How to Work on More Than One Book in the Writing Studio

Use the My Books tab to see every manuscript, or the book dropdown at the top of the Chapters panel to switch. Each book has its own card and downloads.

You can have multiple manuscripts in the Writing Studio at once, one per book project. Switch with the manuscript dropdown at the top of the Chapters panel, or open the My Books tab to see them all.

How do I switch to another book?

Click the manuscript name dropdown at the top of the Chapters panel. It shows the current book title. Select any other manuscript from the list. Or click the My Books tab to see all your projects.

The same dropdown also offers + Create New Book, so you can start a book without leaving the Writing Studio.

What is in the My Books tab?

Each manuscript is shown as its own card. A card has:

• ✦PDF and ePub download.
• ✦Writing Studio, which opens the book for editing.
• ✦Audiobook, which opens the Audiobooks tab for that book.
• ✦A golden Translations button.
• ✦Delete.

PDF and ePub downloads and word counts read the latest saved manuscript sections. If a save fails, resolve the save error before exporting.

What do the three buttons at the top do?

Three buttons at the top of My Books start a new book, and each does something different:

• ✦+ Import External Book: for a book you already wrote elsewhere (Word or ePub). It opens the Import Book tab.
• ✦+ Create New Book: a genuinely blank book, starting from nothing. It asks for a working title, author name and language before creating it.
• ✦+ Pull Latest Outline: pulls in the most recent output from your Chapter Detail Generator (Step 3 · BUILD) as a ready-to-write outline. If you have more than one project set up (My Projects), clicking it opens a dropdown so you pick which project's outline to pull. This matters when you are working on more than one book at once. If you have no projects yet, the dropdown shows "No projects yet."

Why does it ask me to choose a storage platform?

The very first time you click + Create New Book or + Import External Book, anywhere in the app, you are shown a "Choose your storage platform" screen (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or Save to This Computer) before you can proceed. Connecting your own storage means a real backup copy of your book lives somewhere that is genuinely yours, not just inside this app. It is a one-time connection. Once it is done, it is remembered for every future new or imported book anywhere in the app.

If you close that window with the × instead of connecting one, that action is cancelled. No book is created, and you would click + Create New Book (or Import) again and connect a provider. A book you already have open keeps autosaving no matter what. See How do I connect cloud storage?.

How do I start a new book from a new outline without losing my current one?

Create a new manuscript first with + Create New Book under My Books, and then pull or paste the outline into that new, empty book.

Inside the Writing Studio, if the current book has no outline yet, Pull latest outline fetches your most recent Chapter Detail Generator result and applies it, and Paste outline lets you paste one in manually. Both are in the Chapters panel. The Writing Studio never applies a new outline in the background.

Is this the same as Projects?

No. A Project (the My Projects page, with your generator outputs) and a manuscript in the Writing Studio's My Books are two independent systems that are not linked to each other. Creating a project does not create a manuscript, and switching projects does not switch which manuscript is open in the Writing Studio, or the other way around. See Projects and books: what is the difference?.

Not sure where to start? The Course Coach inside the app guides you through each step, so you are never stuck on a button.

Last checked in the app: October 14, 2026.