Writing and Editing Checklists Is Out Now

Now that the world’s time zones have ticked over to the 3rd of June 2025, Writing and Editing Checklists: Everything You Need to Take Your Book from First Draft to Publication is officially out!

Available from the usual retailers of paperbacks and ebooks, you can scroll to the bottom of this post for all the buy links, and/or keep reading to find out more about the book and how it came to be.

Writing and Editing Checklists

I may be a pantser when I write, but I also need to be organized to put pen to paper, or I simply don’t do it. This means lots of to-do lists, and for me, those lists naturally segued into checklists.

Those checklists then manifested in my blog posts as a way to make sense of the writing tips I was learning and sharing, and of implementing that advice so I could use it in my drafts.

Checklists helped me become a better writer and editor, and when I released the first checklist blog post—The Delete Checklist—you awesome readers let me know how helpful it was for you too!

As I wrote more checklist blogs over the years, and floated the idea of turning them into a book, you encouraged that as well. That’s why the blogging community is thanked first in the acknowledgments.

This book is for you, the readers of my blog. Thank you so much for the support over the past 8 years, and I hope you find the book just as helpful as you have the blogs that inspired it.

Book Charts

It’s always a surprise and a very appreciated event when my books show up on any charts after release.

Following the Australian launch, the Kindle version hit #1 on the Fiction Writing Reference and #2 on the Writing Skill Reference Hot New Releases charts.

Then, when the book was released in the US, I saw the Kindle version hit #12 in the New Releases in Fiction Writing Reference, and #15 in the Writing Skill Reference category, while the paperback hit #65.

I don’t know if they went any higher than these numbers or appeared anywhere else, but the fact that they were listed on any chart made my day, and I want to thank the readers who made it possible.

Reviews

Another huge thank you goes out to my awesome ARC readers who have already added their wonderful reviews, and a special shoutout to Award-winning author Katya de Becerra for her blurb/endorsement, which features on the front cover!

“I’ve been following K.M. Allan’s writing advice blog obsessively ever since I first became a published author. I’m so excited to see it now available as a book – this is a true gift to writers everywhere! Honest, concise, and rich in craft topics and scenarios, I can’t recommend this book enough!” – Katya de Becerra, Aurealis and Shadows winning author of When Ghosts Call Us Home and They Watch From Below.

“It covers absolutely everything you can think of with regards to writing and editing and is a great little book to refer back to time and time again.” – 5 Stars – Goodreads Reviewer.

“If you’re a writer, in any genre, you NEED this book. If you’ve found companions in books like Save The Cat and The Emotion Thesaurus, you NEED this book. Whether you’re drafting, editing, or planning your next project…you NEED this book!” – 5 Stars – Goodreads Reviewer.

You can add Writing and Editing Checklists to your Goodreads shelves by clicking here.

Buy Writing and Editing Checklists

As promised, here are the buy links.

Thank you to everyone who has or will buy a copy. I hope you love the checklists just as much as I do, and that they help you craft your own books to share with the world.

Paperback

Amazon (US)
Amazon.co.uk (UK)
Amazon.ca (Canada)
Barnes & Noble (US)

Australian Readers
These are the retailers stocking the paperback at varying prices.

Angus & Robertson (AU)
Booktopia (AU)
Amazon.com.au (AU)

Please Note & Other Countries

The paperback is enabled for worldwide distribution and should appear at all Amazon and online retailers in the IngramSpark network, but it can take anywhere from 2-6 weeks to do so, and I unfortunately have no control over when or at what price it appears. If you’d like to buy the paperback but your Amazon or online retailer doesn’t list it yet, says it’s out of stock/unavailable, or the price is too high, all I can advise is that you please wait patiently to see if it corrects in the days after release. Thank you.

Ebook

Apple Books (US)
Apple Books (AU)
Apple Books (UK)
Apple Books (Canada)
Amazon (US)
Amazon.com.au (AU)
Amazon.co.uk (UK)
Amazon.ca (Canada)
Barnes & Noble (US)
Kobo (US)
Kobo (AU)
Kobo (UK)
Kobo (Canada)

Other Countries

The ebook is enabled for worldwide distribution and should be available at Amazon and other online retailers, so be sure to check your country/local online book retailers for listings!

And there you have it! Thank you so much to everyone who patiently waited for this book. I started working on it over a year ago, and also said at the start of this year I’d have it out soon.

At the time, I foolishly thought that would only be a few weeks at the most. It may have taken longer than I anticipated, but I believe it is worth it, and I hope you feel the same way after reading it.

Enjoy!

— K.M. Allan

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