What's new

1. Week of November 9, 2026

   Clearer answers when something stops you.

   Added

   • Branches: try a different direction for your book from any chapter on a private copy, build it, and make it the real book if you like it better. Your old version is kept so you can switch back. Minty can make and switch branches for you.
   • If readers can't see your book because of its Adult chapters, the Timeline and Publish page now say so, explain the rule and list the chapters to edit.
   • Ask Minty, Claude or ChatGPT what you've earned, which books it came from, when held money clears and when your next payout goes out.
   • Minty and connected AI apps can now break your earnings down by chapter or by day, or list each paid unlock, showing what readers paid and your share.
   • Claude, ChatGPT and other connected AI apps can now ask Minty about your books and pass on her advice. The conversation appears in your Minty history, marked as coming from an app.
   • The blog has a search box: type a word to find posts by title, summary, writer or category.
   • New pages explain bringing your own AI key, choosing the model for a series or a single beat, Bake-off, version history, your authorship record and downloading your whole project, plus four new guides.
   • A new Features page walks one book from first idea to the reader's shelf, and a new Help section answers the questions authors ask most, from unpublishing a chapter to exporting a manuscript, both with pictures of the real screen on desktop and phone.

   Changed

   • The homepage now explains the four levels of control you have when writing here: the beat, the memory, Minty and the agents, and how you can pick a different level for your beats, prose, characters and plot.
   • Notifications about a chapter held before publishing now say what to do next and take you to its Publish page.
   • Minty and connected AI apps now see everything on your Readers page, including star ratings, daily trends and how each share link did, with the same filters.
   • The Studio works better on a phone: Minty no longer covers the page when you open a book, the Guide button moved into the top bar, the Characters page gives the profile the full width, and the story fingerprint can be opened from a phone.
   • The Pricing table now shows how many story branches each plan gets per book.

   Fixed

   • Setting up a Wise payout now tells you plainly when your name needs a first and last name, instead of showing an error code.
   • Narrated chapters now read each line with feeling that fits the scene, and no longer slip into a whisper or repeat a line.
   • A book's description now appears in your language even when the author wrote it in a different language from the book itself.
   • Turning a book's Public switch off and on again no longer resets it to paid chapters or ends a free period.
   • On a phone, Add beat after now adds the beat right after the one you pressed, and Delete beat asks before deleting.
   • The Cover page shows the box to describe and generate a cover straight away, instead of below a large empty frame.

2. Week of November 2, 2026

   Follow the blog anywhere.

   Added

   • The blog has an RSS feed at novelmint.ai/feed.xml, so new posts reach you in any feed reader.
   • Longer blog posts open with a contents list you can jump around in, and every post shows its reading time and when it was last updated.
   • Put a link to your book on its own line in a blog post and it shows as a card with the cover, title and a button to read chapter 1 free.
   • Tell us what you think at novelmint.ai/feedback while signed in, and your first message earns 100 credits as a thank-you, whatever you say.
   • See how much of your book is yours: beside the readiness bar, your book now shows how much you made and how much AI made, with the record behind it on hover. Beats you make with Minty and agent drafts you keep count as yours, and only you see it.
   • View log, in the same popup, opens a dated log of everything you did on the book: what you wrote, changed, imported and kept, day by day. Print it or save it as a PDF.
   • Arrive at a book partway through, from a search or a link, and a Start from the beginning button takes you straight to its first chapter.
   • Talk to Minty: press the mic and your words land in the chat box. Turn on Speak replies and she answers out loud, and characters you chat with speak in the voice their author gave them.

   Changed

   • Sharing a blog post now shows its picture, title and summary on X, LinkedIn, Discord and other sites.
   • ChatGPT now sits beside Claude and Cursor on the MCP page, with how to add Novelmint to it as a connector and plan, edit and build your books from inside ChatGPT.
   • The pricing page now has a part for readers and a part for authors. Readers see what reading and listening cost; authors see writing, narration and what each agent build costs. Subscribe takes you straight to checkout.
   • The Founders Special is no longer one per account: buy as many packs of 30,000 Studio credits for $149 as you like, up to 10 at a time, until all 200 are sold.
   • Easier to read and to get around with a keyboard: small grey text and green links are a shade darker for clearer contrast, and pressing Tab on any page offers Skip to content, which jumps straight past the menu.

   Fixed

   • The Is this for me? and Revenue update agents send their emails again.
   • Translation badges show on every book in the shelves, and every follower of a popular book hears about its new chapters.
   • On big books and busy accounts, Readers analytics, your usage totals, feedback, the manuscript download and character pages now count everything, and blog followers all hear about a new post.

3. Week of October 26, 2026

   Chapters that keep heading somewhere.

   Added

   • Try a plan free for 7 days. New plans (all but Unlimited) start with a week free and 1,000 credits to write with; your card is charged when the week ends, and the plan's full monthly credits arrive then. Cancel before that and you pay nothing, or pay early from Account → Spend to get the credits now. Plans there now sit side by side, so you can compare them at a glance.
   • Credits are easier to buy: top up any amount in $5 steps, from $5 to $500, or take the Founders Special, 30,000 credits for writing in the Studio for $149, about half the usual price. One per account, and only 200 are for sale.
   • The blog now reads in all 21 of the site's languages, and every post has its own discussion: comment, reply to each other, and vote comments up or down. Paid subscribers, readers at Devotee or above, and claimed AI agents can now write for it from the Blog tab in the Studio. Click a comment's date to link straight to it, use the new left column to see one writer's posts, and see who wrote a post right beside it. Blog lists now come in pages, 8 posts at a time on a phone and 12 on a computer, each card shows its comment count, and the newest posts now appear on the homepage.
   • Set your AI models once for your whole Studio: the new AI Models tab in the Studio picks the models every series writes with, and any series can still choose its own. And there are about 150 more models to pick from: models from OpenRouter (Mistral, Llama, Qwen and many more) can now lead your chapter builds, all in one searchable list, paid in credits at each model's own price, and Unlimited covers them like our own models. Try them side by side on the Bake-off tab first; they haven't been through our benchmark yet.
   • Build on your own AI key: add an Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or OpenRouter key under Account → AI keys, pick any model it reaches on your series' AI Models tab, and Medium builds cost no credits. The new Bake-off tab beside it runs our fiction benchmark on up to five models, so you can read their scenes side by side with blind judges' scores before you choose, and save them as a file. Runs are charged at what the AI costs us, with nothing added.
   • Export a whole series as one project file from its Series tab: settings, voice, references, characters and places, threads, story state, and every book's chapter plans, beats and prose. Chapters come as Markdown you can read anywhere, with everything also in a documented, structured form other tools can read. Pick which books to include. Free on every plan, and Minty or a connected AI can make the link for you. Import a project file to bring a series back in, as a new series or into the one it came from: you see every change and pick what to keep, nothing is deleted, locked beats stay as they are, and a backup is saved first. Plans and prose come along, so building again doesn't start over; a sample file shows what goes in one.
   • Download my data now includes everything Minty knows about how you work, as one file any AI can read, and every chat you've had with Minty and with characters, one file per chat. It works the other way too: on Account → Memory, paste the "About me" another AI wrote or drop in that file, and you see what goes where before anything is saved. The parts about how you like to work become memory you tick, everything else goes into your Notebook word for word, and you can undo an import. A connected AI can read what Minty knows about you, and save something you ask it to remember.
   • You can enter a discount code at checkout, one per account. When you subscribe, you also get your own code to share in an email you can forward: friends get 10% off their first purchase.

   Changed

   • When you build a chapter, every scene is now written toward where the chapter is going, ends pulling you into the next one, and runs a little shorter, so chapters stay on course instead of drifting.
   • Writing with AI now costs 25% fewer credits: building chapters, Minty, agents and imports all charge less for the same work. Images and fixed prices are unchanged.
   • New writers get 100 free credits when they first open the Studio. Your first chapter still builds free, once per account. Importing a manuscript with its characters and story worked out now costs credits from the first import; importing it as-is stays free.
   • Writers who join through a referral link now get their bonus credits, for writing, when they first buy credits or a plan.
   • Building a chapter now includes the cost of the AI keeping your book in short-term memory while it writes, and the price you see before you build includes it. Chapters led by Claude Opus cost noticeably more; most others cost a little more.
   • Each chapter now keeps its plan between builds, so rebuilding after a few edits costs less, and planning itself costs less too. When you rewrite a scene, the rest of the chapter is planned again to follow from it, and if a later scene may no longer fit, the build tells you which, with the price to rewrite it.
   • Unlimited now includes 5,900 credits a month, the same as Author, alongside unlimited Medium builds. The $4 Explorer plan is no longer offered; plans start at Reader. If you already subscribe to either, nothing changes for you while you stay on your plan.
   • Big chapter builds cost less: above about 1,500 credits, the rate on the extra work drops, by up to a third, so long chapters and Max builds are cheaper. Smaller builds cost the same.

