First Edition

Five steps across the top of the screen, upload, analyse, metadata, cover, done, with a manuscript halfway through them.

Five steps run across the top of the screen: upload, analyse, metadata, cover, done. A manuscript moves through them and is given its title, its metadata and a cover, with a version kept at each turn. A finished manuscript still has a long way to go before a reader can hold it. Under licence it becomes your press's desk, with your name, domain and colours, and a database of your authors and their books. It is not yet open to manuscripts. It is being finished, and can be finished with you.

First Edition is the house's name for it. Under licence it takes yours. The people who use it see your name at the top, your domain in the address, your colours on the page, and never the house's.

• Your nameThe app is introduced as yours, on every screen they open.
• Your domainIt answers at an address you hold, so the link you give is the link they keep.
• Your recordsWhat your people write in it is kept in a database of its own, as yours, not pooled with anyone else's.

It is being finished. It can be finished with you, so that the version you carry is shaped by the people it is for.

• Manuscripts and versions
• Titles and metadata
• Cover design
• Author profiles and series
• Reader personas and marketing assets

Independent presses, author services firms and writing coaches.

Read beside the field it serves, the school, the press and the author: A book that can be taught, under your imprint, in a room that reads like one.

It was made beside the house's own press, which sets its books as issues of a magazine and keeps them in print for good.

The books it was made beside are kept in The Library, to be read before any conversation, so the voice the app speaks in is known first.

1. Read from The Library, so the voice behind First Edition is known before anything is asked.
2. See First Edition beside the apps chosen with it for your field, below.
3. Request a conversation. A few lines are enough: your name, your practice, and which app.
4. The fitting: First Edition shown wearing your name and your colours.
5. The terms, in sentences: what you keep, what it costs, and how you would leave.
6. Live on your domain, with your people's records in a database of its own.

The terms are set in conversation with Ammanuel and written in sentences, never on this page.

Luminous BookFlow

Every book on your list carried into posts, articles and episodes, with you as the editor.

The Seminar

Your books taught as courses, with lessons, classmates and certificates, under your school's name.

Luminous Classroom

A class around any book, with discussion and a guide, under your name.

All 130 are in the White Label Directory.