The Catalog Desk Toolkit: Printable Workbook (Fillable PDF)

Track it. On paper or on screen.

Every tab of the Catalog Desk workbook as a printable, fillable page: the records that show the status of your whole catalog. Fill them in on screen in any PDF reader, or print them for your binder.

The companion to The Catalog Desk: The Operations Manual for Running a 50-Book Indie Publishing Operation by Carl Williams.

What's inside (16 pages, landscape, fillable):

Catalog Health Review: your monthly one-page dashboard

Fees & Rules at a Glance: every platform fee and rule, checked October 2026

ISBN Register: one row per ISBN, the single source of truth

Block Planner: plan an ISBN block by series before you assign numbers

Metadata Master: the exact wording you paste into every platform

Platform Tracker: where every format is live, with links

Series Price Sheet: prices across channels plus KDP royalty math

Release Calendar: deadlines worked backward from each launch date

Copyright Tracker: the three-month registration window for every book

Live File Register: exactly which file is live where

Link Checker: every link your books depend on, and when it was tested

Corrections Log: reader-reported errors batched for re-upload

Annual Calendar: your publishing year on one page

Monthly Audit: the monthly check, ticked off month by month

Each page includes a worked example row. Prefer automatic calculations? The Excel Workbook does the same job with unlimited rows and live formulas, or get all three toolkit files in the Complete Toolkit bundle and save.

Digital download. Nothing is shipped.