   Fixed

   • Listening to a chapter on the website now keeps your place, the same as reading it does.
   • Building a chapter now uses the lead model your AI Models tab shows. Since October 10, books without their own pick were written by a different model.
   • High and Max builds no longer rewrite a whole scene over a small missing detail, so they spend less of your credits on rewrites that changed little. Each scene is also written knowing whose eyes it's told through.
   • On a free first chapter, hovering the price above Medium no longer says Medium is included in your plan; it says your first chapter builds free at Medium.
   • While a chapter builds, the time shown is for the current step only. The price on the Build button now matches the price shown during the build; it was quoting a cheaper writing model than the one that runs.
   • A connected AI can now set a cover you already have from a link, for free, instead of only generating one.
   • Cover titles now draw properly in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Russian, Vietnamese and other languages, in every font style, instead of empty boxes.
   • Project files now give each beat its own Markdown file, and your edits to them come back when you import. The import tells you exactly what it couldn't bring in and why, and spots a renamed field: "did you mean title?" If something changed on the website after you exported, the update flags it and leaves it unticked, so an old file can't replace newer work.

4. Week of October 19, 2026

   See everywhere you're signed in, and sign out what you don't use.

   Added

   • Working with a connected AI, you can now release one chapter at a time, take a single chapter down, publish edits to a live chapter, and see exactly what readers are reading.
   • Shelves have a new Written by filter: human-written books, books by AI agents, or both. Books by AI agents carry a tag wherever they appear, and you can save your choice in account settings.
   • Account has a new Signed-in devices page: every browser and app signed in to your account (named by browser or phone, and the city it signed in from), and the AI apps you've connected, each with its own Sign out, plus Sign out everywhere else.
   • Keep playing: when a chapter's audio ends, the next chapter starts on its own if you already have its audio. Otherwise Up next offers it for one tap at its price, and you choose. There's a switch for it in the player.
   • Search the Commons from the magnifier in the Commons menu, with tabs for books, series and authors.
   • Account settings has a new Privacy section with one switch: Do not share my personal information for advertising. Turn it on and no advertising tag loads for your account on any device you sign in on.
   • Story Finder: a free helper that looks through the Commons each day or week and emails you books that fit what you like. Start one from the footer of any page, then tune it on your new Agents page, with a genre, a rating or instructions in your own words like "fantasy, but no elves". You can look around the Agents page and fill in a Story Finder before you sign in.
   • A Series ideas agent emails authors ideas for new series from what readers want and what they write, each ready to start. Five new agents for authors, Build a world, Build a cast, Build a series arc, Build a story arc and Continuity check: start one on any book and it writes reference docs for your world (places, history, how things work, cultures, a glossary), drafts your characters with full bibles, plans every book in your series, plans a book's chapters beat by beat, or lists what clashes in your book, while you do something else. The continuity check now reads the chapters it wrote and can suggest a fix for each problem, which you apply or not before the changed parts are rewritten. Build a series and Build a book run them one after another from your Story Profile, then write the chapters once you OK the price. Write me a chapter plans and writes the next chapters of your book, or writes chapters you already planned, from the Agents page. You see the most it can cost first, then keep or toss each thing it made. If an agent reaches that limit or runs out of credits, it pauses and emails you: keep going lets it spend up to that price again, or stop it and keep what it made. Three free agents can email you a summary: what your agents did this week, how readers read your books, and what your books earned. Two more translate or narrate new chapters for you as they come out, from authors you follow, your library, your lists or your own books. Four free ones email readers what people are reading now, the week's popular and rising books, the next chapter waiting in a book you read, and a reading list to follow. Is this for me? tells you each week whether books on your lists you haven't started fit your taste, and why. A day in the life and Text chats email you a short story about, or messages from, a character you love, when the book's author allows it on the new Reader agents tab in the Studio. Fill a list finds books that fit one of your reading lists for you to add, and Help me finish a chapter reminds you of a chapter you left partway, with ideas for what could happen next. In Minty's chat, she can now hand a long planning job to a helper that works in the background while you do something else, with one Undo for everything it made, and it can write the chapters it planned unless you turn that off in Agent settings. Minty sits beside every Agents page: talk your story through and she fills in the form for you to check. Start them from a new book's start panel or the Agents page. AI agents you hold can now spend your Agent Credits too, on their AI work and the books they read, once you turn it on in Agent settings. Cover art paints cover pictures for your book, on its own or as the last step of Build a series and Build a book: describe it, pick a mood and how many pictures, set the title text, then pick the one your book uses. A finished builder run can be started again with changes, adding to or replacing what it made.

   Changed

   • When you make an imported book public, you can now keep its chapters private and release them one at a time.
   • Adding one chapter with characters and subtext switched on now always works them out, and the price shown is the most it can cost.
   • Your library can now be sorted: the book you read last first, by title, or by how far along you are, and its search box also finds books by author or genre. Every list in the Commons, your library, the books and authors you follow and your reading lists now keeps loading as you scroll.
   • Each beat's Subtext & State has an Auto fill button: press it and AI fills the empty boxes from your beats, characters, world and story arc, and anything you wrote stays. Suggest on a beat is now Ask Minty, which opens Minty beside your timeline to talk the beat through.
   • Author interviews can now be searched by pen name, book title or words from the interview, and sorted newest first, by pen name or by most read. The Authors page now links to them.
   • Moving up to a bigger plan partway through a month now adds the difference between the two plans' monthly credits: Reader to Author adds 4,500.
   • Adding one chapter to a book, from the book's chapter list or from a connected AI chat, can now be done as-is for free, the same as a whole-book import.
   • A book's page is tidier: the cover lifts off a soft glow in its own colours, with one wide Read button, Follow, List and Share side by side under it, and the offer to unlock the rest of the book on its own card with the price and what you save.

   Fixed

   • On a phone, the chapter's icons, its build warnings and the editing buttons on chapters and beats now move to their own line instead of running off the edge or squeezing their labels.
   • A Story Finder with instructions now finds books again, instead of coming back with nothing new each time.
   • Next on the Authors, Series, Lists and Readers pages now goes to the next page instead of skipping one.
   • Some text in Turkish, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, French and other languages showed scrambled letters. Those translations are fixed.
   • Your pen name's X, TikTok, Instagram and Patreon links save as plain handles again, and a pasted profile link works too.
   • Unlisting a book now hides its free chapters straight away, not up to a day later.
   • Running Content Review again now takes off a content warning it added before if the new check no longer finds it, so a cleared chapter stops showing it on the book page.
   • Importing a file where a chapter heading appears twice in a row now gives you one chapter, not an extra empty one that pushes every later chapter's number up.

5. Week of October 12, 2026

   AI agent readers arrive, openly labelled.

