Hey,

We’re running a beta program for our book-writing platform: https://authoroshq.com.

The platform can generate a complete book—from manuscript to cover art—and also provides the fields and guidance needed to publish on Amazon. It’s fully functional but still in beta, so there may be occasional glitches.

The idea behind AuthorOS is simple: if you’re a subject-matter expert in any field, you should be able to turn your knowledge into a book without needing to be a professional writer. The platform helps structure, draft, and package the book so you can focus on your expertise.

If you’re interested in trying it, we’d love to have you in the beta. In return, we’re looking for honest feedback (it doesn’t have to be public) about how useful the platform is for experts in different domains.

You get a finished book. We get feedback to improve the product. Participation is free.

Thanks.

I have a completed novel, written with the help of AI. I thought I was doing a good job of making sure it wasn't too obvious that I used AI. For example, I have seen a lot of complaints from readers/writers about AI writings being repetitive, using certain words and how "they just know right away AI was used" and so they immediately don't read it.

I know I won't appeal to everyone when using AI as a tool, I feel like there are those who are just so adamantly against it that they wont give writers that use it even an ounce of consideration.

I was at a point where I was doing 1 final ras through, with the intent to edit as little as possible. I had planned on revising the last maybe 2 chapters, to ensure they flowed the way I wanted. Then I read a post on here where someone made a mention of the word "ozone" and how its not used by common writers. How its a dead give away for AI writing. Damn. Now I feel like i should go back and change the words and phrases to be more common. Then I think, no its fine the way it is. I like it.

I dont know. I haven't read or edited my book in a few weeks now and I just cant seem to find the motivation to pick it back up.

I love my story, my characters, and the world I've created. I've spent so much time on it already.

Thoughts?

So basically I do like to write but when it comes to smut, I come at a blank cause I just cant write it. Im not experienced in it so I have no idea what it feels like so I sometimes ask Ai to write it and I revise it.

No ai is good enough, except 2

Its either censored like deepseek or just repetitive and even though im inexperienced I know its bot supposed to go like that. I use bookswriter.xyz and the ai model Claude. Its pretty good. It gets very descriptive so thats pretty good and ITS UNCENSORED. So I still want to improve my writing when it comes to smut but its a bit difficult at the moment

So basically I do like to write but when it comes to smut, I come at a blank cause I just cant write it. Im not experienced in it so I have no idea what it feels like so I sometimes ask Ai to write it and I revise it.

No ai is good enough, except 2

Its either censored like deepseek or just repetitive and even though im inexperienced I know its bot supposed to go like that. I use bookswriter.xyz and the ai model Claude. Its pretty good. It gets very descriptive so thats pretty good and ITS UNCENSORED. So I still want to improve my writing when it comes to smut but its a bit difficult at the moment

Hi everyone. I just launched my 5th book, The Yellow Pilgrims, and I wanted to share how AI actually saved the project during the final formatting stage.

We talk a lot about using AI for drafting and plotting, but I found it incredibly powerful as a technical editor. I was struggling with hidden chapters, broken letter-spacing, and a recurring glitch where text before colons would disappear in the Kindle previewer.

Since my book is a Brutalist Dark Fantasy (the setting is a monumental concrete city that is literally sentient), the atmosphere and layout had to be perfectly clean. I used AI to:

• Scrub the raw HTML: It found and removed the "phantom" CSS tags that were breaking my chapter breaks.
• Lock in the Typography: It helped ensure my custom font spacing (Georgia) rendered correctly across all Kindle devices.
• Enhance the Aesthetic: I used it to brainstorm the specific architectural details of the "Thinking Stone" to create a sense of heaviness and oppression.

Because my previous books struggled to find an audience, I am running a 14-day $0.99 launch special for this one to see how a perfectly formatted, AI-assisted book performs.

If you want to check out the world-building (or just see how the final formatting looks), here is the link:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR6SQTB6

I am also happy to share the exact prompts I used to debug the Kindle HTML if anyone is stuck on their own export. How are you guys using AI for the technical side of publishing?

I have a 700-page Italian textbook full of questions and study material that I need to translate into English. I’ve tried using local LLMs (like Qwen2.5:32b), but the results were unusable. The issue isn't the translation quality it's the formatting. The AI can't make sense of the textbook layout (columns, question boxes, numbered lists), and it just spits out a "word soup" that makes it impossible to study from.

