Yay! I have submitted my first book to Amazon - just in time for my birthday! Just waiting for the 72 hours to pass. I don’t expect it to do well at all - I suppose you could call it a vanity project - but the whole exercise was so useful for future works. I’ll post the title when it is available...

Quick update from 35,000 feet! I'm heading out for a short getaway to the Austrian Alps to unplug, recharge the batteries, and come back with fresh energy for everything we are building here at BookNova. Posting this live from the flight thanks to airBaltic having onboard Wi-Fi now :D Keep crafting those amazing stories while I'm in the clouds. I will be checking in, but mostly letting the mountain air do its thing!

Is there anyone else here just using this to generate books I want to read? Unfortunately my ability lags behind. I'm just not getting the quality I want. I realise I need to invest more time learning AI. Does anyone have recommendations for an easy way for a beginner to put together prompts that will give me more human sounding dialogue and less AI ticks and tells? Even a pointer to putting a set of workable instructions would be great. I'm even debating learning AI, but I don't know where to start. For context I have used the internet since the 1990s. Ran websites for years but grew out of touch with technology the last 10 years. It has changed so much.

This is the one I heard about the most. You are editing your finished novel, you write an extra chapter yourself, and there is nowhere to put it - no way to slot it in between chapters 11 and 12 and push the rest down. Until now the honest answer was "you can't". It takes one click today. Here is how it works. Open your book in the builder. At the top of every chapter, next to the title, there is now an "Add chapter" button. Click it on the chapter that should come before your new one. An empty chapter appears right after it, everything below shifts down by one, and the whole book renumbers itself - the sidebar, the contents page, and your PDF, EPUB and DOCX exports all follow automatically. Then the new chapter asks you one question, with two buttons. "I'll write it myself" - the chapter opens empty and you type or paste in your own text. Nothing else happens. This is the one most of you asked for. "BookNova writes it" - and this one runs in two steps, on purpose. Step one: BookNova reads how the previous chapter ends and how the next chapter opens, and writes the PLAN for the chapter that goes between them. The plan appears in the chapter brief box, which is the same box you already use to steer any chapter. Read it. Change anything you want changed. Add what is missing, cut what you do not want. It is your text now. Step two: when the plan says what you actually want, you press "Write chapter text" and the chapter gets written from your edited plan. I split it into two steps for one reason. The plan is the only place where you can steer a chapter, and you should get your hands on it BEFORE the words are written, not after you have already spent credits on a chapter that went the wrong way. Step one costs you nothing. Nothing is written, and nothing is charged, until you press the second button. Because the new chapter is anchored on both sides - the ending before it and the opening after it - it cannot wander off or replay a scene you have already read. It has to land exactly where your next chapter begins.