Submission tracker, launch manager and speaker booking tool for writers
The work after the work.
The submissions you meant to follow up on. The ARC reader
whose email is buried three threads deep. The speaking fee
you quoted from memory and got wrong. Storyteller Workbench
is where serious writers, self-publishers and speakers keep
track of everything that happens around the writing itself.
Use one. Use all three. We built it because we needed all three ourselves.
✎ Submissions
You know which magazines you've sent to. Probably.
A working database of the markets, agents, competitions and CFPs you actually submit to — with the deadlines you keep meaning to write down, the response times you keep guessing at, and the simultaneous-submission rules you keep forgetting.
✓Submission windows on a calendar you'll actually look at
✓Query log and response tracking, so you know who has what
✓Acceptance and rejection analytics — patterns you can't see from inside Gmail
A launch has about forty moving parts. You have one head.
For self-publishers running their own show: a place to coordinate every collaborator and every milestone from finished manuscript to the first hundred sold copies. The editor, the cover designer, the beta readers, the ARC list, the launch-week posts, the storefronts — all in one workspace, all talking to each other.
✓Track editors, illustrators, cover designers and their deadlines
✓Beta and ARC reader management with follow-up that doesn't get lost
✓A marketing plan that's a plan, not a panic
✓Sales reconciled across every storefront you sell on
For speakers, workshop leaders, and writers who get paid to stand up in front of rooms: a pipeline that tracks every speaking opportunity from the first cold email to the post-event invoice. With travel logistics, fee histories so you stop under-quoting, and a place to file the testimonials you keep meaning to ask for.
✓Lead-to-contract pipeline with the stages that actually exist
✓Event logistics — flights, accommodation, AV requirements, dietary notes
✓Invoicing and fee tracking, including the ones you forget to chase
✓A growing archive of testimonials, photos and clips for the next pitch
One workspace. Whichever lane you're in this week.
The three modules share a spine, because in practice your
work doesn't separate cleanly into "submission day" and
"launch day" and "speaking gig day." Some weeks all three
are happening at once.
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One dashboard.
Pending submissions, launch milestones and signed speaking contracts in a single view, so you can see the whole month at once instead of switching tabs and forgetting which list lives where.
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One calendar.
Submission windows, ARC delivery dates, CFP closes, contract deadlines and event dates — alerted in the same place, on the same timeline. The thing you missed last year was probably visible somewhere; this puts it where you'll see it.
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One ledger.
Royalties, direct sales, speaker fees and expenses reconciled in a single income view, so when it's tax time or you're working out whether this is actually a career yet, the numbers are already there.
Built for people who do more than one of these.
Most tools assume you're one thing. A writer, or a
publisher, or a speaker. Storyteller Workbench is built
for the working reality: that you're probably some
combination of the three, that the proportions shift over
time, and that the worst place to track any of it is a
spreadsheet you opened in 2023 and haven't loved since.
The writer.
Queries out, manuscripts in progress, acceptances coming back. Magazines, agents, competitions and grants — all tracked, all reportable, all in one place.
✎ Submissions
The self-publisher.
Editor briefed, cover signed off, ARCs sent, launch on the calendar, sales rolling in from four storefronts.
The interface adapts to the lane you're in. The terminology changes with context. The data underneath is yours.
We built this because we needed it.
The first version of Storyteller Workbench was a
spreadsheet, then three spreadsheets, then a tangle of
Notion pages, then nothing — because keeping the system
up to date was taking longer than the writing.
What's here now is the tool we wished existed: built for
people who take the work seriously, who submit to
magazines that take months to reply, who launch books
they actually care about, who walk onto stages and want
to be paid properly for it. Nothing about it is generic.
Everything about it assumes you've been doing this for a
while and would like the admin to stop being the
bottleneck.
