Strand
Worlds break. People don’t. Written as Ben Wilson.
What we make
Two crafts, one company.
A desktop app for series authors, a home for authors on the web, and a catalogue of original science fiction, fantasy and alternate history.
Software · Verkilo
One window, everything your series needs.
Verkilo is a desktop manuscript-management app for authors writing more than one book. Multi-book projects, a Series Bible for characters, locations and plot, a corkboard and outliner, and writing history, with professional export to EPUB, PDF, DOCX, HTML and Markdown.
Your manuscripts live on your computer, not on someone else’s server.
- Founding licence
- $98
- One purchase. Yours forever. Standard price $128.
- Trial
- 30 days
- Rather try first? The 30-day trial needs no card and no account.
Software · Kindred Quill
A home for authors, on your own domain.
Kindred Quill gives an author a public website on their own domain, with a book catalog grouped by series, a blog, author pages, and a contact form, plus a newsletter with real delivery metrics and invite-only writing circles, all from a single login.
We built it to run our own author business, so the unglamorous parts get as much care as the visible ones: a full history of everything you publish, email that actually arrives, and an inbox that never leaks your address.
- Status
- Early access
- Invite-only for now. Join the early-access list at kindredquill.com.
- Included
- One login
- Your site, catalog and blog, newsletter, and writing circles.
Publishing
Stories where humans meet the impossible.
Postal Marines
A long, connected series of military science fiction. Written as Troy Buzby.