Perfect Year HQ — your author year, planned and run for you
Built for romance authors on Amazon KDP — one pen name or five

See your author year — every pen name — before you pay a cent for it.

The author marketing platform for romance authors — book launch planning, newsletter swaps, and your sales and rankings, tracked, one screen. Tell us your pen name, your genre, and how many books you're carrying. Watch your real release calendar, swap windows, and money view draft themselves in front of you — then decide if it's worth $50/month to make it real. Write under more than one name? Perfect Year runs every pen you write under, each with its own calendar, swaps and money view, in one screen.

Start the free intake → Watch the 60-second walkthrough
No card, no account to create. Your email first, then 3 quick questions — then we show you your year.
A real Perfect Year account: goal ring, income climb chart, and library shelf
A real account's Today screen — the climb to her income goal, and her library, live. (Fictional demo pen shown; every element is the current product.)
See your year

Sixty seconds with Coral, and you will get it

If you would rather be told than read it, Coral walks you through the whole thing — in the time it takes to make a coffee.

  • Your full year planned around your real pace
  • Newsletter swaps run for you
  • Real KDP royalties synced hourly
See your own year first → Take the full tour →

Sound familiar?

The plan dies by March.

The January spreadsheet was beautiful. Then life happened, the deadlines stopped being real, and nobody told you until week twelve.

Marketing eats your writing time.

Swaps, newsletters, TikToks, launch checklists — hours of admin every week that produce words for everyone except your next book.

You're guessing what readers want.

You write the book, cross your fingers, and find out a year later. The demand signals exist — you've just never had them on your screen.

📡 Nobody else has this

Your genre lane's demand, live — not what already sold.

Most tools tell you what's already selling. Perfect Year's Demand Radar tells you what your readers are asking for that almost nobody is writing yet — pulled from Reddit, Goodreads, TikTok and AO3 by TropeSmith's reader-demand engine, scoped to your lane only.

And it does not just plan your year — it watches it. Your lane's demand, your swap windows, your royalties, your whole backlist: checked every day, so you are told when something needs you.

Demand Radar: rising reader wants in your lane, crossed with how few books already serve them
A real Demand Radar read — the score is readers asking, almost nobody writing it. Write that, and own the shelf.
See your lane's numbers → start the free intake
Start here — free

The intake: 3 short steps to your book launch year.

No card, no account to create. Answer 3 quick questions and watch your own release calendar, swap windows and lane draft themselves — then decide if it's worth $50/month to make it real.

1Your email
2Pen & genre
3Backlist & goal
No card, no password. We'll email you a one-tap link to open your draft — that's your whole login.
Write under more than one name? You'll add the rest once you're in — Perfect Year runs all of them.
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Your draft renders here —
work through the 3 steps on the left.
Already started a draft? Get a fresh link:
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Magic links are one-time and short-lived, on purpose. Enter your email and we'll send a fresh one.
Reading your shelf…
Mapping release & swap windows…
Lining up your newsletter cadence…
Drafting your year at a glance…
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Check your inbox — your year is drafted.
We've sent a one-tap link to open it.
Not seeing it? Resend the link
YOUR DRAFT — opened from your magic link
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This is an illustrative layout — release rhythm, swap cadence, and newsletter timing, patterned on real Perfect Year clients in your genre. Your real plan is built from your actual sales, swap history, and backlist the moment you join — never guessed.
🔒 Your full plan unlocks when you join
Full year-at-a-glance plan, locked until you joinPlan
Production board, locked until you joinProduction
Money and royalty sync, locked until you joinMoney
Not ready to join? Click around a real account first →
✓ PAYMENT RECEIVED — attached to your preview
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Same preview, now unlocked. Your account is provisioning — the person you already built a draft with just paid to make it real.
Next: check your email for your Perfect Year HQ link (built from your actual books, swaps and sales — never the illustrative draft above).
Full transparency

What you get free today — and what switches on when you join.

✓ Free, right now — no card
  • Your drafted year — releases, swap windows, newsletter cadence
  • Live reader demand for your lane, updated continuously
  • Every pen name you write under, each with its own calendar
  • A real 48-hour hold on your draft and its reserved swap windows
  • Magic-link access — no password to create or remember
🔒 Unlocks when you join — $50/mo
  • Connected to your real KDP and Bookclicker accounts — not in the free preview, that's a whole setup done once you join
  • Your full 12-month plan, built from your actual sales, swap history and backlist — never guessed
  • Royalties synced automatically, hourly
  • Swaps run for you, not just planned
  • All your pen names live, connected and working together
What it does

One screen. Four engines. Every pen name you write under.

