$99
Up to 30,000-word novella
Fiction writing services
Genre-based manuscript pricing.
Every genre has different storytelling requirements. Written Worlds prices fiction projects according to target length, research needs, worldbuilding, plot complexity, characters, points of view, and included revision rounds.
Working manuscripts starting at $99: The $99 introductory offer supports novella-length projects up to 30,000 words. Full-length fiction is priced by genre and scope. Working manuscripts are creative drafts prepared for author review and further refinement, not automatically professionally edited or publication-ready final books.
Anchor offers
Simple starting points
$299
Up to 50,000-word short novel
$499-$699
Most romance, mystery, horror, and general fiction
$749-$949
Historical, paranormal, science-fiction, and complex suspense
$899-$1,049
Fantasy, romantasy, and worldbuilding-heavy fiction
$1,299+
Epic fiction over 110,000 words
Short stories and novellas
Introductory and short-form packages
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Picture-book story text | Up to 1,000 | $99 | Story text only; illustration, layout, and cover work are separate. | Start My Story |
| Short story | Up to 7,500 | $49 | A focused fiction draft for one contained idea, event, or emotional arc. | Start My Story |
| Novelette | Up to 15,000 | $79 | A compact manuscript with more room for character and plot development. | Start My Story |
| Novella | Up to 30,000 | $99 introductory price | The core introductory offer for a working creative draft. | Start My Story |
| Extended novella | Up to 40,000 | $199 | A longer novella scope with expanded plot and continuity needs. | Start My Story |
| Short novel | Up to 50,000 | $299 | A lean novel-length project with a complete beginning, middle, and end. | Start My Story |
Fiction service
Romance and Romantasy
Pricing reflects worldbuilding, historical context, suspense elements, and relationship-plot complexity.
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category romance | Up to 60,000 | $349 | A focused romance built around a clear relationship arc and genre promise. | Start My Story |
| Contemporary romance | Up to 80,000 | $499 | Modern romantic fiction with emotional development, conflict, and resolution. | Start My Story |
| Inspirational romance | Up to 75,000 | $499 | Faith-forward or values-centered romance with a hopeful emotional arc. | Start My Story |
| Romantic comedy | Up to 80,000 | $499 | Romance with comedic pacing, banter, character contrast, and satisfying payoff. | Start My Story |
| Historical romance | Up to 80,000 | $649 | Romance requiring period setting, customs, language, and light background research. | Start My Story |
| Romantic suspense | Up to 80,000 | $549 | A romance arc interwoven with danger, investigation, threat, or mystery. | Start My Story |
| Paranormal romance | Up to 90,000 | $699 | Romance with supernatural rules, mythology, and added continuity tracking. | Start My Story |
| Romantasy | Up to 100,000 | $949 | Romance-forward fantasy with worldbuilding, magic, and high emotional stakes. | Start My Story |
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Mystery, Crime, and Thrillers
These projects require clue logic, timelines, controlled reveals, red herrings, and believable resolution.
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cozy mystery | Up to 70,000 | $449 | A lighter mystery with clues, suspects, community texture, and a satisfying reveal. | Start My Story |
| Traditional mystery | Up to 85,000 | $599 | A structured investigation with fair clues, suspects, motive, and resolution. | Start My Story |
| Crime fiction | Up to 90,000 | $649 | Crime-centered fiction with moral tension, stakes, and procedural continuity. | Start My Story |
| Detective fiction | Up to 85,000 | $599 | A detective-led investigation with clues, interviews, timelines, and reveals. | Start My Story |
| Psychological thriller | Up to 90,000 | $699 | A tension-driven story focused on perception, secrets, manipulation, and escalation. | Start My Story |
| Action thriller | Up to 95,000 | $699 | High-momentum suspense with danger, pacing, action sequences, and stakes. | Start My Story |
| Legal or political thriller | Up to 95,000 | $799 | A complex thriller scope; expert research or fact-checking is quoted separately. | Start My Story |
| General suspense | Up to 85,000 | $599 | A suspense manuscript built around threat, uncertainty, pacing, and revelation. | Start My Story |
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Horror and Supernatural
Pricing reflects atmosphere, foreshadowing, supernatural rules, mythology, and continuity tracking.
