What's new
What changed on Novelmint for readers and authors, week by week, newest first.
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.
- Image guidelines now sit beside every place you upload a cover, portrait or profile picture.
Changed
- The library's book shelf is now the front page of the reader site, and the Browse menu leads with Books.
- 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.
Fixed
- A book's language is now taken from its prose, so an English book written in a Japanese interface 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.
- 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: it forwards to the new one.
- The Publish panel tells you how many finished chapters are ready to release when you list a book.
- Readers can now see when narration or a translation they funded is being made.
- A renamed pen name keeps its books enterable in Novelmint Selects, and an entered book no longer shows a "not published yet" message.
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.
- The site now serves around 720,000 requests a day, nearly all straight from cache.
- New sign-ups are checked for bots.
- 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.
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.
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.
- An "Add to list" button sits beside Favorite on every book page and beside Follow on every author page, and your lists live under the Browse menu.
- Each list page shows a story-profile radar for every book plus one for the list as a whole.
- 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, and it now appears in the Resources menu.
- 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.
- The author earnings calculator tool page now runs the full calculator from the homepage.
- Companies, not only individuals, can add a payout method, so a partner business can be paid.
- Partners can enter the company details their contract needs from the dashboard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- You can pick which AI model writes an individual beat.
- The series AI Models tab lets you choose a lead model and which others join the Build, with benchmark rankings alongside.
- 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.
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.
- Fix Common Issues now works on 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 has a new link for authors who want to import a book they have already finished.
- The homepage features characters from popular books.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- You can keep several conversations with Minty, switch between them, rename them and choose the model for each.
- You can attach images to a Minty chat, and 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 a book's rating is built from its chapter ratings.
- Book pages show the average rating 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.
- A friendlier page-not-found screen points you back to something to read.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Your Story Profile radar now appears on the series page.
- Save and reuse Story Profiles on the start 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.
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.
- Chapter version history lets you view and compare earlier drafts.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- In read-along audio, click any word to jump the narration to that spot.
- Characters can each have their own narration voice, and audio keeps playing 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.
- A full in-app guide for authors, and a sign-in code you can type on any device from the login email.
- The Novelmint blog launched, and editors gained a version history panel.
- The AI Assist panel has a References tab so you can choose which reference docs it reads.
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.
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.
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.
- The publish screen warns you if you publish chapters out of order.
- Spell check in all the writing editors.
- A new-draft example shows first-time authors what a finished outline looks like.
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.
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 readers can unlock a whole book 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.
- Content warnings can be set per chapter and are shown to readers before they start.
- AI Assist, story review and editorial review stages in the Studio, with a choice of AI model per series.
- Suggest buttons draft a series description, book summary or author bio for you.
- A feedback dashboard shows authors what readers are saying about each chapter.
- A Usage page shows your credit spend by stage and by book, and you can delete your account and data yourself.
- The first Novelmint homepage.
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.
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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