Books
A project is your local home for one or more books. Writer Studio puts no limit on how many books a project holds, so a project works equally well for a single novel or a loose collection.
Books in one project stay independent: each has its own manuscript structure, its own scenes, and its own story world. The books do not share story knowledge — series linking (a shared wiki across books) is out of scope for now.
Working with books
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Switch books | Pick a book from the book switcher in the title bar (it shows the current book's name) |
| Create a book | Open the book switcher → New book, then name it and pick a start structure |
| Rename a book | Open the book's properties and edit the Book Name field; this changes the displayed name only and never breaks links, appearances, or version history |
| Delete a book | Right-click the book in the Explorer and choose Delete, or use the command palette; the book goes to Trash along with its structure and text |
Creating a book offers a start-structure choice: a blank scene, a chapter with a first scene, or a template gallery of universal story-structure frameworks (3-Act, Save the Cat, Hero's Journey, Snowflake Method, 5-Act, Story Circle, 7-Point) and RU genre starting shapes (LitRPG, Transported Hero/Isekai, Boyar Fantasy, Romantic Fantasy). Every template creates ordinary, fully editable structure — nothing is locked. You can also begin from existing material; see Import. Nothing forces parts or chapters on a new book.
Book identity and metadata
Open a book's properties to set the basics that identify it and feed export:
- Title — the book's name.
- Author name — the author credited on the manuscript.
- Description — a short summary of the book.
A Book Metadata section in the same properties adds further export-preparation fields, all optional: an author display name, genre, subtitle, language, target audience, keywords, series name and number, age rating, copyright, publication date, and ISBN.
Export uses this metadata to fill in titles, author credits, and book information. See Export for which formats use which fields.
Front and back matter
A book can carry optional sections that appear around the manuscript on export — for example a dedication or epigraph at the front, an author's note or an "also by this author" list at the back. These are plain text you edit in the book's properties, and they are included only when you turn them on in the export dialog. They are entirely optional: leave them empty and export skips them.
Notes
- A book's data lives inside the project folder on disk, so it travels, backs up, and restores with the project. See Safety and recovery.
- Anything an author can do to a book, the AI assistant can do too — but only when you ask, and renaming or deleting always stays under your control. See AI assistant.