Build your book

Create a book

A book is the container for your chapters, cast, cover, and exports. You can start from just a title and fill in the rest later.

Start a new project

  1. Select Start a new project on the dashboard or New project on the bookshelf.
  2. Give the book a title (you can change it later) and choose Create Book.
New project
Screenshot: Start a new project dialog.

Every project — in progress, in review, completed, or archived — lives on the Bookshelf, where you can search and filter your books and pick up where you left off.

Bookshelf
Screenshot: the Bookshelf, where every project lives.

The book page

Each book has its own page showing status, chapter count, total audio, and last update, with actions to add a chapter, edit details, export, archive, or delete.

Book page
Screenshot: book detail page.

Book details & cover

Choose Edit details to set the metadata that is embedded into your exported audiobook file:

FieldNotes
TitleShown on the cover and in the file.
AuthorEmbedded as the artist.
NarratorDefaults to “AI cast — Book Director Studio.”
Publisher / Copyright year / ISBNOptional catalog metadata.
Genre / SeriesGenre defaults to Fiction; series name and number are optional.
DescriptionBack-cover blurb embedded into the file’s metadata.

You can upload your own cover or use the generated cover, adjusting its color with the slider and choosing a Deep or Pale theme.

Book details
Screenshot: Book details dialog.

Filling in the author and description before export means your finished M4B/MP3 carries proper metadata, which retailers display.

Add a chapter

Select Add first chapter (or Add chapter), name it, and you are taken straight into the Chapter Studio at the Paste step.