Manuscript + story bible, one workspace

For novelists with a draft and a mess.

Your draft and your story bible are the same object seen from two sides. Novelbound keeps them in sync — so Chapter 14 never contradicts Chapter 3 again.

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You know this feeling.

Mid-draft, and losing the thread.

Contradiction
Chapter 14 contradicts something set up in Chapter 3 — and a reader finds it first.
Open thread
A mystery planted beautifully in Act One is never paid off, because you forgot it exists.
The fix
Novelbound tracks every promise you make the reader — and refuses to let you call the book finished while one is still hanging.
One object, two sides

The draft is the bible. The bible is the draft.

Scrivener is manuscript-first and forgets the world. A wiki is bible-first and never touches the prose. Novelbound’s whole job is keeping the two in sync — every character, planted clue and promise, linked to the scene that made it true.

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Story bible · Mirren Hale
Wants: the house back · Needs: to stop earning it
⚠ “The second car” — set up Ch. 3, never paid off
Appears in 12 scenes · 3 open promises
Jump to the scene that set it up → Ch. 3
Not just novels

Eleven ways to write a book.

Pick what you’re actually making. A playwright gets acts and scenes, a poet gets sections and poems, a musical gets a song list — not a novel’s vocabulary with the labels swapped.

Novel
A full-length work of fiction
Novella
Short-form fiction, one clean arc
Short story collection
Separate stories under one cover
Non-fiction book
A guide, framework, or argument
Memoir
True story, told with fiction's craft
Poetry collection
Poems arranged into a whole
Children's picture book
Words built around the page turn
Graphic novel / comic
Script in panels and pages
Stage play
For actors, in a room, tonight
Musical
Book, music and lyrics together
Screenplay / teleplay
For the screen, in industry format
The 90-day program

One question a day. Ninety days.

Not a blank page and good luck. Every day asks you one thing, and your answer becomes a real part of the book — a character, a promise, a beat, a scene in your own words.

Days 1–12
Foundation
Twelve days deciding what this actually is. Nothing here is wasted — a book with a vague premise fails in month three, not week one.
Days 13–26
People & world
Two weeks on the people. Plot is what happens; character is why anyone cares that it did.
Days 27–42
Structure
Sixteen days building the skeleton. You'll write the ending before you write the middle, on purpose.
Days 43–70
The draft
Twenty-eight days of writing. The questions get shorter now — the work is the point, not the answers.
Days 71–83
Revision
Thirteen days making it hold together. The app already knows where your threads dangle and where your pacing sags.
Days 84–90
Ready for Amazon
Seven days turning a manuscript into a listing: metadata, description, cover, and a file KDP will accept without complaint.
What you get

Everything between the idea and the listing.

Most tools stop at the draft. This one takes you to a file Amazon will accept.

Promises get paid off

Link a thread to its scenes as setup, develop or payoff. A book with a setup and no payoff cannot be marked finished — the app refuses and names the thread. The mystery-box safety net.

Structure you can see

Save the Cat, Hero’s Journey, Three-Act / 7-Point, Snowflake, and Promise → Framework → Payoff for non-fiction — plus real scaffolds for musicals, plays, screenplays and picture books. A health bar shows where your beats actually fall against where the framework says they should. Drift turns red.

Characters that stay straight

Want versus need, arc type, and every scene they appear in — derived from the manuscript itself, so it can’t quietly go out of date.

Scenes that earn their place

Goal, conflict, outcome, and the value shift from open to close. A scene whose emotional charge doesn’t move gets flagged as flat. It’s a note, not a rule.

Pacing, chapter by chapter

Every chapter carries a word target — yours, derived from your book target, or a publishing convention. A thin chapter and a bloated one are both visible while you draft, not after.

Two timelines

Story order beside page order, because for a mystery-box book those diverge on purpose — and the gap between them is the useful part.

It notices when you stop

Go quiet for a week and Novelbound gets in touch — email, text or a notification, your choice — and reminds you why you said you were writing this.

Amazon-ready, actually

Export a KDP-compliant EPUB 3 and a print interior at a real trim size, with the gutter widened for your page count and the spine width computed to the thousandth of an inch.

The rejection checker

Title and subtitle over 200 characters, a URL in your description, eight keywords where Amazon allows seven, the word “bestselling” where it will get your listing pulled — caught here, before Amazon catches it.

Your cover, briefed properly

A brief builder that already knows your trim size, page count and exact spine width. Generate concepts to find the direction, then hand it to a designer who can finish it.

Built for the odd ones

Musicals get a song list with each number’s dramatic function. Plays track cast size and doubling. Poetry keeps every line break exactly where you put it — the thing every other tool gets wrong.

Your words stay yours

Prose is markdown. Export writes a clean folder of .md files that drops straight into Obsidian. If you leave, your book leaves whole — and it’s backed up nightly while you stay.
Founder pricing — first 1,000 writers, until September 1, 2026
Everything, for one writer
$9.99/month

Free for 14 days, no card to start — then $12.99/month for everyone who joins after September 1, 2026.

Founder pricing ends in

$9.99 is the introductory rate for the first 1,000 writers. On September 1, 2026 it becomes $12.99 — but lock in now and yours stays at $9.99 for as long as you keep your subscription.

  • The full 90-day program
  • Unlimited books and projects
  • All eleven literary forms
  • Every structure framework
  • Threads, characters, beats, timelines
  • KDP EPUB + print interior export
  • The Amazon rejection checker
  • Cover brief builder
  • Markdown export, always
  • Nightly backups
Start writing free
How the 90 days work. Novelbound sells a finished book, not a subscription that quietly renews for four years. Days 1–90 are the program at your subscription price. If you need longer, days 91–180 continue at $14.99/month. After six months an account becomes read-only until you commit to another 6 months up front.

You can always read, and you can always export — at every stage, including a lock, whatever you owe. Nobody loses a manuscript over a card.

No testimonials here yet. Novelbound is new and has no customers, and we’re not going to invent any. These slots belong to the first writers who finish something with it and are willing to say so.

Your draft and your world, in sync.

Bring the draft you have. The mess is the point.

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