The Umbrella Method

One website. Fewer campaigns. Less burnout.

Miss Incognito, your Umbrella Method guide

SAVE TIME. SAVE MONEY. KEEP EVERY PEN NAME MOVING.

Build one publishing house.
Market multiple pen names
with fewer campaigns.

You don’t need a separate website and a separate marketing routine for every name you publish under. I’ll show you how to bring your pen names under one publishing-house website, organize their readers and promote across your catalog, so managing more than one author identity takes less of your time, money and energy.

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MEET THE METHOD

One publishing house.
All your pen names under one website.

Hi, I’m Kate Riley

I know the balancing act.
Here’s how I stopped doing everything separately.

You’ve got more than one pen name to look after. And somehow, each one has become its own little business to manage.

Different websites. Different readers. Different promotions to plan. You finish something for one name, then remember the other one needs attention, too. The books are the part you enjoy. Keeping everything else moving is where your time disappears.

I’ve published fiction since 2011, across multiple pen names, with books on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. I also know what it costs to spread yourself too thin. Some of my successful pen names went quiet because I couldn’t keep up with the separate setups and marketing.

So I brought my pen names under one publishing house. One website with a page for each author identity. A connected email setup. Ways to promote across the catalog instead of treating every pen name as a completely separate project.

That’s what I’m going to show you: the website setup, the marketing strategies and the decisions that make multiple pen names easier to balance. You get my templates and walkthroughs, so you can put the method into your own publishing business.

New York Times E-Book bestseller list featuring Fated Mates at number 12
#12 · New York Times E-Book Best Sellers
New York Times combined bestseller list featuring Fated Mates at number 19
#19 · Combined Print & E-Book Best Sellers

YOU CAN PUBLISH IN MORE GENRES WITHOUT MULTIPLYING THE UPKEEP

Your next pen name shouldn’t mean
another full-time marketing job.

Miss Incognito introducing the Genre Stacking lesson
Miss Incognito introducing the Genre Stacking lesson

Maybe you’re already publishing under 2 or 3 names. Maybe you have one established pen name and you’d love to try another genre, but you’re wondering how you’ll find the time to manage both.

The opportunity is exciting. A whole new website and another marketing schedule? Less exciting. That’s why the structure matters before you add more to your plate.

Your pen names can stay distinct without being managed as separate businesses. Each gets its own page and reader-facing identity. Behind the scenes, you use one publishing-house website and an organized email setup, with cross-promotion strategies that connect the parts where it makes sense.

And you don’t have to keep adding pen names to make this worthwhile. I’ll show you when another name is useful, when genres can sit together, and how to keep the names you already have from competing for every spare hour.

THE UMBRELLA IS YOUR PUBLISHING HOUSE

All your pen names.
One publishing-house website.

Think of your publishing house as the umbrella. Every pen name has a page underneath it, with its own books, branding and reader signup. You manage one website instead of maintaining a separate site for each author identity.

Your romance readers can arrive through the romance pen name’s domain. Your mystery readers can arrive through the mystery one. Those domains lead to the right pages on your publishing-house website, so readers still get an experience that fits the books they came for.

Your readers don’t have to follow every pen name. You keep their interests organized, welcome them with the right emails and choose where cross-promotion is a good fit. Separate author identities. Less separate setup for you.

YOUR PUBLISHING HOUSEOne website for all your pen names
♥

Your romance pen name

Its own page
Its own reader magnet

⌕

Your mystery pen name

Its own page
Its own reader magnet

✦

Your fantasy pen name

Its own page
Its own reader magnet

Each pen name keeps its identity. You manage the website together.

THE PARTS YOU NO LONGER NEED TO MANAGE SEPARATELY

Save time on the setup.
Save effort on the marketing.

ONE WEBSITE

All your author pages together

Use one publishing-house site for your pen names, instead of designing and maintaining a separate website for each.

FEWER CAMPAIGNS

Promote across your pen names

Learn cross-promotion strategies that let your author identities support each other, instead of planning every campaign in isolation.

ORGANIZED EMAILS

The right readers, the right books

Keep subscribers grouped by their interests and automate the welcome emails, so you aren’t repeating the same setup by hand.

