FOR AUTHORS AND EXPERTS WITH A BODY OF WORK

You wrote the book. That was the hard part.

Upload the manuscript. MLA turns it into a course, ebook, and audiobook you can edit, publish, and sell. No studio. No starting over.

Free trial. 30-day money-back guarantee. If it doesn't sound like you, you owe nothing.

100,000+
courses created
70%
start from their own documents
83%
completion rate, vs 3 to 15% industry average
5.0
on G2
BUILT FOR
  • Business authors
  • Nonfiction authors
  • Memoirists
  • Keynote speakers
  • Consultants
  • Independent researchers
  • Journalists
  • Curriculum specialists
  • Historians
  • Cookbook authors
  • Workshop leaders

The MLA Difference

Without MLA
An older man with a grey beard sits slumped at a wooden desk in a book-lined study, one hand resting on a thick printed manuscript, a laptop showing a blank page and a cold mug of coffee beside him in lamplight.
  • Asked again

    5m ago

    Is there an audiobook?

  • Three hours a chapter

    5m ago

    What it took to record the last one

  • Reader questions

    5m ago

    Emails asking things the book already answers

  • The talk

    5m ago

    Given twenty times. Recorded zero

  • Started three times

    5m ago

    The companion course. Still an outline

With MLA
Course publishedYour book, now twelve modules with your name on them
Audiobook doneYour voice, or one of ours. No studio
Ebook formattedPDF, EPUB, DOCX. Yours to sell anywhere
First student enrolledA reader who wanted more
COMPLETION TRACKING
83%of students finished this course
ONE SOURCE

Your course isn't missing. It's in the manuscript.

The book you already wrote. The keynote you've given twenty times. The notes for the sequel. Bring all of it. Everything below comes from it.

The manuscript
Keynote recordings
Chapter notes
Interview transcripts
Workshop slides
Years of research

Mini Lessons Academy

Bring everything you've got

Becomes
  • The AudiobookYour voice, or one of ours
  • Video LessonsOne per chapter, no studio
  • The Companion Course12 modules
  • The EbookFormatted for Amazon
  • Reader QuizzesAuto-graded
  • A Book PageStripe checkout attached
  • Nothing to film.
  • Nothing to design.
  • Nothing to code.
  • No one to hire.

From what you know to something people can buy.

CREATE

Your book, structured for learning.

Start with the manuscript. MLA reads it, learns who you're teaching, and drafts the companion course, the ebook, the audiobook, and the video lessons from your own pages. You wrote the book once. You won't rewrite it for the course.

  • DOCX, PDF, or the recording of the talk you built from it.

  • Chapters become modules. Your sentences stay your sentences.

  • Narrated in your voice or one of ours, plus a video lesson per chapter. No studio.

  • So readers finish the course, not just the book.

Replaces: an instructional designer, a formatter, a narrator

The Resilient Leader Companion Course
Built from resilient-leader-manuscript.docx and 3 keynote recordings
    • Why good leaders fold quietly
    • The three pressures that stack
    • Your first pressure audit
  1. The framework behind chapter three
  2. +10 more modules
“MLA helps you take what you already know and turn it into something structured that people can actually follow. I want to spend my time creating, not learning a new skillset just to use a course creation app.”
Vincent Polite
Vincent Polite
Founder, ATLV Marketing
PUBLISH

Make it look like your brand, not ours.

Your course gets a landing page, a storefront, and a reader area the day you finish it. Your domain, your name, your covers on every page. No designer, no web builder, no code.

  • Built from your course. Edit anything.

  • Book, course, and audiobook, side by side.

  • learn.yourname.com, live in minutes.

  • Where they log in and go deeper than the book.

  • A separate space per title or per brand.

Replaces: Canva, a web designer, a separate LMS

courses.yourbrand.com
Rowan Hale Books
The book, and everything after it
The Resilient Leader Companion Course
12 modules$149
The Resilient Leader Workshop Edition
6 modules$89
“Now, we have a one-stop-shop space. With Mini Lessons Academy, the resources and AI tools help you put your programs together. It makes everything a lot easier.”
Sherease Stapleton
Sherease Stapleton
Executive Director, Mothers of Joy Institute
SELL

Sell the book, the course, and the audiobook. Once, or every month.

Price them separately or bundle all three. Stripe pays you direct. MLA never holds your money, and your files are yours to sell on Amazon and Audible too.

  • Connect once.

  • A companion course, or a monthly readers' membership.

  • Book plus course plus audiobook, one price.

  • List it where readers look.

  • Chapter one free, the rest paid.

  • Your Stripe account. Your money.

Replaces: Kajabi, Teachable, a payments plugin

Set your price
The Resilient Leader Companion Course
Draft
How students pay
Stripe checkout
Paid to your account
Connected
“I had a book, keynote slides, and years of workshop material. For the first time, it all felt like one body of work instead of separate projects.”
Natalie Pierce
Natalie Pierce
Author & Keynote Speaker
THE DRAFT IS AI. THE VOICE IS YOURS.

It should sound like you. Not like AI.

Upload the manuscript. MLA structures it into a first draft. Change any word, reorder any lesson, cut anything you'd cut in an edit. Nothing publishes until you say so.

Highlighted text is yours, word for word.
  • resilient-leader-manuscript.docx

    Leaders rarely fail from one big blow. They fold from three small pressures that stack in the same week, none of which looked serious on its own. The skill is spotting the stack before it topples.

  • Module 1 · Lesson 2
    The Resilient Leader Companion Course

    The three pressures that stack

    Leaders rarely fail from one big blow. They fold from three small pressures that stack in the same week, none of which looked serious on its own. In this lesson you'll name the three pressures in your own week and run your first pressure audit.

