The whole menu
Behind one simple menu, AuthorOrbit does the work of a book database, an accounts package, a marketing planner and a writing studio. Here’s the whole menu.
Your books & income
Book Library
Your entire catalogue at a glance: covers, blurbs, series order, buy links and key dates for every title, on one shelf. Add a Future Teaser to any upcoming book to keep a snippet or caption ready.
Universal Links
Grab the right buy link for any book with one click. No more digging through documents every time you post.
Royalty Table
Finally see what you’re really earning. Drop in a statement — PDF or spreadsheet — and AuthorOrbit reads it for you, keeping a clean, year-by-year record. It understands Amazon KDP & Kindle Unlimited, Draft2Digital, IngramSpark, Kobo and more, and keeps the original file attached to its quarter.
Author Expenses
Every cost of running your author business in one ledger. Tag a spend to a book to see what a launch really cost; filter by UK tax year for your accountant.
Author Costs
A running list of your subscriptions and memberships, with a nudge before a free trial quietly turns into a bill.
Tax Schedule
Pulls royalty income together with business and household expenses into one ready-made UK tax-year schedule, split cleanly. A head start for your accountant, not a replacement.
My Publisher/s
Every publisher’s details, contacts and contracts kept together.
Your readers & marketing
ARC Reader Team
Who your advance readers are, how to reach them, and which book each one has.
Social Links
All your handles and author-site links in one spot, ready when you set up a promo.
Social Posts
Describe the post in a line (“cover reveal for Book 3”) and AuthorOrbit drafts the caption in your voice for the platform you’re posting to — Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Bluesky, Pinterest and more. Point it at a book and that book’s buy link goes in automatically. When it reads right, send it straight to your scheduler as a ready-to-review draft.
Online Appearances
A searchable, taggable library of every blog, podcast, business or site that’s featured you. Paste the link once; find it forever.
Promo Events
Plan your online events and sales, with gentle nudges so a deadline never sneaks up.
In Person Events
Signings and conventions handled: a logistics checklist, book-stock counts, costs and to-dos for every event in one view.
Piracy Watch
Spot where your books are being pirated and track each case to resolution, with ready-made searches and a drafted DMCA notice a click away.
Your writing studio
Project Creation
A calm writing studio built in. Draft chapters with clean, manuscript-standard formatting; import a manuscript you’ve started (or link a Google Doc and pull your latest changes); build rich character sheets; read your whole book in one continuous view; export to Word. Ask for a Plot Bible and Character Bible straight from your own chapters, track the four tension layers with the Conflict Engine, and see your book as index cards on a corkboard — all without leaving the page.
Word Progress
Set a target finish date; AuthorOrbit shows the steady daily word count that gets you there, for every work in progress.
Editor
Take on editing work for other authors without it ever mingling with your own manuscripts. A separate workspace with the same chapter tools, Bibles and Conflict Engine, plus payment tracking and an eleven-step status timeline.
Staying on top of it all
Author Admin
A simple board for everything on your plate, with per-task reminders that warn you early — a tax return weeks ahead, a newsletter a couple of days out.
Branding
Logos, colours, fonts, author photos, bios and taglines in one brand hub, so your look stays consistent everywhere.
Calendar
Every important date — releases, events, promos, deadlines — gathered automatically into one view you can scan at a glance or export to Google or Outlook.
Dashboard
The landing screen: catalogue-completeness meters, a royalty trend from your last twelve statements, KPI tiles, a 14-day “coming up” list, and the search box that matches across every table and every chapter.