Manuscript Studio

Getting started

Create an account, choose a plan, understand credits, and start your first book — a novel, a coloring book, a picture book, a planner, a recipe book, a photo book, a word search or a sudoku book.

Manuscript Studio is a self-publishing studio: you write or design a book in it, and it produces the press-ready files a printer or a store will accept. It is built around four rooms — the manuscript, the Cover Studio, the Narration Studio and the Promotion Studio — plus a release board that checks a book against a specific printer before you upload anything.

Start here

If you are new, read these in order. Each page takes a few minutes.

  1. Create your account — signing up, verifying your email, signing in.
  2. Plans and credits — what each plan includes, how credits are spent, and what happens when they run out.
  3. The bookshelf — where your books live, and the three rooms every book has.
  4. Choosing a book type — the single most consequential decision, and the one hardest to reverse.
  5. Importing a manuscript — if you already have a draft in Word, Markdown or EPUB.

What this product does, stated plainly

It is worth being exact, because a lot of publishing tools are not.

  • It writes and edits with AI that you steer and approve. Nothing is overwritten silently — every AI edit arrives beside your text for you to accept, reject, regenerate or hand-edit.
  • It typesets your book to a real printer's specification: trim size, gutter, bleed, spine.
  • It renders the files — print PDF, EPUB, DOCX, cover wrap, audiobook MP3s and an M4B.
  • It does not upload to stores for you. There is no KDP integration and no one-click publish. You download a bundle and upload it yourself. Anything that claims otherwise about this product is wrong.

The rule the whole product follows

The app refuses to tell you something is fine when it cannot establish that it is. A spine width shows you where its paper caliper came from and when that source was last checked. A page count that was measured is labelled differently from one that was estimated. A cover approval un-ticks itself when you add a chapter, because a cover approved at 312 pages is about a different book at 340.

You will meet this everywhere. It is deliberate, and it is the reason the release board sometimes refuses to go green.