Help & documentation

For authors (path to a real query)

1. Run the free book audit on your file (or the sample memoir).
2. Open Publish My Book and do only the recommended next move (e.g. apply your real byline).
3. Clear any critical chapter notes — placeholders kill trust.
4. Verify 3 publisher/agent sites from the match report; save only the real fits.
5. Draft a query from your manuscript, personalise the agent paragraph, send from your email.
6. NEXUS never auto-emails. ISBN can wait until self-pub or a house requires it.

Tools (future standalone products)

• Book Audit — A clear publishing score and a short list of what to fix first.
• Publisher Finder — A shortlist of real targets in your tracker — not invented open calls.
• Submission Tracker — You always know what’s waiting, what’s due, and what not to chase yet.
• Query Letter Generator — A starting letter you edit — then copy into your own email. Nothing auto-sends.
• Book Metadata — One honest inventory of what exists for submission or self-pub.
• Book Marketing Toolkit — A 90-day plan you can tick off without vanity metrics.
• Publishing Calendar — Instant sense of where you are on the path to publication.
• Book Analytics — You know what moved the score — and what still blocks publication.

For administrators

• App: /home/webadmin/apps/nexus-brand · PM2 nexus-brand only.
• Data: data/publishing/ — preserve on deploy.
• Health: GET /api/publishing/health
• APIs under /api/publishing/* (see architecture docs).
• Do not restart SEO or AGCC when shipping Publishing.