The Marketing And Book Premiere Kit
Writing the book was the hard part. Then a store asks for a description, seven keyword phrases and categories you have never heard of, your back cover is still blank, and nobody told you that launch day is a plan rather than a date. Cantos reads your actual manuscript and writes the whole thing: around 30 pieces across three phases, grounded in your real book, not a template with your title pasted into it. $99.99, delivered as one editable document.
Create My Marketing KitWorks with any finished manuscript, whether or not we designed your book.
Your manuscript is never used to train AI. Ever.
Around 30 pieces across three phases, every one written from your actual book and delivered in a single editable Word document with a clickable contents page.
From the team behind BookDesignTemplates.com, trusted by first-time authors since 2011. Real people who have designed books for fifteen years, now working for you.
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How It Works
Cantos reads the whole book: the story or the argument, the tone, and the reader it is really for. That is the difference between copy that sounds like your book and copy that sounds like a fill-in-the-blank blurb with your title in it.
Three phases, from keyword grids and descriptions to press releases, pitch letters, bookstore playbooks and a six-month promotion calendar. Fiction and non-fiction alike, every piece grounded in what you actually wrote.
Download one editable document with a clickable contents page. Want a different angle on any piece? Tell Cantos how and it rewrites that one with your direction in mind.
The Three Phases
Most launch advice stops at publication day, which is exactly where the work starts. The kit is built as a sequence, so each phase is what you need open in front of you that week.
Get found and fill in every field correctly the first time: a metadata master sheet, title and subtitle options, seven keyword phrases with a research grid, a category strategy, comparable titles, every length of description a store will ask for, the back-cover copy, your author bios, and a pricing and upload command centre.
Your one-sentence hook and elevator pitch, a press release written for this book, a media one-sheet, an author interview Q and A, pitch letters for podcasts, reviewers, local media, creators, bookstores and libraries, a social announcement pack, a premiere week planned day by day, and a first-month momentum plan.
A six-month promotion calendar, and the playbooks behind it: getting into bookstores, landing speaking engagements, working fairs and festivals and signings, the library strategy, an ongoing content and social rhythm, and how to attract a publishing house.
A Kit That Keeps Working
The kit's back-cover copy flows straight onto your book cover if you design one here. The cover on our cover page was built exactly that way: the kit wrote the back cover and the cover carried it, because both were made from the same manuscript in the same project. One app, one book, every piece speaking the same language.
See the Cover StudioThe Price
All three phases, written from your manuscript, in one editable document with a clickable contents page. No subscription.
Cantos writes the whole kit once you check out, and the complete document is yours to download and keep. Three books bought together are $199.99, held as credits for whenever the next one is ready.
With an interior and a cover, the three together are $229.99; interior, cover, copy editing and the kit together are $249.99, which is the cheapest way to reach it.
Revision passes come included with the kit. If it is not what you wanted, ask for a refund within 30 days and you get back everything you paid; the full wording lives in the Terms.
Being Straight With You
Nobody here sends your pitch letters, books your podcast slots or calls the bookstore for you. The kit writes the letters, names the kind of person each one goes to and tells you how to find them. The sending is yours, which is also why it costs what it costs.
No honest launch kit predicts a number, and we will not put one in front of you. What this removes is the blank page: the descriptions, the keywords, the categories and the plan all exist, written from your book, so the work you do next is aimed somewhere.
The kit does not run paid ads or manage a budget for you. It is the words and the plan: what to say about your book, where to say it, and in what order across the first six months.
One App, The Whole Book
Every part of the book is made from the same manuscript in the same project, which is why the back-cover copy in your kit is the back-cover copy on your cover.
Why We Built This
Fifteen years ago my team and I started BookDesignTemplates.com because first-time authors kept telling us the same thing: I wrote the book, but I have no idea how to make it look like a real one. More than 70,000 authors have used our designs since, and more than 300,000 books have been published with our work inside them.
Then we watched what happened after the book was finished. An author who had spent three years on a manuscript would hit the upload form, meet seven empty keyword boxes and a category tree, guess at all of it in twenty minutes, and never come back to it. The book was fine. Nobody could find it.
So the kit is the part nobody enjoys, written from the book itself rather than from a template, and it keeps going past launch day because that is where most books go quiet. Your words stay yours. We claim no copyright on your book and we never use your manuscript to train AI.
Tracy Atkins, founder
Before You Start
No. The kit works on its own with any finished manuscript, whoever designed the book. Upload the Word document and Cantos writes the whole kit from it. If you do design the interior or the cover here as well, everything lives in one project and the pieces feed each other.
From your book. Cantos reads the entire manuscript first: the genre, the tone, the argument or the story, the reader it is really for. The back-cover copy, the keywords, the categories and the comparable titles all come out of what you actually wrote, which is why they stand up next to traditionally published books.
Phase one is upload day: the metadata master sheet, title and subtitle options, seven keyword phrases with a research grid, categories, every length of description, the back-cover copy and your author bios. Phase two is the premiere: the press release, a media one-sheet, pitch letters for podcasts, reviewers, local media, creators, bookstores and libraries, an interview Q and A, and a day-by-day launch plan. Phase three is months two to six: a promotion calendar and the playbooks for bookstores, speaking, festivals, libraries, an ongoing content rhythm, and how to attract a publishing house.
As one editable Word document with a clickable contents page, so you can jump to any piece, edit it and paste it wherever it is going. A PDF edition is available on demand. It is plain, black and white and readable in any word processor, because a launch kit is a working document, not a brochure.
Tell Cantos how: warmer, punchier, aimed at a different reader, with the subtitle rewritten. It reworks that piece with your direction in mind, and revision passes come included with the kit.
Yes. Business, self-help, how-to, history and memoir get the same treatment, with the categories and keywords that belong to the shelf your book actually sits on. Cookbooks, children's picture books and textbooks are the three we do not take.
The kit is written in the book's own language for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian: a Spanish manuscript gets its press release, its descriptions and its back-cover copy in natural Spanish, a manuscript in Brazilian Portuguese gets its own, with the category codes kept in the industry-standard taxonomy retailers expect. A book in any other language receives the kit in English.
Yes. It travels over an encrypted connection, it is never sold, licensed or shared, and it is never used to train AI. You can delete a project or your entire account whenever you like, from your own account page.
Around 30 pieces across three phases, written from your actual book, in one editable document.
Create My Marketing KitEditable, yours to keep. Never used to train AI.