{"repo":"john-paul-ruf/novel-engine","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/john-paul-ruf/novel-engine","clone":"git clone https://github.com/john-paul-ruf/novel-engine.git","description":"Novel Engine is a desktop app that lets you construct novels. Seven AI agents handle the editorial pipeline — from pitch to published manuscript — while you focus on the story. Powered by Claude, Codex, and Ollama. Open source. Free. No gatekeeping.","language":"TypeScript","stars":56,"topics":["ai-writing","anthropic","claude","creative-writing","desktop-app","electron","multi-agent","novel-writing","react","typescript"],"license":"AGPL-3.0","category":"ai-agents","readme_excerpt":"Novel Engine Pitch to Publish - Youtube Demo A Desktop Publishing Studio for Novels Ten books on Amazon. Built with seven AI editors in one app. Novel Engine is a desktop app that pairs you with a full editorial team — a story coach, ghostwriter, first reader, developmental editor, task master, copy editor, and publisher — all running locally on your machine. Your manuscript stays on your laptop. Your copyright stays yours. ⬇ Download for macOS · ⬇ Download for Windows · ⬇ Download for Linux Books built with Novel Engine The Last Compiler · The Lien · Cleartext · Project Sephirot · The Recursive Archivist · Day One · Reset · The Empty Orbit · The Keeper's Frequency · Junk Souls I asked Claude and ChatGPT to audit ten books made in the MVP and this product with extended thinking on - here are the results The Manuscript view — your chapters on the left, your prose on the page. Read it like a book, or open the editor and write in it yourself. - Pitch to Published — A 15-step pipeline takes your idea from a rough pitch to an export-ready manuscript (DOCX/EPUB) you can upload to KDP or send to an editor — then research agents and publishers, generate personalized query letters, and track submissions. - Your Voice, Protected — An interview with Verity, the ghostwriter, captures your prose style in a Voice Profile. Every draft sounds like you — and you can edit any chapter by hand, with your changes tracked and respected. - Privacy-First — Runs on the AI you choose: your Claude acco","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/john-paul-ruf","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/john-paul-ruf/novel-engine/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}