The Promotion assistant

The Promotion Director is the assistant in the Promotion Studio. It answers about this book's copy, listings and shots, and offers changes as cards. Nothing changes until you press a card's button, and only copy it writes for you costs credits.

What it can see

• Where you are: the stage you're on, the shot that's active, what you've selected, and the store you have open in ③ Listings.
• Your copy, in its own words, including what it just wrote, so it can check its work against the book and your request.
• Your book's memory: a summary of every chapter it has read. Copy is written from it, with the last two chapters held back so your ending can't reach a blurb.
• Every store's limits, measured the same way as the meters in ③ Listings.

What to ask on each stage

• ① Copy: several taglines, loglines or short pitches to choose from; or whether your description is accurate to the book and gives nothing away.
• ② Artwork: put your tagline or any words on a shot; make it moodier or brighter with a studio style, the light or a vignette; add, turn or open a book in the set; make your first shot, or new sizes of the one you're on. Everything it changes here is free and one step of Undo.
• ③ Listings: which stores your copy doesn't fit, and a store's own version of a field that's too long. Your shared copy and the other stores are left as they are.
• ④ Kit: check everything, then offer the export.

Captions, light and the set

A caption the assistant adds is the studio's own text layer, so you can move, restyle or delete it like one you made. A studio style changes the floor, backdrop and light for every shot and never moves a book. The set is shared by every shot, so a book it adds or turns shows in all of them unless you hide it in a shot.

Choosing between options

Ask for options and the card lists them, each with its length. Pick one, then press the button. Nothing is written until you do.

Review quotes

The assistant never invents praise. If you have a real review, paste it into the conversation and ask for it in your description. It is used word for word and credited as you wrote it. A quote that isn't in your own messages is refused before anything is charged.