Hi, I'm Julie Trelstad. I've worked in publishing for 37 years, and I built six AI tools for the marketing tasks authors put off.
Here is a one-minute hello from me before the questions.
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Hi, there.
Author's Little AI Helpers is six AI tools for authors. You answer questions about your book and get book descriptions, emails, promotion copy, and a marketing plan in your own voice.
Get the six tools for $37 → $37 through Monday, November 30, then $97. No AI account needed. Or try the free Book Description Autopsy first ↓
Paste in your book description and get a line-by-line read of what's working and what to fix first. It takes about a minute.
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You'll also get three short emails about the six tools. Unsubscribe anytime.
You have a book and marketing copy still to write.
Start with Your AI Customizer, then the tool for the job you've been putting off.
You can start with one tool this week.
I recorded a short note about your snapshot and where I would start.
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Most authors I know can write 80,000 words and then stall at a 150-word description.
You wrote a whole book. Then someone asks for a short description, a launch email, a caption, a bio, and you start every one of them from a blank page.
Most marketing advice assumes you want to post every day and talk to a camera. You'd rather write.
"I get so stressed out every time I have to figure out all these steps."
an author in my spring cohortHere's the kind of book description you get from a blank chat box, for a made-up novel. Click the four buttons to make the changes you'd make with these tools.
Same book, four changes. That's the work you do with these tools: you bring the specifics and your voice, and you edit a draft instead of a blank page.
Most authors I meet have tried a course, a hired helper, or an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. Each time, they had to start from scratch.
Here's what's different.
You set up Your AI Customizer once and get a profile of your voice. You bring it, plus your book details, to every other tool, so each first draft already sounds like you.
I built them in my Platform Intensive, around the jobs authors kept getting stuck on: descriptions, launch emails, comp authors, and a marketing calendar.
There are no lessons to keep up with. You open the tool for the job in front of you.
your voice first, then the task
Author's Little AI Helpers is a set of six AI tools you use in your web browser. You answer questions about your book, and you get a draft to edit and use.
You get your login details on the thank-you page and by email.
You open any tool in your browser, answer its questions about your book, and get your draft.
You copy the draft into your own document and make it yours. Everything you make is yours to keep.
You answer questions about how you write and get a profile of your voice. You paste it into any AI tool, including the other five here.
Every draft you get starts from how you write, not from how a marketing department writes.
Welcome, launch, or nurture email sequences, with subject lines, preview text, send timing, and a draft of each email. You stop starting each newsletter from a blank page.
You describe your book once and get copy for many places: your book description, web copy, event fliers, social captions, and pitch copy for press and podcasts.
A marketing plan and calendar in five parts, with a status and a date for each task. You print it as a timeline you can mark up.
You enter your goals and get the number of readers you need to reach them. You work toward a real number instead of a vague "more."
The comparable authors whose readers are most likely to want your book, with reasons you can defend, two pitch lines, and a list of comps to avoid.
You follow a marketing calendar at your own pace.
From one set of answers about your book, you get copy for your website, your newsletter, and your events.
You skip what doesn't fit you. No TikTok required.
You keep your writing time for writing.
Move the sliders to match your week. The math is simple, and it's shown under the result.
Paste in your book description, pick your genre, and in about a minute you get a line-by-line read of what's working, what's weak, and what to fix first.
It's included with Author's Little AI Helpers, and you can try it free right now, before you buy.
"This was all time and money very well spent."
"I have nothing. I have a website, right, which is basically like a poster."
I've worked in publishing since 1989: eleven years acquiring books at Taunton Press, where I acquired Sarah Susanka's The Not-So-Big House, and four years running digital rights at Writers House. I founded Paperbacks & Pixels in 2011.
I trained as an architect, and I still think in systems: small, sturdy structures you can live in for years.
I built these tools while teaching my Platform Intensive. Authors kept getting stuck on the same jobs, so I made a tool for each one and refined it with every group.
Author's Little AI Helpers
through Monday, November 30, then $97
Six tools for less than an hour with most freelance copywriters.
On the order form, you'll also see the Substack Strategy Builder for $17. You get a Substack plan built around your time, your goals, and your experience: content pillars, a posting schedule, growth steps, and a welcome email.
All sales are final. You get the tools right after you buy, so I don't offer refunds. Not sure yet? Try the free Book Description Autopsy above.
You use one tool at a time, when you have a job in front of you.
This is why Your AI Customizer comes first. You describe your voice in your own words and start every draft from that profile. You also edit every draft before anyone reads it.
No. These tools are for marketing copy only: descriptions, emails, posts, pitches, and plans. You never need to paste your manuscript into them.
Both. Authors finishing a first book use the tools for launch copy. Authors with several books use them to keep up with a backlist.
The whole price is $37 through November 30. There's no subscription.
No. Each tool is a form you fill in, and you get text you can read and copy.
No. You don't need an AI account of your own. You fill in each tool's questions and get your draft.
Yes. You can use the tools for any book you work on.
Copy each draft into your own document. Your drafts aren't stored on the site.
The Substack Strategy Builder. You get a Substack plan built around your time, goals, and experience. You add it with one checkbox on the order form.
You see your login details right away, and they arrive by email too. You'll also see one more offer: a seat at Saturday Studio, a live workshop on November 7.
All sales are final, since you get the tools right away. Try the free Book Description Autopsy first if you're unsure.
Pick the job you've been putting off and start there.
Six AI tools for authors, set up around your own voice. The price is $37 through Monday, November 30, 2026, and $97 after that.
Cheers, Julie