Manuscript workspace for book authors
Livres is a writing workspace for novelists and non-fiction authors that never generates a sentence of your book. It holds the whole manuscript in view: continuity, characters, structure. And it puts an editor, a beta reader and a coach in the margin, where they belong.
A manuscript workspace: a focused long-form editor with whole-book intelligence around it, covering continuity, memory, structure and margin advice.
Novelists, memoirists and non-fiction authors mid-manuscript, plus first-time authors who need the shape of a book rather than a text generator.
Write your prose. Livres has no button that produces a paragraph for your book. The crew reads, questions and remembers. You write.
€0 forever for one book. €6.99 a month for the full writing crew. €14 for revision-grade continuity. See plans →
01 · THE SURFACE
No sidebars fighting your sentences, no suggestion popping over the cursor. Advice arrives as marginalia anchored to the exact line that provoked it: a hairline, a name, a question. Read it, discuss it, or dismiss it and never see it again.
The crew present in the gutter changes with the stage of the work. Drafting brings the coach and the editor. Revising brings the editor and the beta reader. Publishing brings the illustrator and the publicist.
The corridor smelled of rain and floor polish. Camille counted the doors as she passed them: eleven, and then the one that had been hers.
She had rehearsed this walk for six years, and none of the rehearsals had included the coat still hanging there, exactly where she had left it.
She did not take it down. She stood in the doorway of a life she had already finished having, and waited for the building to tell her something [TK: the sound] she did not already know.
02 · GROUNDED ANSWERS
Sixty thousand words in, nobody remembers what they established on page 40. Livres does. Every answer is drawn from your manuscript and cited back to the line it came from. When something was never written down, it says so instead of inventing it.
Have I ever said why Camille left the ministry?
Not directly. Two passages circle it: Ch. 2 has her describing the building as “a place that keeps its own hours”, and in Ch. 5 Marc asks and she changes the subject. The resignation itself is never narrated, so the reader currently infers it.
03 · TRAJECTORY
Sections sit under their acts with the state of each one visible at a glance: drafted, thin, untouched. The active chapter carries the thing it must accomplish for the story to keep moving.
Camille must refuse the thing she came back for.
04 · LOOSE ENDS
Every [TK], every question you left yourself, every thread you meant to close is collected in one drawer. Unresolved placeholders block export, so a half-written line never reaches an agent.
05 · HOW A BOOK GETS FINISHED
STAGE 01 · DRAFT
A blank, quiet page with your structure one keystroke away. Only the coach and the editor are present; the beta reader stays out of a first draft, where it has no business being.
Coach · Editor present
STAGE 02 · REVISE
Whole-book continuity passes, character and timeline memory, reader-simulation reads that show where attention drops. Contradictions arrive as questions you answer, not corrections applied to you.
Editor · Beta reader present
STAGE 03 · PUBLISH
Typeset export to EPUB, DOCX, print-ready PDF and web, blocked until the loose ends are closed. The illustrator marks scenes that want a plate; the publicist pulls lines that could carry a jacket.
Illustrator · Publicist present
You already know the failure mode: the manuscript grows past the size of your own memory, and the last third starts contradicting the first. Livres is the reading instrument for that stretch, with continuity across 120,000 words, a canon of every fact you have stated, revision passes you can actually track, and a beta reader you can run before you spend a real one.
Novelists · memoirists · narrative non-fiction · series writers with a bible to keep
The hard part is not the sentences. It is knowing whether a chapter is doing anything. Livres gives every section a stated necessity, shows the act you are standing in, and keeps a coach who notices the scene you have been avoiding for nine days. You finish a real book, and it is unmistakably yours.
Free to start · one project · no card · your words stay your words
06 · PRICING
Priced around how deeply the book is read, not how many words are generated for you. Cancel any month.
For starting a manuscript and building the daily habit.
Everything needed to write a first draft, at a price a working writer can carry.
MOST CHOSEN
For authors revising toward a finished manuscript, not just drafting one.
For authors across several manuscripts, deadlines and beta readers.
Writing on a tight budget? Plume is €4.99 for students and writers on a low income, the same plan with nothing removed.
Editorial teams and imprints: shared story memory, reviewer seats and per-title workflows. Talk to us →
07 · QUESTIONS
The ones authors actually ask before trusting a tool with a manuscript.
No. Livres never generates prose for your manuscript. There is no button that produces a paragraph. The crew reads what you wrote and answers in the margin. Every sentence in the book is yours.
You do, entirely. Because nothing is machine-written, the manuscript stays wholly your own work, which keeps it eligible for copyright registration and for agents and publishers who ask you to declare that the text was written by its author.
A whole-book pass that compares every fact you have stated about characters, places, timeline and objects against everything else you have written, then flags contradictions: an eye colour that changes, a scene that happens on an impossible date, a character in two cities at once.
The Draft plan is €0 forever for one book. Plume is €6.99 a month, Studio €14, Professional €29. Plume is €4.99 for students and writers on a low income, with nothing removed. Cancel any month.
Yes, arguably more. Start free with the editor and the structure spine. Each section carries the thing it must accomplish, the coach tracks momentum and names the scene you are avoiding, and the beta reader shows where attention would drop, long before you spend a real reader on it.
Yes: EPUB, DOCX, print-ready PDF, Markdown and web. Export stays blocked while unresolved [TK] placeholders remain, so an unfinished line cannot reach an agent by accident.
Yes. The structure spine holds arguments instead of acts, and the same memory system holds people, places and events. Any claim in the text can be traced back through the manuscript with page citations.
General assistants produce text on request. Livres refuses to. It is a reading instrument: it holds the entire manuscript in view, answers only from what you have actually written, cites the page, and says plainly when something was never established in the text.
Start free with one project, the full editor and your structure. Bring the crew in when the manuscript is big enough to need them.