For nonfiction authors
A good nonfiction book makes one argument and keeps making it, chapter by chapter. NovelGPT is an AI nonfiction book writer that plans each chapter around its purpose, keeps your research notes close and drafts in your voice while you stay in charge of the facts.
No sign-up. 1,000 free credits every month.
Pick Self-Help, Business/Leadership, Popular Science, Narrative Nonfiction, History or True Crime. The genre sets the typical point of view, tense and length, such as second person, present tense and about 50,000 words for self-help.
Describe the book in a sentence and NovelGPT proposes a title, readers, tone and a big question. Edit them until they say what the book is for.
Give every chapter a purpose, the claim it proves, and beats for the evidence and examples. Drag chapters into order and the numbers follow.
Add notes with a source and a reliability badge, then link them to the chapters that use them.
Draft a chapter at a time with the AI or by hand, then run the edit passes for structure, pacing, prose and copy edit. Export when the manuscript is ready.
Fiction runs on a plot, but nonfiction runs on a question that each chapter helps to answer. For memoir and other nonfiction, NovelGPT's planning step builds around a thematic arc instead of a run of plot twists, and the Chapter plan holds a purpose and a list of beats for every chapter. Write the claim the chapter proves as its purpose, and the evidence, case study and example as beats, so the AI drafts from your plan.
The Book map shows every chapter on one page, and Suggest a new chapter order proposes moves, merges and splits with a reason for each, which helps when a middle chapter belongs earlier. You tick the ones you want, and applying them is one step with Undo.
An AI self-help book writer has to speak to the reader, so Self-Help and Business/Leadership default to second person and present tense, typically at about 50,000 and 55,000 words. Popular science typically runs to about 75,000 words in close third person and present tense, while narrative nonfiction, history and true crime run to roughly 85,000 to 90,000 words in past tense. Every one of these is a setting you can change, and each goes into every AI suggestion.
Evidence is where the AI needs the most care. It writes from what you give it and from its training, so it can be wrong. Keep a research note for each source, mark a note verified only after you have checked it yourself, and treat any figure or quotation in a draft as unconfirmed until you have seen the original. The people in a true crime or history book are real, and the acceptable-use rules rule out defamation and revealing private information about identifiable people.
As an AI nonfiction book writer, NovelGPT drafts one chapter at a time. It streams the chapter from your plan while you watch, you can stop it at any point, and every result is a suggestion to accept or reject. Rewrite, expand and polish tools tighten a paragraph or a whole chapter, and nine edit passes cover structure, pacing, prose, copy edit and genre in turn.
Book parts offers an introduction, preface, author's note, glossary, reading guide and bibliography, and the cover designer makes a cover sized for the stores. Export to EPUB, DOCX in standard manuscript format, PDF, Markdown or plain text. You own every word, including what the AI writes, and your writing is never used to train AI.
Pick a genre and subgenre in your Story setup, and every suggestion follows their conventions. Change the length, point of view and tense any time.
Default in NovelGPT: about 50,000 words · second person · present tense
Default in NovelGPT: about 55,000 words · second person · present tense
Default in NovelGPT: about 75,000 words · close third person · present tense
Default in NovelGPT: about 90,000 words · close third person · past tense
Default in NovelGPT: about 90,000 words · close third person · past tense
Default in NovelGPT: about 85,000 words · close third person · past tense
In NovelGPT
One sentence becomes a genre, voice, length and a full Story setup you can change.
An outline for every chapter. Drag to reorder; numbers follow.
Structure, pacing, character, tension, scenes, dialogue, prose, copy edit and genre.
EPUB, DOCX manuscript format, PDF, Markdown and plain text.
It can draft chapters from your plan and notes, but it does not know your expertise, and it can state things that are wrong. Supply the argument and the evidence, review every suggestion and check facts before you publish. Nothing changes your book until you accept it.
NovelGPT starts from about 50,000 words for self-help and 55,000 for business and leadership. You can set a different length and chapter count when you set up the book.
Not as a document. The Chapter plan, with a purpose and beats for every chapter, gives you the chapter-by-chapter outline most proposals include, and the big question and readers you set describe who the book is for.
Yes, with no sign-up. Free includes 1,000 credits every month and lets the AI write the first 3 chapters of each book, across up to 3 new books a month. Writing by hand is free as much as you like.
Type your idea. NovelGPT will set up the book, and you write it your way.
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