What we owe you, and what you owe us.
This is the summary. It's written to be read, and it's the same set of promises your contract makes in longer words. Where the two differ, the contract governs.
Twelve sessions, eight prompts each — typed, or spoken on a call with Athena. Every word in your book starts as something you said.
Your answers become an Intelligence Package for each chapter: the thesis, the story, your framework, the phrases to keep exactly as you said them.
A first draft is generated from that package and your voiceprint. It uses only material you gave us — no invented facts, quotes or people.
BookLore editors work the draft line by line. On Signature and Legacy a named senior writer writes the chapters themselves.
Before it reaches you, the manuscript goes through an AI consistency check for contradictions, timeline errors, repeated phrasing and unverified claims — the mistakes people make when they've read something forty times.
Nothing goes to print until you've read it and said so.
What you own
You own your material and your finished manuscript. On final payment we assign you every right we hold in the words we produce for you, worldwide and in perpetuity, and we take no royalty.
Your canon
Every finished book is indexed into a canon that belongs to you. It is included, it is exportable, and there is no subscription — we will never charge you to keep your own words.
AI, honestly
Parts of your draft are produced with AI assistance. In the United States and some other countries, purely AI-generated text may not be protected by copyright on its own — what is protected is your own material and the human authorship in the finished book. Every BookLore book receives substantial human editorial work, and we give you a written production record so you or your attorney can register it accurately.
Declaring it when you publish
Amazon KDP and some other retailers ask you to declare AI-assisted content when you upload. We hand you a one-page statement describing exactly how your book was made, so you can answer that question truthfully in about a minute.
Stopping
Stop whenever you want. You pay only for the chapters you've locked, at the by-chapter rate, and everything else is refunded within 10 business days.
Time
You have 12 months to finish your sessions, and you can pause once for up to 6 months at no cost. Ask for more time and we'll almost always say yes. Timelines are measured from the day you lock your final chapter, not from purchase — your pace sets the clock.
If we're late
If we miss an agreed delivery date by more than 30 days for reasons on our side, your next revision round is free.
Revisions
Two rounds on Guided, three on Signature, five on Legacy. Additional rounds are $395 each, with no limit on how many you can buy.
People in your book
You confirm before each chapter locks that you have the right to tell the stories in it. Anything our review flags goes to a person before it reaches print. We are not a law firm and nothing here is legal advice.
Voice sessions
Guided includes two 30-minute voice sessions with Athena — the first runs your Anchor Conversation, the second is yours to spend on any chapter. Signature and Legacy run every session by voice. Calls are recorded so we can transcribe them, you confirm that verbally at the start, and the audio is deleted once the transcript is saved unless you ask us to keep it.
What Athena won't do
Athena never discusses plans, prices or upgrades on a call. If an upgrade makes sense we show you the numbers in your dashboard afterwards and you decide in your own time.
Your data
Your sessions are yours. Export everything you've written at any time, and ask us to delete your account and its contents whenever you want — we action deletion within 30 days and keep only what tax law requires us to keep.
Discretion
We don't publish your name as a client, use your book in marketing, or share your sessions with anyone outside the team working on your book, unless you ask us to.
We don't promise sales, rankings, reviews, media coverage or that a retailer will accept your book. We don't promise your manuscript will be accepted by a traditional publisher. We don't give legal, tax or financial advice. And we don't promise a specific word count before we've seen your material — we promise a finished book we'd both put our names to.