Your first book, from idea to Amazon.
Shelf Starter walks you through every step: finding a book idea that can sell, planning it, making it with free AI tools, and publishing it on Amazon KDP. Made for complete beginners.
Join the free betaFree during the beta. The Amazon research helper needs Google Chrome on a computer.
How it works
Find your idea
Answer three quick questions or type an idea. Shelf Starter checks it on Amazon and tells you, in plain English, whether it can sell.
Research it
See the top books for your idea, what they have in common, and what’s missing that your book could offer.
Create it
Get a day-by-day plan that fits your time and your AI tools, with every prompt ready to copy. Mazes, tracing pages and your print-ready interior are built for you.
Publish it
Set a price that actually earns you money, then follow a click-by-click checklist to upload to KDP and order a proof.
Built for people who’ve never done this before
Works with free tools
Use the free plans of Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and others. Shelf Starter plans around their daily limits and tells you when an upgrade would truly help.
Honest answers
If an idea is a long shot, you’ll hear it before you spend weeks on it. A green light means a good place to start, not guaranteed sales.
You stay in charge
You paste each prompt into your own AI tools and check every result. Shelf Starter shows you exactly what to do and what good looks like.
Start your first book
Shelf Starter is in a free beta. Join now, make a book with it, and tell us what would make it better.