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From your manuscripts
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Bring your backlist and your draft. Get a shared canon and findings linked to your own words. You decide what changes.

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Your books

One canon

Clear findings

Five navy books numbered one to five
The Briarwood Series
  • Characters
  • Places
  • Timeline
  • Threads

Same sister.
Different name
and eyes.

Your series,
in one place.

A shared canon
from your books.

Evidence you can
review and act on.

Illustrative workflow
01

You

Bring the books you’ve already written.

Add your published books and the new draft to one series. StoryHelm builds the canon from your backlist before reading the new manuscript.

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The Briarwood Series

  • Book 1Published
  • Book 2Published
  • Book 3Published
  • Book 4Published
  • Book 5New draft
Add your books
Shared canon
  • Characters
  • Places
  • Timeline
  • Threads

Example project.

Your manuscripts are never used for AI training.

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A full read takes a few minutes to over an hour, depending on manuscript size. It runs in the background.

Reading preview

Full Analysis
The Briarwood Series

  • Canon ready
  • Reading your draft
  • Findings next

The full picture of your draft.

ContinuityTimelineVoiceForeshadowing
02

StoryHelm

Choose the depth
of your reading.

A fast first look or a full developmental read, with your series canon in view.

03

You + StoryHelm

See the finding.
Read the evidence.

A finding inside a book often quotes the line that raised it. A cross-book finding names both books and what each one records, without passages. Review the context before deciding what needs changing.

The finding is a question to review.
The decision stays yours.

Sample series review
Possible cross-book contradiction

Same sister. Different name and eyes.

Book 2 · Chapter 14
“Helen had her father’s eyes,
the same gray they all had.”
Character detail changedHelen → Hannah · gray → brown
Book 5 · Chapter 2
“Hannah glanced up, her brown eyes exhausted.”

Illustrative manuscript excerpts · Interactive sample

Illustrative series review

Same sister.
Different name and eyes.

Book 2 introduces Helen with gray eyes. Book 5 calls her Hannah and describes brown eyes. This is a question for the author to review, not an automatic rewrite.

Book 2 · Chapter 14
“Helen had her father’s eyes, the same gray they all had.”

Book 5 · Chapter 2
“Hannah glanced up, her brown eyes exhausted.”

This sample uses invented passages. Your choice changes only this preview.

04

You

Make the changes
only you can make.

Revise in your own words. Changes saved in StoryHelm’s editor are checked against your canon in the background.

Your manuscript prose stays untouched.

Manuscript editor

“Helen had her father’s eyes, the same gray they all had.”

Draft saved→Changed prose rechecked

Editor Handoff Packet

Manuscript + canon + open issues.
One DOCX, ready for your editor.

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Before your first upload.

How long does a read take?
A full read takes a few minutes to over an hour, depending on manuscript size, and runs in the background.
Can I start with books I’ve already published?
Yes. Add your published books and the new draft to one series. StoryHelm builds the canon from your backlist before reading the new manuscript. Cross-book continuity is included on the Series plan.
What happens when I revise?
When you save changes in StoryHelm’s built-in editor, the changed prose is checked against your canon in the background. Run a new Quick Scan or Full Analysis when you want a complete read of a new draft.
Cross-book continuity is included on the Series plan. View plans

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