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 — free
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 Edit
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
Grounded in real manuscripts and real readers — not just an AI read
Every Starport tool — developmental critique, tracked-changes line edit, style sheet, scene map, instant score — is judged against what real readers respond to. Counted from our own databases on 15 September 2026.
- 1,105,457
- hook mentions extracted from real reader reviews
- 178,726
- book blurbs analysed for hook, stakes and tone
- 5,338
- reader personas built from that data
- 74
- manuscripts uploaded here since June 2026
- 214
- completed critiques and edits
- 40
- free Manuscript Scorecards run
Free — no card, no subscription
Two of the tools cost nothing to run, and two complete sample reports are published in full so you can judge the output before you spend anything.
- Free Manuscript Scorecard — nine craft measurements across your whole manuscript, with a grade, a percentile and what to fix first.
- Free First-Chapter Autopsy — three severity-ranked findings on your opening 5,000 words, each quoted from your own prose.
- Sample Pre-Flight Check report — a real, complete report, free to read.
- Sample author website — a finished build from the Author Website tool, live and free to browse.
- The Starport Arcade — four free browser games for authors on a coffee break.
Free tools elsewhere in the estate
Authors Starport is one of four sites Coral Hart Group runs for romance authors. These are free too.
- The 2026 Romance Demand Report — what romance readers are asking for this year, and where the shelf is not answering.
- TropeSmith — Trending — the romance tropes rising and cooling in reader demand this week.
- TropeSmith — Reader Demand — what readers keep asking for that nobody is writing.
- TropeSmith — Category Checker — every Amazon category a book actually ranks in.
- PlotProse — free writing tools — trope-stack, title, pen-name and character-name generators.
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? A clear 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
- AI book editor: what it can really do in 2026
- Looking for a ProWritingAid alternative?
- Looking for a Fictionary alternative?
- A free manuscript checker that reads for story
- What is developmental editing? A complete guide
- Looking for an AutoCrit alternative?
- Tools to write a compelling back cover blurb
- Copy editing vs line editing vs proofreading: what each fixes and what it costs
- How to find a book editor (and what it costs)
- What is a manuscript report? What's inside one, and how to read it
- Manuscript analysis: what gets measured, and what it can and can't tell you
- The best text editor for writing a novel: a clear-eyed comparison
- Character arc: what an editor actually checks
- Grammarly alternatives for novelists: the clear-eyed shortlist
- AutoCrit vs ProWritingAid: which is better for fiction?
- ProWritingAid vs Grammarly: which should a novelist use?
- AutoCrit vs Grammarly: different tools, same shelf
- Looking for a Marlowe alternative?
- Rate my writing: what those tools actually measure
- The romance beat sheet: every beat, and what an editor checks at each one
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