Scheduled posts
For authorsUpdated 2 min read
On the Pro plan and above, the arrow beside Publish now opens Schedule, a day and a time for an entry to publish itself; until then it is a draft only you see, listed under Studio, Posts, Scheduled. A scheduled entry publishes to your followers and, for a letter, to your subscribers at that time; you can edit it, publish it now or cancel it back to a draft until it goes out.
The short answer
Scheduling
In the Journal composer, Publish now has a second half: the arrow beside it opens Schedule, which asks for a day and a time in your own timezone (readers see it in theirs), with three shortcuts: tomorrow at 09:00, the same weekday next week, and release day at 09:00 when the entry names a coming-soon book. The time is at least ten minutes ahead and at most a year; the entry goes out within two minutes of it. The entry is saved as a draft with its time and listed under Studio › Posts › Scheduled, above Published. At that moment it publishes exactly as if you had pressed Publish then: to your followers' feeds, and under the bell for the readers who chose journal alerts. There is one publishing door, so a scheduled entry reaches readers the same way a hand-pressed one does. A scheduled Letter to Readers goes out to your subscribers by e-mail at the same time, on Creator and above, counted at the moment it publishes; on a plan without letters by e-mail it still publishes on time and still reaches your followers as the short notice. Nobody is told it exists before then, and a scheduled letter counts against nothing until it goes out.
Until it goes out you can Edit the text, Publish now (it asks once, Go out now instead of June 14?), or Cancel, which puts the entry back in Drafts and deletes nothing. To move the time, cancel it and schedule it again. If the entry cannot publish at its time (your plan below Pro, your pen name set aside, the book it names unpublished), it stays a draft and you are told once.
Scheduling is part of the Pro plan and above; on other plans the arrow beside Publish now is still there and opens the plans card instead.
Where this lives
Related
- The Author Journal: New entry opens the Journal composer with fourteen formats in four groups (General; Book and Story; Launch and ARC; Community), each asking only for what it needs, an audience (Public, Followers, Only me), an optional content note that hides the entry behind a spoiler warning, and a preview. Entries can be saved as drafts under Studio, Posts, and one can be pinned to your page.
- Plans, and what the beta unlocks: Readers never pay; there is no reader plan and never will be. Writing here is free forever: books, series, the Journal and followers are never limited on any plan. What the plans are for is the launch: advance-copy campaigns, the readers who come with them, and the people who help. Author (free) has one pen name and one small campaign at a time (up to 25 readers, no delivery links); Creator ($9 a month or $90 a year) runs 3 campaigns at a time with up to 100 readers each; Pro ($19 or $190) is unlimited with 5 pen names and 2 collaborators; Publisher ($59 or $590) is the imprint, billed yearly by invoice with 5 seats. A $12 campaign pass runs one campaign (up to 100 readers) without a plan, valid for 60 days from the day you buy it. The 14-day trial needs a card and starts with your first campaign or delivery link, not at signup. During the closed beta nothing is charged and every author feature is unlocked.
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