Seven steps from a rough idea to a finished manuscript

Create a book and describe your topic. One sentence or a full page of half-formed ideas — both work. No outline, no plan, no chapter list. If you had those already you wouldn't need us.

The Library is also where every book you're working on lives, each one showing how far along it is, so you always know exactly where things stand.

Already started writing? Import a Word file or PDF instead. Ghostwriter finds the chapters and sections you already wrote — along with the notes and highlights you left in the margins — and rebuilds them as a real structure you can keep working in.

Ghostwriter reads your topic and proposes the whole book — parts, chapters, and sections, in order, with titles that mean something. You watch it arrive.

Then it's yours. Rename anything. Drag chapters into a different order. Add the one you know is missing, delete the two that overlap, split a chapter that's doing too much. The structure came out of a paragraph you wrote in thirty seconds; the judgment about it is still entirely yours.

Not happy with the shape of it? Ask for another. Structure is cheap here, which is the whole point.

Each chapter comes back expanded: what it has to accomplish, the key points it has to land, the themes running through it, and a specific job for every section inside it.

Review and change anything before you move on. Sharpen an objective, drop a theme, narrow a section that's trying to cover too much ground. The brief is what every later step reads from — the questions you get asked and the draft you get back are both built on it.

This is the step that makes a book a book. You brought fifteen years of knowing what you're talking about; this is the part that was never your job.

Every section is written knowing where it sits in your book, what the chapter before it argued, what you said in your interviews, and how you set your style dials. That's why chapter nine still sounds like chapter one.

The words appear as they're written — no batch job, no waiting overnight, no wondering whether it understood you. If a section goes somewhere you didn't intend, you find out in the first paragraph rather than in a finished chapter.

Twenty style dials — sentence complexity, formality, humor, metaphor frequency, pacing, sensory detail — shape every word of it. Set once, obeyed everywhere.

For every section you have three moves:

• Approve — it sounds like you, it goes in the manuscript
• Edit — change it directly in the editor
• Send it back — with a note. "Too corporate." "Use the Denver story instead." "Cut this in half."

Nothing is ever overwritten without a copy of what came before. Rewrite a section ten times and the earlier versions are still there.

A running count tells you how much of the manuscript is finished and what is still waiting on you.

Word for your editor. EPUB for Kindle and Apple Books. PDF for the agent, with a formatted title page, generated table of contents, and chapter headers. Markdown and plain text for everything else.

Page numbers, line spacing, font size, and margins are yours to set before it leaves.

Your book. Your name. Ready for the world.