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A separate site for every name means more places to update. Separate marketing plans mean more campaigns to prepare. Separate email setups mean more chances to repeat the same tasks.

The Umbrella Method shows you what to bring together, what to keep distinct and how to make the pieces support each other. That’s where you save time and avoid paying to duplicate parts of your setup unnecessarily.

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THE WEBSITE IS ONLY PART OF THE METHOD

Market multiple pen names
without multiplying every campaign.

Cross Pen Name Promotion lesson artwork
Cross Pen Name Promotion lesson artwork

This is the part that makes the umbrella more than a website project.

If every pen name needs a completely separate campaign every time you promote, you still have the same balancing act. You’ve organized the websites, but you haven’t changed how much marketing you’re trying to keep up with.

I’ll show you ways your pen names can promote each other, how to introduce readers to other books they may enjoy and how to organize your email groups so those promotions reach the right people.

You’re looking for overlap you can use, not sending every book to every reader. Your cozy mystery fans may want something different from your romance audience. The method helps you keep those differences while finding opportunities to market across your catalog.

Alongside that, you’ll learn how to decide when you need a new pen name and when you can combine compatible genres under an existing one. Fewer unnecessary identities means fewer moving parts to manage.

The goal is fewer disconnected campaigns, less repeated setup and a publishing business that doesn’t need you to be everywhere at once.

A LOOK INSIDE THE COURSE

I show you the website.
Then I show you how to run it.

NICHE RAIDERSTHE UMBRELLA METHOD
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WELCOME ABOARD

Welcome to The Umbrella Method

Meet Miss Incognito and find your way around the course.

Video lessonsWritten guidanceResources
A preview of the lesson layout, with your modules beside the lesson.
LEARN YOUR WAY

Watch. Read. Follow along.

Video walkthroughs and written guidance give you a clear route through the setup.

KEEP YOUR PLACE

Come back where you paused

Your lesson videos save your place, and completed lessons stay marked in your course roadmap.

USE WHAT’S INCLUDED

Prompts and website templates

Start from prepared designs and AI prompts instead of creating every page and email from scratch.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO DESIGN IT ALL YOURSELF

Skip the blank website.
Start with mine.

Miss Incognito presenting the Building Your Website lesson
Miss Incognito presenting the Building Your Website lesson

You don’t need to hire a designer for every pen name or figure out the pages from scratch. You start with my complete, prebuilt publishing-house website: a homepage and 3 pen-name pages, ready to make your own. Add more author pages whenever you need them.

I’ll walk you through customizing your publishing-house name, pen names, book covers, colors and reader signups. You’re making an existing website yours, with guidance all the way through.

Then you’ll connect each pen name’s domain to its page, give your books consistent publishing-house details and set up the reader magnets and emails that bring people into the right audience.

One website you can maintain. Author pages you can add as you need them. You’ll still need domains, hosting and any paid services you choose. The savings come from a shared structure, not from pretending those costs don’t exist.

HELP IS PART OF THE COURSE

Meet Miss Incognito.
You don’t have to stay stuck.

Miss Incognito standing full length and offering a welcoming hand

New domain settings? A step in your email setup that doesn’t quite click? Ask Miss Incognito right there in the lesson.

She’s your guide inside the hub, with a question panel built into the lesson page. You can get help without losing your place or hunting through the whole course.

There’s a route to the support team and community, too. The system comes with guidance, not just a folder of files and a “good luck.”

YOUR COMPLETE COURSE BRIEFING

Build your publishing house.
Learn the strategies for managing it.

Every lesson is laid out in order, from your publishing-house name to cross-promotion and genre stacking.

