Free planning tools for anyone thinking about a book. They run in your browser, they ask for no email, and every number in them comes from the schedules and lengths I work to on real projects.
Book Planner
One planner for the three questions people ask before they commit to a book: how big it is, how long it takes, and whether to hire a ghostwriter or write it yourself. Enter the kind of book, its length in words or pages, and when you can start or when you need it. The planner shows the ghostwritten schedule and payment plan side by side with what writing it yourself would take, and five quick questions at the top point you to the right path if you are not sure.
Where do the planner’s numbers come from?
The lengths, schedules and payment plan are the ones I use with clients, kept in one table on this site, so the planner changes the day they do. The write-it-yourself numbers start from published research on writing speed, weekly writing time and interruptions, and you can change every one of them. Prices are on the ghostwriting pricing page, where the same planner adds the cost and the payments.