Author-management app

Your whole author business, in one place

AuthorOrbit is the calm at the centre of your author life — one simple, private app for your books, your readers, your income and your writing, so you spend less time hunting through spreadsheets and more time telling stories.

Runs on your own Windows or Mac computer. No cloud account. Your data stays with you.

The AuthorOrbit dashboard, showing catalogue completeness meters, a fourteen-day ‘coming up’ list and counts for each section of the app.

One home instead of a dozen scattered files

Today your buy links are in one document, your royalties in a spreadsheet, your ARC readers in an email folder, your events in a notebook, and your manuscript in yet another program. AuthorOrbit pulls all of it together — with one search box that reaches across every record and every manuscript chapter at once.

Why authors love it

Everything in one place

Titles, links, readers, events, earnings and manuscripts in one tidy home.

Less admin, more writing

The fiddly, repeated jobs get faster, so your energy goes back to the page.

Nothing slips through the cracks

Gentle reminders and a single calendar keep releases, events and deadlines in view before they arrive.

Your data stays yours

It lives on your machine — private, and free of any cloud subscription.

Smart help where it counts

AuthorOrbit can read a royalty statement for you, help sketch a character, track a manuscript’s rising tension, and date your story’s timeline from its own time cues — the tedious bits, done in seconds.

A quick tour

The Royalty Table screen, with a date-range report builder and buttons to add a quarter or export to CSV.

Your books & income

Book Library, Universal Links, Royalty Table, Author Expenses, Tax Schedule.

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The Social Posts screen, where you pick a platform, link a book and write a short brief before drafting a caption.

Your readers & marketing

ARC team, Social Posts, Promo & In-Person Events, Online Appearances, Piracy Watch.

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The Manuscript panel of a writing project, with buttons for Chronology, Plot Bible, Character Bible, the Conflict Engine and exporting all chapters to Word.

Your writing studio

Project creation: chapters, character sheets, AI Plot & Character Bibles, the Conflict Engine, Chronology, Word export.

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How the smart help works

A few features use AI, powered by your own Anthropic key — so it costs us nothing to give you and costs you only pennies to run. Royalty-statement reading, character snapshots, Plot & Character Bibles, the Conflict Engine, Chronology, chapter synopses and Social Posts drafting. Every other feature works with no key at all — and Chronology will build you a rough timeline with no AI at all, if you’d rather nothing left your machine.

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Spend less time on the business. More time on the book.

One simple one-off price, and it’s yours to keep.

Get AuthorOrbit — £149

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