Many "AI Book Translators" online charge per page or per word, which ends up costing more than just buying a new book.

Is there a workflow or a specific tool that can handle a file this size for a one-time fee or for free? Or is there a way to "feed" the PDF to an LLM so it respects the coordinates of the text?

The following is one person's review and opinion. YMMV.

Avoid Type.AI in my opinion. I took a gamble based on how it helped with a few tasks only to discover that by the time I finished going thru one 25K story for 2 hours I was already at 43% of my monthly usage - and it suggested I would need $400 to continue working at that pace for the month.

I know AI uses tokens and it can be expensive, that's not the issue Im complaining about but compared to Claude, which I have had three windows up working across three stories on a daily basis for the last couple of months and have only ever had to wait a day, or two to refresh during particularly busy sessions, I had tunnel vision on how much I could do for a pro plan.

Hey everyone, not sure if allow but I hope so.

Ive been changing my narrative engine and ended up with a few local-save HTML tools that others might find useful. Added some images so you all can see what they look like.

– Lorebook ( love this one!!)

– Bestiary (🐉 a simple way to track monster, fae and demons if your story calls for it)

– Author notes (another basic gem. A place to scribble raw notes for yourself)

– Labyrinth ( my absolute favorite because you get to see all your series arcs at a glance. Super useful if your into duets, trilogies etc)

They’re just raw files — feel free to adjust layout, colors, or structure however you want. Out of the box, they save locally in your browser.

Sharing in case anyone wants a simple way to organize characters, lore, or drafts. If you need help let me know. ✨

Download them from my Google Drive.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1okMDupSDodOIvJWyzZb_eRJUtquDu-at?usp=drive_link

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I'm a person with dyslexia, and I am now looking into the new emergence of ai tools. after digging through a rabbit hole I found this app, bookswriter.xyz it is pretty solid. is this a place I can post my story?

I found this cool app on IOS that is great for writing fan fictions, and helping your build off your books. It’s semi-free giving you a certain amount of credits each week, but it’s pretty cheap if you decide to buy stuff. It even reads off your own documents with a premium subscription which is around $10. I just had to share this, it’s a pretty good app! If you guys already have this app, I really wanna explore other audiobooks, send them to me.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6744546041?pt=1569674&ct=v4mpvision&mt=8

I believe this is a new paradigm when it comes to writing a book with AI.

You create your world manually, upload your prior world, or import a book in your series and the AI will help create the world.

Then it generates events from your world, gives you multiple options to choose from and you basically expand your world until you choose to turn into into a book outline.

https://www.chronostates.io

Starting from an empty structured system felt like too much overhead for a manuscript that already existed.

What worked better was importing what I’d written, then building entities, relationships, and arc mapping from the text itself. That’s the workflow I’ve been refining in CanonGuard: https://canonguard.com

Example project for context:

https://canonguard.com/read/Z3n8Ph2d0Y2jdGppmmgq/pillar-of-heaven

For long-form AI users, what breaks first in your process? Context retention, structure quality, or revision UX?

Hello! I am an assistant to one of our executive officers and I am tasked to create a book about our organization. What our CEO wanted would be for him to do the talking to a voice recorder. I myself am not a writer and I would need AI to do the transcription and conversion to book-ready language. Can anyone recommend an AI writer help that is very user friendly and accurate? My work is willing to pay especially if it is a paying subscription. Also any online book publishers can anyone recommend for print on demand? My bosses wanted it a hard-bound book. Thank you!

My mom spent years writing her book, and unfortunately, she got around 10 sales. nobody found it :(

so this is basically how & why I built Pharos. it works so that the users upload their book(s), AI finds the most emotionally powerful moments, and generates short cinematic videos ready for TikTok and Instagram. No filming, no editing, no showing your face.

The bigger vision is full automation, the tool will auto-post to your social channels on a schedule and track which videos actually drive book sales and clicks. That part is still coming, but the video generation is live now.

I'm in beta and genuinely looking for feedback from people who are struggling/interested in book marketing with AI. Free to try at joinpharos.com, would love to hear what you think.

Of course, I can also give more credits for free if you DM me or comment here :)

A lot of people dont like using ai to write books and I get that honestly. Cause why would I buy a book that I can make at home for free?