Module 0: Welcome artwork

START HERE

Welcome

Meet Miss Incognito and see how the course works.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 1: Your Umbrella System artwork

MODULE 01

Your Umbrella System

Choose your publishing house name, the umbrella every pen name lives under.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 2: Securing Your Name artwork

MODULE 02

Securing Your Name

Run a 5-minute trademark check on every name before you use it.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 3: Preview the Demo artwork

MODULE 03

Preview the Demo

Tour the demo publishing house website you're about to build.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 4: Building Your Website artwork

MODULE 04

Building Your Website

Build your publishing house site from my templates, with a page for each pen name.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 5: Pen Name Redirects artwork

MODULE 05

Pen Name Redirects

Point each pen name's .com to its page on your umbrella site.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 6: Emulate the Big 5 artwork

MODULE 06

Emulate the Big 5

Front and back matter that make every book look like it came from a real publishing house.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 7: Reader Magnets artwork

MODULE 07

Reader Magnets

Create a free reader magnet for every pen name.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 8: Magnet Overdrive artwork

MODULE 08

Magnet Overdrive

Put your reader magnets everywhere they'll bring in readers.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 9: Email Marketing Setup artwork

MODULE 09

Email Marketing Setup

Set up your email groups so every reader lands in the right place.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 10: Trigger & Copy artwork

MODULE 10

Trigger & Copy

Your automated welcome emails, and how readers move to the right pen name's list.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 11: Cross Pen Name Promotion artwork

MODULE 11

Cross Pen Name Promotion

The co-author hack and other ways your pen names promote each other.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE
Module 12: Genre Stacking artwork

MODULE 12

Genre Stacking

When to add a new pen name, and when to stack the genres you already write.

VIDEO + WRITTEN GUIDANCE

THERE’S MORE WAITING WHEN YOU FINISH

Watch the course first.
Then make the building easier.

Preview the Demo course artwork

Before you start building, watch all of the lessons. You’ll see how the pieces connect before you choose the details for your own publishing house.

Finishing opens your certificate and the Side Missions page, including a special bonus to help with naming your pen names, writing their pages and preparing their emails.

You get the context first, then extra help putting it into place. That’s a much nicer starting point than guessing your way through.

Preview the Demo course artwork

ONE WEBSITE. SMARTER MARKETING. LESS TO JUGGLE.

Get the system for running
your pen names together.

THE UMBRELLA METHOD

The website, the marketing, the method

$397 $197 one-time course purchase
  • Video and written lessons, in order
  • Your prebuilt, fully customizable website
  • AI prompts to speed up the setup
  • Pen-name pages + domain redirects
  • Reader magnet creation and placement
  • Email organization and welcome automation
  • Cross-pen-name promotion strategies
  • Genre stacking and pen-name decisions
  • Guides and reference materials
  • Miss Incognito lesson help
  • Certificate and completion bonus
  • Lifetime course access

Domains, website hosting, email services and any paid AI tools you choose are separate from the course.

A FEW THINGS YOU MAY BE WONDERING

Let’s clear these up.

I only have 1 pen name. Is this too early?

No. You can set up the foundation with the pen name you already have, then add more when it makes sense for your catalog.

Can I bring my existing pen names into this?

Yes. The course shows you how to bring their pages, domains and reader setup under one publishing-house structure.

Do I need to know how to code?

Your prebuilt website is included. I show you how to customize it with your names, books, colors and reader signups, using the guided walkthroughs and optional AI help.

Do all my readers have to see every pen name?

No. Each pen name has its own page and reader-facing setup. You decide how and where to cross-promote your other books.

Will I send the same campaigns to all my readers?

No. Reader groups let you keep audiences organized. You’ll learn to cross-promote where reader interests fit, rather than assuming every subscriber wants every genre.

Do I have to use AI?

The system works with or without AI. The prompts help you prepare names, pages and other materials faster.

Will this teach me to write the books?

This course is about the system behind your publishing business: websites, pen names, readers, email and cross-promotion. It isn’t a fiction-writing course.

When do I get the completion bonus?

Watch and complete the course lessons to open the Side Missions page and its special bonus. The welcome lesson explains why you should watch the teaching modules before building.

Does this guarantee more royalties?

No. Your books, market and promotion all affect what you earn. The course teaches a structure for managing and expanding your catalog; it doesn’t promise a particular income.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO KEEP DOING EVERYTHING SEPARATELY

Keep your pen names.
Change how you manage them.

Miss Incognito standing full length beneath an emerald umbrella

Your pen names can keep their personalities, their books and their readers. You can stop treating every one as a separate website and a separate marketing job.

I’ll show you how to build your publishing house, bring the right parts together and use cross-promotion and email strategies to market multiple names with less duplication.

One website. Fewer campaigns. More time to enjoy the publishing business you’re building.

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