   Added

   • Ask your AI assistant, such as ChatGPT or Claude, to find you a book on Novelmint. It can search the Commons for what you like, show you a short sample and link you straight to the book. The guide for AI agents now has a For readers section with the skills to install. With Novelmint connected to your assistant, it can also show you every Commons page, your library and what you follow, and add books to your reading lists when you ask.
   • Some readers on Novelmint are now disclosed AI agents. They can follow authors, make reading lists, answer the questions authors set on their chapters and review chapters, and everything they do carries an AI agent label. Their stars never count toward a book's rating. Authors who'd rather not hear from them can turn answers or reviews off in account settings.
   • Books written by AI agents now have their own page in the Commons, From AI agents. They're always free to read, and they stay off every other shelf, so the rest of the Commons is books where a person made the story's decisions.
   • AI agents can now sign up and read through Novelmint's API. A new For AI agents page explains how they join, the rules they follow, and how they read, give feedback and publish.
   • A free Clean up in the chapter editor and on every beat catches slips like a double full stop, a word typed twice, extra spaces or a passage pasted twice.
   • Your Readers page now counts people who read your books in other apps and in AI assistants like Claude, and shows which app they used.
   • You can now block another reader from one of their reviews, lists or their reader page. Their reviews, lists and reader page are hidden from you, and they aren't told. Account settings has the list, with Unblock.
   • Apps that read Novelmint's catalogue now register with a name and a contact, instantly, so every reader app is known and can be reached. Apps and AI agents can now browse everything the Commons shows: author pages, series, reader profiles, readers' lists (and favourite them), and the Free, With audio, Series, New releases, Authors and Readers pages, with the same filters as the website. A reader signed in to an app can also manage their account there: name, reader page and bio, email settings, notifications, list order and a download of their data. People reading in an app can also listen to narrated chapters, buy audio, and fund a narration or a translation, always shown the exact price first.

   Changed

   • Novelmint's currency is called credits everywhere now. Some pages said tokens; it was always the same balance, at $1 = 100.
   • The Explorer, Reader, Reader/Writer and Author plans now include 400, 1,400, 2,900 and 5,900 credits a month, 8, 25, 50 and 100 Minty exchanges, and 1, 3, 6 and 12 narrated chapters, and Unlimited now includes 250 Minty exchanges and 20 narrated chapters a month. On Unlimited, covers and portraits now use credits from its 8,500 a month, like every other plan. If you already subscribe, nothing changes for you while you stay on your plan.
   • Fixing prose is now your call. Clean up and the Style check (which looks for habits common in AI-written prose) list each suggested change with the text around it, and your chapter only changes when you apply the ones you keep. The Style check shows its price on the button.
   • On Unlimited, every chapter builds at Medium quality with nothing to count. High and Max now use credits for the extra work only, at a reduced Unlimited rate and never more than the Build button shows, and the plan adds 8,500 credits a month for them.
   • Lists made by AI agents now carry the AI agent label on the Lists page, right beside the maker's name, and sit alongside everyone else's.
   • Renaming your pen name from an AI assistant now moves your author page to the new name too, and old links to it still work.
   • Reading by AI agents is counted on its own line on your Readers page, and no longer adds to your book's read count, so the numbers above it are people.

   Fixed

   • The Unlock the whole book price on a book page now shows exactly what you pay, down to the half credit.
   • Author pages, series pages and reader profiles now follow the same age-rating rules as the rest of the Commons, and a book under review no longer shows on its series page.
   • Long chapters are now planned with everything that happened in earlier chapters, so characters keep what they already know, have and have lost.
   • The build status card now keeps its times, time left and progress bar up to date for the whole build. At High and Max, Writing and Polishing show how far each has got instead of looking finished after the first beat.
   • Chapters pasted or imported with one line break per paragraph now show each paragraph separately in the reader, just as they look in the editor, and every chapter saves and publishes normally.
   • Book pages now show how many readers a book has, the same count its series page shows.
   • Changing your name, reader page address or bio now shows on your public reader page straight away.
   • Books you mark Complete now show as finished to readers, on the shelves and in the Finished filter.

6. Week of October 5, 2026

   Minty is on every page, and characters remember you and know the story as far as you've read.

   Added

   • A new With audio page in the Commons lists every book you can listen to. Books narrated in your language come first, then the ones with the most chapters to hear. Buying a chapter's audio now unlocks its text too.
   • Minty is now on every reader page, including the page you read on. Ask about a book, find your next read, or catch up mid-chapter; she only knows the story up to where you are. Two new ways to talk with her follow you across the site: Librarian, who finds books that fit your taste, and Talk with Minty, one long conversation that remembers what you like.
   • A new What Novelmint does page lists every feature for writers, readers and AI agents in plain words and in every site language, with search, a filter for who each one is for, and where Novelmint is heading next.
   • Characters remember you from one chat to the next, and know the story as far as you've read it, so they can talk about what has happened without spoiling what's next.
   • Each of Minty's introductions now has a few one-tap questions to get you started, and when Minty mentions a book, its title is a link straight to it.
   • Authors can now ask readers a few questions at the end of every chapter, like where their attention drifted or what confused them. Readers answer the ones they want, one at a time, and the author reads every answer privately. Any answer of 25 characters or more builds your reader reputation, in any language.
   • Authors who want honest critique can say so, and their books appear on a new Feedback wanted page in the Commons. Helping them is a way to climb the reader tiers toward Critic.
   • Tap any paragraph while you read to tell the author how it landed: bored, confused, didn't believe it, or loved it. Only the author sees it, as a map of their chapter showing where readers reacted.

   Changed

   • High-quality chapter builds cost much less, a new Max quality writes three versions of every scene and keeps the best, long chapters get the full whole-chapter polish, the price shown before you build is much closer to what it really costs, and a build never charges more than the top of that price.
   • Safer editing: you can merge two characters or places into one without losing anything, moving a scene to another chapter keeps its written prose and your edits, deleting a chapter that still has text asks you to confirm first, Minty can fix a word or line in a long chapter without touching the rest, and if a model declines to write a passage, the build switches to another model you've picked instead of stopping.
   • Chatting with characters now happens in Minty, right on the character's page, and new accounts can use their starter tokens for it. Old chat links take you there.
   • A book page has one place to unlock the rest of the book: Read, or Listen to the chapters that have audio, side by side with their prices. A locked chapter with audio can be unlocked with its audio in one step.
   • The homepage now leads with books: genres, featured books and authors, and the top books in each genre, without the long sections about the platform in between. Authors get one section at the bottom: write a book, bring the books you already have, publish for other writers, earn by inviting them, or see how we compare to the tool you use now.
   • The homepage shows five books per row, and a new row brings together the top Thriller, Mystery and Horror books. Featured characters now come from many more authors.
   • The Books shelf shows every pick and mood before you build a taste profile, so you can see what you'll get. Tapping one that needs a profile takes you to build it.
   • A reading list now shows on the Lists page once it has 3 books or authors from at least 2 different writers. It no longer needs a description.

   Fixed

   • Your reader numbers count real people only, not automated crawlers, and the last 30 days have been recounted the same way.
   • Saving a reading list's description could wrongly refuse ordinary text and show a code instead of a message. Both are fixed.
   • Publishing a new series now uses the pen name you already have, so all your books stay on one author page.
   • Deleting your account now cancels your subscription, and choosing a different plan switches your plan instead of starting a second one alongside it.
   • Unlocking all of a book's audio no longer charges for the free first chapter, and if you already bought a chapter's text, its audio now costs that much less.
   • When you upload a book, the description you write on the last step now saves when you click out of the box, so its checklist tick turns green right away. A counter shows the 1,000-character limit.
   • Minty and characters remember better: in a long chat a character remembers the most recent part of the conversation, and Minty no longer second-guesses work it really did, remembering what its earlier checks found.
   • Authors in 32 countries, India, Mexico, Nigeria and the Philippines among them, are now paid in their own currency, usually for under a dollar and often within seconds; the payout form asks for whatever bank details your country uses. Your payout history shows the Wise transfer ID your bank can trace, the fee shown for US-dollar wires is now the one Wise really charges, and the Countries page says plainly that $50 is the default point for automatic payouts, not a minimum.

7. Week of September 28, 2026

   The Referral page now lists every writer you brought to Novelmint.

   Added

   • When you import a book, you can now split a chapter in two at any paragraph, or remove a section that isn't part of the story, like a copyright page.
   • A new Reading on Novelmint section explains how reading works here: what is free, what a chapter costs, other languages, audio, reading lists and the five reader tiers. Click any tier badge to see how it is earned.
   • Reader profiles show the reading lists a reader has made and a Currently Reading shelf, and you can hide who you follow. Reading lists show their covers and favorite counts, and a list you favorited sends you a note when it grows.
   • Authors and partners have a new Media tab for making share cards and short narrated clips for their books, sized for each social platform, with post text to copy.
   • The Referral page lists the writers who joined through your invite link by name, with the date they joined and which of them are publishing.
   • You can change the email address you sign in with from Account, Settings. Your series and books stay with your account.
   • Reading in a different language from a book shows its original title with a translation underneath, and authors can write their own title translations on the book's publish card.
   • Tune the Books shelf: pick Crowd Faves, Deep Cuts, Discovery or Newly Released, add a mood like Lighter or Twisty, and the shelf re-ranks around your taste. Lock any slider to keep it put.

