The Fiction Author's
Shopify Quick-Start
Handbook

Before You Read This

Let me be blunt: you've probably already Googled 'how to start a Shopify store' and found a wall of generic ecommerce advice built for someone selling yoga mats or phone cases.

That advice is not wrong. It's just not for you.

You're a fiction author. Your product is a world people fall in love with. Your best customers are not just buyers — they're superfans who will buy everything you ever create, if you give them the chance.

This handbook is built specifically for that reality. It will walk you through the essentials of launching your Shopify store without burying you in tech overwhelm — and it will do it in the context of what you're actually selling: books, digital products, and merch rooted in a fictional universe.

You don't need to figure all of this out in one sitting. But you do need to start. Every day your store isn't running is a day you're handing your margin to Amazon.

Let's fix that.

— Leah McHenry, Founder, Fiction Empire