Book nine still remembers book two.
For serial-fiction and audio-first publishers with contracted authors on long series. Every book of a series sits in one manuscript your company owns, typing stays quick past a million words, and an editor checks book nine against book two without opening another file.
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One stat, checked across nine books
Brasswick Audio is an invented audio-first publisher of LitRPG and progression fantasy, and everyone below is invented too. Nadia Brook, one of its contracted authors, is writing book nine of The Undercroft Cycle. Felix Adair is the freelance editor who has worked on the series since book four. In book two, the heroine earned a skill with a forty-second cooldown. Book nine has to remember that.
Book nine opens in the same manuscript as book one.
The Undercroft Cycle is one manuscript with nine books in it, each with its own title page and its own page numbers. Nadia writes in book nine. When she needs book two, she searches the series or jumps to it from the Outline, and when she wants quiet she narrows the view to the book in front of her.
Length doesn’t make it sluggish. In the benchmark on our home page, a keystroke took under 20 milliseconds to appear at ten thousand words and still did at a million. That is about where a serial sits three years into its run.
Narrow your view to one book
Ember Step, from book two to book nine.
Nadia keeps a timeline called Ember Step. Each marker on it is pinned to the passage where the skill matters: the notice in book two that sets its cooldown, the floor in book three where Wren counts the seconds, the flooded floor in book five. She writes a line of her own on each one.
A spreadsheet of stats goes stale the first time someone edits a chapter. These markers move with the words they hold, so the note about book two still points at book two after a rewrite.
Pin a thread to its passages
Felix catches the cooldown.
Felix is invited to the series by name. He doesn’t take a seat or pay anything; he accepts, signs in with the address on the invitation, and the books open in his browser, with book two a search away.
In the arena chapter Nadia wrote that the skill came back four seconds later. Book two says forty. Felix types the right number in a copy of his own, and Markup shows the old word struck and the new one beside it. Then he sends the copy back.
Invite an outside editor
Nadia takes the fix.
His review comes back as a merge. Nadia sees the one change in its place on the page, with a count of what is left to decide, and accepts it. Nothing Felix typed reached the manuscript before she did.
On a long run that matters more than it sounds. The author stays the one who decides what the book says, and nobody has to copy a correction out of an email into chapter forty of book nine.
Merge a returned review
A roster of authors, one account
Each series belongs to the publisher, with its author named Lead Author on it. Ruth Abernathy, who runs Brasswick’s editorial side, sees every series the team owns from one page, whoever is writing it. If a contract ends, the series stays with Brasswick, drafts and snapshots included, and a new author can be named on it.
Membership by itself doesn’t open anyone’s books. An author sees their own series and the ones they are given, and an unannounced series can be marked confidential, which keeps it away from the groups everyone joins by default. An author’s personal manuscripts stay personal. A series they move into the team stays with the team.
Questions you’ll have
Our biggest series is already past a million words. Will it keep up?
That is the size the benchmark was run at, and typing stayed under 20 milliseconds a keystroke. Opening the manuscript and loading its fonts take longer, and they aren’t in that number. Bring the existing books in from Word, Scrivener, Markdown, or plain text; plain-text files named as volumes come in as one book each. What import keeps.
Does it post chapters to Royal Road, Patreon, or our app?
No. Tabularia is where the books are written and edited, not where readers read them, and it doesn’t publish episodes anywhere. A manuscript your team owns can’t be published to the web from Tabularia either. Export an EPUB, a Word file, Markdown, or HTML and post from that. Every export format.
Which languages can a series be written in?
Tabularia typesets 26 languages. English is one, and so are most of Europe’s, the Nordic languages among them. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean aren’t on the list, and neither is any language of India, so it suits your English and European programs rather than those. The full list.
Do freelance editors need seats?
No. Seats are for the people on your team who write. A freelance editor joins free as a guest, works in a copy, and sends proposals; only someone with write access on the series accepts one. Their invitation can end on the day their contract does.
A pilot first, then seats
I’m Allen, and I built Tabularia. I set up each team by hand. Choose one series already in production, with its author and editor, and we’ll run it in Tabularia together for 14 days, at no charge, with the people who already work on it.
After the pilot, a seat is $35 a month on a yearly plan or $40 month to month, from 3 seats. Seats are for the people who write and edit. A client, an author, or any other outside reviewer joins as a guest and pays nothing.
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