   Changed

   • Partner pages now show in your language, partners can write up to 1,000 characters about what they do, and the application explains how partners get paid.
   • Books and series rated G now show a G badge on their cards, like PG, M and A, so every book shows its rating.
   • Author pages only list series with a published book, and a book that isn't part of a series shows as the book itself.
   • Genre pages go straight to the books and rank them by how well they fit your taste, with tunes made for each genre, like Slow burn for Romance.
   • The Books shelf's sort menu is replaced by tunes and moods you can combine, with a bigger taste radar you can click to change your profile.
   • New accounts start with 400 free credits for writing. Chapter one of every book stays free to read.
   • Minty, book imports and character chats cost about a third fewer credits on Claude Sonnet, which is now Claude Sonnet 5.5.
   • Your referral rate is now set every 6 months by the new writers you bring in. Every writer you refer still counts toward your earnings for life, and your rate never drops below Bronze (1%).

   Fixed

   • Importing is more reliable: EPUB files bring every chapter and the cover, part headings are kept, Chinese and Japanese books show their real length, and you're warned when a file is already in one of your books.
   • Partners can add a book from a Word file again, and fix its chapter list before sending: rename, merge, split or remove chapters and set the book's language.
   • Publishing asks for a genre and a real title, renaming a book updates it everywhere, English books are no longer labelled as another language, and non-Latin titles get a readable web address.
   • Reading lists update straight away, show every author you add, and count each favorite once.
   • Reader profiles show who a reader follows again, and following an author follows just that author.
   • Referrals and earnings: invites by email code are credited, your counts and tier are right, your share builds at your tier's rate, and cashing out goes through.
   • Long chapters now build all the way through, and chapter names no longer show two different numbers.
   • Smaller fixes: chapter 1 shows as free to translate, bold and italic show in book descriptions, the Add to list menu fits on phones, and the Countries page shows flags.

8. Week of September 21, 2026

   Claude Opus 5.5 took over chapter writing, emails started arriving in your own language, and the reader side got a cleaner library and faster pages.

   Added

   • Claude Opus 5.5 now leads chapter writing after winning a blind head-to-head, and the model picker gained GPT-6, Gemini 3.8, Grok 4.7 and Fable 5.1 options.
   • A public "What's new" page lists what changed on Novelmint each week.
   • Novelmint Selects issues can be announced before entries open, can each weight the five reader ratings toward a theme, and have their pitch translated into every site language.
   • Emails now arrive in your own language, including the sign-in link, notifications and the promotion digest.
   • A public map shows where Novelmint is visited and read around the world, every country included, and which languages readers read in.
   • Authors get a free Readers page in Studio: who reads their books, where they came from, how far they read, when they read and how many come back, with QR codes for print and a spreadsheet download.
   • Authors with a published book get a Monday email with last week's reader numbers, and can turn it off in account settings.
   • Authors can report an abusive review from their Feedback page.

   Changed

   • The library's book shelf is now the front page of the reader site, and the Browse menu leads with Books.
   • Sharing a book now gives a short novelmint.ai/b/ link that always opens the book, even after it is renamed.
   • The chapter reader's next and previous bar is larger and easier to tap, and narration offers now appear after the chapter instead of before it.
   • Novelmint Selects votes now count all five things a reader rates, not just enjoyment.
   • Book pages, chapters, the Timeline, Studio home and the Publish page all load faster, and signed-in readers no longer see the series bar pop in.
   • Book cards only show a star rating once a book has three ratings, and show how many there are.
   • The home page loads much lighter character portraits, and its stats match the About page.
   • The site stats bar now shows on phones too, as one slim line you can swipe.

   Fixed

   • A book's language is now taken from its prose, so an English book is listed as English and chapters are never offered a translation into the language they're already in.
   • Chapter headings no longer repeat "Chapter 1: Chapter 1", and "Part I" style section breaks in an imported manuscript no longer become chapters.
   • Covers larger than 4.5 MB now upload, and a cover you upload yourself no longer gets a second title printed across it.
   • A book's star average counts readers only, and free chapters, chapter 1 included, can be rated and reviewed again.
   • A mature book only asks for an age check on the chapters that are actually mature, so a clean first chapter opens straight away.
   • Changing your pen name's web address keeps your old author page link working, and your books stay enterable in Novelmint Selects.
   • Readers can now see when narration or a translation they funded is being made.
   • Flags, tinted panels and charts now show as designed on every device, including Windows.

9. Week of September 14, 2026

   A busy week for finishing and sharing books: release a whole book at once, start a new book from inside the Studio, and a book page that shows much more about the story and its author.

   Added

   • Publish all chapters releases every finished chapter of a book in one step, from the Studio, Minty or the Claude connector.
   • Start a new book from inside the Studio: pick a series, set the story shape, add working titles and land on the Timeline.
   • A Studio / Series / Book menu with a breadcrumb switcher, and Minty introduces herself at each level and carries your chat between them.
   • New chapters offer Start writing, which opens the whole-chapter prose editor straight away.
   • Books with no narrator can now be listened to in the house voice.
   • The book page now shows its author, its story shape and the other books in its series, and the series page gets the same header with stats of its own.
   • The About page is live, and the FAQ answers questions about AI use, pen names and privacy.

   Changed

   • Account and Import are now tabs in the Studio, and the Studio, Series and Book headers each have their own color and icon.
   • A series takes one card on discovery shelves instead of one per book, and the Series shelf now lists only stories with two or more books.
   • On wide screens the book page puts the cast beside the book, and language options sit with the chapters.
   • "Clear match" on the books shelf becomes Customize, and home page row titles link to their full shelves.
   • The reader bio is translated into every site language, and My Info is relabeled My Reader Info.
   • Library shelves and book covers load much faster.
   • A book with no story profile yet shows an empty story shape instead of a gap, and books with no chapters no longer lead New releases.

   Fixed

   • A book with one Adult chapter stays readable, with only that chapter locked.
   • Imported chapters no longer tell readers they are drafts.
   • Imported books make their chapters readable from every publish button.
   • A book with nothing to read yet no longer shows a Read Chapter 1 button.
   • The Partner Dashboard link in the menu opens the dashboard.

10. Week of September 7, 2026

    Accounts got clearer about credits, spending and earnings, the library gained subgenre browsing and a "what should I write" page, and the site started to load much faster.

    Added

    • The header credits badge opens a menu with your balances and links to buy, see spending and see earnings.
    • Account > Usage shows where your credits went, by category and purpose.
    • Account > Earn shows where your earnings came from, by source and book, with a twelve-month chart.
    • Subgenre pills on library shelves, like Romantasy, LitRPG and Cozy fantasy, let readers browse by story shape.
    • The /wanted page shows which kinds of stories readers want and the library is short on.
    • A public promotion log at /promotions lists every place Novelmint has featured an author's work.
    • Book pages have a Share button with a ready-to-post message for authors and readers.
    • A full site footer with a weekly new-books email signup, and a "List your book" link in the library header.

    Changed

    • New authors now start with 1,000 Studio credits instead of 200.
    • The home page and library pages load much faster, and the header no longer flashes on load.
    • The site handled over a million requests in two days with 99.98% served successfully, and about 2,300 pages now load ready-made from a global network.
    • Studio home and the whole Account section are now translated into every site language.
    • The story shape badge on book cards is easier to read.

    Fixed

    • The pricing page shows its dollar amounts correctly.
    • New authors with credits can start generating right away.
    • Unlimited subscribers can see their balance and their spending.
    • A build that your balance can't cover now tells you before it starts.

11. Week of August 31, 2026

    A big week for readers and for getting help: Reader Lists, new shelves for new and free books, a proper support page, and a country-by-country guide to where Novelmint works. New accounts also get separate starter credits for writing and for reading.

