Drakenscroll

Because when you see that dragon, you know it's strong and solid.

The hearth is cold. Choose how you would like to be received — and the fire, the sound, and the story will rise to meet you.

Either door turns the sound on. Change it whenever you like.

The Living Sigil

The Long Memory

The house keeps a long memory. Leave an address and you hear of new voices, new instruments and new work before the world does. No course, no call, no salesman.

Drakenscroll seal — a gold dragon coiled around a film reel

Station by station

The Forge

Build & price your book. Start with your word count, choose your format, then add only what you want. Review your Charter before paying.

  1. I

    The Manuscript

    Enter your word count, or paste your manuscript to count it

    Your word count decides everything else.

    The fire has caught. Your base rate is already forming below.

    Finished runtime
    9h 41m
    Base rate
    $45,000
    Per thousand words
    $500
    Standing total
    $45,000
  2. II

    The Vessel

    Choose a film book, audio book or playable gamebook

    The shape your story will be poured into.

    Two doors into the third vessel

    Open the Full Build within 90 days and the whole Proving Chapter fee is credited against it. You never pay twice for the same ground.

    Honest limits: a playable desktop build drawn from your chapters, delivered as a sealed download. Delivery is quoted as a range, never a promised day. The free Proving Ground walk stays free — the forged game is the thing that is bought.

  3. III

    The Voices

    Cast your narrators

    1% of your word count per two voices. Partial blocks round up.

    Voices in your cast

    0

    A single narrator is included in the base build.

    The cast you chose in the Reading Room

    Nothing chosen yet. 26 registers wait in the Reading Room — hear them, take the ones your story needs, and bring the count back here.

    Enter the Reading RoomOr tell it in your own voice
  4. IV

    The Atmosphere

    Sound effects and licensed music

    Optional gamebook additions: 1% per five sound effects; licensed music $1,500.

    Sound effects

    0

    Rain, steel, hooves, breath. Choose how loud your world is.

  5. V

    The Arsenal

    Optional covers, illustrations and production services

    Services invented in this house. Add what your book deserves.

    Choose optional additions
  6. VI

    The Bench

    Optional manuscript editing, storyboard plates and your own voice

    The house's own instruments, ordered inside your build — no second counter, no second payment.

    Choose optional additions
  7. VII

    The Herald

    Optional launch marketing campaign

    We built it. Now let us make them look at it.

    Choose optional additions
Drakenscroll seal — a gold dragon coiled around a film reel

Draw up the Charter

Your build becomes a sealed commission document — every line item, every rate, in writing. Pay in full, or choose your terms: Platinum in halves, Gold in thirds, Silver in quarters, Bronze in sixths — each part called as the work is built.

Gamebook · 90,000 words

$45,000

50% to begin

$22,500