the Social Media Content Manager table this base is a powerful tool in which we keep all of our digital media and outreach materials so that all of our content is in one place—easily accessible, easy...
Social Media Content Manager and Schedule Walkthrough
The Social Media Content Manager and Schedule is designed to give authors one convenient place to plan, create, manage and store copy, graphics, or other digital assets to be posted on every social media platform. With a multitude of platforms and post requirements, social media can quickly become overwhelming. However, communicating with our followers on a regular basis is essential to our success. This base template helps us take control of our social media planning and workflow, allowing us to stay organized and productive when it comes to content. Within this base, we’ll create posts for Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter,...
Master Character Guide Walkthrough
The Master Character Guide base template is designed to help store major details about the characters in every series and book. This base will allows us to store, manage, and find key physical and personality traits, accents, places of origin, note character type, upload photos of character likeness, and label what other books or series these characters have appeared in. This base template is critical when we’re writing new books where previous characters appear and when developing and seeking talent for our audio books. It’s the details that can make or break a book and especially a series. Using this...
Series Bible Walkthrough
The Master Series Bible is really the lifesaver of all lifesavers. This base template is designed to help us intentionally organize and store all of our important series information including book details, chapter outlines, ISBN and ASIN numbers, links, cover graphics, chapter plot outlines, and any other important administrative information we may need to find at a moment’s notice. Rather than sifting through pages of spreadsheets or documents for hours, this base allows for easy access to and recall of our most important information so we can quickly get what we need without spending valuable time looking for it. The...
Masterplan Walkthrough
Masterplan Overview The Author Master Plan is a helpful tool for keeping administrative tasks organized so we can spend more time doing what we love—writing! The Master Plan helps us build, organize, and accomplish tasks related to our writing workflow, new releases, featured backlists, and any administrative tasks that are important to the success of our books and our business. Today we’re going to be talking about how to best use the Master Plan and some tips and tricks for making the most out of this base. All Content View The All Content View is the main view in this...
Airtable Views: Adding and Setting parameters for views, Kanban, Timeline, Gantt
Welcome to the second part of our deep dive into Airtable View types. Today we’re going to be talking about the Kanban View, the Timeline View, and the Gantt View. These view types offer a multitude of different ways to see and customize our information in order to save time and keep us more accountable when it comes to our workflow and our writing deadlines. To access the views in your Airtable base template go to the views tab in the menu in the upper left-hand side of the base, from there we can scroll and see the views built...
Airtable Views: Adding and Setting parameters for Views, Grid, Form, Calendar, Gallery
Today we’re going to talk about something that makes Airtable unique—views! Views allow us to review the information stored in our Airtable base in a variety of different formats. These view types offer a multitude of different ways to see and customize our information. Which in turn allows us as authors to save time when it comes to finding information, as well as keeping us accountable when it comes to our workflow and deadlines. To access the views in your Airtable base template, go to the Views tab in the menu in the upper left-hand side of the base. From...
Some Quick Organization Tips For Your Bases
An Organized Author’s Airtable base template is a step in the right direction for any author who wants to hone their organizational skills and truly master the business of their books. If you’re new to our templates or just need a few extra tips this one is for you. Today we’re going to talk about some of the organizational tools in Airtable and how to use them to your advantage. This information can be applied to any of our base templates and completely depends on your personal preferences.Hiding Fields Sometimes we may have unused fields in our bases, or we...