... book cover artist passionate about helping authors transform ideas into compelling, publication-ready books. I specialize in children's books , romance , fantasy , memoirs , Christian writing , and fiction , guiding authors from rough concepts or AI-generated drafts to polished manuscripts and eye-catching covers. Inspired by the storytelling excellence found in award-winning fantasy and fiction recognized by honors such as the Nebula , Newbery , and Mythopoeic Awards , I focus on creating distinctive characters, immersive worlds, and emotionally engaging narratives that resonate ... ... with readers. My goal is to preserve each author's unique voice and vision while refining every detail into a professional, print-ready manuscript

... technical I can read some basic code, but writing it from scratch isn't my thing). A few weeks ago, I launched Belink , a free link-in-bio tool that competes with Linktree. The entire thing was built using Manus, an AI agent that writes code, deploys it, and manages your project end-to-end. I want to share what the experience was actually like the good, the surprising, and the stuff nobody talks about. What Belink Is Belink ... ... videos Share their page anywhere There's a free tier and a Pro plan ($5/month) with Stripe billing. The stack: Next.js (Pages Router) PostgreSQL (Neon) Drizzle ORM tRPC Tailwind CSS Vercel deployment I didn't write any of that. Manus

... code-editor workflow (panels, keyboard-driven, fast file ops) instead of a Word/Scrivener vibe. It's local-first: every chapter is a Markdown file on your disk. No accounts, no cloud sync, no telemetry. If Folio disappears tomorrow, your manuscript is still just a folder of `.md` files. What v0.1.9 brings: - Panel-visibility settings (hide/show inspector, plan, AI panels per project) - Split IDE-wide vs

... open a wiki tool. Then you need an outline, so you grab a plotting app. Then you want to clean up your prose, so you sign up for a grammar checker. Then you want to format your manuscript for publishing, so there s another tool. Before you know it, you re running five or six different apps just to write a single book. And every single one of them wants a monthly subscription. The subscription tax Let s be honest ... ... finally had enough of Microsoft Word. I was writing a fantasy series with deep worldbuilding, hundreds of characters, multiple magic systems, interconnected timelines and Word was buckling under the weight of it. But when I looked at the alternatives

... update brings a few minor fixes. Mostly documentation and under-the-hood stuff. Changed Added books section to REFERENCE and README documenting directory structure, chapters, manuscript, and workflow. Added Ctrl+M (compile manuscript

... based structure with separate chapter files instead of a single document. Legacy books are marked and can be migrated to the new format. Your old file will still be available with a .bak extension. Chapters are automatically combined into manuscript.md when you compile; chapters.md also gets created automatically allowing you to reorder chapters. The manuscript

... overlaid on photos) BYOK: Claude, GPT-4 (API keys) or Gemini (Google OAuth) $9.99 one-time / free tier available What I'm considering adding: I'm thinking about a "create book" feature letting writers compile projects into a formatted manuscript. Options could include: - Export to Google Docs (formatted manuscript

... Back story Early this March, Manus burst onto the scene with its autonomous Agent workflow and stunned everyone with how much coding it could automate. Inspired by a friend, I asked Manus