A sample book

Look around a finished novel.

This is The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle (1891), a tale of archers, knights and the Hundred Years' War, as it looks in MechaSquid. Click through it the way an author would. It is read-only, and you need no account.

Open the sample Or start with your own book →

Where to look

The book at a glance
Words, scenes and chapters, and where to go next.
The whole book on one page
Read it as the author writes it, with the chapters and scenes beside it and any character a click away.
The plot
Every scene left to right, and the threads each one carries: Alleyne and the Lady Maude, the Company's campaign, Hordle John.
Index cards
One card per scene, a row per chapter, with what happens in it.
A character's page
Sir Nigel Loring: how he looks, how he speaks, whom he is tied to, and every scene he is in.
The map
From Hampshire to Bordeaux and over the Pyrenees, with travel times. Ask it the quickest way between two places.
One character through the book
Alleyne Edricson, scene by scene: where he is, with whom, and whom he meets for the first time.
Who is on stage
Characters against scenes, to see who carries the book and who vanishes for a while.
The web
Every page and how it is tied to the others.
The timeline
The scenes in story order.

How it was made

The text is Doyle's, from Project Gutenberg, brought in with Import a book, which found the chapters and the names. Everything around it was then drawn from the text itself: the book cut into scenes, a summary of each, a page for every character, place and group, the ties between them, the plot threads and the map. Not a word of the novel was changed. Your own book can be imported the same way, and what you write next goes straight in.

Now try it with your own book.

Import a draft you have written, or start planning something new.

Start your book

Early access is by invitation. Export everything whenever you like.