Four real screens from a live Perfect Year account — the plan, the production board, the launch tools, and the money — captured straight off the product, not mocked up. Write under more than one name? Same four engines, per pen, side by side — switch between them in one screen instead of juggling spreadsheets per name.

📅 The year at a glance
The year at a glance: twelve months, energy seasons, releases and swap windows
Every month planned around real energy seasons, releases and swap windows — the current live view.
🗂️ Production board
Production board: every book from draft to deadline, paced against real writing speed
Every book moves through the same pipeline, not started to live — with real dates and preorder tracking.
🚀 Launch — straight to the tool
From this plan straight to the tool: mood and trope graphics, release newsletter, swap lineup
From the plan to the tool in one tap — mood & trope graphics, the release newsletter, swap lineup.
💰 Money — royalty sync
Real KDP royalties, units and KENP pages synced automatically
Real KDP royalties, units and KENP pages, synced automatically — no spreadsheet.
Not a one-pen tool

Write under three names? Perfect Year runs all three — together.

Every pen name gets its own plan, its own production board, its own swap calendar and its own royalty line. One screen switches between them. This is the real product, today — not a roadmap promise.

Pen switcher: Master view plus every individual pen name, one tap apart
One row of tabs — Master plus every pen you write under — swaps the whole screen underneath it.
Your Author Empire: every pen name rolled up into one portfolio view
The Master view — every pen rolled up into one portfolio: releases, money and swaps across your whole author business, not just one name.

Run by the machine, so you can write

The swaps engine handles your newsletter swap admin. Your royalties sync themselves. The marketing plays build themselves from your live data.

6–7 hrs
a week back from newsletter-swap admin
Hourly
real KDP royalty sync, straight into your dashboard
18
one-click marketing plays, built from your data
28-day
feed ring guarding your Amazon rank cliff
See it live

Four minutes inside a real Perfect Year

4:01 — the plan, the production board, the launch countdown and the swap admin, running on live data
What Perfect Year replaces

The jobs you're already doing — by hand, in a tool, or not at all.

Authors at every stage — first book to full business — run their year here. What replaces itself changes by where you are.

JobDoing it yourselfWith Perfect Year
† No independently-verified hours figure exists for this job anywhere in this research pass — described qualitatively rather than inventing a number (data-truth doctrine). Sources: 1 Written Word Media, "How Authors Evolve With Their Income" — writtenwordmedia.com/how-authors-evolve-with-their-income · 2 BookClicker (kboards.com/threads/bookclicker-com.254974), Freebooksy pricing — freebooksy.com/freebooksy-feature-pricing · 3 MailerLite — mailerlite.com/pricing · 4 Book Report — via IndieAuthorMagazine writeup (getbookreport.com's own pricing page 404'd at research time) · 5 BookFunnel — bookfunnel.com/pricing, StoryOrigin — storyoriginapp.com/pricing · 6 ScribeCount — reported via WebSearch synthesis, not independently fetched · 7 Freebooksy Romance Series tier · 8 Kit/ConvertKit — reported via secondary sources (kit.com/pricing returned 403 to direct fetch). Full citations + residual gaps: py0792_ahrefs_research.md §2–3, §6.
Click around

Meet Marigold Pruitt.

A demo pen name, not a real client — every number here is made up so you can click around without needing an account first.

MP

Marigold Pruitt

Cosy small-town bakery mysteries · demo pen

This is a read-only walkthrough of a real Perfect Year account, populated with fictional data. Nothing here is connected to a real client — no real sales, no real emails, no real swaps.

Open the demo HQ →
DEMO — fictional data
Royalty sync: real KDP numbers pulled the moment you connect your account
Royalties, synced from KDP — no spreadsheet.
Promo swaps tracked and chased automatically, with missing links flagged
Swaps tracked and chased — missing links flagged for you.
What's inside today

Everything below is live in Perfect Year right now.

Not a roadmap — this is what your account actually opens to the moment you activate.

📅

Year at a Glance

Your whole release year on one screen — energy seasons, release dates, and swap windows, built from your plan.

🗂️

Production Board

Every book from draft to deadline, paced against your real writing speed.

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Next Launch / Mission Control

A step-by-step checklist for your next release, so nothing gets missed launch week.

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Market Pulsejust shipped

Live trending tropes and reader asks, scoped to your genre lane only — never guessed, never another author's niche.

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Your Books & royalties

Live rank, estimated daily sales, reviews and Goodreads ratings per book — your sales and rankings, tracked (KDP today, every retail channel as it lands).

