The 5 Day Author’s Marketing
Roadmap to 2026
5 marketing strategies to help you sell more books in 2026. That are working right now.
CURRENTLY CLOSED
I’ve started running ads again for clients for the first time in a few years. That means I’ve been testing a lot of marketing strategies over the past few months.
Even more than I was before (which was already a lot).
And I’ve gone through my list of tests, tactics, and strategies and collected the absolute best ones into the 5 Day Author’s Marketing Roadmap to 2026: 5 live classes teaching you 5 of the most effective strategies I’ve found for selling more books.
Four of these classes are on specific topics critical for marketing your books in 2026: Facebook static image ads, cover and blurb testing, AI, and a complete launch case study with real numbers ($139K in revenue, $61K net) with a breakdown of the full strategy. The fifth class gives you a roadmap for building a sustainable author career in 2026 — based on working with multiple 6- and 7-figure authors.
These strategies are working right now. Not “worked great in 2023.” Right now. Seriously. Some of this stuff I discovered in the last couple weeks.
These are specific, step-by-step recipes that you can use in your business immediately. High impact. Immediately actionable. Zero fluff. Each class runs 45 minutes to an hour of core material, plus Q&A.
Any one of these can be worth 10x or more the price of the course if you implement it.
Bold? Yes.
But the 2025 version of this course (which is available as a bundle if you missed it) got a 9.3/10 when I surveyed the people who joined afterward.
And I think what I’ve put together this year is even better.
Because when the general refrain has been “publishing is tougher than ever,” I’m actually experiencing the opposite. You have more freedom and flexibility to build the career you want in 2026.
You just need to know what’s working. Backed by actual data (not opinion).
In the Facebook Static Images class, I’ll show an ad format that’s beating video (which has been king on Facebook for the past couple years) by 19%. And in the Big Launch class, I’ll show you the step-by-step strategy of how an author went from $26K net with the previous book in the series to $61K.
Implementing either of those strategies could completely change your 2026 (and beyond).
And that’s just two of the classes.
Let’s talk about the rest of them.
What’s Included: The Classes
All five classes are taught live at 1 PM EST, Tuesday July 28 through Saturday August 1. Replays are posted within 24 hours, and this year the Q&A is recorded too — so if you can’t make a session live, you miss nothing.
7 Static Facebook Ads Selling Books Right Now
- 7 static image formats that work in 2026
- 3 straightforward strategies for producing lots of high quality images quickly (even if you’re not a designer)
Cover & Blurb Tests That Sell Books While They Run
- How to run blurb tests as regular Facebook Ads without any special setup or changing your Amazon listing
- An inexpensive way to test multiple cover options before you commission a cover at all
The Big Launch Blueprint: The $61K Profit in 30 Days Case Study
- A step-by-step breakdown of a big launch for a romance book that produced $139K in revenue and $61K in actual net profit during the first 30 days of release across the author’s catalog
The AI Strategy Engine: Build Your Personal 2026 Marketing Roadmap Using Claude Cowork
- How to use AI to build a personalized marketing Roadmap that allows it to give you recommendations + strategic advice based on your books, genre, and goals instead of a one-size-fits-all plan
- Build a Claude Cowork workspace that’s personalized to you, rather than generic
- Includes my custom Claude Skill for building a roadmap
The Author’s Marketing Roadmap to 2026
- The 2026 roadmap for building a sustainable author career to 6 figures and beyond, based on working with multiple 6- and 7-figure authors
- What’s changed over the past year and where the biggest opportunities are for the rest of 2026 (and going into 2027)
Join The Roadmap
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- All five live classes (Tue July 28 – Sat Aug 1, 1 PM EST)
- Replays of every class, with recorded Q&A
- Access through December 31, 2027
- 30-day 100% money back guarantee
- The Author’s Marketing Roadmap to 2026
- Five pre-recorded classes from the 2025 Roadmap (nearly 7 hours)
- Single-campaign Amazon Ads · sub-$0.10 CPC Facebook video ads · the Rapid Release Blueprint · (Almost) Zero Maintenance $10/Day Ads · the Roadmap to 2025
- These strategies still work in 2026 — the 2025 cohort rated the course 9.3/10
Note: if you joined the 2025 Roadmap, you still have access to the course material. You do not need to repurchase it.
Currently Closed🛡️ 30 Day 100% Money Back Guarantee
There’s zero risk. If the 5 Day Author’s Marketing Roadmap to 2026 isn’t for you, just send me an email within 30 days of your purchase and I’ll give you a 100% refund. No questions asked.
Course Access
After you join, the course material (including all replays) will be available until December 31, 2027. You can watch and review the material as much as you want until then.
Note: unlike some of my other courses where I offer free updates to the material, you will not receive access to future versions of the Author’s Marketing Roadmap if I offer this course again in the future (i.e., if I release a 2027 version next year, you would have to purchase that separately). This is because future versions of the Roadmap contain different material, so they’re different courses.
FAQ
Live. The five classes run Tuesday July 28 through Saturday August 1 at 1 PM EST. Every replay (including Q&A) will be posted within 24 hours, so you can watch the material whenever is most convenient for you.
45 minutes to an hour of core material each, plus Q&A. No fluff, fully up to date.
No. The course is designed like a buffet: pick whatever is most relevant to your business. The strategies work together if you want to apply several, but each one stands alone. Even one strategy applied to your books can easily be worth 10x what you paid.
No. The testing approaches in Classes 1 and 2 are specifically designed to be inexpensive — you can run them starting around $5 – $10 a day.
The strategies are usable for authors of all levels with adjustments. Some aspects of certain strategies will only apply if you have a bigger budget (i.e., elements of the Big Launch Blueprint). You can scale back and adapt these to your specific situation / choose what to apply that is relevant to your current skill level + career.
The 2025 Roadmap recordings are available as a bundle with the 2026 version. The 2025 strategies still work and cover different ground than 2026.
Note: if you joined the 2025 Roadmap, you still have access to the course material. You do not need to repurchase it.
If you want to use AI to supercharge what you’ve learned in the Roadmap and crank out high quality marketing at lightning speed, this is an optional live class the week after the Roadmap (Monday, August 3 at 1 PM EST). It’s a 60 minute live session + a Claude Skill that distills key elements of my marketing workflow, allowing you to rapidly create ad copy, blurbs, headlines, and ad images using Claude Cowork.
