Author onboarding
Set up your author profile and royalty foundation.
This guided setup prepares your public author profile, discovery data, payout readiness, royalty participant record, and first audiobook draft.
Setup checklist
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Public profile
Author identity
Discovery
Genres and marketplace positioning
These genres help the homepage, browse page, recommendation shelves, and author profile show your audiobooks to the right readers.
Primary genres
Genres help power browse filters, recommendation shelves, author pages, series pages, and marketplace discovery.
Links
Author website and audience links
Author referral links come after title creation.
Once a book exists, the author dashboard can create referral links like ?ref=AUTHORCODE, which can trigger the author referral creator pool.
Payout readiness
Prepare royalties, payouts, and tax setup.
This page does not collect sensitive payout or tax details yet. It only prepares the author account for a later secure payout provider and admin-approved royalty agreements.
First audiobook setup
This does not upload the full book yet. It prepares the first title draft so the author dashboard can continue the upload workflow.
Next upload steps
✓ Upload cover art
✓ Upload sample audio
✓ Add full audiobook files
✓ Create chapter list
✓ Assign narrator
✓ Set royalty split
✓ Submit for admin review
✓ Publish after approval