    Quiz attached4 questions, auto-graded
“The course still sounds like me because it started with my own writing. MLA simply helped me structure it for a different way of learning.”
Janet Caldwell
Janet Caldwell
Author & Educator
BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY KNOW SOMETHING

What experts are building on MLA.

  • NONFICTION
    “I already spent years writing the book. MLA helped me turn that same body of work into a course without feeling like I had to write everything again.”
    Susan Keller
    Susan Keller
    Nonfiction Author & Educator
  • BUSINESS BOOKS
    “My book contained the framework already. MLA helped me reorganize it into lessons people could actually work through.”
    Gregory Miles
    Gregory Miles
    Business Author & Consultant
  • RESEARCH
    “I wasn't interested in learning complicated course software. I wanted to focus on the material. MLA made that possible.”
    Omar Hassan
    Omar Hassan
    Author & Independent Researcher
  • TRAINING
    “Everything flows like a real curriculum, not a jumbled Google Doc. I felt confident charging for my course because the structure made sense.”
    Michelle
    Michelle
    BrightPath Training Co.
  • COACHING
    “Other tools changed my content. That's a dealbreaker when you've spent decades building your expertise.”
    Toshiko M.
    Toshiko M.
    Leadership Coach
  • CORPORATE
    “We needed to revamp our internal training without hiring an instructional designer. This platform made our subject matter experts look like pros. The templates are usable right out of the box, and the output looks polished enough for executive review.”
    Jonas
    Jonas
    Techflow
THE EXPERT ROUTE, PRICED

What this costs without MLA.

Or upload what you have and skip the first three.

Typical freelance and list prices.

Instructional designer to structure it$5,000
Copywriter for the sales page$3,000
Kajabi, before your first sale$149 a month
MLAPlans from $35 a month
“I kept thinking I needed to write a course from scratch. Once I uploaded the material I already had, I realized most of the work was already done.”
Meera Shah
Meera Shah
Author & Workshop Leader
YOURS

Your expertise. Your brand. Your customers.

Nothing here is rented.

Your domain

Publish under your brand. Remove ours.

Your content

Export it anywhere. PDF, DOCX, EPUB, SCORM, or audio.

Your customers

Sales run through your own Stripe account. We never hold your money.

Your data

We don't train on it. Built to SOC 2 standards.

REAL PEOPLE WHEN YOU NEED THEM

Building the course shouldn't require becoming a software expert.

  • A real person, every time. Email, phone, or a Zoom walkthrough. Never a bot.

  • Support around the clock, from people who answer.

  • We'll build it with you. Stuck on your first course? Get on a call and we'll walk through it together.

  • Short walkthroughs and a user guide inside the app.

Talk to a human

Email, phone, or a Zoom walkthrough. Your call.

Get in touch

No charge

“I received an invitation to jump on a live Zoom call... The thing I appreciated most was the 'human factor' of having real people to actually talk to.”
Kimberly C.
Kimberly C.via G2
Owner

You already wrote it.

  • A woman in a rust knit jumper sits in a worn olive leather armchair reading a handwritten letter, more letters spread across her lap and a wicker basket of opened envelopes on the floor beside a bookshelf and a sunlit window.

    The author whose readers keep asking for more

    The book is chapter one. The course is the rest.

  • A man in a charcoal blazer and white shirt stands alone at the front of an empty training room, head down, winding a thin lapel microphone cable around his fingers beside a lectern and rows of vacated chairs.

    The speaker with a keynote and no product behind it

    Upload the recording. Leave with the product.

  • A woman in glasses sits at a walnut desk with one hand resting on a thick spiral-bound manuscript, lifting a black studio microphone out of its open foam-lined box, a coiled cable and a tabbed stack of pages nearby.

    The consultant with a manuscript and no audiobook

    Record none of it. Publish all of it.

  • A woman with wavy grey hair in a terracotta linen shirt and beaded necklace wipes dust from a black studio microphone on a boom arm, its unplugged cable hanging loose beside dusty headphones and a pop filter in a sunlit home office corner.

    The expert who's been meaning to record the book for two years

    Two years is long enough.

  • A man in a pale blue shirt kneels on the floor of a cramped research office, lifting a thick bound report out of a grey archive box, with metal shelves of identical plain binders filling the wall behind him.

    The researcher with a body of work nobody can buy

    Same folder. It sells now.

  • A woman in a sage cardigan leans over a low wooden table in a counselling room, placing a printed page into one of several separate piles of manuscript pages spread across the table between two armchairs.

    The author with a second book that's really a course

    Let it be a course.

Before you start

  • Your documents and your voice are the source. MLA structures and drafts. You edit every word. Nothing publishes without your approval.

  • Yes. Upload PowerPoint, PDF, Word, audio, or video. MLA transcribes recordings and builds from the transcript.

  • You don't need a website, a payment plugin, or a designer. Publish, set a price, connect Stripe. The page, the checkout, and the student area are built in.

  • Yes. Your audiobook and ebook files download in standard formats and are yours to publish anywhere, including Amazon and Audible.

  • Yes. Everything you create is yours. Export it any time. We don't train on your data.

  • Yes. One-time, monthly, or yearly, and bundles students subscribe to.

  • The trial is seven days. Build the whole course inside it. If it isn't for you, cancel and you're never charged. After that, a 30-day money-back guarantee.

YOU'VE ALREADY DONE THE HARD PART

Your book deserves to be more than a thing people read once.

Turn My Book Into a Course

Free trial. 30-day money-back guarantee.

  • Nothing to film.
  • Nothing to design.
  • Nothing to code.
  • No one to hire.