Things stop working
Links break. The lead magnet's welcome email died months ago. The Amazon listing still says 'forthcoming'.
Fractional Author Operations · by Intellectual Perspective
You wrote the book. Then the book gave you a second job.
Podcast pitching. Press requests. LinkedIn. Metadata. Reviews. The newsletter. You know it all matters. You also know you became an author to think and write, not to run a media operation single-handed at 9pm.
Request a founding seat
10 seats · €500/month founding rate · you approve everything, weekly, in one visit
YOUR BOOK
podcasts pitched
press answered
linkedin alive
metadata sharp
You write. The crew orbits.
The enemy
Nobody told you an author asset decays.
Your book is an asset. And like every unmaintained asset, it is being worked on right now by three quiet forces:
Things drift apart
Four different bios in four places. The website says one thing, LinkedIn another. Nothing points anywhere.
The world forgets
No posts, no pitches, no presence. A journalist quotes a lesser expert. Your competitor's book stays visible. Yours doesn't.
None of it announces itself. All of it compounds. And the villain isn't your discipline: it's the assumption that authors should run all of this themselves, alone, for free, forever.
The shift
Author with a second job → author with a crew.
You, right now
You, with a ground crew
Sunday night writing LinkedIn posts you're not sure work
Three posts a week in your voice, drafted from your material. You approve every word.
'I should really pitch some podcasts' (month eleven of saying this)
20 personalised pitches a month, followed up twice. You just show up and talk.
Press opportunities expire in your inbox
Requests monitored daily, answered same-day in your voice, placements logged.
No idea if any of it works
A benchmark score on day one. A one-page report every month. Numbers, not vibes.
The plan
Three steps. One weekly visit. That's your whole job.
We benchmark your asset
A 15-question diagnostic scores exactly where atrophy, entropy and apathy have got in. That number is day zero. Everything after it is measured.
You pick the work
Podcasts, press, LinkedIn, metadata, reviews, speaking: each flight plan states its outcome, its scope, and its price. No hours. No surprises.
The crew flies it
One email a week: what ran, what it produced, what needs your yes. Tap approve or leave a comment. Ten minutes. Done.
podcast booking enginepress commentarylinkedin supportguest articlesspeaker pitchingamazon metadatareview enginenewsletter opsbook seedinglaunch coordination+ 21 more flight plans
The maths
What is DIY actually costing you?
Be honest with the sliders. Your hourly value is what a client, employer or speaking gig pays for your time, not what feels modest.
6h
€200
€62,400
of your expert time spent on operations, per year
AuthorOps founding rate: €6,000/year — and the hours come back.
Is this you?
Built for authors whose book is a business asset.
You run a consultancy and the book opens doors, when anyone remembers it exists. You're wondering: how do the authors who are everywhere find the time?
You've sold the business, the book is your legacy, and you'd like it to stay alive without you turning marketing into your retirement job. Can't someone just fly this for me?
Your book launches within a year and you already dread the part after the writing. What if launch week had a crew instead of a checklist?
The offer
Ten founding seats. Then the doors close while we deliver.
FOUNDING CREW
€500/month
founding rate, held for 12 months
- Your Pre-Flight Check and benchmark score in week one
- Your choice of flight plans, run weekly by a named crew
- Every deliverable approved by you before it goes anywhere
- One-page Asset Report monthly: score, outcomes, wins
- Founding members shape which flight plans we build next
The waitlist
Request a founding seat
No payment now. Seats offered in queue order when the October numbers publish.
FAQ
The obvious questions
A small named crew at Intellectual Perspective: real operators assisted by purpose-built AI systems, with a human review gate on every single output. Nothing reaches you, or the world, unreviewed.