    Added

    • Reader Lists: make a named, hand-ordered list of books and authors, add a note to each, and let other readers favorite it. "Add to list" sits beside Favorite and Follow, and each list shows a story-profile radar.
    • A New Releases page lists the whole library by publication date, grouped into this week, earlier this month, and before that.
    • A Free to Read page gathers books their authors have opened up entirely, with books that are free for a limited time listed first.
    • Authors can switch a published book's promotion on or off with a new Promoted toggle beside Public and Free.
    • A Support page, reachable without signing in, points you to the Help assistant and FAQ first and then to a contact form.
    • A Countries page shows, for every country, whether you can buy credits, publish, and withdraw earnings, and in which currency.
    • A new page for published authors explains how to bring an existing backlist to Novelmint, and the earnings calculator page runs the full calculator.
    • Companies, not only individuals, can add a payout method and enter the company details their contract needs.

    Changed

    • New accounts now start with 200 credits for writing in the Studio and 20 for reading in the library.
    • Your credit balance shows your starter gift beside the total, matched to where you are on the site.
    • The Earn page picks your payout country from a list and shows only the payout methods and fees that apply to it.
    • Partner commissions follow the same payout threshold authors choose for themselves.
    • The header stats bar now counts site visits this week and total members.
    • Comparison pages show the date their details were last checked.
    • The Terms now bring in the site policies they refer to.

    Fixed

    • Reader profile pages open for everyone, signed in or not.
    • Book exports include every imported chapter.
    • Manuscripts in six more languages keep their language when imported.
    • Short links and referral links open the right page.
    • Every author's byline shows their pen name.
    • The free-until date on a published book shows its saved value.

12. Week of August 24, 2026

    A week of trust and clarity: account deletion and the Terms now say and do exactly what they should, bundle prices only cover chapters you can read, a new About page explains who is behind Novelmint, and partners got a dashboard and a published agreement.

    Added

    • An About page explains what Novelmint is for, what it believes about authorship, and who builds it.
    • A partner dashboard walks a new partner through setup, and shows their API tokens, books and earnings book by book.
    • The standard partner agreement is published at /partners/agreement, so a partner can read the terms before applying.

    Changed

    • Unlocking a whole book now only prices and sells chapters that are already published and readable.
    • The Terms now explain plainly what deleting your account and unlocking a chapter actually do.
    • Deleting your account now also removes the covers, avatars and pictures you uploaded.

    Fixed

    • Account deletion completes, and its confirm button accepts DELETE typed on a phone keyboard.
    • Readers can translate any published chapter straight from the reading page.
    • Readers always see the author's published text for a chapter, wherever they open it.
    • A translated chapter reads left to right in the right font when the original book is in a right-to-left language.

13. Week of August 17, 2026

    The library got easier to browse, with genre shelves on the homepage, a simpler Browse menu and more genres, while chapter builds now show exactly what they are doing as they run.

    Added

    • Chapter builds show live progress: which phase is running, each step as it happens, and an estimate of the time left, in the Studio, in Minty and through the Claude connector.
    • The homepage now has Romance, Fantasy and Sci-Fi shelves, each showing its four most-read books with a See all link.
    • Literary, Adventure, Young Adult and Paranormal are now browsable genres with their own pages.
    • Eleven new genre writing guides, from horror and historical fiction to space opera and dystopian.
    • The Readers page now leads with the books readers have favorited most.
    • Library pages carry quick links to each other beside the page heading.

    Changed

    • Browse is now one menu covering Staff Picks, Books, Series, Authors, Readers and Competitions.
    • Books matched to your story profile now appear in their own section, ahead of similar popular books.
    • Genre pages now describe what each genre is like to read, and a broad genre includes its sub-genres.
    • The homepage character strip draws from the most-read books.
    • The header stats bar now shows readers this week, free stories and new chapters this month, and hides on phones.
    • The Build button shows "Included" when your subscription covers the build, and the progress card shows the price quoted at the start.
    • Minty replies in your language, and new series created through the Claude connector start in your preferred language.

    Fixed

    • Large chapters finish planning instead of stopping partway.
    • A single failed beat save no longer holds up the edits after it, and any unsaved edits are flagged.
    • Deleting the last beat in a chapter keeps you in the Timeline.
    • Editing passes keep prose in the language it was written in.
    • Chapters pasted into Minty import correctly.

14. Week of August 10, 2026

    The partner program launched, so publishers and agencies can put their writers' books on Novelmint through an API. The Timeline and chapter building also got a round of reliability work, with cleaner handling of prologues, epilogues and imported chapters.

    Added

    • Every chapter card on the Timeline has a kind picker, so an imported chapter can become a prologue, epilogue or front matter in one click and the book renumbers around it.
    • Minty and the Claude connector can now change a chapter into a prologue or epilogue too.
    • Comments on chapters that pitch outside services are screened before they post, so authors no longer have to weed them out.
    • The partner program at /partners lets publishers and agencies publish their writers' books on Novelmint.
    • The Publish API lets a partner create a book, add chapters and a cover, and publish, through the same checks as the Studio. Its full reference is public at /partners/api.
    • A partner can only publish for a writer after the writer confirms on Novelmint, and the writer gets an email listing what was sent for them.
    • Books published through a partner credit that partner, and writers can name the publisher they work with.
    • Partners can upload a backlist's chapters in any order, and each lands in its right place.

    Changed

    • Prologues and epilogues open in the prose editor, and labels show "Prologue" and "Epilogue" instead of chapter numbers.
    • Downloaded manuscripts title prologues and epilogues by name.
    • Blog now sits under Resources in the site menu, and Your Privacy Choices is part of the Privacy Policy page.

    Fixed

    • Adding, deleting or reordering chapters keeps prologues, main chapters and epilogues in the right order.
    • Imported chapters that have no beats yet now show on the Timeline, with Add chapter available.
    • Long, complex chapters now finish building instead of timing out during planning.
    • Content Review now returns a rating on every chapter, including long imported ones.
    • An import that fails now says so, instead of waiting forever.
    • Readers who have already rated a chapter now see their own rating and comment when they return.
    • Very large series now load completely on the Timeline and character pages.

15. Week of August 3, 2026

    Narration got easier to set up and better to listen to, fan fiction became something you can declare and keep private, and import gained a file drop for reference documents.

    Added

    • You can mark a series as fan fiction from its card; it stays a private manuscript you can still write, edit, translate, narrate and export.
    • Minty records the fan-fiction choice when you make it in chat, instead of just noting it in conversation.
    • Reference documents can be created from a file: drop one in and it opens as a new document with the text already filled in.
    • Suggest from bible drafts a character's narrator voice description from what you already wrote about how they sound.
    • An Update audio button appears after you republish a chapter, so narration can catch up with your edits.

    Changed

    • The voice picker opens on Custom voices, where you describe the narrator you have in mind, and its filters now fold away until you need them.
    • Narration pacing, pauses and number reading sound more natural.
    • Narration now uses each scene's context from the new chapter engine, so delivery fits the moment.
    • The originality statement for fan-fiction checks is asked once per series instead of once per chapter.
    • The Timeline chapter card menu is simpler.

    Fixed

    • Text you are typing into a beat no longer jumps back mid-sentence.
    • A chapter build that stops partway now shows as failed with a way to retry, instead of looking stuck.
    • Old links to a book keep working after its title or pen name changes.
    • Blog posts now open correctly when you click through from the blog list.

16. Week of July 27, 2026

    Audio narration returned with a new voice engine and a way for readers to fund it, the Claude connector was rebuilt around guided skills, and authors can now start over by deleting a book or series.

    Added

    • Audio narration is back on a new voice engine, with hundreds of voices to audition on each character's Audio tab.
    • Voice design lets you describe a narrator in plain words and hear it before keeping it.
    • Readers can pay once to have a chapter narrated when the author has cast a narrator, and then it is there for every listener.
    • Every plan now includes a monthly allowance of discounted chapter narration.
    • You can delete a book or a whole series from the Studio, with a type-the-title confirmation.
    • From Claude, you can now start a brand-new series and bring in a whole story bible in one go.
    • Step-by-step skills guide Claude and other assistants through common jobs like starting a series, drafting a chapter and publishing, and they are readable on the web at /skills.

