Set up the book like a real project.
Start with genre, premise, audience, voice, boundaries, and direction. The workspace opens with context instead of a blank chatbot prompt.
AI BookWriter membership - free for 3 days
BookWriter gives authors a guided AI writing room: you start each chapter, the AI continues from your voice and direction, and you approve the manuscript as it moves.
No charge today. Then $17/month for up to 30 Steering Wheel books per billing period. Cancel anytime.
No charge today.
Starts after trial.
New Steering books per period.
Words per manuscript.
The simple version
Steering Wheel Mode is the author-led workflow inside BookWriter. It is built for writers who want AI speed without giving up voice, taste, sequence, or final say.
Most AI writing pages sell speed and quietly ask the author to accept whatever the machine gives back. BookWriter sells speed with control. Your words enter first, so the chapter has a real signal before the AI writes.
That matters for fiction, memoir, nonfiction, and practical books because the draft is not only word count. It is voice, sequence, memory, pacing, taste, and a long chain of author decisions.
I want this chapter to open tense and intimate. She should feel powerful, but the room should know she is hiding something.
Continue the chapter in the same voice, preserve the opening, and carry the pressure forward until the scene earns its turn.
How it works
The workflow keeps momentum obvious. You set direction, give the first signal, let BookWriter continue, then review the chapter before it becomes part of the manuscript.
Start with genre, premise, audience, voice, boundaries, and direction. The workspace opens with context instead of a blank chatbot prompt.
Add roughly 100 words, a paragraph, or clear chapter direction. This gives BookWriter your voice and your intent before it writes.
BookWriter continues the chapter using your setup, current manuscript, and chapter direction. The author stays in the driver seat.
Keep, sharpen, redirect, or continue. Your original words stay visible and the manuscript moves forward only after review.
Why authors feel the difference
Generic chat makes authors rebuild context every time. BookWriter keeps the book, chapter state, and author direction together.
The mode is for writers who want leverage without losing taste, voice, pacing, or decision-making.
The target is an approved book workflow: chapters, preview, export, metadata, and launch assets, not an endless conversation.
Why choose it
You keep reminding it what the book is.
BookWriter keeps the writing flow organized around a manuscript.
You get speed, but the voice can stop feeling like yours.
You start the chapter and steer before the system accelerates.
You keep control, but the draft can move painfully slowly.
You keep control and use AI for the heavy continuation work.
From chapter to file
Steering Wheel Mode lives inside the BookWriter production system. When chapters are approved, the book can move into preview, cover direction, author metadata, ebook export, and print-ready formatting.

Membership package
Try the guided AI book-writing workflow for 3 days, then keep a serious monthly package for authors who want to draft often without restarting from scratch.
3 days free, then $17/month unless cancelled.
Clear expectations
The promise is practical: faster author-led drafting, clear trial terms, and a generous monthly package with review before approval. No sales guarantees. No mystery billing. No autopilot manuscript you cannot steer.
Questions
It is BookWriter for authors who want to stay involved. You start the chapter, BookWriter continues it, and you approve or redirect the result before the manuscript moves forward.
The membership is free for 3 days. Stripe collects the payment method up front, no charge is made today, and the plan becomes $17/month after the trial unless cancelled.
Yes. Steering Wheel Mode supports books up to 105,000 words each. It works for novels, novellas, memoirs, practical guides, business books, and other structured nonfiction.
It gives serious authors a generous, clear monthly package while keeping the product bounded. Deleted books still count in the period they were created.
No. No writing tool can guarantee sales, reviews, rankings, or platform approval. The promise here is a faster, more controlled manuscript workflow.
BookWriter AI membership
The first 3 days are for proof. Then keep the membership for $17/month if it helps you write with more momentum.