Tools for romance authors
Every service the Starport offers, each a real diagnostic or edit for your romance manuscript.
Free — no card, no subscriptionFree
5 of the things here cost nothing to run. Two are real diagnostics on your manuscript, two are complete sample outputs you can read before you spend anything, and one is a games cabinet.
- Instant Score — An objective, repeatable read on your romance manuscript — nine craft measurements, from lexical variety to adverb density, in minutes.
- First-Chapter Autopsy — Three severity-ranked editorial findings on your opening 5,000 words, each one quoted from your own prose, as a PDF in minutes. Free, one run per account.
- The Starport Arcade — Four browser games for authors on a coffee break — Word Nebula, Heart Maze, Cover Shuffle and Star Serpent. No account, no cost, nothing to install.
- Pre-Flight Check — sample report — A complete Pre-Flight Check report, published in full and free to read, so you can see exactly what the tool returns before you spend anything.
- Author Website — sample build — A finished, cinematic author website built by the Author Website tool — live and free to browse, so you can judge the output before you buy.
Market recon before you write a word
Pre-Flight Check
Before you commit six months to a romance novel, get a data-backed go/no-go: the trope stack selling now, comps, cover direction, and the gap to claim.
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Nine craft measurements, one scorecard — free
Instant Score
An objective, repeatable read on your romance manuscript — nine craft measurements, from lexical variety to adverb density, in minutes.
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The big-picture editorial read
Developmental Critique
A grounded developmental edit for your romance manuscript: verdict, editorial letter, chapter notes and concrete fixes, anchored to your text.
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Your author voice, documented
Style Sheet
A working style guide reverse-engineered from your prose — POV, tense, rhythm, diction, dialogue style and watch-words — so every edit protects your voice.
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Will it sell?
Market Fit
A clear-eyed market read on your finished romance book: demand, positioning, comps and the levers that move sales — so you launch with evidence, not hope.
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Tighter prose that still sounds like you
Line Editor
A line-by-line edit measured against a style sheet built from your own prose. Take the Report you apply yourself, or tracked changes in your Word file.
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A full structural teardown
The Autopsy
The deepest diagnostic the Starport offers: acts, beats, pacing, POV and character arcs dissected end to end, with evidence cited from your romance manuscript.
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Every scene scored keep, fix, or cut
Scene Map
A scene-by-scene worklist for your romance draft: every scene scored keep, fix, or cut with the reason — so you know exactly where to spend your revision time.
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A cinematic author site, built from your book
Author Website
A bespoke, cinematic one-page author website built from your covers and your story — palette, animation and copy drawn from your book. Host it anywhere.
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Your Amazon blurb, done
The Blurb
An Amazon-ready blurb tuned to what your subgenre sells right now — two versions to A/B, keyword and category picks, written only from tropes your book has.
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Your series, contradiction-free
Continuity Check
Upload your finished series and get every place a later book contradicts an earlier one — timeline, character, world — ranked by severity with a concrete fix.
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Land on the Amazon shelf your readers browse
ShelfSmith
Will Amazon shelve your book where readers look? Get the exact category, BISAC code, keywords, subtitle and a rewritten blurb — ready to paste into KDP.
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The tells that read machine-made
AI-Tell Cleaner
The patterns that make fiction read machine-made, flagged as comments in your own Word file with the reason beside each one. You decide on every line.
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Every report and a full line edit, bundled
Go For Launch
The whole Starport in one mission — your romance manuscript read, scored, mapped, style-sheeted and edited, with every report bundled.
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Authors Starport is one of four sites Coral Hart Group runs for romance authors. These are free too — no account, no card.
- The 2026 Romance Demand Report — the long-form read on what romance readers are asking for this year and where the shelf is not answering. Free, no signup.
- TropeSmith — Trending — which romance tropes are 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, the trope library and the reader demand report.
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