Build your own editor

Every editor reads differently. One lives and dies by the page-turn hook; another cares first that a reader likes your protagonist by page three. Both notes are worth having — but only one of them is the note you need this week.

Configure the editor, not just the review

A custom editor is a persona you set up once and keep using. You choose:

Tone and approach — blunt, warm, or somewhere in between.

Strictness — a dial from gentle to harsh, layered on top of the baseline for your artwork stage.

Genre specialty — so the reading is against your genre's promises, not a generic one.

Focus dimensions — the craft dimensions it should weigh first.

A personality prompt — free text, for the things a dial cannot say.

Start from a preset if that is faster — a hook-obsessed weekly editor, a gentle one, a world-building specialist — then tune it until it reads like the editor you want in your corner.

Talk to it, or put it on a review

Your editor works two ways. You can chat with it directly — attach pages, ask what is not landing, argue with the answer. Or you can attach it to a Focus or Deep review, and the critique comes back in that voice.

The persona shapes voice and emphasis. It does not bend the scoring: the dimensions are graded the same way whichever editor is reading.

It remembers

Your editor keeps durable facts about you and your series across conversations, so you are not re-explaining your premise every time. There is a Clear memory control on every scope if you want a blank slate.

Also this week

ZIP and PDF bulk uploads — upload a whole chapter as one file instead of page by page.

Native spread support — two-page images are recognised as spreads, so no splitting and re-ordering before you upload.

Set up your editor in the dashboard under Custom Editor.