18-Piece Marketing & Metadata Kit
Writing the book was the hard part. Then Amazon asks for a description, seven keywords, and categories you have never heard of, and your back cover is still blank. Cantos reads your actual manuscript and writes all of it: 18 marketing and metadata pieces, grounded in your real book, not a template with your title pasted in. $99.99, delivered as an 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.
18 pieces in all, every one written from your actual book and delivered in one editable Word document.
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, the tone, the audience it is really for. That is why the copy sounds like your book instead of a fill-in-the-blank blurb.
All 18 pieces, from the back-cover copy to the BISAC categories, in minutes. Fiction and non-fiction alike, grounded in what you actually wrote.
Download the editable document. Want a different angle on any piece? Tell Cantos how to rework it and it revises with your direction in mind.
A Kit That Keeps Working
The kit's back-cover copy flows straight onto your book cover if you design one with Cantos. The cover on our cover page was built exactly that way: the kit wrote the back cover, and the cover carried it. One app, one project, every piece speaking the same language.
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Interior, cover, copy editing, and the marketing kit, all in one place, each $99.99, with bundles that save up to $150. Start with what you need today and add the rest whenever you are ready.
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. Since then more than 70,000 authors have trusted our designs, and more than 300,000 books have been published with our work inside them.
Cantos is the next step. It is not a gimmick that spits out AI slop for you to fix. It is a professionally trained book designer that reads every word you wrote and sets it with a craftsman's care, so your book looks made, not generated.
And your words stay yours. We claim no copyright on your book. We never use your manuscript to train AI. We built this for authors, by people who have spent their lives around books. You bring the story. We help you cross the finish line.
Tracy Atkins, founder
Before You Start
No. The kit works standalone with any finished manuscript. Upload your Word document and Cantos writes the full kit from it. If you do design your interior or cover with Cantos too, everything lives in one project and the pieces work together.
From your book. Cantos reads the entire manuscript first: the genre, the tone, the actual story or argument. The back-cover copy, keywords, categories, and comparable titles all come from what you wrote, which is why they hold up next to professionally published books.
Tell Cantos how: warmer, punchier, aimed at a different reader. It reworks the piece with your direction, and your revision passes cover the refinements.
Yes. Business, self-help, how-to, and memoir get the same treatment, including categories and keywords appropriate to the shelf your book belongs on.
Yes. It is sent over a secure, encrypted connection, never sold, licensed, or shared, and never used to train AI. You can delete your files or your entire account at any time from your account page.
All 18 pieces, written from your actual book, in minutes. $99.99, with no deadline.
Create My Marketing KitEditable, yours to keep. Never used to train AI.