The 2026 Author's Planner
I have several planners available, including the 2026 Limited Editions, The 2026 Simplicity Writing Planner, The Ultimate Authorship Planner (the non-dated version of the yearly Author's Planner), The Essential Book Launch Planner, the Quarterly Author Growth Planner, and the Monthly Writing Focus Planners.
Preorder Now!
When you preorder, your planner will be delivered before December 1st for most locations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Some (often rural or remote) locations require additional time for shipping.
⭐️ Preorder Bonuses ⭐️
August 29th - September 4th:
💥 Get FREE EARLY BIRD shipping with the code SHIP2025. Enter the coupon at checkout to activate Free Shipping.
💥 Order a physical planner, get the PDF free!
💥 Order a PDF planner, get the "What's Next?" PDF Workbook free! (Available by November 1st, 2025)
💥 Limited Run "Writer's Life" Stickers for orders of physical planners with the Standard or Premium Kit Upgrade.
✅ Monthly Writing Focus Planner PDF
✅ Mid-Year Reflection Course
✅ Yearly Reflect & Resolve Course
✅ Live Planning Classes (and replays)
✅ Printable and digital stickers and sticker sheets
September 5th - September 11th:
💥 Get FREE EARLY BIRD shipping with the code SHIP2025. Enter the coupon at checkout to activate Free Shipping.
💥 Order a physical planner, get the PDF free!
💥 Order a PDF planner, get the "What's Next?" PDF Workbook free! (Available by November 1st, 2025)
💥 Limited Run "Writer's Life" Stickers for orders of physical planners with the Standard or Premium Kit Upgrade.
✅ Monthly Writing Focus Planner PDF
✅ Mid-Year Reflection Course
✅ Yearly Reflect & Resolve Course
✅ Live Planning Classes (and replays)
✅ Printable and digital stickers and sticker sheets
September 12th - 30th:
💥 Get FREE EARLY BIRD shipping with the code SHIP2025. Enter the coupon at checkout to activate Free Shipping.
💥 Order a physical planner, get the PDF free!
💥 Order a PDF planner, get the "What's Next?" PDF Workbook free! (Available by November 1st, 2025)
💥 Limited Run "Writer's Life" Stickers for orders of physical planners with the Standard or Premium Kit Upgrade.
✅ Monthly Writing Focus Planner PDF
✅ Mid-Year Reflection Course
✅ Yearly Reflect & Resolve Course
✅ Live Planning Classes (and replays)
✅ Printable and digital stickers and sticker sheets
October:
💥 Get FREE EARLY BIRD shipping with the code SHIP2025. Enter the coupon at checkout to activate Free Shipping.
💥 Order a physical planner, get the PDF free!
💥 Order a PDF planner, get the "What's Next?" PDF Workbook free! (Available by November 1st, 2025)
💥 Limited Run "Writer's Life" Stickers for orders of physical planners with the Standard or Premium Kit Upgrade.
✅ Monthly Writing Focus Planner PDF
✅ Mid-Year Reflection Course
✅ Yearly Reflect & Resolve Course
✅ Live Planning Classes (and replays)
✅ Printable and digital stickers and sticker sheets
What authors are saying about the Author's Planner:
If you're new to me and my work, here's why I created these planners...
As a working mom, I often struggled to find "enough time" to write and make progress toward my creative goals.
I thought, "With my schedule, it's going to take me decades to publish." 😩
I was working 90 hours every two weeks, with 56-60 commuting hours in those same two weeks. I quickly became frustrated, watching my writing buddies finish their manuscripts and publish their latest titles.
And so I got my problem-solving brain to work and began sketching up schedules.
I used spreadsheets to track exactly where my time was going.
Then, I took some serious time (during my commute) to get crystal clear on my goals and what I wanted from my writing.
I tried so many planners in those days, but they all fell flat.
They were too general, their spaces too small to write in, and their prompts too vague to have any real or lasting impact.
And some planners, well, they were just too pretty, and I felt like I couldn't "scar" them with another "false start."
I was inspired by an entrepreneur's new planner, but it was so far outside my budget that I couldn't afford it before it sold out for the season.
So I finally decided to create my own planner, for me and other writers who needed the help.
The Author's Planner was born.
I created it from my own needs and desires to stay organized and not give up on my writing.
Two weeks into the initial creation phase with little sleep, little to eat, and rarely time with my family, my fingers flew across the keys and my mouse clicked away as I built the first iteration of my very own planner: The 2018 Author's Journal.
The planner (as it's more accurately identified) has come a long way since then, but it's about your entire life and the myriad ways everything connects to and affects your creative endeavors.
From its inception and through its various evolutions, this planner has helped me conquer my educational goals (double- and triple-time classes for my BA and MA), achieve my writing and publishing goals, attend in-person book events with less stress, and it has even helped me to spend more high-quality time with my family. Through building my writing career, actively supporting the writing community, undertaking freelance work, and raising kids, I couldn't have kept everything straight without this system.
This planner helps me manage all of my life and all the stages of the publishing cycle.
