Built for authors who want a partner, not a ghostwriter
You want help with your book. Not a robot writing it for you.
You're not looking for a machine to write it and hand you something that sounds like everyone else. You want a sharp second reader that finds the plot holes, the scenes that drag, and the lines that don't land, then gives the fix back in your voice.
It reads your pages the way a developmental editor would. Not a grammar checker.
Try it free
Paste a page. Get a real developmental read.
Drop in a scene or a chapter. The reader tells you where it drags, where the stakes slip, and which lines don't land, then hands you the fix in your voice. Five reads free.
authorvoice · live read
Your pages
Paste the scene that isn't working. A few paragraphs is enough.
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One flat chapter and the reader is gone.
No one will tell you which chapter lost them, or why. The reader does, line by line, the way a developmental editor reads, without rewriting a single sentence into someone else's voice.
$29one-time · yours to keep
5 freereads to start
Every genrefantasy to memoir
Your voicesharpened, never replaced
The developmental read
Read like an editor, not a grammar checker.
Every page is read the way a developmental editor reads it: where the scene drags, where the stakes drop, which exact lines don't land, and what's working so you keep it.
Your page · read
voice intactscene drags p.2stakes clear
Reader pull7 / 10
Cut the third paragraph. The tension resets and the reader coasts.
Keeps your voice
It sharpens your voice. It never replaces it.
It learns how you write and gives direction in your own register. The fix comes back to you to execute, never rewritten into generic, AI-flat prose.
Tracked across the manuscript
Marla's eye colorGreen in ch.1, brown in ch.7.retesting
Voice: dry, clippedimproving
Midpoint stakescleared
Get found
Help readers actually find the book.
When the manuscript is ready, it drafts the blurb, keywords, categories, and metadata that put your book in front of the readers already searching for it.
Get discovered
Blurb
A ghost, a heist, one last night…
Keywords
gaslamp fantasy, heist
Amazon categoriesMetadataComp titles
The full read
A developmental editor in your corner. For $29.
The free read covers a few passages. The full version reads your whole manuscript, chapter by chapter, keeps track of your voice and your threads, and helps you fix what's dragging, all without writing the book for you.
Best value
A developmental edit runs $1,500+
$29one-time
vs $0.02–0.05 per word for a freelance editor
Reads for structure, pacing, voice, and continuity
Keeps your voice, never rewrites you into generic prose
Catches plot holes and continuity slips across chapters
Blurbs, keywords, and metadata so readers find the book