Best Self-Publishing Software Compared: An Honest Look at What Actually Gets Books Published The self-publishing software market is booming, which is great for competition and terrible for decision-making. There are tools for writing. Tools for formatting. Tools for cover design. Tools for distribution. Tools for marketing. And a growing category of tools that claim to […]
Print Book Formatting Checklist (2026 Guide) | Storyloft
Print Book Formatting Checklist: Everything to Verify Before You Hit Upload (So You Don’t Hit Your Head on the Desk) I maintain a formatting checklist because I have trust issues — specifically, I don’t trust myself to remember whether I set the gutter to 0.75″ or 0.375″ at 3 AM on a Tuesday. Print book […]
Ebook Formatting Mistakes That Hurt Sales | Storyloft
Ebook Formatting Mistakes That Hurt Sales: The Silent Revenue Killers Most Authors Never Notice Here’s the thing about ebook formatting mistakes: they don’t announce themselves. Your book doesn’t come with a popup that says “hey, your paragraph spacing is inconsistent on Kindle Paperwhite and three readers have already returned it.” You just see the reviews […]
How to Format a Book for Kindle (Step-by-Step 2026) | Storyloft
How to Format a Book for Kindle: The Guide I Wish Existed When I Was Swearing at My Preview File Let me paint you a picture. You’ve written a book. Months — maybe years — of work. You export it, upload it to KDP, hit the preview button, and your beautifully crafted manuscript looks like […]
Best Book Formatting Software for Authors (2026) | Storyloft
Best Book Formatting Software for Authors: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Wasted a Weekend in Word I’m going to save you the experience I had in 2023, which involved a 72,000-word manuscript, Microsoft Word, and the slowly dawning realization that I was trying to perform surgery with a butter knife. Word […]
Risks of Generic AI Writing for Books | Storyloft
Risks of Generic AI Writing for Books: What Happens When You Use the Wrong Tool AI writing tools are everywhere, and most of them work reasonably well for the tasks they were designed for: marketing copy, social media content, email drafts, blog posts. The problem starts when authors use these same tools for book writing […]
How Professional Authors Use AI in 2026 | Storyloft
How Professional Authors Use AI: The Workflows That Actually Work The public conversation about AI and authorship is stuck in a binary: AI is either going to replace writers or it’s a gimmick that “real writers” don’t need. Meanwhile, professional authors — people who publish regularly, earn income from their books, and take craft seriously […]
AI Writing Tools That Preserve Author Voice | Storyloft
AI Writing Tools That Preserve Author Voice: What to Look For and Why It Matters The fastest way to ruin a manuscript with AI is to accept its default output. Not because the prose is bad — it’s usually grammatically flawless. Because it’s voiceless. It sounds like every other AI-generated paragraph on the internet. And […]
Storyloft vs. ChatGPT for Authors: Why a Chatbot Isn’t a Book Writing Tool
Storyloft vs. ChatGPT for Authors: Why a Chatbot Isn’t a Book Writing Tool ChatGPT is the most widely used AI tool in the world, and a significant number of authors have experimented with it for book writing. Some have even claimed to have written entire books with it. On the surface, this makes sense — […]
Storyloft vs Sudowrite — Which Is Better for Authors? | Storyloft
Storyloft vs. Sudowrite: Which AI Writing Tool Actually Serves Book Authors? Sudowrite was one of the first AI writing tools marketed specifically to fiction authors, and it built an early reputation for creative text generation — particularly its “Describe” and “Expand” features that help with sensory detail and scene elaboration. For authors experimenting with AI-assisted […]