Your first book deserves more than a chat history.

Yes. A new account can create one persistent Steering Connect book and save up to 50,000 accepted words with no BookWriter charge and no credit card required. Your connected assistant account is separate.

Your manuscript stays saved. You can invite 3 authors who verify their accounts and start their own free Connect books to permanently expand your original free book to 100,000 accepted words, or activate Connect Plus or Pro for paid-plan capacity. BookWriter does not erase the project or silently save text beyond the included boundary.

Share your private invite link. When 3 different friends verify new BookWriter accounts and start their own included free Connect books, your original free Connect book permanently expands from 50,000 to 100,000 accepted words. It does not add active-book slots or publication packages, and BookWriter never requests or stores your phone contacts.

In Steering Connect, the connected assistant writes in the conversation. BookWriter supplies the durable book structure and saves prose only when you clearly ask to accept it. This lets you use the assistant account you already prefer.

No. Connection supplies the operating rules, not a manuscript dump. After you select a project, the assistant reads its current status and only the bounded plan, voice, continuity, or chapter packet needed for the task.

Yes. The BookWriter card can start the free book, list existing projects, continue the exact saved chapter, and open that exact project in the BookWriter writing room when you want the web editor.

BookWriter also offers a universal MCP connection for compatible clients. The curated ChatGPT app has its own guided card experience, while the persistent book workflow remains the same.

Connect Plus is $4.99 per month for books up to 120,000 words and 3 active books. Pro is $9.99 per month for books up to 240,000 words, 10 active books, and 3 unique EPUB/PDF publication snapshots per billing period.

Active means books that are currently writable. Finishing, archiving, or deleting a book frees that slot for another project; the limit is not a lifetime book limit.

The original free project stays the same book and counts as one active paid-plan book. Its word ceiling follows the paid plan while subscribed. If you cancel, nothing is deleted: that original book returns to 50,000 words, or 100,000 if you earned the permanent referral unlock. Other paid-plan books remain preserved and readable but require a paid plan for further connected writing.

Yes. Every author can open the saved project in BookWriter and manually export the current manuscript as EPUB, PDF, DOCX, or Markdown at no BookWriter charge. Pro adds agent-orchestrated, immutable publication snapshots with versioned publishing metadata and automated EPUB/PDF render packages; it does not hold basic manuscript export hostage.

Surgical Continuity Edit is a documented product preview for chapter-by-chapter continuity review. The planned workflow shows the conflicting passage, supporting book fact, and smallest proposed patch, then lets the author apply it, edit it, keep the original, or mark the difference intentional. It is not callable until the current BookWriter tool list explicitly includes it.

Connected Cover Studio is a documented product preview. The planned workflow gives ChatGPT a bounded BookWriter cover brief and a premium original editorial-design quality bar, lets the author choose a direction through their separate ChatGPT account, then uses BookWriter for approved-asset storage, exact typography, and print-safe packaging. It does not copy a named artist or Behance project.