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From the production floor.

Publishing tips, product updates, and lessons from running an AI-native indie house.

Production

Why your manuscript needs a QC pass before editing begins

18 March 2026

Most authors send their manuscript straight to a developmental editor. That skips the step where structural problems, inconsistent naming, and dialogue-ratio imbalances get caught cheaply. A 20-minute QC scan saves weeks of rework.

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Craft

The body-as-emotion tic: what it is and how to kill it

4 March 2026

Her chest tightened. His stomach dropped. Readers don't need the narrator pointing at body parts to explain emotions. If the dialogue works, the reader already feels it. Here's how to find and remove these crutches.

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Product Update

Introducing Clarity: an AI-writing scanner built for fiction

20 February 2026

Generic AI detectors flag everything or nothing. Clarity is different: 26 patterns tuned to fiction prose, a tiered scoring system, and paragraph-level hit reporting. It tells you where your manuscript sounds like a machine wrote it.

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