A Living Story Database
Forget static documents. Your characters, locations, and lore are interconnected entities. Update a character's eye color in one place, and see it reflected everywhere.
- Custom Fields: Define stats like "Magic Type" or "Rank" specific to your genre.
- Relationships: Link characters to each other (Siblings, Rivals, Ex-Lovers).
- Spoiler Protection: Mark content as "Book 2 Spoilers" so your team doesn't see it too early.
Imposingly tall warrior-priestess with platinum blonde hair worn in intricate braids. Scars from the enhancement rituals line her spine.
Timelines, Research & Relationships
Go beyond simple notes. Track your story's chronology, organize research materials, and visualize character dynamics with tools inspired by Scrivener and Aeon Timeline.
- Story Chronology: Aeon-style fictional timelines with eras, lanes, and events. Track "who was alive when."
- Research Library: Keep PDFs, web links, and quick notes organized next to the novel they inform.
- Relationship Graphs: Visual cast dynamics with Cytoscape.js. See family ties, rivalries, and alliances at a glance.
- Production Notes: Rich-text notes linked to characters, events, and world topics. Never lose context again.
Your Author Command Center
Stay on top of your deadlines. The integrated dashboard gives you a bird's-eye view of your entire author business, from daily tasks to release schedules.
- Unified Calendar: Sync release dates, editing deadlines, and promo events directly with Google Calendar.
- Kanban Boards: Visualize your production pipeline from "Drafting" to "Published."
- Word Count Tracking: Log daily progress and see estimated completion dates.
Editing
Drafting
Your Entire Backlist
Keep your entire catalog organized. Filter by series, status, or genre. Whether you have one book or fifty, Story Signal scales with you.
- Series Grouping: Automatically group novels by series with visual progress tracking.
- Visual Library: See your covers in a beautiful grid view.
- Metadata Central: Store blurbs, heat levels, and tropes for easy marketing access.
Safe Collaboration
Invite your editor, PA, or co-author without handing over the keys to your entire kingdom. Granular permissions mean you stay in control.
- Role-Based Access: "Viewer" for marketing, "Collaborator" for your PA and editor.
- Selective Sharing: Share the "World" folder but keep "Drafts" private.
- No Password Sharing: Everyone gets their own secure login.
Editor
Admin
Promo
Team-Powered Content Planning
Stop juggling Buffer, spreadsheets, and Slack approvals. Plan, create, and schedule your book promo content in one place your entire team can access.
- Multi-Platform: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Threads.
- Approval Workflow: PA drafts, you approve, it gets scheduled. No posting surprises.
- Campaigns & Pillars: Organize content by book launch, evergreen promo, or content type.
- Smart Templates: Reusable posts with , variable substitution.
- Post-Mortem: Rate past content to learn what works for your audience.
Piracy Shield
Protect your intellectual property. Piracy Shield automatically scans for pirated copies of your books and helps you generate DMCA takedown notices with a click.
- Automated Scanning: Google-powered search finds pirated copies on Z-Library, LibGen, and other pirate sites.
- DMCA Notice Generation: One-click legal notices with proper attestation for Google's Lumen database.
- Removal Tracking: Monitor submission status and confirm when content is removed from search results.
- Weekly Reports: Get email summaries of new detections and removal confirmations.
Seamless Workflow
We play nice with the tools you already use.
Scrivener Import
Drag and drop your `.scriv` folder or Markdown files. We'll parse your character sheets and notes into a structured database automatically.
PDF Export
Generate a beautiful, professional PDF series bible with one click. Perfect for sending to new editors or printing for your own reference.
No-Training Guarantee
Your work is yours. We do not use Generative AI, and we explicitly block AI scrapers. Your creative IP is safe in our siloed databases.
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