Ghostkey studio
Plot, write, edit

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The novel writing app that does your chores for you

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Polish every line

Rather than focusing on grammar and arbitrary adverb quotas, Ghostkey analyzes your writing and identifies your crutches. Your voice still sounds like yours, but elevated.

Eradicate your crutches and polish your prose
Your worldbuilding's language is part of your book's vocabulary: typos in names and worldbuilding terms are detected and fixed
Rephrase clunky sentences in a single click
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Chapter 1, line edits
A line edit in Apparition: filter words flagged in the passage with a rewrite for each, and a note that the chapter slips out of Ines's point of view into Tomas's thoughts

Interactive plotting

Most writers think plotting only happens before writing. But plots and stories evolve. Ghostkey accompanies you throughout your book's life: it handles plotting at the early stage and after structural edits.

Find your story beats in a single click
Build a new chapter plan from your board
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Chat, with the board beside it
A conversation about the plot in PhantomMemory, with the beat board open beside it, its columns filled in with the beats just discussed

Keep your worldbuilding up to date

Updating your worldbuilding can be a massive time sink, especially if you write in series. Ghostkey keeps your world bible neat and updated for you. It detects characters and places and finds the chapters in which they appear.

Characters, places and terms are collected while you write, no form to fill
Visualize their history in a single click
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Character sheet
Archibald Hope's character sheet in Veil: a portrait, his goal, motivation, conflict and arc, and his timeline across 1907 and 1908, from the purchase of the mummy to meeting the Randoms in San Remo

Build strong foundations

Structural editing is both difficult and sensitive. That's why Ghostkey's development editing is never generic: it's tailored for your story. The feedback a romance novel needs isn't the same as what a fantasy novel needs.

A complete developmental edit, with comments in the margins of your chapters
Reports on pacing, genre expectations and theme
Find plot holes before your readers do
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Wisp — Pacing
The pacing report for The Way of an Eagle: the four questions it answers, from whether the tension rises to whether the book keeps its hold, and under them the book's pull on the reader drawn as a wave across fifty-six chapters

Visualize your novel's timelines

Ghostkey reads your book and builds timelines for everything you want to keep track of, from your characters' personal history to that one tense heist.

Timelines align so you can see at a glance how parallel plots land
Check a chapter's timing against every timeline around it
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Revenant — The whole story
Revenant's board for The Green Mummy: the story, the murder of Sidney Bolton and Captain Hervey's life on one ruler, each event labelled with its date and the chapter that tells it

Market the book you wrote

Ghostkey reads your manuscript to find the shelf your book belongs on and the real books beside it, then designs your ads, posts and author website with you, from your own words.

Your angle and comp titles, read off your book rather than a genre label
Hooks and quotes pulled from your chapters, checked word for word
Ads and posts for TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, designed with you in a chat
More about book marketing
Glamour — Visuals
An Instagram cover reveal for The Way of an Eagle being designed in Glamour: the cover against a darkened painting, the title, a two-line hook from the blurb and the author's name, with the chat that made it beside it
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