Why Choose BookWriter to Write Your Books?

I wrote my first book, Bankroll Squad, in 2008. By 2011 it was one of the first independent African American urban fiction titles to do real numbers on Amazon. I caught Kindle Direct Publishing early — back when ebooks carried no overhead and there was no Kindle Unlimited to hide behind. I priced every Book 1 at 99 cents, then charged a little more for Parts 2 and 3, but only after the first part proved it could move.

I had always been an avid reader, long before I ever wrote anything, and nothing bothered me more than a bad book. I believed in my writing enough to take 35 cents a sale in an era when readers opened their wallets one book at a time — no subscription, no blanket deal. You had to actually be saying something. There were months I sold more than 30,000 books on my own. I was also the author who emailed Amazon to point out that African American romance and urban fiction had no bestseller lists of their own. They fixed it.

By 2012 I had signed my first authors and started helping them find the same success through self-publishing. I was building a real independent publishing company: David Weaver Presents. We even had a slogan — We Are The Majors. Between 2012 and 2017 we published thousands of books by hundreds of authors, helped generate millions in sales, and launched hundreds of careers, in an era when good information and unlocked secrets were genuinely hard to come by.

I named the company David Weaver Presents on purpose. I believed presentation came before everything else, and my job was to make sure your work got noticed. I took that seriously.

I learned what it actually takes for a book to hit number one — or to become the book of the year, or whatever that particular author was chasing. And I learned that it is different for everyone. Sometimes it was the title. Sometimes the cover. Sometimes the promo, or simply where the author was in their career. What worked for one author would not work for anyone else, so we figured out what worked for you, specifically. I gave it everything I had, every time.

Eventually I shifted from books to building. In 2018 I launched The Blac App — a less restrictive take on Instagram — and I had a hundred ideas for it. I hired an overseas firm to build my vision, knew a fraction of what I know now, and still scaled to nearly 50,000 users with no paid ads, all through influencer marketing. But I was buried in bugs, I had not yet built the features that would let me earn from it, and my book income was thinning out because I had walked away from publishing. The servers got expensive. I had to shut it down.

I kept building anyway. DavidWeaver.io, built on Shopify, became a real success and scaled through the pandemic.

But it was not until AI coding arrived that the full depth of my imagination finally had a way out. AI brought something rare into the world. It gave a Black man like me the ability to express his ideas and actually build them — without anyone caring what color I am, how much money I have, or what I can do for them. AI has no ulterior motive.

And the way I see it, I helped build it. If it was trained on the internet, and I spent years pouring into the internet, then my voice is already in there — alongside every other dreamer, researcher, and builder who contributed to it. So I am going to use it.

For years I carried one stubborn vision: my own version of Microsoft Word, built for authors, by an author, with everything I knew was missing from the tools I had used to write my own books. I started BookWriter as exactly that. Two months in, I deleted the entire project and began again.

Why rebuild something the world already has? Why think that small? I did not want to make a word processor. I wanted to build what authors actually need — something that makes them more efficient, gives them their time back, and still keeps their voice fully their own.

So that is what BookWriter became: software that can write a 300-page book from your idea while you sleep. And the ideas have not stopped coming. I have kept building features I know will set you apart from the pack.

BookWriter specializes in longform storytelling. We turn your concept into an entire book. We turn your concept into a movie. We write multi-hour YouTube scripts and hours-long speeches — all with the kind of organizational clarity that gets the job done at an elite level instead of some half-finished mess.

There are plenty of platforms claiming they can write a book for you. Try us once and you will feel the difference. When it comes to book-writing software, we are the top of the class — the Fable 5 of this space.

I bring innovation to storytelling. I did it as an author, I did it as a publisher, and now I do it as a developer for authors and publishers. The systems we have built around our curated AI — the prompt engineering, the structure, the guardrails — are in a class of their own.

When you join BookWriter, you are tapping into nearly two decades of hard-won publishing experience wrapped in some of the most thoughtfully designed software you will ever use as a storyteller.