Independent author · watercolor · 12 pages
Lina and the Lantern Library
A finished manuscript becomes a paced picture-book sequence with a locked heroine, a recurring lighthouse library, and editable typography.
For independent authors
Keep your voice. Get a book you can revise.
Your manuscript is never rewritten. The studio suggests page turns for review, keeps your characters consistent from cover to closing page, and holds the words in the layout — so a line edit after illustration never costs you a new image.
Start with two free preview imagesWritten first, illustrated second.
Most illustration tools ask you to describe pictures. This one starts from the story you already finished. Paste it, mark your own page breaks if you have them, and read the proposed page turns before any art exists. You stay the author; the studio does the picture planning around your words.
Approve before you spend.
You see two watermarked preview images built from your own text for free: a cover direction and one inside page. They establish the character and visual direction before you continue. Finishing the remaining eleven pages of a first 12-page project uses about $2.20 in Starter-rate credits; packs begin at $14.99. A full book generated from scratch is about $2.80. If a page needs work later, repaint one detail on that page; the earlier version stays saved.
Leave with files you can publish.
Download the finished book as a PDF or as individual images, with the art and your text kept separate so a designer, an editor, or you can keep working. Your project stays private to your account and never appears in the public gallery.
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