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PRIVATE 1-ON-1 BOOK PROGRAM WITH PETER ARMSTRONG

Book Bootcamp 1-on-1: 6 Weeks of Direct Founder Coaching

Six weeks of weekly 90-minute private sessions with Peter Armstrong, founder of Leanpub. Bring your hardest book problem. Win your money back as a $1999 service credit that fully covers Publish on Amazon, CourseAI Pro, or GlobalAuthor Standard when you finish.

NOTE: If you know how to use Claude Code and want to install GhostAI, consider a Group Book Bootcamp session. The groups are a maximum of 4 people, at 25% of the price!

Next available cohort starts in 20 days, 1 hour and 37 minutes

What You Get

6 Private 90-Minute Sessions with Peter Armstrong$1999

Six weekly 90-minute private sessions on Zoom with Peter Armstrong, founder of Leanpub. Just you and Peter. No group format, no shared agenda. Bring whatever's blocking you.

Lifetime Pro Author Membership$799

All Leanpub Pro author tools for life. Unlimited publishing, previews, analytics, sample chapters, and every Pro feature we ship.

$1999 Win-Your-Money-Back Service Credit$1999

Show up for every session or finish your book and you earn a $1999 service credit that fully covers Publish on Amazon, CourseAI Pro, or GlobalAuthor Standard (each $1999) — your choice. Three different ways to convert the program into a finished, published, distributed book.

GhostAI — AI Editor SuiteFree

Open-source (MIT) Claude Code skills that act as your development editor, copy editor, and structural advisor across your full manuscript — yours to keep and use after the program ends.

Total Value: $4,797

Win Your Money Back

Book Bootcamp (1-on-1) Tuition$1999
Service credit when you complete the program$1999
Lifetime Pro Author Membership value$799
Your net cost if you do the work−$799

You come out $799 ahead — your tuition is fully refunded as a $499 service credit AND you keep the 1-Year Pro Author Membership.

Show up for every session or finish your book to earn your service credit. Credit fully covers Publish on Amazon, CourseAI Pro, or GlobalAuthor Standard — your choice.

  • 6 weekly 90-minute group calls with Peter Armstrong (max 4 authors per group)
  • Structured writing accountability and expert coaching
  • GhostAI — open-source (MIT) AI development editor, copy editor, and structural advisor that works on your manuscript throughout the program and after
  • Hot seat coaching every call — everyone gets individual attention
  • Weekly curriculum from outline to launch
  • 1-Year Pro Author Membership on Leanpub — included at no extra cost ($179 value)
  • Win Your Money Back: earn a $499 service credit when you complete the program
  • Service credit covers CourseAI Standard ($499) — turn your finished book into an AI-generated online course at no further cost.

Choose Your Sunday Slot

Sunday 6 AM Pacific

Sundays at 6 AM Pacific (9 AM Eastern / 2 PM BST / 3 PM CEST). Currently in-progress; the next opening at this time slot starts June 22.

Next availability on June 22

Sunday 8 AM Pacific

Sundays at 8 AM Pacific (11 AM Eastern / 4 PM BST / 5 PM CEST), starting May 31

Next availability on May 31

Sunday 10 AM Pacific

Sundays at 10 AM Pacific (1 PM Eastern / 6 PM BST / 7 PM CEST), starting May 31

Next availability on May 31

Reserve Your Seat

Sunday 6 AM Pacific

Sundays at 6 AM Pacific (9 AM Eastern / 2 PM BST / 3 PM CEST). Currently in-progress; the next opening at this time slot starts June 22.

$1999 USD

Earn a $1999 service credit when you complete the program.

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60-day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Zoom link will be emailed to you before the first session, and will be added to your Leanpub library in the events page.

Want a small-group cohort instead? The $499 Group Bootcamp is six weeks of weekly 90-minute group calls (max 4 authors), includes a 1-Year Pro Author Membership, and earns you a $499 CourseAI Standard credit when you finish.

What is Book Bootcamp 1-on-1?

$1999. 6 weeks. Direct 1-on-1 with Peter. Six weekly 90-minute private sessions with Peter Armstrong, founder of Leanpub. Win it back as a $1999 service credit that fully covers Publish on Amazon, CourseAI Pro, or GlobalAuthor Standard (each $1999) — your choice. Literally free if you do the work. Includes a Lifetime Pro Author Membership on Leanpub and full access to GhostAI as your between-session AI editor.

This isn't a group program. It's six weeks of weekly 90-minute private sessions with Peter. Bring complex problems — memoir with legal/sensitivity issues, a technical book with unique structural needs, a book you've been stuck on for years — and get Peter's full attention every session.

How It Works

Over 6 weeks, your group meets for a 90-minute call every week. Groups are small — maximum 4 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 Peter Armstrong, founder of Leanpub, and your fellow authors.

Individual attention for everyone. With a maximum of 4 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.

GhostAI has a certain set of skills…

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. GhostAI is open source under the MIT license.

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 that fully covers Publish on Amazon, CourseAI Pro, or GlobalAuthor Standard (each $1999) — your choice. You literally cannot lose.

60-Day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on your Book Bootcamp 1-on-1 purchase ($1999), no questions asked. If you request a full refund, you will lose the $1999 service credit.

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!

Leanpub authors love Leanpub.

We're authors too, and we built Leanpub to be the platform we would love to use. It turns out, we weren't alone...

  • As an academic, I like Leanpub because it lets me write and get my ideas out there quickly. Leanpub is simply the best place for publishing my books.

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    Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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    Author of 8 Leanpub books and counting…
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    Growing Agile
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    Paul runs the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University
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The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.

Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.

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!

So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?

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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 $15 million writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub

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.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub