Is it really the whole book, or just an outline?

The whole book. You describe it, approve the chapter plan, and every chapter is written and then edited in full — 30,000 to 130,000 words depending on the length you choose, readable in the browser before you export a thing.

How long does a book take?

One to two hours for a full-length novel, because chapters are written in order so each one can build on the last. The chapter plan arrives in a couple of minutes. You do not have to wait around — we email you when it is finished.

You own the book you generate, and you can publish it where and however you like.

Can I publish it on Amazon KDP?

Yes. Paid plans export a complete KDP kit: a print interior with the right trim size, gutter and margins for your page count, a reflowable EPUB, a cover specification with the spine width calculated, and a checklist that includes the AI-content declaration KDP requires.

What if I do not like part of it?

Rewrite it. Give any chapter a note on what to change and it is written again with the same bible and plan behind it, so it still fits the book around it. Every paid plan includes rewrites, and you can always export to Word and edit anywhere.

Will it sound like me?

You choose the style, the narrative voice and the tense up front, and paid plans let you paste a sample of your own writing to match. It will not be indistinguishable from you — nobody honest would claim that — but it will be consistent from the first page to the last.

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Describe your bookoptional

A detective

Genre

MysteryLiteraryThriller

Length

Novel · 80,000 wordsNovella

Point of view

Third, limitedFirst person

Voice

Spare and coldWarmHard-boiled

Pacing

Slow burnBrisk

Setting

A Cornish fishing townA city

The Salt RoadWriting

0 of 24 chapters0 words

Characters

Mara QuillDetective. Twelve years away.

Elias VaneHarbourmaster. Keeps the log.

Tom RellSkipper of the Kestrel.

Places

The harbourTidal. Empties twice a day.

The chandleryWhere the row drinks.

Outline

01The tide line
02Salt and iron
03What the water kept
04Low water
05The harbourmaster
06Green hull
07Nobody's boat
08Slack tide

The Salt Road

Chapter Three

What the water kept

The green hull came up out of the dark below her a rung at a time, and she went down the ladder favouring the bad knee, because there was no one on the slip to see her do it.

Whatever the harbour had agreed to say about that night, the boat had not agreed to anything. Boats do not.

She found the first of it under the thwart: a line of rope, cut rather than parted, the cut clean enough to have been made with something kept sharp for the purpose.

She sat back on her heels with the end of it in her hand and let herself understand, for a moment, exactly what she was holding.

The Salt RoadA novelM. R. Calloway

The Salt RoadM. R. Calloway

First edition

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author's imagination.

Typeset in Source Serif · Printed on 60lb cream

The Salt Road

Chapter One

The tide line

The boat came back on the morning tide with nobody aboard, and by the time Mara Quill reached the slip half the harbour had already decided what had happened to him.

She stood above it with her hands in her coat and did not go down for a while. Twelve years is long enough for a place to stop being yours and not long enough for it to forget you, and she could feel the windows behind her filling up.

The Kestrel sat over on the mud with her green hull streaked to the waterline. Nothing about her looked wrong, which was the first thing wrong.

The tide line

The tide went on going out, the way it does whether or not anyone is watching it, taking the light off the mud in long bands.

She stayed until the last of the water had gone from the channel. There was nothing else in the boat. No bag, no coat, no cup left where a cup would be left. Only the ropes, coiled the way her father had coiled them, which was not the way anyone in the harbour coiled them now.

It was the tidiness that stayed with her on the walk back up. A man does not drown tidily.

The Salt Road

Chapter Two

Salt and iron

The harbourmaster's office smelled of paraffin and old paper, and Elias Vane had not moved anything in it for eleven years, including his opinion of her.

“You'll want the log,” he said, before she asked. That was the second thing wrong.

He put it on the counter between them and turned it round so it faced her, and she saw that the page for Tuesday had been written in the same ink as the page for Sunday, in a hand that had not hurried once.

“Everything's in order,” he said. “You'll see that.”

Salt and iron

She saw it. That was the difficulty. Twenty-two boats out and twenty-two boats in, every one of them accounted for, on a night the wind had turned hard enough to take the slates off the chandlery roof.

“And the Kestrel?”

“In at four. Says so.”

“It says so,” she agreed, “in your writing.”

Vane looked at the window, where there was nothing to see but the harbour he had watched for forty years, and said that the writing was his because the office was his, and that she had been away a long time.

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Amazon KDP · Apple Books · Kobo · IngramSpark · Google Play Books

How it works

Three steps. The second one is yours.