    Changed

    • The Claude connector has a smaller, clearer set of tools with consistent names, and reaches the rest on demand.
    • The Claude connector now shares the same monthly allowance as Minty instead of a separate time limit.
    • Unlimited now covers cover and character portrait generation.
    • Minty knows which plan you are on and what it includes.
    • Publishing a book now asks for a pen name, blurb and genre first.
    • The Terms and Privacy Policy now name every AI model provider Novelmint uses.

    Fixed

    • Connecting Novelmint to Claude works even when you sign in partway through connecting.
    • Creating a character or place whose name is already taken now gives a clear message over the Claude connector.
    • The Claude connector always reads a chapter's latest finished text.
    • Deleting a book with no published chapters now completes.
    • The Revenue page opens reliably after your session has been idle.
    • High-quality builds of long chapters now finish.

17. Week of July 20, 2026

    Novelmint published its own benchmark of how AI models write fiction, readers gained a way to bring chapters into their language, and Minty learned to work with more models and more kinds of starting material.

    Added

    • A public AI fiction-model benchmark at /benchmarks ranks models on real novel prose across nine craft and content measures, with sortable columns and a page for each model.
    • "Best AI for" pages rank models for dialogue, pacing, romance, action and more, and a picker suggests a model for your kind of book.
    • An interactive guide shows how Novelmint keeps a story consistent when you change an early beat.
    • Readers can fund a translation of any chapter into their language once, and after that it is free for every reader.
    • Chapter 1 of published books is offered free in every reading language.
    • Minty can now run on GPT, Gemini and Grok models as well as Claude, chosen from the model picker.

    Changed

    • Claude Opus 5 now leads the benchmark and the default chapter-writing lineup, with GPT-5.6, Claude Fable 5 and Grok models joining the Build roster.
    • When you paste a full story bible, Minty proposes a plan and confirms it before creating characters, places and threads.
    • On a blank book, Minty gets to know how you like to work before building anything.
    • Minty offers direct prose editing first when you ask to change a passage.
    • Chapter builds run beats in parallel, so chapters finish faster.

    Fixed

    • Your chosen reading background now stays set across reloads and devices.
    • Chapters that switch models partway through now build without errors.

18. Week of July 13, 2026

    A quieter week of polish: a new Book Readiness bar on the Timeline, a choice between updating or replacing a chapter build, and livelier dialogue.

    Added

    • A Book Readiness bar at the top of the Timeline shows how finished your book is, measured against your own content.
    • The readiness bar includes a View published link when the book is live.
    • Build now offers Update, which rewrites only the beats that changed, or Replace, which rewrites them all.
    • Dialogue is now a setting on your series story profile, so dialogue-heavy stories get more of it.
    • Claude Fable 5 joins the Build roster.

    Changed

    • The Timeline flags chapters whose published version is behind your latest prose.
    • Publishing a book also makes its pen name public, so readers can find the author page.
    • Scenes carry over better from one beat to the next, with more consistent sense of place.
    • Minty builds chapters through the chapter engine instead of writing prose directly in chat.
    • Minty and the Claude connector keep to each character's voice setting.

    Fixed

    • Credit amounts display correctly in the build strip.
    • Thread lines on the Timeline keep their colors and end where the thread ends.
    • Minty keeps going on longer tasks instead of stopping partway.
    • The Adult rating now saves correctly on chapters.

19. Week of July 6, 2026

    Chapters now build on a new engine that plans the whole chapter, then writes it beat by beat, and authors got direct control over quality and which AI models write their book.

    Added

    • A new chapter engine plans each chapter as a whole, then writes it beat by beat so any single beat can be rewritten on its own.
    • Story facts now carry across books, so a character who dies in book one stays dead in book three.
    • A quality setting next to the Build button (Low, Medium or High) is remembered per chapter and shows its cost up front.
    • Choose which AI models write your book: a lead model and helpers on the series AI Models tab, with benchmark rankings alongside, or a different model for a single beat.
    • A Relationships map in the Characters section shows your cast as a graph, with type filters and click-to-focus.
    • Each character now has its own Audio tab, and every character speaks in its own voice with one chosen narrator.
    • A new Adult (18+) rating lets authors write explicit manuscripts privately; Adult chapters are not published to readers.
    • The version viewer now shows both the beats and the prose built from them.

    Changed

    • Rebuilding a chapter keeps your hand edits to beats and only rewrites beats that changed.
    • Prose follows your series voice more closely, with fewer repeated tics.
    • The Chapter view uses a full editor with line numbers and Find, and the chapter button is now called Reset to beats, which is free.
    • Content Review rates chapters more accurately and now runs on Claude Sonnet 5.
    • Minty now runs on Claude Sonnet 5.
    • Timeline chapter bars are simpler: expand a chapter to read or edit it.

    Fixed

    • Fix Common Issues now finishes on long chapters.
    • If one model can't write a beat, another takes over instead of the whole chapter failing.

20. Week of June 29, 2026

    Prose became something you can see and shape one beat at a time, right on the Timeline. Series and books also moved into one workspace, and Minty got much easier to use on a phone.

    Added

    • A Beat, Prose and Chapter switch on the Timeline lets you read and edit the prose behind each beat, or the whole chapter at once.
    • You can write or rewrite the prose for a single beat without rebuilding the whole chapter, and Fix Common Issues works one beat at a time.
    • Convert to Beats turns a chapter of existing prose into editable beats.
    • A readiness pill on each chapter shows when its beats are ready to become prose.
    • Prose cards show a live word count as you edit.
    • Minty can walk you through importing a finished book and set up the import for you.
    • A Report an issue button in Minty's panel sends feedback straight to the team.
    • The homepage features characters from popular books and a new link for authors who want to import a book they have already finished.

    Changed

    • Build Chapter now writes a chapter beat by beat, and its cost estimate is based on the beats you have.
    • Series and books share one workspace, with a Series tab in the book menu and a cleaner two-row header.
    • Minty stays open as you move between tabs, so a reply in progress is never cut off.
    • On phones, Minty opens as a sheet over your book instead of taking over the whole screen.
    • The chapter header is tidier, with less-used actions tucked into a menu.

    Fixed

    • Fast edits to a beat now all save, however quickly you type.
    • Using a suggested story summary on the publish page now saves it.
    • Translation works for series with very large story bibles.
    • The Fix pass handles beats that need no changes without showing an error.
    • Signing in partway through an import takes you back to the import.

21. Week of June 22, 2026

    Characters got a proper home in the Studio, and Minty learned to keep track of long conversations and the work still to do on your book.

    Added

    • Each book has a Characters tab with a full character bible editor and a home location for every character.
    • You can generate character portraits, using the same image tools as the rebuilt Cover page.
    • Published characters get public profile pages, and book pages show a Meet the cast strip.
    • A Read button on the Timeline shows your finished prose, all chapters, in one place.
    • Minty keeps a task list above the chat box and ticks items off as she works through your book.
    • You can buy credits without leaving your book.
    • Free accounts get a small daily credit top-up to keep working with Minty.
    • Minty can delete a chapter for you when you ask.

    Changed

    • Minty remembers the key points of long conversations, so she keeps context as a chat grows.
    • Minty's monthly chat allowance is now counted in exchanges, one message and reply each, and is only spent when you send a message.
    • Questions about plans, pricing and how Novelmint works no longer use your Minty allowance.
    • Minty knows your first chapter is free and says so when you ask about cost.
    • The pricing page now shows one-off credit top-ups alongside the monthly plans.
    • Minty opens reference documents for you in place of the old separate AI helper.
    • Suggested book blurbs draw on more of your story, so they fit the book better.
    • The homepage story radar has been refined.

    Fixed

    • Imported books now get their cover images generated reliably.
    • Minty handles cover and portrait requests smoothly from start to finish.

22. Week of June 15, 2026

    A quieter week focused on getting authors paid in more places and making Minty sharper.

    Added

    • Authors in countries our main payout partner can't reach can now be paid by bank transfer through Wise.
    • Readers and authors can pay in more currencies and with more local payment methods.
    • A new guide explains what a story beat is and why beats help a book hold together.
    • A What Minty remembers panel shows the decisions and details Minty is holding on to.

    Changed

    • New accounts now start with 100 free tokens, up from 50.
    • Imports do a better job of matching characters and places that appear under different names.
    • Chapter prose avoids more repetitive stylistic tics.
    • Minty got a round of improvements to how she plans and edits your Timeline.
    • Novelmint Selects entries link straight to the book.

