Author Assistant Training Course

Become a Certified Publishing Professional Today!

It has become easier for authors to reach their readers by self-publishing, there are now more books coming to market each year than ever before.

However, while publishing has become more approachable, too often authors make simple mistakes that cause headaches for them in the future.

The Certified Author Assistant Training Program teaches students, like you, how to work with authors to turn their book ideas into a professionally published book and setup an efficient marketing plan to reach their readers.

What Is The Author Assistant

Training Program?

The Author Assistant Training Program is an online course, designed with entrepreneurs and authors in mind. This course gives you the ability to generate new revenue streams in your business by becoming a Certified Publishing Professional.

In the Author Assistant Training Program, students learn how to work through the writing, publishing, and marketing stages, and beyond!

Through this course you will learn the publishing services needed to:

  • Write and organize a manuscript

  • Prepare the manuscript for publishing and printing

  • Sell and market the completed book and the author

  • Market your publishing services to authors

What Is Included With

The Author Assistant Training Program?

For a one-time payment of $999 or three monthly payments of $399 the course includes LIFETIME ACCESS to:

  • Online Training Center

  • Four Training Modules

  • Over 30 Individual Classes

  • Video Instruction, Worksheets, and Other Materials

  • Access To A Community of Other Author Assistants, Speaker Assistants, and Publishing Industry Professionals

  • A Certification Exam

Ready to Start Your Training?

Begin your training today for $999 USD or three monthly payments of $399!

What Students Are Saying

JONI SNOWDEN | A Novel Space

I was looking for a way to blend my corporate and administrative knowledge with my love of books, writing, and publishing (without having to move to New York).

Investing in this program was the solution. With confidence, I now work with traditional and self-published authors helping them to promote their books. I love it.

CERTIFIED PUBLISHING PROFESSIONAL

Designed With Entrepreneurs in Mind

The Author Assistant Training Program opens any entrepreneur to new revenue streams. Whether you are looking to help others publish their book or you want to start the publishing process for yourself, you can learn the industry's best practices for publishing and become a Certified Publishing Professional!

We know the life of an entrepreneur, after all we are entrepreneurs ourselves, and we understand the need to work at your own pace. The course is a self-study course, allowing you to work as quickly or diligently as needed.

The Industry's Best Practices

The Author Assistant Course was created to reflect the publishing industry's best practices. The Author's Voice continually updates and revises our courses so you stay up-to-date with the constant changes in publishing industry.

The ever-changing industry has created an environment which may lead to confusion for authors and author assistants. These classes will teach you what to look for in a publisher, how to avoid scams in the industry, and what the necessary steps to self-publish are.

Online Training Center

The Author's Voice has a dedicated online training center which hosts all of our training and certification programs. This allows us to continually update and revise courses as the industry changes. When you log into your training dashboard, you will see all of your courses in one place so when you decide to begin another course through The Author's Voice, you will only need one login!

Become Certified

After completing the program you will have the opportunity to take a certification test to show your clients you are a Certified Author Assistant. This certification sets you apart from other publishing service providers because your clients will know YOU have the knowledge of a true publishing professional.

Learn More

Have questions about what these training programs can do for you? Want to learn more about The Author's Voice and what we have to offer?

Schedule a call with one of our team members today; we'd love to meet you and answer any questions you might have.

A Word From The Author's Voice

Colleen Wietmarschen | Certified Publishing Professional

I became a certified author's assistant in 2015 through these same classes we now offer. After working with a number of authors, I saw the lack of understanding many writers had when it came to publishing. Besides myself, I've seen many of my friends and colleagues taken advantage of, and this is why we are so passionate about providing the best industry knowledge available.

The Speaker Assistant Training Program

In addition to the Author Assistant Training Program, we also offer a certification program for Speaker's Assistants. Like the Author Assistant program, you can find the full Speaker Assistant program in our online training center. The speaker assistant program teaches you how to organize everything for a professional speaker, from gathering their own information to maintaining their speaking schedule and everything in between.

If you are working with authors, speaking is a great way for authors to promote their book. The Speaker Assistant Training Program is a great way to add a second service offering to your package.

Add on the Speaker Assistant Training Course to your training package for only $500 bringing your total to $1,499/USD or three payments of $549.

Certified Publishing Professional

Jan King developed the Professional Author Assistant (PAA) course to provide support to virtual assistants who want to become the go-to resource for their author clients. Jan knew authors make great clients and the number of books being published and printed annually was increasing at an unprecedented rate, and eBooks would continue to send it soaring. She saw a tremendous need for virtual assistants who could provide those services to authors who don’t have the time or expertise to do it themselves. PAAs can help authors write and sell more and do less of what’s in between.

In 2022 The Author's Voice took over as the custodians for the Professional Author Assistant course. When we took over this program and the Speaker Asssitant Program, we updated the program to reflect the always changing industry. We also created a brand new, state of the art training center to house these programs and allow us to add new and informative courses.

The biggest change you will see is that we now use the term, Certified Publishing Professional, to describe those who have passed the final certification for the Author Assistant Training Program. This change is to better reflect the information taught within the course and allows authors themselves to also take the course and become certified without calling themselves author assistants.

Our overall goal for these programs is to bring more awareness to the publishing industry. There are many different professionals who work alongside an author to publish their book. There are also many independent publishers who publish books. When you work with a Certified Publishing Professional, you know the quality and professionalism is there.

Begin your training today for $999 USD or three monthly payments of $399!