AI tools to make authors' lives easier — from first idea to launch
Authors Starport is a full-service station of romance author tools — market recon before you write a word, objective scoring, developmental critique, scene maps, style sheets, hundreds of precise line edits, and a one-click Go For Launch that runs the whole climb. Thriller authors get the flagship passes too: The Autopsy, the Ghost Hangar rebuild, the AI-Tell Cleaner and the full Go For Launch edit, for single books or a whole series. One account, pay-as-you-go, results in minutes.
Romance author tools — one account, every tool your book needs.
Each one a real diagnostic or edit for your manuscript — romance across the board, and the flagship passes (The Autopsy, Go For Launch, the Ghost Hangar, the AI-Tell Cleaner) run thrillers too. Click any tool to see how it works.
Market recon before you write a word
Pre-Flight Check
Nine craft measurements, one scorecard
Instant Score
The big-picture editorial read
Developmental Critique
Your author voice, measured
Style Sheet
Will it sell?
Market Fit
Tighter prose that still sounds like you
Line Editor
A full structural teardown
The Autopsy
Every scene scored keep, fix, or cut
Scene Map
A cinematic author site, built from your book
Author Website
Your Amazon blurb, done
The Blurb
Your series, contradiction-free
Continuity Check
Land on the Amazon shelf your readers browse
ShelfSmith
The tells that read machine-made
AI-Tell Cleaner
Every report and a full line edit, bundled
Go For Launch
Author guides
Straight answers to the questions authors ask before paying for editing.
- Book editing services: what they cost and what they actually do
- Professional book editing: what it involves and what it costs
- Book editing: the four types, what they cost, and the order they go in
- How much does a developmental edit cost in 2026?
- Is my book ready for beta readers? The 10-point checklist
- What does a line edit actually fix? (With examples)
- How much does proofreading cost per word in 2026?
- How much does a line edit cost in 2026?
- Developmental edit vs. line edit vs. copyedit: what order do edits go in?
- The self-editing checklist to run before you pay an editor
- How to find beta readers for your romance novel
- How to clean up AI-written fiction (the “AI tells” problem)
- How long should a romance novel be? Romance word counts, by subgenre
- How many drafts does a novel need?
- What does a book editor actually do?
- Is my first chapter good enough? How readers judge page one
- How to fix pacing in a romance novel
- Do I need a prologue? An honest decision guide
- What is line editing? A complete guide
- Dialogue tags list: alternatives to 'said'
- Developmental editing services, explained
- What is a manuscript evaluation?
- What is an alpha reader? Alpha vs. beta readers
- AutoCrit review: what it does, and the alternatives
- Book editing software for novelists in 2026
- Looking for a ProWritingAid alternative?
- Looking for a Fictionary alternative?
- A free manuscript checker that reads for story
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