You've been asking, and it's finally here. BookNova now writes full-length Horror, and it's not a bolt-on — it's a first-class genre with its own story engine, cover styling, and pacing built specifically for dread. And because horror is one of the most powerful, on-page genres in the room, I didn't want to give you one generic "scary" setting. You get 8 dedicated sub-genres, so the AI writes to the exact flavor you're going for: 👁️ Supernatural — ghosts, curses, things that shouldn't exist 🧠 Psychological — the horror that lives in your character's head 🏚️ Haunted House — the place itself is the monster 🔪 Slasher — tension, the stalk, the final survivor 🌌 Cosmic / Lovecraftian — vast, indifferent, unknowable 🕯️ Gothic — decaying estates, buried family secrets 🐺 Creature / Monster — something out there is hunting 🏡 Small-Town Horror — ordinary Americana turned wrong (the classic King register) Why now? Horror is having a serious moment. It's one of the fastest-growing, most bingeable categories on Kindle, KU, and BookTok right now — readers devour it and come back for the next one. If you've been sitting on a creepy idea, this is the moment to write it. ✍️ One more thing I'm genuinely excited about: you can now name your influences directly. Want something in the spirit of Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Paul Tremblay, or another author you love? Say so. The engine uses those as tone anchors to shape the atmosphere, voice, and cover — so your book lands in the right corner of the shelf. 👉 Start a new fiction book, pick Horror on the genre step, choose your sub-genre (or "General Horror" and let the AI adapt), and go. Prefer to steer it yourself? Use "I Have My Own Story" and describe your premise in your own words. Go write something that keeps people up at night. 🌙 Can't wait to see what you make — drop your horror titles in the comments when they're done.

Fantastic news! I want to show you a Story Arc Builder I've written. This is a PREVIEW (Sail Mode will be available in mid-July, NOT TODAY!!!). This is how you'll be able to build the "skeleton" of your story, define exactly where in the book each beat will take place. You'll have the option to add new beats, delete old ones, as well as choose from pre-defined story arc frameworks that are based on the most popular formats in the book industry. How cool is that? :D Drop a comment below.

I feel like this should be something obvious, but I cannot find the answer, and the fact that we're not doing series makes it dramatically more important than it was a week ago. Can we delete chapters? I'm getting some looped chapters in every generation. No big deal: download docx, conflate the best of both options, delete the outlier. Except now series will carry whatever version of the book is in BookNova forward, so I need to make it THE cannon version. Any way we can delete entire chapters after generation without destroying the whole manuscript? Or alternatively, any way we can review and edit exactly what BookNova carries forward, to ensure the program keeps the right timeline and the canon events?

Would you be interested in a feature where you can dictate your story bible? A client suggested this idea to us today, because he finds it more convenient to dictate into a microphone than to type.

I've recently had an idea for a character that I'm not quite sure how to best put into BookNova's Character system. The character is a Goddess who has made/crafted a mortal body that she has given a full name and identity (that also has a distinct personality), so that she can sometime go down to earth and interact with people there, for various reasons. The big key about it is that the protagonist isn't going to learn about this true about the character until book 3 or 4. Because of that, I am concerned about putting the info for both halves of the character into a single character, because that might cause the information to "leak", but at the same time, I am concerned that putting the information into 2 characters will cause the AI to think of the two as two completely separate characters. So I am trying to figure out if formatting the character as 1 or 2 characters is the better approach.