Guides
How authors actually use the desk
Write an ebook with AI. Import. Bible. Map. CoAuthor. Export. Switch from Scrivener. Job guides, not a wiki of every button.
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- How-to · audio
How to make an audiobook from your manuscript
Cast, sample, produce — without leaving the desk.
Open guide - How-to · covers
How to design a book cover from your manuscript
Start from the book — not a random template.
Open guide - How-to · ship
How to get a publication-ready manuscript
Structure, continuity, format, cover — then optional audio.
Open guide - How-to · sell
How to sell on BookStand from Typewriter
Optional shop. Never required to finish.
Open guide - How-to · KDP
How to format a book for KDP
Structure the binder, run Press, download, upload to KDP.
Open guide - Switch guide
Switch from Vellum without losing the book
Vellum still formats beautifully on Mac. Typewriter is the daily desk on any OS.
Open guide - How-to · import
Import your Google Docs novel
Headings become chapters. The paste loop ends.
Open guide - How-to · ebook
How to format an ebook for stores
Structure the binder, open Format, generate EPUB, upload.
Open guide - Devices
Keyboard, Go, or Typewriter — pick by where you sit.
Same keys. Same Send. Same book in the app. The difference is the page and the bag.
Open guide - Devices
Leave the laptop in the bag.
Keys. A paper screen. Send. The chapter is already in the manuscript — not a dump you sort at midnight.
Open guide - AI
Use AI on the book. Keep the pen.
CoAuthor suggests a line, a pin, a continuity flag. Nothing hits the page until you say yes.
Open guide - How-to · AI ebook
How to write an ebook with AI without living in ChatGPT
Chat is a draft. An ebook is chapters, a jacket, and a file a store will take. Instant Ebook is that path on Typewriter.
Open guide - How-to · speed
How to make an ebook in minutes
Not a weekend in InDesign. One idea, a format, a preview, a download.
Open guide - How-to · KDP
How to publish an AI ebook to Amazon KDP
Instant Ebook makes the file. You keep the KDP account. Disclose AI in Amazon’s flow.
Open guide - Getting your draft in
Your book is already written somewhere. Bring it home.
Docs tabs. A Scrivener compile. A folder of chapters named FINAL_v7. Typewriter import turns that into a manuscript with a binder you can actually live in.
Open guide - Continuity
The story bible that sits next to the page
Chapter 40 will invent a new eye color if you let it. A bible is not lore cosplay. It is the minimum facts you refuse to forget.
Open guide - CoAuthor
Help that knocks. Not a ghostwriter with a key to your house.
Most AI writing tools treat your chapter like a draft they already own. CoAuthor suggests. You decide. That is the whole product.
Open guide - Leaving the laptop religion
Scrivener is not the villain. One-machine life is.
Keep Compile if you love it. Move the daily draft if Dropbox sync, cafe laptops, and zero AI finally broke you.
Open guide - Day one
Open a book tonight. Card not required.
Free book writing software usually means a toy editor or a countdown clock. Typewriter Free is a real manuscript desk: binder, paper page, autosave, simple export.
Open guide - Ship the file
When the book needs to leave the desk
Agents, formatters, beta readers, and KDP do not open your login. Export is the handoff. Keep the desk as master. Send a file when someone else needs one.
Open guide - Cast graph
Map the cast. Not a spreadsheet of vibes.
Romance, mystery, fantasy politics. Someone is always lying about who loves whom. The map makes the web visible without another wiki tab.
Open guide - Series
Book three should remember book one
Series tax is real. Ages drift. Locations rewrite themselves. Recurring cast forgets who lied last time. Continuity is the product after book one.
Open guide - You keep the pen
CoAuthor knocks. You open the door.
Most AI writing tools rewrite first and apologize never. Typewriter CoAuthor proposes. You accept or reject. That is the whole product thesis in one loop.
Open guide - Plans
Pay for help when the draft is stuck. Not for the privilege of writing.
Typewriter splits desk and CoAuthor on purpose. Free forever to write. CoAuthor Free for light help. free try · CoAuthor+ from $5 when volume is the job.
Open guide - Collab
Other eyes. Same manuscript. Not twelve Docs links.
Beta readers and coauthors should not require a ZIP of chapters. Invite them into the book with a seat and a role. Keep the binder as the source of truth.
Open guide - Mac
Your book on this Mac. Cloud optional. CoAuthor when online.
Typewriter.app is local-first. Manuscripts live in SQLite on the machine. Login is for sync and AI, not for the privilege of opening chapter one.
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The desk is free to start
Write forever on Free. Bible, map, and CoAuthor when the book demands them.