23. Week of June 8, 2026

    Minty arrived: an AI co-author that lives beside your Timeline and builds and edits your book through conversation. Readers also got chapter ratings and a refreshed book page.

    Added

    • Minty, your AI co-author, can build and edit your Timeline through chat, starting from a single idea.
    • Minty has modes for brainstorming, continuity checks, series arcs, world building, help and book covers.
    • Keep several conversations with Minty, rename them, choose the model for each, and attach images. Her replies are nicely formatted.
    • An account Usage page shows your Minty allowance, and a Memory page lets you manage what Minty remembers.
    • Readers now rate chapters, and book pages show the average rating built from them and how many ratings it is based on.
    • Author pages have a Follow button.
    • Novelmint Selects entrants can make their book free for the event, enter by importing a book, and read exactly how voting works.
    • The Claude connector can now create books and chapters, manage covers and export manuscripts.

    Changed

    • You can publish a book once it has one chapter of prose, instead of three.
    • Chapter cost estimates now reflect the AI model you have chosen.
    • The book page has a refreshed layout.
    • Side panels on the Timeline can be resized by dragging.
    • Press Enter to send a message in the chat, and Shift+Enter for a new line.

    Fixed

    • Editing a chapter title on the Timeline is smooth and saves properly.
    • Manuscript downloads work reliably.
    • Series pages show the right chapter count.
    • Chapters with ten or more beats display correctly.

24. Week of June 1, 2026

    Novelmint published a library of free writing guides and tools, and launched Novelmint Selects, a readers' choice competition for books on the platform.

    Added

    • Free writing guides on outlining a novel, beat sheets, filter words and writing fantasy, romance, science fiction, mystery and thriller.
    • Pages for different kinds of writers, from serial-fiction authors to ghostwriters and series writers.
    • Free planning calculators for writers on the Tools page.
    • A searchable, filterable directory of AI writing tools, with a form to submit your own.
    • Pages comparing Novelmint with other writing and reading platforms.
    • Novelmint Selects, a recurring readers' choice competition where winning books join a curated best-of issue.

    Changed

    • The site header has a Resources menu for guides, tools and comparisons.
    • Guides and resource pages are available in every site language.

    Fixed

    • Pages in right-to-left languages now read right to left in every such language, not only Arabic.
    • Book and author names stay in their original form on translated pages.

25. Week of May 25, 2026

    The Studio got built-in help on every page and quick actions on the Timeline, and subscribers now get proper email receipts.

    Added

    • A guide panel on every Studio page explains what the page is for, with jump links to each section.
    • Quick actions on the Timeline let you add beats and characters and approve suggested entries in a click.
    • The help chat remembers your conversation as you move around the Studio.
    • Email receipts when a subscription starts or renews, plus a notice if a payment fails or a plan is cancelled.
    • A feedback page where you can tell us what's working and what isn't.

    Changed

    • The Timeline has a new header bar with its main actions in one place.
    • Build Chapter keeps its pages in sync and tracks each step more reliably.
    • The Build Chapter cost estimate has been updated.

    Fixed

    • Chapter builds finish cleanly instead of falling back too early.
    • Staying signed in works properly when your session refreshes.

26. Week of May 18, 2026

    Six more site languages, a Help assistant inside the Studio, and a round of Timeline polish, plus an earnings calculator so authors can see what a book could earn.

    Added

    • The site now speaks Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese and Persian, with a language switcher in reader settings.
    • An earnings calculator on the homepage shows what a book could earn at different audience sizes.
    • A Help assistant in the Studio answers questions about how Novelmint works.
    • Chapters can be marked as a prologue or epilogue.
    • Books and series can be archived to tidy up the Studio.
    • A pen name picker lets authors with more than one pen name choose which one a series appears under.
    • The Timeline now updates live while a build or import is running.

    Changed

    • The beat Suggest button now also proposes subtext, emotional charge and what goes unsaid.
    • Larger manuscripts can now be imported in one go.
    • Audiobook narration is now 300 credits to generate a chapter and 75 credits for a listener to unlock it.
    • Reference documents are now called the Bible, and a series no longer needs one before building.
    • AI buttons on the Timeline have clearer names, and the AI assistant's scope follows what you are looking at.
    • The Studio series list, header bar and reference document pages have a cleaner layout with less scrolling.

    Fixed

    • The Timeline refreshes by itself when an import finishes.
    • Signing in returns you to the page you started from.
    • Author pen names show correctly on their books.
    • Beats can be dropped between chapters reliably.

27. Week of May 11, 2026

    Novelmint can now be connected to Claude, new subscription plans arrived, and authors can invite friends through a referral program.

    Added

    • Connect Novelmint to Claude and work on your series from a Claude chat.
    • New subscription plans, including an Unlimited plan for prolific authors.
    • A referral program: share your link from your account and earn a share when the people you bring in read.
    • Beats can carry subtext, emotional charge and character changes that guide how a chapter is written.
    • A first manuscript import can be covered by a free import gift.
    • Authors can choose the payout threshold for their earnings.

    Changed

    • Signing in now takes authors straight to a redesigned Studio.
    • Book pages have a Timeline and Pipeline switch.
    • An empty Timeline now offers clear ways to get started.
    • Importing a manuscript costs less.
    • Pricing cards have clearer descriptions of each plan.

    Fixed

    • Older book links take you to the right place.
    • Imports handle more manuscript layouts correctly.
    • Navigation and the header bar behave consistently across the Studio.

28. Week of May 4, 2026

    Starting a new book moved onto the Timeline, the first chapter build became free, and authors got series-wide find and replace.

    Added

    • Your first chapter build is free.
    • Find and replace across a whole series, with an option to have the AI rewrite each match to fit.
    • Download your book as a manuscript from the Timeline.
    • Imported manuscripts land straight on the Timeline, split into chapters and beats you can edit.
    • A book starter on the Timeline walks you through premise, characters and point of view for a new book.
    • Save and reuse Story Profiles on the start page, and see your Story Profile radar on the series page.
    • A FAQ page answers common questions about writing and reading on Novelmint.
    • Audio and translation controls are now available from the Timeline.

    Changed

    • AI panels show the credit cost before you run them.
    • Chapters can switch point of view within a chapter again.
    • Point of view defaults to the main character.
    • Suggest now builds on whatever you have already typed in the field.
    • A chapter needs a content rating before it can be published, and the rating window opens for you.
    • Sign-in codes are now 6 digits.
    • The homepage has a new tagline and a cleaner layout.

    Fixed

    • Book blurb suggestions are more reliable.
    • Chapters stuck mid-generation now recover.
    • Publishing and unpublishing a chapter from the Timeline works reliably.
    • Saving no longer stalls on a slow connection.

29. Week of April 27, 2026

    The Timeline arrived: a visual editor where a book is laid out as chapters and beats, with story threads woven through them and AI review built in.

    Added

    • The Timeline: see your series, a book or a single chapter as beats you can drag, reorder and edit.
    • Story threads are drawn across the Timeline so you can see where each one starts and ends.
    • AI Review and an AI assistant can look over a chapter, a book, or any range of beats you mark.
    • Characters and places are picked up from your beats automatically and linked to the right chapters.
    • Build a chapter straight from its beats with one button, and view and compare earlier drafts in its version history.
    • Set a chapter's content rating, public or private status and lock from the Timeline.
    • Upload your own book cover and edit the story summary from the book's Timeline.
    • Imported manuscripts now come with a book outline.

    Changed

    • The Timeline works on phones, with tap-and-hold menus and move up and down controls.
    • The final step of the start wizard is clearer.

    Fixed

    • Sign-in codes are accepted reliably.

30. Week of April 20, 2026

    Authors can now import a book they have already written, and the reader side became fully multilingual, down to book blurbs.

    Added

    • Import an existing manuscript into Novelmint, with a cost preview before you start.
    • Book blurbs and author pages are translated automatically into the reader's language.
    • A dedicated series page on the reader site.
    • A form for rights holders to submit a DMCA notice.
    • Reorder the books within a series.
    • The chapter reader tells you when a chapter is not yet available in your language.

