# PocketAuthor – Cal.com booking page

> Become an author < 1 month. PocketAuthor lets you go from idea to a published book that builds your distribution in the physical and digital world.

Booking page: https://cal.com/pocketauthor

## Event types

- [Volunteer Onboarding](https://cal.com/pocketauthor/volunteer): 30 min, confirmed instantly, event type id 7417243. Explore how you can help widen access to writing, knowledge and reader communities. This optional 30-minute introductory conversation helps us understand your interests, skills, learning goals and availability, and discuss a suitable public-benefit volunteer task. Areas include volunteer coordination, engineering, design and accessibility, quality assurance, grants and evidence research, community events, editorial and translation, storytelling, NGO partnerships and reader access. Booking a conversation does not mean you have been accepted into a role or granted access. A first task needs an agreed scope and an accepting reviewer. This is unpaid volunteering, not a paid job or a commitment to commercial client manuscript work. Prefer to start asynchronously? You can express interest through the PocketAuthor project on DemocracyLab without booking a call: https://www.democracylab.org/projects/2066 Please share only information and public work samples you have permission to share. Do not include private manuscripts, credentials or sensitive personal information. Check the timezone displayed before choosing a time. Details: https://cal.com/pocketauthor/volunteer.md
- [Quick Book Outline](https://cal.com/pocketauthor/outline): 15 min, confirmed instantly, event type id 7332887. Meet with pocket author team to turn conversation into quick book outline Details: https://cal.com/pocketauthor/outline.md
- [VIP Author Onboarding](https://cal.com/pocketauthor/vip): 60 min, confirmed instantly, event type id 7332886. Private VIP Author Onboarding with PocketAuthor team. Walk out with an outline, direction, initial chapters, and regular accountability. Details: https://cal.com/pocketauthor/vip.md
- [Book Onboarding](https://cal.com/pocketauthor/30min): 30 min, confirmed instantly, event type id 7332885. 30 minute pocket author meeting Details: https://cal.com/pocketauthor/30min.md

## Check availability

```http
GET https://api.cal.com/v2/slots?eventTypeId=<event type id>&start=YYYY-MM-DD&end=YYYY-MM-DD&timeZone=<IANA time zone>
cal-api-version: 2024-09-04
```

The response is `{"data":{"YYYY-MM-DD":[{"start":"<ISO 8601 with offset>"}]}}`; no API key is needed.

## Book

Each event type's `.md` document lists its required booking fields and the `POST https://api.cal.com/v2/bookings` request (`cal-api-version: 2026-02-25`).

## More

- API docs: https://cal.com/docs/api-reference/v2/introduction