Where authors get caught
Does any of this sound like you?
Most publishing problems are visible long before anyone realises what caused them. Here are three of the most common.
Your proof copy came back looking wrong.
Text creeping into the gutter, a cover that has shifted on the spine, page numbers in the wrong place. The fault is almost never where it shows up.
Your book is live, and nobody can find it.
Categories, keywords, series fields and Author Central decide whether Amazon ever shows your book to a reader. Most authors set them once, blind.
Nothing looks wrong — and that is the worry.
The expensive mistakes are the ones you do not know to look for: the wrong royalty tier, a print file that fails review the week you launch, keywords nobody is searching for.
Every fix in the kits began as a real problem an author reported publicly, traced back to its cause. The Risk Assessment tells you where you stand. The Fix Kits tell you what to do about it.
Diagnostic Fix Kits for Amazon KDP
Two kits, split by stage: before you publish, and after your book goes live. Each kit is built from an analysis of hundreds of problems publicly reported by independent authors.
Self-Publishing Readiness Fix Kit: £17
56 fixes across 7 sections for pre-publication problems: the formatting, metadata, pricing, and account-setup issues that trip authors up before they publish.
Self-Publishing Post-Launch Fix Kit: £17
32 fixes across 5 sections for problems that appear after your book goes live: print quality, proof review, listing visibility, metadata, reviews, and piracy.
The Complete Bundle: £27
Both kits together: 88 fixes across 12 sections, covering every stage from manuscript to launch and beyond. Saves £7.
Inside the Readiness Fix Kit
What you actually get for £17
56 specific problems, each with a step-by-step fix. Organized into seven sections so you can go straight to the one you need, it is a diagnostic tool, not a book to read cover to cover.
✓ KDP Account Setup · 5 fixes
✓ Formatting & Layout · 13 fixes
✓ Print Layout & Setup · 8 fixes
✓ Metadata, Categories, Keywords & ISBN · 12 fixes
✓ Pricing & Distribution Setup · 8 fixes
✓ Author Central & Marketing Setup · 4 fixes
✓ Rights, Ownership & Switching Platforms · 6 fixes
✓ Every fix is indexed so you find yours fast
The Post-Launch Fix Kit adds 32 additional fixes across 5 sections, covering everything after your book goes live.
Real manuscripts. Published books.
These began as unpublished manuscripts. I worked with these authors, my mother amongst them, through the editorial, production, and Amazon KDP stages needed to bring them to publication.
I wrote my first book, and Wendy helped me get it published. She was fantastic, professional, always accessible, full of good ideas, and always willing to go the extra mile. Without her, it would still be an unpublished manuscript.
Jean Pousson. A Business Raconteur Reveals All
Wendy was professional, patient, and exceptionally meticulous throughout the entire Amazon KDP publishing process. She read my manuscript cover to cover before touching a single file. I have already commissioned her to format and publish my next two books.
Shahid Chaudhri. If At First
We wrote it together, night after night, drawing on my own memories and experiences. Wendy then turned those words into a finished book, taking care of the formatting, the cover, and everything Amazon needed for publication. She handled the whole process and brought the story from our conversations all the way through to a published book.
Winifred Rowland, my mother. Horseshoe Bay
About me
I’m Wendy Woodcock. I write and self-publish books, and help other authors do the same.
