Series Bible Software That Builds Itself From Your Books
Series bible software keeps the record of what is true across a book series. StoryHelm builds that record from the books you wrote: each read gives a book its own canon of characters, places, factions, items and events, you confirm or correct any entry, and the Series Atlas gathers every book’s canon, exportable as PDF, DOCX or Markdown.
A canon built by each read
Import a finished book, or write it in StoryHelm’s built-in editor, and run a read. The read records that book’s canon: every recurring character with the details the prose gave them, every place, faction, item and event, each entry showing a few of the sentences that mention it so you can see where it came from. There is no form to fill in first. A book’s canon updates when a read runs, and only then; between reads it is the record of the last read.
You confirm or correct it
A canon the read built is a draft of the truth, and you are the editor of it. Open any entry, confirm it, or correct a detail the prose left ambiguous. What the software adds is not authority; it is a first draft of the record you would otherwise type by hand.
The Series Atlas, and the export
Every book’s canon is gathered in your Series Atlas, where every book’s entries are listed together. The Series Bible export writes the series’ record out as PDF, DOCX or Markdown. In a Full read (the Author, Series and Studio plans, and the free trial at public launch) each book is checked against its own canon and contradictions inside it are flagged; a cross-book check you start compares, between books, the appearance and distinguishing marks of same-named characters, their voice when each book holds enough of their dialogue, and the same event’s dates in two fully read books. It does not compare names, world rules, relationships, places or who knew what, and there is no master series timeline.
Notes you already have
Story Elements takes notes you paste and suggests the capitalized names in them, quoting the sentence, for you to file into your Story Bible one by one. Those records are yours to keep and search; they feed no continuity check, because the checks use the canon a read built from the manuscript.
Compared with a bible you build by hand
Plottr, Campfire, World Anvil and NovelCrafter’s codex are places to build a bible before and while you draft, and they are good at it. A hand-built bible records the series you planned; StoryHelm’s canon records the one you wrote, which is the one readers hold you to. StoryHelm vs Plottr, StoryHelm vs Campfire, StoryHelm vs NovelCrafter and the full comparison say which job each does. If you want to start by hand today, the free Series Bible Template is the paper version of this record.
Questions authors ask
One canon per book, gathered in the Series Atlas, which lists every book’s entries together. The Series Bible exports as PDF, DOCX or Markdown.
An entry shows a few of the sentences that mention it, so you can see where it came from. It does not attach a citation to every fact.
No. You write every word yourself, in its built-in editor or in files you import, and it reads. Two disclosed features produce text that isn’t your manuscript: Ship Dock drafts pitch material about the book for you to review and edit, and Translation Studio produces machine-generated translated editions of a finished book.
StoryHelm is an AI manuscript-intelligence platform for indie series authors. It reads and analyzes an entire fiction series, catches continuity errors before readers do, and never writes or rewrites the author’s prose. You write every word of your book yourself, in StoryHelm’s built-in editor or in files you import. Two disclosed features produce text that isn’t your manuscript: Ship Dock drafts pitch material about the book (a query letter, synopsis, logline or back-cover blurb) for you to review and edit, and Translation Studio produces machine-generated translated editions of a finished book.
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ReadA bible built from the books you wrote.
StoryHelm builds a canon for each book it reads and gathers them in your Series Atlas. You confirm or correct any entry. It never writes your prose.
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