The Author Queen presents
Your Book Has a Budget.
Let's Build the Business to Fund It.
Discover how funding-ready your author business is in less than five minutes. Fund Your Book helps authors understand where their business stands, identify potential funding-readiness gaps, and create a clear plan for what to work on next.
Takes approximately 5 minutes.
Author Funding Readiness Score
72/ 100
Position
Business Setup
Credit Readiness
Business Financials
Author Business
Funding Plan
The problem
You wrote the book.
Now build the business that can fund it.
Most authors budget only for writing. But building a book business may also involve editing, publishing, inventory, marketing, a website, branding, a launch, events, advertising and ongoing business operations.
Not every author needs every expense. What every author does need is clarity about what their plan actually costs — and a business prepared enough to be considered for capital.
How it works
Four steps from where you are to funding-ready.
01
Assess
Take the free Author Funding Readiness Assessment.
02
Prepare
Discover the areas that may need attention.
03
Position
Follow your personalized Funding Readiness Action Plan.
04
Fund
Explore potential funding opportunities when your profile is appropriately positioned.
Your book deserves more than a launch day.
Positioning first
Before you apply for business funding, your author business needs to be ready for business.
Funding readiness is not a promise of approval. It's the work of making your author business legible — registered, banked, documented, and clear about what the money is for.
A book is what you write.
A brand is how you build beyond it.
A book is a beginning. The brand, the platform, the offers and the operations are what turn one title into an author business.
Start here
Find out how funding-ready your author business is today.
Take the Free AssessmentPrefer to talk first? Book a free consultationTakes approximately 5 minutes. No credit pull. No Social Security number.