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.

The house's own record

The Certificate of Human Hand

There has never been a harder time to prove the simplest thing about a book: that a person wrote it. So the house will hold the record. You swear the oath, the house takes the fingerprint of your manuscript as it stands today, and a certificate is sealed at a public address that any agent, publisher, reader or reviewer may check — forever, without asking you for anything.

This certificate records a sworn statement by a named author about a named work, together with the fingerprint of that work at the hour it was sealed. It is a record of testimony, not a machine judgement of the text.

I. The work

Lay the manuscript down

The file never leaves your window. It is read here, fingerprinted here, and only the fingerprint is sent to the house.

II. The oath

  • I wrote this work myself. Every sentence in it came from my own hand.

  • No part of the prose in this work was generated for me by a machine and kept as written.

  • I hold the rights to this work and may make this statement about it.

  • I used machine assistance somewhere in the making of this book (spellcheck, research, notes, cover art).

  • I understand that a false statement here voids the certificate and its public record forever.

III. The sealing

  • — The house never stores your manuscript. Only its fingerprint — a one-way hash — is kept.
  • — The same file will always answer to the same fingerprint. A changed file will not.
  • — Anyone may check a certificate at its public address. Nothing is required of them.
  • — A certificate found false is revoked, and the public address says so plainly.
  • — The house does not read your book to decide whether a human wrote it. You swear it; we seal it.

$95 — One title, paid in full