Nothing is written until you have approved the plan — which is the difference between the book you wanted and the book you got.

01
Describe the book
Genre, premise, characters, how long it should be and how it should sound. One sentence is enough to start; a page gives it more to work with.
02
Approve the chapter plan
Every chapter, with the beats it has to hit. Change one, cut one, move the twist. Writing starts only when you say so.
03
Read it, fix anything, publish
Chapters arrive as they are written. Rewrite any of them with a note, then export a PDF, a Word file, an EPUB or a ready-to-upload KDP kit.

What it does

Why it reads like a book, not like output

Anything can generate a chapter. Keeping eighty thousand words consistent, paced and in one voice is the actual work, and it takes more than one pass.

Find the shelf before you write for it

Amazon's bestseller lists, refreshed weekly and sorted the way an author needs them: not by what sells most, but by what sells well without a wall of established competition in front of it. Then write a book for that shelf in one click.

You approve the plan before a word is written

Every chapter is outlined and shown to you first. Change a beat, cut a chapter, move the twist. Nothing is drafted until the plan is the book you meant.

III

It never loses a detail

Characters, places, dates and every promise the plot has made live in a story bible that every chapter reads from. A limp in chapter 2 is still there in chapter 19.

Drafted, then edited, like a real manuscript

Each chapter gets a second pass that cuts the throat-clearing, the stock phrases and the summary the scene already earned. It is the pass that makes prose read as written rather than generated.

A cover designed from your book, not a template

The cover is read out of the manuscript itself — its setting, its register, its genre's conventions — and rendered front, spine and back at print resolution, sized to the trim you chose.

Ready to publish the day it is finished

Read it in the browser, then export a print PDF with real margins and a gutter, a Word file, an EPUB, or a complete Amazon KDP kit with the cover spec worked out.

Genres

Written to the promises your genre makes

A romance that does not end well has broken its contract, whatever else it did. Each genre carries its own structure, length and rules, and every chapter is held to them.

All 28 genres

Pricing

Priced per book, not per word

Every plan writes complete, edited books — from $7.45 a book. Pick how many a month, how long they can be, and which formats you take away.

Author

$29/month

$349 billed once a year

Includes

2 complete books a month
Up to 95,000 words a book
10 chapter rewrites a month
PDF and Word export
Market research on what is selling
A cover designed from your book

Pro

Popular

$58/month

$699 billed once a year

Includes

6 complete books a month
Up to 130,000 words a book
90 chapter rewrites a month
PDF, Word, EPUB and KDP export
Matches your voice from a sample
2 books writing at the same time
Market research on what is selling
A cover designed from your book

Studio

$108/month

$1,299 billed once a year

Includes

20 complete books a month
Up to 130,000 words a book
400 chapter rewrites a month
PDF, Word, EPUB and KDP export
Top of the queue, always
Market research on what is selling
A cover designed from your book

Cancel any time. Cancelling stops the next renewal and you keep access, and your credits, until the period you have paid for ends.

Questions

What people ask before they start

Is it really the whole book, or just an outline?: The whole book. You describe it, approve the chapter plan, and every chapter is written and then edited in full — 30,000 to 130,000 words depending on the length you choose, readable in the browser before you export a thing.
How long does a book take?: One to two hours for a full-length novel, because chapters are written in order so each one can build on the last. The chapter plan arrives in a couple of minutes. You do not have to wait around — we email you when it is finished.
Who owns the book?: You own the book you generate, and you can publish it where and however you like.
Can I publish it on Amazon KDP?: Yes. Paid plans export a complete KDP kit: a print interior with the right trim size, gutter and margins for your page count, a reflowable EPUB, a cover specification with the spine width calculated, and a checklist that includes the AI-content declaration KDP requires.
What if I do not like part of it?: Rewrite it. Give any chapter a note on what to change and it is written again with the same bible and plan behind it, so it still fits the book around it. Every paid plan includes rewrites, and you can always export to Word and edit anywhere.
Will it sound like me?: You choose the style, the narrative voice and the tense up front, and paid plans let you paste a sample of your own writing to match. It will not be indistinguishable from you — nobody honest would claim that — but it will be consistent from the first page to the last.

The book you keep meaning to write

Start with one sentence. Approve the outline, and read the whole of it tonight.

Start writing your book

Describe your book.
Publish it tonight.

Three steps. The second one is yours.

Describe the book

Approve the chapter plan

Read it, fix anything, publish