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Swaps

Promo swap bookings tracked and chased automatically, with missing links flagged for you.

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Done-for-you

Autopilot content plays and newsletter cadence, drafted in your voice from your actual plan — never a generic template.

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Backlist

Your full catalog found automatically from your pen name — no manual claiming needed to get started.

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Backlist Booster

Your backlist is not dead weight. Perfect Year watches every book you have ever published and shows you which to revive — Backlist Booster reviews included free with membership.

Coming to your HQ

What we're building next

Your newsletter — written and sent for you.

Your ads — advised by real spend data.

Your books — everywhere romance sells.

By the numbers

Perfect Year HQ is not a template you fill in. These are floors from the author years it is running — the real totals are higher and only grow.

1,000+books tracked
1,200+promo & swap slots scheduled
900+plan versions generated

Measured from Perfect Year HQ records, as at 30 August 2026. Figures are published as floors so they can never overstate; excludes internal test accounts. We never name a client, and we never publish how many authors pay for the service.

How it works

Writing in your dashboard by tonight

1
Free intake

Three short questions and your email — no card, no password, nothing to cancel. Your year drafts itself while you watch.

2
Open your drafted year

We email you a one-tap link — that link is your whole login. Your draft and its reserved swap windows are held for 48 hours.

3
Join when it's worth it

Secure Stripe checkout, $50/month, founding price locked in for as long as you stay — join by October 1, 2026. Joining connects your real KDP and Bookclicker accounts to the same year you already saw.

Pricing

Join in the next month, lock $50/month.

Founding price — locked for as long as you stay
Offer open through October 1, 2026
$50
per month · locked for as long as you stay
  • Your full year planned around your real pace
  • Newsletter swaps run for you
  • Real KDP royalties synced hourly
  • Live reader demand for your lane, on your screen
  • 18 one-click marketing plays
  • Cancel anytime — you keep everything you paid for
Start my Perfect Year — $50/month
Prefer one payment? Pay for the year — get one month free.
$550 once · 12 months for the price of 11
Pay yearly instead
Payment page blank or won't load? Try another browser or device — and if a text code pops up first, you can close it and pay by card. Still stuck? Email perfectyear@perfectyearhq.com and we'll get you in.
After October 1, 2026
The price everyone else pays
$75
per month
Opens once the founding window closes
Yearly here too — one month free
$825 once · 12 months for the price of 11
Questions authors ask
Is this a course?

No. There's nothing to study and no modules to fall behind on. Perfect Year HQ is a live dashboard that plans your year and then does the marketing work with you — the method is baked into the buttons.

I'm not techy. Will I cope?

If you can click a button, you're qualified. Setup is a two-minute form — pen names and books. Everything after that is one screen with clearly labelled buttons, and a real person on email if you're ever stuck.

What if I write slowly, or life blows up my plan?

That's exactly what it's built for. The plan bends around your real pace — it protects rest weeks first, warns you months early when a deadline stops being real, and rebuilds the year when things change. No shame, no red ink, just a plan that stays true.

Can I cancel?

Anytime, from inside your dashboard — no emails, no hoops. You keep full access to the end of the month you've paid for, and you can undo the cancellation right up until then.

Can I pay for the year upfront?

Yes — one payment of $550 covers 12 months for the price of 11, so one month is free. Same everything as monthly. It doesn't auto-renew into a surprise: you'll get a reminder before your year ends, and if you cancel you keep access for the full year you've paid for.

What do you need from me to start?

Your pen name(s) and your books. If you're published on Amazon, we pull your covers, blurbs and categories ourselves — you don't upload a thing.

Free guides for working authors

Plain-language guides and free calculators, from the team behind Perfect Year HQ.

The Book Launch ChecklistFour phases — BUILD, HEAT, COUNTDOWN, BLITZ.KDP Royalties TrackingReal units, page reads and royalties.Author Marketing Plan TemplateA 12-month marketing plan you can keep.

See all free guides & tools →

By the numbers

Perfect Year HQ is not a template you fill in. These are floors from the author years it is running — the real totals are higher and only grow.

1,000+books tracked
1,200+promo & swap slots scheduled
900+plan versions generated

Measured from Perfect Year HQ records, as at 30 August 2026. Figures are published as floors so they can never overstate; excludes internal test accounts. We never name a client, and we never publish how many authors pay for the service.

Join by October 1, 2026 — lock $50/month for as long as you stay.

After that it's $75. If you're going to write the books anyway, do it with the year planned and the buttons pressed.

Start my Perfect Year →

Prefer one payment? Pay for the year — get one month free · $550 once