Things stop moving
No new framework, tool or article in a year. The lead magnet's welcome email died months ago. The Amazon listing still says 'forthcoming'.
Fractional Author Operations · by Intellectual Perspective Press
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.
10 founding seats · you approve everything, weekly, in one visit
You write. The crew flies it.
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 MANIFESTO
Why every edition of publishing handed authors a new job nobody warned them about
The full argument behind AuthorOps. Ten minutes. No pitch at the bottom.
Read the manifesto →The shift
Author with a second job → author with a crew.
You, right now
You, with a 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 Day 0 baseline score on day one. A one-page Monthly Asset 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 how many miles it uses. Your seat comes with a monthly allowance of miles, and you choose which flight plans to spend them on. 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. Landed.
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The waitlist
Request a founding seat
No payment now. Seats offered in waitlist order before launch in January 2027.
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.
5h
€150
€39,000
of your expert time spent on operations, per year
240 missed actions per year against 22 a month.
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 SEATS
€500/month
founding rate, held for 12 months
- Your Boarding and Day 0 baseline score in week one
- A monthly allowance of miles, spent on the flight plans you choose, run weekly by a named crew
- Every deliverable approved by you before it goes anywhere
- One-page Asset Report monthly: score, outcomes, wins
- Founding seats shape which flight plans we build next
FAQ
The obvious questions
Who's behind AuthorOps
Debbie Jenkins is an award-winning author and publisher who has helped hundreds of experts get published. Author of 18. Ghostwriter of 20. Publisher of hundreds.
A small named crew at Intellectual Perspective Press: real operators assisted by purpose-built AI systems, with a human review gate on every single output. Nothing reaches you, or the world, unreviewed.
The opposite. Your Boarding captures your voice (you can literally talk instead of type), everything is drafted from your own material, and you approve every word before it ships. Approval is the product.
Fine. Flight plans are chosen individually. Anything relationship-based (podcasts, press, speaking) needs a three month run to work, and we'll say so upfront rather than sell you a month of disappointment.
It's the founding price, held for 12 months for the first ten seats. It will rise after our own book proves the numbers. That's the point of having a founding seat.