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Author Collaboratory

Ready to join a private community focused on marketing their books, who like to share success and work together? Join our lab and collab with LegendFiction authors!
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Hosted by Dominic de Souza
Founder of LegendFiction, and a fulltime marketer and brand strategist with 25+ years experience. Author of 'Start Your SAGA Brand', the relentlessly helpful guide for beginners and founders to build a brand.
Most authors love writing—but hate marketing.
  • You don’t want to sound pushy or fake every time you talk about your book.
  • You don’t know how to stay visible without feeling self-centered.
  • You want to grow an audience, but doing it alone feels awkward and unsustainable.
That’s exactly what the LegendFiction Collaboratory is built to fix.
It’s a creative alliance where LegendFiction members can experiment, collaborate, and grow together. It’s part laboratory, part fellowship, a shared place where we test ideas, cross-promote, and learn from each other in real time.
This collaboratory is your place to:
  • Invite other authors to collaborate through podcast swaps, blog exchanges, or interviews.
  • Treat the Collaboratory as a shared creative network—reach out, co-create, and make things happen.
  • Benefit from the audience of subscribers LegendFiction is building through email and social media.
And get a suite of goodies crafted just for you.
Mastermind Workshops: Included
A focused mastermind for authors ready to level up their brand. Whether you’re launching a new book or refreshing your presence, this 2-day workshop helps you build your own Legend-level brand using the same framework that powers LegendFiction itself.
In three hours, you’ll get further than you would in three months, working side by side with a professional marketer who specializes in creation and collaboration, not ad spend.
This is hands-on, high-impact, and practical. You’ll workshop your brand, test your pitch, and get real-time feedback from peers and pros.
Limited to 15 authors | Existing members of the Collaboratory get half off admission.
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Start Your SAGA Brand
The Relentlessly Helpful Guide for Total Beginners & Visionary Founders to Build a Brand with No Permission, No Budget, and No Limits—in Just 100 Days.
Ebook included free with your membership.
Pricing options
Exclusive to LegendFiction members.
Free
Amplify your author brand
  • Get a blog interview published on our blog
  • Join our two annual online conventions hosted by LegendFiction
  • Offer your services in the LegendFiction Marketplace
  • Join author retreats at full price
  • Get a personal $350 Author Brand session to refine your author brand and marketing strategy.
$10 p/month
Build your author brand
  • Private group inside LegendFiction for daily & weekly networking
  • Monthly group call for networking, conversations, and live AMAs
  • Submit one post each month (300–500 words) on your favorite topics, and promote your book/service
  • Selected blog posts appear in LegendFiction Magazine, our quarterly digital publication
  • Join our two annual online conventions hosted by LegendFiction: host panels or talk on the livestream + YouTube replay
  • Apply to appear on the LegendFiction Show (YouTube podcast)
  • Pitch new anthology ideas. If accepted, LegendFiction will manage submissions, publishing, and automated payouts.
  • Collaboratory 2-day retreat fees are included in your membership.
  • Get 50% off a personal Author Brand session, at $175.
  • Cancel anytime
$99 Masterclass
Build a legend-level brand with our 2-day workshop masterclass.
$250 for non-members.
  • 2-day online masterclass, total of 3 hours.
  • Refresh or launch your author brand
  • Follow a 4-step framework
  • Field-tested templates and prompts to guide you
  • 'Start Your SAGA Brand' ebook included free