A book from one sentence, and the files Amazon asks for.
Inkwell drafts chapters with you, edits every word, and builds your Kindle and paperback files. You upload them to KDP yourself, because nothing can do that part for you.
No card is asked for: Inkwell has no checkout yet. The planned prices.
Watch a chapter get written
A word at a time, with the ink still wet. Stop it whenever you like; the ledger beside it is the real arithmetic.
Chapter 1
The Timetable
The timetable at the harbour was written in chalk, and somebody had rubbed out the last line with a sleeve.
Nell read it twice. One boat to Harrow Point in the morning, one back at dusk, and nothing on Sundays. She had come on a Saturday, with a suitcase that was too heavy and a letter she had not shown anyone.
“You’ll want the Marrow,” said the man mending a net on the slip. He did not look up. “She’s the only one that goes out this late in the year.”
The Marrow was a grey ferry with a green funnel, and she sat low in the water as if she were carrying more than she should. A boy was coiling rope on her deck, and he stopped when he saw the suitcase.
“Is it far?” Nell asked.
“Forty minutes, if the tide is kind,” the boy said. “Longer if it isn’t. Nobody has been counting lately.”
The ledger moves with the words
In the studio, the credit gauge follows a chapter as it is written, and you can stop it at any word. This is the same arithmetic, run on a sample page, at the rates Inkwell starts with.
- Words written
- 157
- Credits so far
- 13
The page is a sample, written by hand for this site. Real chapters are drafted from your outline and your cast and need a connected model; writing by hand never spends credits.
How a book gets made
Three steps are Inkwell’s work and the last is yours. How it works has what each spends.
Write
Give it a sentence, a Word draft or an outline. It proposes angles, shapes the story and drafts chapters you can stop, rewrite or write yourself.
Edit
The editor reads every chapter in 5 passes. Each remark quotes your own sentence, and you accept or reject it.
Files
Checked against 713 Amazon rules, then built: a Kindle EPUB, a paperback interior and a wrap-around cover.
You upload
Your step
KDP has no way for another program to publish a title. You sign in and upload; Inkwell never holds your Amazon sign-in.
What is on the desk
Four of the things a book needs. Features has the rest, area by area.
An editor that reads every word
5 kinds of reading over the whole manuscript. A remark that quotes a sentence not in your text is thrown away before you see it.
A library of small tools
53
Titles, blurbs, keyword ideas, a royalty calculator. 7 run on Inkwell’s own code and cost no credits.
Files, checked before you upload
713
Amazon rules in the rulebook, each with the help page it came from. Kindle EPUB, paperback interior, wrap-around cover.
Covers, series, translation, sound and social pictures
21 typeset cover styles set from your own title, series with a story bible, a whole book into another language, and quote cards drawn only from your chapters.
What Inkwell does not do
Better to read this now than after a month of writing.
It cannot publish your book on Amazon KDP
KDP gives other programs no way to create or publish a title. Driving its website as if it were you would put your account at risk, so Inkwell does not. It prepares everything, and the upload is yours.It cannot promise Amazon will accept a book
Every check asks whether a book meets what Amazon has published. Amazon decides afterwards.It does not write a finished book on its own
A model can invent, repeat itself and contradict an earlier chapter. The editor catches some of that, not all. You are the author.What it costs
Every plan has every feature; they differ in credits a month. These are planned launch prices. There is no checkout yet, so nothing can be bought, and you will be told before anything is charged.
Free
Starter credits at sign-up; the amount is not decided
$0
Light
1,500 credits a month
$12 a month
StandardWhere a new author starts
5,000 credits a month
$29 a month
Heavy
20,000 credits a month
$99 a month
Writing by hand never spends credits.
Questions, answered straight
Does Inkwell publish my book to Amazon?
Who owns what I write?
Can I write by hand?
Which languages can I write in?
Can I use a model I already pay for?
Something not here? Support says who runs this copy of Inkwell and how to reach them.
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