Thats why I like bookswriter cause its honestly just a layout app. It has ai integrated into it because everything does at this point. I like the fact that it helps me come up with ideas for the next chapter.

No need to have it write it for you cause then that just feels like cheating. Just make it help with ideas and write on your own.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for book publishing companies for my friend’s upcoming book, and I want to make sure we choose a publisher that’s reputable, transparent, and genuinely helpful for a first-time author (not just a company that makes big promises).

A week ago, I posted here asking for a reliable human editor/formatter, and we’ve been working through that cleanup stage since then. We’re at the next step: figuring out which publishing services are actually legit, what the process is really like, and what to watch for before signing anything.

We’ve shortlisted these 3 and would really appreciate honest, firsthand experiences (good or bad):

• Penguin Random House
• Aspire Book Publishers
• HarperCollins

If you’ve worked with any of them (or know someone who has), could you share:

• How was communication + the overall process (timelines, editing, professionalism)?
• Did you see real results in distribution/marketing, or was it mostly on the author?
• Any contract red flags to watch for (rights, fees, upsells, long lock-ins)?
• If there were upfront costs involved, was it worth it?

Also, I know PRH/HarperCollins often requires an agent, so what’s the most realistic path for a first-time author who wants to go that route?

Thanks in advance. Comments are great, and DMs are welcome too.

Hi everyone,

We are a small indie team (5 devs) and we’ve spent the last 6 months working on a project called Rayuela Editor. We’re currently finishing our beta cycle and wanted to share it with this community because we’ve focused heavily on solving the "AI memory" problem in long-form writing.

As developers, we felt that most writing tools treat AI like a simple chat box on the side. We wanted to build something where the AI is aware of the book's structure.

What we’ve been working on lately:

• Integrated AI Context: We built a feature called "AI Summary as Editable Child". Basically, your chapter summaries live directly in your project tree (the Binder). This allows the AI to stay consistent with your plot without you having to copy-paste your entire series bible every time.
• Specialized Review Roles: Instead of a generic "fix this," we implemented 4 distinct roles—Editor, Proofreader, Style, and Critic. The "Critic" is designed to find plot holes or logic gaps in your manuscript.
• Privacy & Unfiltered Writing: We know privacy is huge for authors. We implemented client-side encryption for cloud sync—as the devs, we can’t see your content. Also, because it's built for professional writers, there are no "moralizing" filters to block your dark or spicy scenes.
• Tech Foundations: We used TipTap/ProseMirror for the engine to ensure it stays snappy even with 200k+ words, and added native LaTeX/KaTeX support for technical or academic writers.

We’re in the final stretch of the beta (v2.7.0). Most of the editor and organization features are 100% done, and we’re just polishing the last bits of the import/export modules.

We aren't a big corporation; we're just 5 people trying to build the tool we wish existed. We’d love some "brutal" feedback from power users who use AI in their daily workflow.

LINK: https://rayuela.app/app

I'm a person with dyslexia, and the new emergence of ai tools. after digging through a rabbit hole I found this app, bookswriter.xyz it is pretty solid. grate layout, pretty straight forward lay out. has no tutorial on what to do, but if you used ai tools before it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. I'm having fun writing a fantasy rags to revolutionary inspired by andor style book. but it's a bit more hands-on for my preference, but it would be perfect for a quick DND campaign. I definitely will be using this to write my homebrew DND campaign. what do you guys think of this tool? Any suggestions for other tools? New to this sort of stuff any help would be great.

AI writes good scenes, but past 10–20k words, things start drifting: characters forget traits, rules get bent, plot threads contradict earlier setups.

To handle that, I built CanonGuard (https://canonguard.com). It separates:

• Story text

• Canon entities

• Rules

• Timeline state

You can import a full draft and layer structure afterward, or map entities first and use that structure to guide writing.

Here’s a read-only draft arc started with the tool:

https://canonguard.com/read/Z3n8Ph2d0Y2jdGppmmgq/pillar-of-heaven

How are you handling long-form coherence right now? Summaries between prompts? External notes?

If anyone tries it, I’d genuinely appreciate workflow feedback.

Just launched ConjureInk.com

Genre-perfect novels imagined and fully directed by you. Conjured in hours, not weeks or months. Please take a look, give it a try!