AN INSANELY POWERFUL, FLEXIBLE, COMPREHENSIVE, AND INTUITIVE BOOK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AUTHORS, COACHES, GHOSTWRITERS, AND PUBLISHERS.
NOW WITH CHARTS AND DEDICATED MEDIA TRACKING FUNCTIONALITY AND REPORTING
Racket Publishing began a few years back with a singular goal: to give authors new tools and technologies to simplify the research, writing, and publishing processes.
There is plenty of room for improvement—and Racket founder Phil Simon should know. He has worked with legacy publishers since 2009. As a general rule, their tech has remained stagnant—and authors often bear the brunt of their gaffes. Even many hybrid publishers cling to antediluvian tech and processes.
It’s high time for a better way.
Enter RacketHub—a sophisticated, proprietary, comprehensive, flexible, and revolutionary book management system. It’s designed to track and organize every aspect of the process: writing, interior and cover design, editing, marketing—you name it. Authors, ghostwriters, book coaches, and publishers of all sizes serve to benefit from it.
Features
RacketHub is a holistic solution for serious publishing professionals. Use it to:
- Manage all aspects of the project and process.
- Conduct book-related research.
- Easily view key aspects of your project with Notion’s new charts. 🆕
- Chat inside the app via a simple message board. No need for Slack, MS Teams, e-mail, or texts.
- Offer your designer feedback on covers and galley templates.
- Track manuscript progress through simple visuals.
- Develop and track reader personas.
- Minimize confusion, lost files, and general miscommunication.
- Organize, group, and analyze the content for your book. (Thanks to NotionAI, RacketHub can also make relevant and even surprising suggestions.)
- Coordinate with everyone involved in a book project, including designers, indexers, editors, proofreaders, and the like. Employees, clients, and independent contractors can all participate.
- Maximize the chance that a book hits its deadlines.
- And much, much more.
Authors, book coaches, ghostwriters, and publishers who fly by the seats of their pants won’t benefit from RacketHub. Ditto for those who are looking to skimp on expenses to put out a passable book.
Underpinning RacketHub is Notion—the über-flexible, user-friendly, and customizable magnet app that has exploded in popularity. (More on this here.) RacketHub is jam-packed with useful templates, powerful formulas, and rich views of key project information, deadlines, and goals. It is, quite simply, the ultimate writing and publishing system.
RacketHub Book Project Plan: Main Database View
This robust database lists the 17 phases and more than 200 tasks you’ll need to complete to research, write, edit, design, publish, and market your book—and more. Of course, you can add new tasks as needed, tweak existing ones, and archive ones that don’t apply. For instance, if you don’t want to do an audiobook, you can easily archive the phase and related tasks. Ditto if you’re working with a traditional publisher and don’t need to buy your own ISBNs.
RacketHub Book Project Plan: Late Task Database View
Identify late tasks by simply clicking on this view.
RacketHub Book Project Plan: Weekly Calendar View
Along with the accompanying list view, this scrollable calendar tells you what’s coming. Easily switch to a monthly view if you prefer.
RacketHub Link Clipper
See a good article or dataset on the web? Quickly clip it into a database and assign key attributes to, including in which chapter in your book it should go. If you’re away from your computer, don’t fret. You can add content on the go via an app on your smartphone or tablet.
Automations
RacketHub also takes advantage of Notion’s new database buttons to kick off automations. In the video below, I show how this functionality can save time, eliminate errors, and improve data quality. (Click here to read more about this cool feature.)
Updated: August 9, 2024
As of today, RacketHub now contains the Simple Publicity Tracker to effectively manage your book’s PR pre- and post-publication.
Updated: August 13, 2024
RacketHub now ships with native charts. Here are a few of them. To enlarge the images, just click on them.
FAQ
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Includes four 45-minute sessions of recorded personalized Zoom training. Note that by making the purchase, you accept the end-user license agreement.
Options
Single author, unlimited use.
$1,999.99
Ghostwriter/book coach, unlimited use
Typically works with two or three authors per year.
$4,999.99
Small publisher, unlimited use
Typically works with five to ten authors per year.
$9,999.99
Medium publisher, unlimited use
Typically publishes ten to 50 books per year.
$14,999.99
Large publisher, unlimited use
Typically publishes more than 50 books per year.
$19,999.99
Buy RacketHub Now
Includes four 45-minute sessions of recorded personalized Zoom training. Note that by making the purchase, you accept the end-user license agreement.