The house

Fourteen rooms. One record per title.

Everything a small publishing house does, arranged around the book – with doors between the rooms.

The core · Rights & Royalties

In every house

Room 01 · Core

The title record

cover_v14_FINAL2.pdf

Every title as one record, with its files, versions and dates. Twelve standard files per title, shared with one link.

app · Titles · The Salt Roaddemo house · figures illustrative · flow real

Title record

The Salt Road

Tomas Wren · hardback · 312 pp · on sale 12 Mar 2026

Files 12Contract 1SalesDates 6
FileVersionUpdated
Coverv14 · final2 Oct
Print filev3 · at printer3 Oct
Interior PDFv729 Sep
Metadata sheetv425 Sep
Press releasev218 Sep
Excerptv111 Sep

Showing 6 of 12 · every version kept

Fig. 01 – The title record · illustrative

Room 02 · Core

Contracts & e-signature

Expiry dates in a notebook

Terms, signatures and expiry dates on the title they belong to.

app · Contracts · Winter Orcharddemo house · figures illustrative · flow real

Contract C-044 · author agreement

Winter Orchard

Elena Marsh · sent for signature 2 Oct

Signed
  • Mara LindNorthlight Press · publisherSigned 2 Oct
  • Elena MarshauthorSigned 4 Oct
Territory
World · English
Term
7 years
Expires
4 Oct 2033
Royalty
8% of net receipts
Advance
€2,000 · two parts
Fig. 02 – Contracts & e-signature · illustrative

Room 04 · Core

Proofing

Re: Re: corrections

PDFs with versions and comments pinned to the page. Outside readers get a link, never a login.

app · Proofing · Paper Moons · v7demo house · figures illustrative · flow real

Proofs · interior

Paper Moons

v7 of 7 · 3 readers · page 42 of 96

v5v6v7 2

Paper Moons · 42

Mira kept the lantern low, the way her grandmother had shown her, so the light fell on the path and not on the sleeping houses1.

By the third bridge the moon had already climbed above the mill2, and the river had gone silver under it.

Fig. 03 – Proofing · illustrative
  • Room 03 · Core

    Royalties & the author portal

    Rates from the contract, statements, payment orders. Authors see their own numbers through a link.

  • Room 05 · Core

    Sales from your reports

    Retailer and distributor reports come in as files and land on their titles once.

  • Room 06 · Core

    Tasks, calendar & the house diary

    Every date in one place, and a record of what happened and who did it.

Add-ons · everywhere

Add when you need them

  • Shopify orders

    Orders and pre-orders flow in and feed the same sales.

  • Assistants

    They prepare the month’s report, check partner reports and flag what’s missing. They suggest; you approve.

Add-on prices →

Add-ons · BG

Connected in Bulgaria today

  • Finance & bank

    Bank lines in, expense invoices read from email, cash 13 weeks and 12 months ahead.

  • Tills

    Fiscal receipts at book fairs.

  • Couriers

    Labels for three couriers.

  • Bookshop reports

    Six chains, read, not retyped.

  • Stock & reprints

    Counts from a phone, sell-through and a suggested print run.

Not yetONIX feeds · a live link to accounting software · direct links to large retailers. Their reports come in as files.

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