- No more story ideas and project notes lost in myriad notebooks floating around my house...
- No more starting a planner only to quit after 3 weeks...
- No more keeping 3 or 4 separate planners to track the writing, editing, publishing, marketing, and the rest of my life separately...
I love pretty notebooks and planners, but I hate having too many intake systems to manage and organize (and protect from the kids 😂).
I needed efficiency, not redundancy, and I certainly didn't need any more work to do.
Now, I have a single comprehensive planner to organize the chaos and madness of writing, publishing, and living "the writer's life."
I took the leap and shared the planner, and, to my delight, it has helped so many other writers better live fulfilling lives, weigh their priorities, and ensure writing is a central part of their lives. I'm deeply moved by the messages I received and the stories I've been honored to hear in person at writing events.
This planner has helped so many people and exceeded what I imagined was possible.
This authorship planner is different from your typical planner:
This authorship planner is different from your typical planner because it:
- Guides you through refining your vision for your whole life with writing as a central pillar...
- Offers space to track progress toward your top priority manuscripts and explore why these projects are so important to you...
- Build your editing process and list of editors you enjoy working with...
- Track your submissions for contests, anthologies, journals, or agents...
- Record your income and expenses in a way that helps you more closely examine how well you're allocating your resources...
- Sketch out and refine a completely customizable 12-month marketing plan so you can focus on the tactics that work for your genre and your brand...
- Corral your story ideas into a single, easy-to-access spot inside your planner so you write them down while you're inspired without losing them later somewhere in piles of pretty notebooks...
- Applies coaching techniques to guide you through reviewing and planning weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly...
- You will always feel like someone is holding your hand and sitting there with you, helping you define the next best steps to reach your goals...
- Allows you to define your core working hours and design a schedule that works for your life...
- Offers spaces to track habits, set your word count and editing goals, and note important tasks and dates.
- Provides dedicated space to define your daily top priority so you always know the one most important thing you need to do to move the needle forward each day...
- Includes a built-in system to review your progress, evolve your goals, and refine your vision as you move through the year.
What the planner looks like inside...
This video is from the 2022 Author's Planner, and the planner has gone through some core upgrades, but this still offers a reasonable demonstration of what you can expect from the 2026 edition. Check out this flip-through to get an idea of the size of the planner and how comprehensive it is. It really is meant to manage your writing, publishing, marketing, and business all in one system. 😊
2026 Limited Editions
I'm thrilled to announce that with the help of my team, we've created two Limited Edition planners for 2026. These covers will not be repeated in the future, and they will not be available for purchase after March 1, 2026.
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Order a little or a lot! 🥳
The order form is set up so all you have to do is click the checkbox next to the items you want and specify how many, and it will automatically update your cart. This means you can buy planners for your friends, writing groups, or loved ones. Be sure to email [email protected] if you have any questions or for feedback to share with our team.
Your Order Options
Standard Coil-Bound $50
The 2026 Author's Planner in fan favorite coil binding is designed to be your all-in-one day planner and writing-career coach, helping you organize your writing life and get on a clear path to reach your goals.
Are you ready to get organized in your writing life and empowered to reach your goals? Apply method to the madness of publishing with The 2026 Author's Planner.
Limited Editions $75
Turn heads when you walk into your 2026 writing group meet-ups and conferences with these eye-catching, coil-bound, planners with fresh embellishments and a full-color interior.
These will come in standard coil-binding.
If you wish for the premium upgrades with these limited edition covers, order the custom & personalized planner.
Introducing:
The 2026 Simplicity Writing Planner - Coil-Bound $30
The 2026 Author's Planner in fan-favorite coil binding is designed to be your all-in-one day planner and writing-career coach, helping you organize your writing life and set a clear path to reaching your most meaningful goals.
Coming in at ~240 pages, this planner is 40% lighter than the original Author's Planner. The design is focused on providing you with only what you need to have a well-organized, productive, and joyful year of writing. You'll have more space for setting unique goals, as much or as little as you need - without wasted space for sections you're not using.
Make it a Kit!
Upgrade to a 2026 Ultimate Author Planning Kit to get your planner boxed up with planning goodies!
There are two options:
Standard Kit: $20
✅ 1x Audrey's signature pens
✅ 1x Frixion pen (black)
✅ 2x Highlighters
✅ Tabs for your planner
✅ 2x sheets of Planner stickers
Premium Kit with specially curated items: $35
✅ 3x Audrey's signature pens (you choose!)
