AFTER AUTHOR NATION • STORYTELLEROS + MASTERMIND
You don’t have to sort it out alone. The mastermind gives you an obvious path to a streamlined, AI-enabled publishing business, with weekly group coaching, the full StorytellerOS platform and 1:1 help, so you can get back to writing. Enrollment is open now, with 10 new member spots through December 31.
Four days of sessions, a notebook full of tools, and a dozen people telling you AI will change everything. Now you’re home, the inbox is full, and you have to decide what to do first.
Most authors don’t run short on ideas after a conference. What they run short on is a plan: which tool comes first, what to set up, and how the pieces fit together without eating the time you meant to spend writing.
You don’t need to try everything you heard about. You need one clear path, built in order, with someone who has already built it.
Your second brain is an Obsidian vault that holds what you know about your business, including your AI’s memory files, so every AI you use starts already knowing your business. StorytellerOS holds everything about your books, one studio for each area. Your AI staff, built in the EA sessions, reads your second brain and works in StorytellerOS for you. Every session in the mastermind builds one of those three.
Group calls Tuesday through Thursday, one topic per hour. Most sessions explain what we’re building and why, with hands-on follow-along, so you leave knowing what to set up next. Join as many as you like.
Group calls stay on topic, so your own setup gets its own time. Book one-on-one help with me in 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes, screen sharing included. You start with an onboarding call to pick your path.
Every session is recorded. The day after, the replay is posted in the Hub and the transcript goes into the IAT Assistant, so your own AI can walk you through any step at your pace.
Your membership includes StorytellerOS, where your books live: manuscripts, social, translations, audiobooks, newsletters, ads and direct sales, one studio for each.
Custom Claude Cowork plugins that take your social media from prompt to post: images, videos, reels, carousels and launches, from a single chat.
Need a developer, designer or service provider who understands indie publishing? Get warm introductions to my trusted network of vendors and collaborators.
Using AI to write smarter marketing copy, create blurbs, and build campaigns that sound like you.
The tech stack that powers modern author businesses, databases, AI coding tools, and workflow automation.
Selling direct to readers, setting up your store, and building email systems that convert.
Every session is a live group call on Zoom, booked from one page in the Hub. The schedule changes as new topics rotate in each month, so here’s a sample week.
Set up the Obsidian vault that holds your business knowledge and your AI’s memory, so every AI you use starts already knowing your business.
Tuesdays 11:30am CT
Turn one idea into a week of posts in your own voice, and schedule it.
Wednesdays 8am or 2:30pm CT
Turn a release or backlist goal into a dated plan with channels, a budget and a weekly checklist.
Tuesdays 1pm CT
Build your first AI executive assistant: a daily brief, inbox sorting and a running task list, all reading from your second brain.
Wednesdays 11am CT
Lists, signup forms, welcome sequences and campaigns, done in the app and then handed to your EA.
Wednesdays 12:30pm CT
Plan, launch and read your ads from StorytellerOS, in the app and through your EA.
Thursdays 8am or 2:30pm CT
Put your EA on a schedule and connect it to email, calendar and tools, so it runs whole workflows for you.
Thursdays 12:30pm CT
Run Claude Code and Codex in Warp terminals and connect them, so you’re building a Claudex that hands work back and forth.
Tuesdays 8:30am or 2:30pm CT
Bring a question, a problem or work in progress that doesn’t fit a topic call.
Tuesdays 10am CT
Industry guests on what’s working now, recorded for the Hub and the IAT Assistant.
Thursdays 10am CT, once or twice a month
Industry leaders join us for live, interactive sessions where you get direct answers to your questions. Every guest session is recorded for members.
Recent guests include Dana Claire on special editions and merch, Oriana Leckert of Kickstarter, Coral Hart on publishing with AI, and David Viergutz on direct sales.
I’ve spent 30+ years in technology and training, from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits to indie publishing.
I founded Indie Author Magazine in 2021 and built the systems that let our small team publish monthly to thousands of authors worldwide.
I’ve spoken at Author Nation, Self Publishing Formula, The BookFest and dozens of other industry events.
I built these systems because I needed them myself. Everything I teach, I use, and every automation I recommend, I’ve tested in my own business first.
AUTHOR NATION CONFERENCE FEEDBACK
“Chelle is amazing.”
“A top presentation from someone who knows what she’s doing.”
“Impressive and absolutely stunning.”
“Mind blown! Thank you for sharing your documents and prompts with us.”
“Incredible information.”
“As usual she knocked it out of the park. Unbelievable capability. Thanks for the first freebie.”
“Chelle always delivers!!”
“Astounding. Mind-melting. Incredibly well put together dump of an insane amount of info.”
“Excellent. Please have her repeat and update this session next year.”
“I loved it, but wish there’d been time for more detail.”
$250/month
or $2,500/year
Weekly group coaching calls, 1:1 help, the full StorytellerOS platform, $300+ in software licenses, and a community of peers who get it.
Enrollment is open now, with 10 new member spots through December 31. Join any week and start with your onboarding call.
The full StorytellerOS platform; weekly group coaching calls Tuesday through Thursday on your second brain, AI assistants, StorytellerOS studios and marketing; 1:1 help in 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes; an onboarding call to get you started; Tuesday Office Hours; guest experts; replays and transcripts of every call; the members’ Discord; 50% off every course in my catalog, including the IAT summits; and a community of serious indie authors.
Indie authors building a real publishing business who are already publishing and earning from their books, and who want a clear plan for using AI instead of trying every tool they hear about.
Most author groups teach craft or marketing tactics. This one builds the systems: a second brain that holds your business, StorytellerOS for your books, and AI staff that works in both, taught by someone with 30+ years in technology who runs her own publishing business on them.
A clear path, a room of authors building the same thing, and help when you need it.