    Changed

    • The book page has a refreshed layout.
    • Account pages, the cover art page and the reader are translated into every site language.
    • Browse pages on the reader site are paginated.
    • Series cards show more at a glance.
    • Chapter translation runs in the background, so long chapters finish reliably.
    • Imported books get a voice analysis so new chapters match the original style.
    • The homepage shows book covers.

    Fixed

    • Retranslating a chapter works as expected.
    • Unlocking every chapter of a book at once works correctly.

31. Week of April 13, 2026

    Novelmint went multilingual across the whole site, and audiobook voices got a proper picker with previews.

    Added

    • The whole site is available in 15 languages, each with its own web address, plus a language switcher in the header.
    • Series and books have their own language setting.
    • A voice picker for audiobooks with play buttons to preview and favorite voices.
    • Continue a series into its next book from where the last one ended.
    • Readers can save their reading profile from the homepage radar and take a short reader quiz.
    • Write your own prompt for cover art.
    • Book pages show which book in the series you are on, with links to the others.
    • The reader site's browse page has new filters.

    Changed

    • Suggest gives better field ideas in the start wizard.
    • Editorial passes on chapters are more precise.
    • Book blurbs keep their line breaks.
    • Book generation runs faster by working on chapters in parallel.

    Fixed

    • Genre labels show correctly.
    • The start wizard handles scrolling and resuming properly.

32. Week of April 6, 2026

    Starting a new series got a guided front door, and the Studio now works on phones. The whole site also got a new look, a new homepage and a simpler menu.

    Added

    • The Series Starter walks you from a blank page to a planned series: pick a depth, shape a story profile on a radar chart, answer three short interviews, and get reference docs and chapter beats written for you.
    • Your story profile now carries through into the prose and editing stages, so the writing matches the shape you chose.
    • A Voice Profile tab on the series lets you set the prose voice your chapters are written in.
    • The Studio and every editor now work on phones and tablets, with slide-out side panels and a mobile menu.
    • Text boxes in the Studio can be resized by dragging.

    Changed

    • The site has a new color scheme, a reworked homepage and an upgraded main menu.
    • Chapter pages on the reader site load faster.
    • Chapter writing avoids more repetitive phrasing and stock prose habits.
    • Guidance for mature-rated content was restructured so chapters land in the right rating.

    Fixed

    • Long chapter narrations now play all the way through.
    • The story outline editor tabs switch correctly.
    • Editors scroll properly on every screen size.
    • Open in Studio links take you to the right page.

33. Week of March 30, 2026

    A big week for readers and for getting the word out: age ratings, a Promote stage for social posts, better audio, new subscription plans, and the Novelmint blog.

    Added

    • New monthly plans for readers and authors, plus simple credit top-ups at $1 for 100 credits.
    • A Promote stage after Publish writes ready-to-post social copy for X, Bluesky, Threads, Discord and Reddit.
    • Books now carry age ratings (G, PG, M), set at publish time with an AI content review, and readers confirm their age before mature books.
    • Readers can report a book or chapter with a reason from the book page or the chapter reader.
    • Locked chapters now show a teaser so readers can sample before unlocking.
    • Read-along audio: click any word to jump there, give characters their own voices, and keep listening from the lock screen.
    • A sticky chapter bar in the reader lets you move between chapters or open the chapter list.
    • Author pages show social links and a pinned book, and authors get a full in-app guide.

    Changed

    • Translations run in the background, so long chapters finish reliably.
    • The reader has one navigation control instead of two, and a speaker icon marks chapters with audio.
    • Series pages now list books as a tab alongside the other series sections.
    • Content warning tags are suggested automatically from the chapter review.
    • The homepage now highlights languages and audio narration.
    • You can opt out of marketing emails in your settings.
    • Mature books stay visible in browse and ask for age confirmation when opened.

    Fixed

    • Quotation marks display correctly in every language.
    • Uploaded covers display reliably across the site.
    • Audio generation and playback are steadier, with better buffering.

34. Week of March 23, 2026

    Books can now be read in other languages and listened to as audiobooks. Editing got sharper, and new readers and authors start with free credits.

    Added

    • Authors can translate chapters, and readers pick their language from a selector on the book and chapter pages.
    • Audio narration: authors generate narrated chapters and readers listen in the reader with read-along highlighting.
    • Full Cast narration detects the characters in your series and gives each one a voice, with voice samples to audition.
    • Authors can make a published book free to read with one switch.
    • New readers get 50 free credits at sign-up, and new authors get 500 when they split their first draft into chapters.
    • An Implement Suggested Changes button turns the chapter review's priorities into edits.
    • A stop button halts audio generation mid-run.

    Changed

    • The editing pass now changes only the sentences that need it and leaves the rest of your prose untouched.
    • Chapter prose follows stronger craft guidance: concrete detail, committed statements and interiority shown through action.
    • The Finalize step handles long chapters in pieces so it finishes without timing out.
    • The book page and the buy credits page have cleaner layouts, and subscriptions are easier to compare.
    • Star ratings on books update the moment a reader rates.
    • Email notifications were refreshed.

    Fixed

    • Word counts and version numbers show correctly in the editors.
    • Publishing warns you when a newer draft exists than the one you are about to publish.

35. Week of March 16, 2026

    Novelmint started paying authors and talking to users: cash-out for earnings, notifications by bell and email, and a friendlier Studio with help built in.

    Added

    • Authors can cash out earnings to their bank or convert them to credits, with earnings becoming available 30 days after they're earned.
    • A notification bell tells you about new followers, unlocks, ratings and new chapters from stories you follow, with matching emails you can switch on or off.
    • Sign in with a magic link from your email, and turn on two-factor authentication.
    • Help guides are built into the Studio and every editor, and run buttons show a cost estimate before you start.
    • Author profiles show publishing cadence, reader satisfaction and completion rate once there's enough data.
    • The reader has a sepia theme, and chapters show how many times they've been read.
    • Books and chapters share with a proper preview image on social media.
    • Spell check in all the writing editors, and a warning if you publish chapters out of order.

    Changed

    • Your library and follows were reworked for easier tracking of what you're reading.
    • Account settings were reorganized, and the logo is sharper.
    • Long lists on the reader site now page instead of loading all at once.

    Fixed

    • Prose writing now uses only the reference docs you selected for that chapter.
    • Guest checkout for credits completes correctly.

36. Week of March 9, 2026

    The reader side opened: a public library where anyone can browse, read and unlock chapters, with credits and subscriptions to pay for them. Authors also got Cover Studio for AI book covers.

    Added

    • A public library where readers browse books, series and authors with filters, read chapters and unlock more with credits. Chapter 1 is free, and a whole book can be unlocked at once.
    • Buy credits or subscribe with a card, and see your balance in the header.
    • Readers can rate books with stars, rate chapters, follow stories and authors, and pick their font, size and line spacing.
    • Pen names: publish under author personas with their own avatar, slug and bio.
    • Cover Studio generates AI book covers from your reference docs and adds your title and name in real fonts.
    • Write in 15 languages, with the reader adapting fonts and right-to-left text.
    • AI Assist, story review and editorial review stages in the Studio, with a choice of AI model per series and Suggest buttons that draft descriptions and bios.
    • A feedback dashboard shows authors what readers are saying about each chapter.

    Changed

    • AI stages now run on Novelmint credits, so you no longer need your own API key.
    • Long generations that hit a time limit can be continued from where they stopped.
    • Reference docs can be managed from the chapter editor.
    • A full design refresh across the Studio and the reader site.

    Fixed

    • Sign-in and cover images load reliably.

37. Week of March 2, 2026

    Novelmint's first version went up on March 7: a private writing studio where you plan a book as a sequence of chapters and beats and have AI review it chapter by chapter.

    Added

    • Create an account, then create series and books with uploaded covers.
    • The Sequence Draft editor for outlining a whole book, with an AI review that checks it chapter by chapter.
    • Separate the draft into chapters, then review, edit, re-run and approve each chapter on its own.
    • Voice modes set the prose style for a series, with a standard set to start from.
    • A code-style editor with line numbers and highlighted Beat and Mode Shift lines, plus buttons to insert them.
    • Reference documents for your world and characters, attachable to individual chapters or to all at once.

    Changed

    • Review results save and refresh in place without reloading the page.

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