SelfPublishHQ gives your first book a running order. My three bonus tools do the counting, the testing and the dating the guides leave to you.

SelfPublishHQ: The Indie Author Roadmap by Matt Garrett is 19 PDF guides plus a Series Economics Calculator, organised as seven stages from Start to Book 2 and built on a real 102,000-word novel he wrote with AI and published on KDP. $27 one-time on WarriorPlus, $17 with coupon HQVIP until Monday, November 9, 2026, 11:59 PM EST. Buy through my link and three offline tools come with it, with more bonuses added during launch week.

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  • The Whole-Book Tell Counter: every count from the AI-Tell Polish Pass on the whole manuscript at once, offline, with the Paladin 404 benchmark next to your numbers
  • The Amazon Shelf Test: your cover at 160, 100 and 60 pixels inside your genre's shelf, squint mode, the KDP spec check, the search-result card and the blurb fold for desktop and phone
  • The Launch Calendar Builder: every ARC Playbook and KDP Launch Playbook task on a real date from T-30 to T+14, KDP Select rules checked against your dates, .ics export
  • All three are single HTML files: unzip, double-click, done. No account, no key, nothing uploaded
  • $161 in bonuses with the $17 front end, plus the library bonuses I add during launch week (KDP Account Safety Checklist, The First 30 Days, the AI De-Genericizer)

What SelfPublishHQ is

Seven stages, each with a goal, a "done when" list and the trap that stalls most first books:

  1. Start: the Roadmap, the Paladin 404 case study and the honest numbers (what Amazon pays, what authors earn, Month 1, Year 1, Year 5).
  2. Decide: the Fiction Niche Finder with 50 sub-genres and the Source Hunter's Cheat Sheet.
  3. Write: the Co-Author Prompt Pack (30 prompts, a Book Brief), the Series Bible Template and the Series Sprint Checklist.
  4. Polish: the AI-Tell Polish Pass, seven passes in a fixed order with the real whole-book findings.
  5. Package: Cover & Title formulas, the Blurb & A+ Swipe File, the Pen Name Kit, the Author Site Build and the Short Story Reader Magnet Kit.
  6. Launch: the First 10 Reviews ARC Playbook and the KDP Launch & Free-Promo Playbook.
  7. Grow: the Series Economics Calculator, the AI Audiobook Guide, the Book 2 Fast-Track and the AI Author Tool Stack Map.

Fiction or non-fiction, with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or no AI at all. KDP rules checked against Amazon's help pages in October 2026. No income promises anywhere.

Good to know

  • It is 19 PDF guides (20 files) plus one interactive calculator in a members area, not software. The vendor says so on his sales page, and I prefer that to a tool that promises a finished manuscript.
  • The worked example is a GameLit novel and the Niche Finder is fiction-first; every guide flags where non-fiction differs.
  • The $17 price is the launch coupon until Monday, November 9; after that it is $27.

How to claim

  1. Buy SelfPublishHQ through a button on this page.
  2. After checkout you land on my bonus page with your bonus code.
  3. Enter the code with your email at imdominator.com/bonus-claim and your bonus area unlocks straight away. Bonuses added during launch week land in the same place.

What you get

Bonus 1 · The Whole-Book Tell Counter

Guide 4, the AI-Tell Polish Pass, tells you to count your tics with a prompt and your word processor's search, chunk by chunk. Drop in the whole manuscript (.docx, .txt or .md) and the counter runs every search at once: meta-leaks (chapter, reader, plot, scene), the six sentence sweeps with every hit in context and per 1,000 words, gaze beats (looked, stared, glanced, watched), sentence openings, "Not..." fragments, reflex lists of three, dialogue tags, repeated phrases, one-sentence paragraphs that recur, words per chapter and chapter-ending shapes. The headline numbers sit next to the Paladin 404 findings from the guide. Download the report as Markdown or the hits as CSV, fix, re-run, watch the numbers drop.

$67 value

Bonus 2 · The Amazon Shelf Test

Guide 5 says a cover is judged at about 160 pixels, in a list of competitors, in about a second. Upload a candidate: the spec check reads size, ratio, file weight and light edges against KDP's ebook cover specs. The shelf shows it at 160, 100, 60 or 220 pixels inside a grid of covers in one of ten genre dialects, or your own screenshots of the top 20 in your sub-genre, with squint, grayscale and dark modes. Type title, subtitle, series and author for the search-result card and the KDP title checks (200 characters, restricted promotional words). Paste the blurb for the desktop and phone fold, the 200-word count and the five-part anatomy from guide 6. Tick the four gates, download the scorecard.

$47 value

Bonus 3 · The Launch Calendar Builder

Guides 9 and 10 give a 14-day ARC plan and a T-30 to T+14 launch calendar as tables. Enter the launch date and the route (full price, KDP free days, Countdown Deal or price pulse) and every task lands on a real date: promo site bookings, the ARC prepare, recruit and deliver days, the welcome email 10 to 14 days before launch, final checks, launch day, the promo stack, the nudge, the afterburn and the two-week review. The rule checks compare your dates with the KDP Select rules the guide quotes (5 free days per term, 30 days in Select before a Countdown Deal, list price unchanged 30 days before and 14 after, one promotion type per enrolment). Tick tasks off, print, copy as text or export an .ics file for Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar. The launch dashboard from T to T+14 saves in your browser.

$47 value
$17 with coupon HQVIP

One-time payment. Launch pricing until Monday, November 9, 2026, 11:59 PM EST, then $27. 30-day refund through the vendor's support desk.

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Frequently asked questions

What does SelfPublishHQ cost?

$27 one-time on WarriorPlus. During launch week the coupon HQVIP is applied at checkout automatically and the price is $17, until 11:59 PM EST on Monday, November 9, 2026. No subscription. The upgrades after checkout (a cover tool, FindYourReaders, the ShortStoryEngine family, BookPromoPilot, Newsletter Pilot, Short Story Pilot) are optional.

Do I need to write with AI?

No. The prompts are optional. The roadmap, drills, templates and checklists work without AI, and my three tools work on any manuscript, cover and launch date.

What do the bonus tools need?

A browser. Each tool is a single HTML file that runs offline from your computer: unzip, double-click, use. Nothing is uploaded, no account, no API key.

Is there a guarantee?

The vendor gives 30 days: read the guides, use them, and if they are not useful to you, open a ticket at his support desk within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.

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