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Book Bootcamp: 6 Weeks to a Finished Book with a Leanpub Founder + GhostAI
Real Artists Ship. So, join our 6-week AI-powered program to finish your Leanpub book, with GhostAI as your AI editor and a Leanpub founder providing guidance — and win your money back when you do!
Not sure if Book Bootcamp is right for you? Try our 3-hour Book Workshop first ($79), our GhostAI Workshop ($199), or our Full Day Workshop ($249) and get a credit toward Book Bootcamp.
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Starts in 38 days, 19 hours and 41 minutes
What is Book Bootcamp?
6-Week AI-Powered Book Bootcamp. Pay $1999. Show up for 6 weeks. Finish your book. We hand you $1999 back as a service credit. The bootcamp is literally free if you do the work. You get Early Beta Access to GhostAI — a suite of AI editing tools built on Claude Code — as your personal development editor, copy editor, and structural advisor. Whether you're stuck at 20% or 80%, this program gives you the structure, AI tools, accountability, and expert guidance to get it done.
Win Your Money Back: Show up for every session or finish your book and you earn a $1,999 service credit which you can use toward Publish on Amazon, CourseAI Pro or GlobalAuthor Standard (each of which costs $1999), or applied toward GlobalAuthor Pro or GlobalAuthor Max.
This isn't generic advice. Your coach is a Leanpub founder, either Peter Armstrong or Len Epp, who know Leanpub inside and out. Plus, GhostAI gives you AI-powered editorial feedback between sessions — development editing, copy editing, and structural review on demand. Every live session is focused on removing the specific obstacles between you and a finished book. Writing, formatting, publishing workflow, marketing strategy — whatever's blocking you, we'll work through it together. Groups are capped at 8 authors so everyone gets real attention.
Win Your Money Back
Book Bootcamp Tuition$1999
Service credit when you complete the program-$1999
Your net cost if you do the work$0.00
Show up for every session or finish your book to earn your service credit. Credit applies toward Publish on Amazon, CourseAI Pro, GlobalAuthor, or any Leanpub service.
Choose Your Cohort
Sunday 6 AM Pacific Cohort
Starting Sunday, May 24 at 6 AM Pacific (9 AM Eastern / 2 PM BST / 3 PM CEST)
Sunday 6 PM Pacific Cohort
Starting Sunday, May 24 at 6 PM Pacific (9 PM Eastern / 2 AM BST / 3 AM CEST)
Tuesday Noon Pacific Cohort
Starting Tuesday, May 26 at Noon Pacific (3 PM Eastern / 8 PM BST / 9 PM CEST)
Thursday 9 AM Pacific Cohort
Starting Thursday, May 28 at 9 AM Pacific (Noon Eastern / 5 PM BST / 6 PM CEST)
Thursday Noon Pacific Cohort
Starting Thursday, May 28 at Noon Pacific (3 PM Eastern / 8 PM BST / 9 PM CEST)
$1999
- 6 weekly 90-minute founder-led group calls (max 8 authors per group)
- Structured writing accountability and expert coaching
- GhostAI Early Access — AI development editor, copy editor, and structural advisor that continue working with you after the program
- Hot seat coaching every call — everyone gets individual attention
- Weekly curriculum from outline to launch
- Win Your Money Back: earn a $1,999 service credit when you complete the program
- Service credit covers Publish on Amazon, CourseAI Pro or GlobalAuthor Standard (each of which costs $1,999), or can be applied toward any other Leanpub service or combination of Leanpub services.
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How It Works
Over 6 weeks, your group meets for a 90-minute call every week. Groups are small — maximum 8 authors — so every person gets a hot seat every single call. This isn't a webinar you watch. It's a working session with a strict format: teaching, individual coaching, and public commitments.
Every Call: 90 Minutes, Interactive Coaching
Every single week, you get help. This is not six 90-minute lectures you watch passively. Every call is an interactive working session with a Leanpub founder and your fellow authors.
Individual attention for everyone. With a maximum of 8 authors per group, every person gets direct coaching every call — on writing, publishing, formatting, marketing, or whatever is blocking you.
Accountability that works. You'll share your progress, get feedback on your work, and make commitments for the coming week. The group keeps you on track to finish your book.
What is GhostAI?
GhostAI is a suite of Claude Code skills purpose-built for book authors. Unlike web-based AI tools that work on snippets of text, GhostAI operates at the file-system level — it understands your full manuscript structure, maintains context across chapters, and integrates directly with your writing workflow. You get lifetime access as part of Bootcamp.
- /ghost-review — Development editor: reads your full manuscript structure, provides feedback on organization, flow, pacing, gaps, and repetition
- /ghost-edit — Copy editor: line-level editing for grammar, clarity, tone, and technical accuracy on individual chapters
- /ghost-draft — Writing assistant: generates a first draft from your outline
- /ghost-expand — Writing assistant: expands bullet points and notes into polished prose
Requirements
Book Bootcamp includes GhostAI, which requires Claude Code (terminal-based AI tool) with an Anthropic API key. macOS or Linux required (WSL2 on Windows is fine). Setup instructions will be provided before your first session.
Win Your Money Back Guarantee
We call it Win Your Money Back because completing the program is the win. Show up to every session, or complete and publish your book at 100% on Leanpub — and you earn a $1999 service credit toward Publish on Amazon, GlobalAuthor Standard, or any Leanpub author service. Publish on Amazon is $1999, so the service credit covers its full cost. You literally cannot lose.
60-Day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on your Book Bootcamp purchase ($1999), no questions asked. If you request a full refund, you will lose the $1999 service credit and your Early Beta GhostAI Access.
We're so confident in Book Bootcamp that we're happy to offer a full money-back guarantee. You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money-back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!
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Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase
We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.
(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)
In fact, authors have earned over $14 million writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub.
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Write and Publish on Leanpub
You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!
Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.
Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.