Digital + printable planner for querying writers
The Ultimate Traditional Publishing Planner
Get your manuscript ready, pitch it and find the right agent
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 49-page digital planner with clickable tabs, contents and back links
- Two designs: Classic and the colourful Pop design
- Printable US Letter versions of both designs
- Recommended Resources for Authors PDF
A hyperlinked PDF for Goodnotes, Notability, Noteshelf and other PDF note apps on iPad or Android tablets. Tap the tabs and contents to jump between pages.
About this planner
Get your manuscript ready, pitch it and find the right agent. The Traditional Publishing Planner has 7 sections: ready, pitch, agents, submissions, the offer, published and plan & wellbeing.
It comes as Goodnotes & PDF, Microsoft Word, Notion template and E-ink edition, or as a printed, spiral-bound planner, so you can plan in the app you already use.
Sample pages
Take a look inside
Real pages from the Traditional Publishing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
7 sections, 49 pages in the PDF
Ready4 pages
- Manuscript readiness
- Genre & word-count fit
- Comparable titles
Pitch7 pages
- Logline & elevator pitch
- Query letter builder
- Synopsis planner & draft
Agents6 pages
- What I want in an agent
- Three agent research pages
- Tiered shortlist
Submissions7 pages
- Batch planner
- Two submission trackers
- Partial & full requests
The Offer4 pages
- The call: questions to ask
- Offer comparison
- After an offer
Published6 pages
- Deal to publication dates
- Editorial letter response
- Debut marketing plan
Plan & Wellbeing4 pages
- Monthly planner
- The next book
- Staying steady
Section and page counts are for the Goodnotes & PDF edition; the other formats hold the same planning pages, arranged to suit each app.
Highlights
Inside the Traditional Publishing Planner
Polish your pitch
- An honest readiness check before you send a single query
- Logline, elevator pitch and a part-by-part query builder
- Two full query drafts, a synopsis planner and a bio page
- Genre, word count and comps checked against the market
Find the right agent
- Decide what you want from a long-term business partner
- Three pages of agent research, with what each one asks for
- Wishlist matches to personalise every query
- A tiered shortlist: dream agents, strong fits and good fits
Query in small batches
- A batch planner, so early feedback improves the next round
- Two submission trackers with response times and follow-ups
- Log partial and full requests, rejections and feedback
- A query health check to show what needs changing
From the call to publication
- Questions for the call and a side-by-side offer comparison
- Contract questions to go through with your agent
- Deal to publication timeline, advances and royalties
- A monthly planner, the next book and a wins log
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