✅ 2x Frixion pens (1 black, 1 blue)
✅ 6x Highlighters (variety pack)
✅ Upgraded tabs, matched to compliment your planner
✅ 3-Pack of Sticky Notes, matched to your planner
✅ 6x sheets of Planner stickers, matched to your planner
5 Unique Dream Plan Publish Pens
We now have 5 Dream - Plan - Publish pens available, and when you order an upgrade to a kit, you'll get one! Here is the selection:
✅ Signature Rainbow
✅ Metallic Pink
✅ Fidget - Gunmetal
✅ Fidget - Royal Blue
✅ Fidget - Pitch Black
Custom Premium Planner $200
✅ You'll receive a personalized premium edition, coil-bound Author's Planner
✅ Select your cover style (pens or typewriter)
✅ Personalize with your name, ie "Katie's Author Planner"
✅ Customize: Choose the sections you want more of, and which sections you'd like excluded
✅ Your choice of dated or non-dated
✅ Premium printing features, including:
✔️ Heavier paper
✔️ Coil binding
✔️ More vibrant ink
✔️ Built-in tabs
Perfect Binding $30
If you prefer your 2026 Author's Planner in perfect (book) binding, then this is the option for you.
Digital 2026 Author's Planner $30
Are you looking for a lighter version of the planner?
It doesn't get lighter than the digital edition!
The digital 2026 Author's Planner comes complete with hyperlinked tabs for ease of navigation and is ready to use on apps such as GoodNotes.
Printable 2026 Author's Planner $20
If you prefer to print your planner locally, you'll be able to have it bound however you wish!
Many authors who select this option have their planner printed and 3-hole punched for use in a 3-ring binder, making it easy to add more of the pages you want and fewer of the pages you don't need.
The Ultimate Authorship Planner $45
Do you prefer non-dated planners?
This is the non-dated (and coil-bound) version of the Author's Planner, and you can order this instead, for yourself or for your friends.
The Essential Book Launch Planner $30
This comprehensive book launch planning guide is designed to help you conduct meaningful research, build better systems, and thoroughly prepare you for your best launch yet! You'll have enough pages to plan launches for 6 books and 3 series over a 12-month span.
Every launch should be better than the last, and this planner will help you build upon past successes, avoid repeating failed tactics, and foster your long-term success.
Monthly Writing Focus Planner - $40
You'll get three (3) of these one-month, coil-bound A5 planners that are designed to help writers achieve hyper-focus on their single most important writing-related priority. If you have crucial writing goals that need your attention, this tiny but powerful planner set can help you hit that next level.
Order as many as you like for yourself and your friends.
2026 Virtual Writing Retreat Tickets $75 $40
Our 2026 Virtual Spring Writing Retreat will take place March 27-29, 2026.
These three days will be full of classes and creative writing sessions to help you give a spring refresh to your writing, rejuvenate your publishing plans, and reinvigorate your marketing efforts.
When you claim your retreat tickets with your 2026 Author's Planner order, you'll have the chance to get your tickets at the lowest ever price! Only $40 per ticket, which comes out to only $13.33 per day! 😱
Purchase as many as you like, and surprise your friends for the holidays with their virtual retreat tickets already covered. 💕
Join the
Author Transformation Alliance
This private membership is crafted to support committed authors who wish to maintain a positive mindset, be part of an active and supportive community, and have access to a library full of resources. Our author training library has 50+ courses, masterclasses, walkthroughs, and printables created to help authors improve their writing lives across all aspects, such as writing, editing, publishing, business, marketing, mindset, and more.
When you order your planner today, you'll have access to substantial discounts on 6-month, 12-month, and lifetime membership plans.
The Next Level Planner Bundle
For those that want a little bit of everything! Plus, you'll get 1 year of membership to the Author Transformation Alliance (ATA). 🤩
Value: $984
2025 Price: $347
INCLUDES:
- 2026 Author's Planner (custom & premium)
- 12-Month Membership in the ATA
- Essential Book Launch Planner
- Quarterly Author Growth Planner
- 3× Monthly Writing Focus Planners
- The Author Planning Bundle (PDF)
- Productive, Prosperous, Peaceful Course
- 2x Ticket for the 2026 Virtual Spring Writing Retreat
Super Planning Bundle
For those that want a little bit of everything and lifetime membership in the Author Transformation Alliance (ATA)! 🤩
Value: $1,904
2025 Price: $597
INCLUDES:
- 2026 Author's Planner (custom & premium)
- Lifetime Membership in the ATA
- 2× Private Planning Session with Audrey
- 2× Essential Book Launch Planner
- 2× Quarterly Author Growth Planner
- 6× Monthly Writing Focus Planner
- The Author Planning Bundle (PDF)
- Productive Prosperous, Peaceful Course
- 3x Tickets for the 2026 Virtual Spring Writing Retreat
All-In Author Planning Bundle
Everything you need for the foreseeable future, including your Lifetime membership and 1:1 support from Audrey! 🥳
Value: $3,309
2025 Price: $997
INCLUDES:
- 2026 Author's Planner (custom + premium)
- Lifetime Membership in the ATA
- 2× Private Planning Sessions with Audrey
- Monthly 1:1 Planning and Strategy Support for all of 2026
- 3× Essential Book Launch Planner
- 4× Quarterly Author Growth Planner
- 12× Monthly Writing Focus Planner
- The Author Planning Bundle (PDF)
- Productive, Prosperous, Peaceful Course
- 4x Tickets for the 2026 Virtual Spring Writing Retreat
It's planner time!
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