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supernatural horror | Up to 85,000 | $599 | Horror built around paranormal events, dread, rules, and escalation. | Start My Story |
| Psychological horror | Up to 85,000 | $649 | Fear rooted in perception, instability, memory, obsession, or emotional pressure. | Start My Story |
| Gothic horror | Up to 90,000 | $699 | Atmospheric horror with setting, secrets, inheritance, mood, and slow-burn tension. | Start My Story |
| Paranormal fiction | Up to 90,000 | $699 | Supernatural fiction with rules, entities, mythology, and character continuity. | Start My Story |
| Apocalyptic fiction | Up to 95,000 | $749 | Large-scale collapse or survival fiction with social, environmental, and character stakes. | Start My Story |
| Dark fantasy/horror | Up to 100,000 | $899 | Fantasy-horror with world rules, menace, lore, and deeper continuity demands. | Start My Story |
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General and Literary Fiction
These services focus on character, voice, theme, pacing, and emotional structure.
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General adult fiction | Up to 85,000 | $599 | A complete adult fiction draft with character, plot, and emotional movement. | Start My Story |
| Commercial fiction | Up to 90,000 | $649 | Accessible fiction with a strong hook, market-facing pace, and clear reader appeal. | Start My Story |
| Women's fiction | Up to 85,000 | $599 | Character-centered fiction focused on identity, relationships, change, and life stakes. | Start My Story |
| Family drama | Up to 85,000 | $599 | A family-centered manuscript with secrets, conflict, relationships, and resolution. | Start My Story |
| Inspirational fiction | Up to 80,000 | $549 | Uplifting fiction centered on hope, growth, resilience, or values-based themes. | Start My Story |
| Literary fiction | Up to 85,000 | $699 | A style- and theme-conscious draft with attention to voice, depth, and symbolism. | Start My Story |
| Multigenerational saga | Up to 100,000 | $899 | A broader family or community story spanning time, generations, or major change. | Start My Story |
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Historical Fiction
Base packages include light background research only. Deep source research or fact-checking is quoted separately.
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical romance | Up to 80,000 | $649 | Romance shaped by period setting, customs, language, and light historical context. | Start My Story |
| Historical drama | Up to 95,000 | $849 | A period-set dramatic manuscript with historical texture and character stakes. | Start My Story |
| Historical mystery | Up to 90,000 | $849 | Mystery structure plus period details, chronology, setting, and clue logic. | Start My Story |
| Historical adventure | Up to 100,000 | $949 | A historical story with travel, danger, setting, events, and larger action beats. | Start My Story |
| Historical epic | Up to 120,000 | $1,299 | A large historical manuscript with broad scope, timeline, and continuity needs. | Start My Story |
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Science Fiction
Complex science fiction may require system rules, technology logic, research, and continuity support.
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Near-future science fiction | Up to 90,000 | $749 | Speculative fiction close to the present, with social, technical, or ethical stakes. | Start My Story |
| Science-fiction adventure | Up to 100,000 | $899 | Adventure-driven science fiction with action, setting, stakes, and speculative rules. | Start My Story |
| Space opera | Up to 110,000 | $1,049 | Large-scale science fiction with factions, worlds, conflict, and continuity tracking. | Start My Story |
| Dystopian fiction | Up to 90,000 | $749 | A controlled or collapsing society with stakes, rules, resistance, and consequences. | Start My Story |
| Cyberpunk | Up to 95,000 | $849 | Tech-forward fiction with atmosphere, systems, power structures, and noir elements. | Start My Story |
| Time-travel fiction | Up to 100,000 | $949 | A continuity-heavy story requiring timeline logic, cause, effect, and rules. | Start My Story |
| Hard science fiction | Up to 100,000 | $1,099 | Science-heavy fiction; technical accuracy or expert fact-checking is separate. | Start My Story |
| Science-fiction epic | Up to 120,000 | $1,299 | A broad speculative manuscript with extensive setting, stakes, and continuity. | Start My Story |
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Fantasy and Epic Fantasy
Fantasy packages include a basic world and character bible because the genre often requires rules, cultures, magic systems, geography, and series continuity.
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban fantasy | Up to 90,000 | $749 | Magic or supernatural elements layered into a real-world or city-based setting. | Start My Story |
| Contemporary fantasy | Up to 90,000 | $749 | Modern fantasy with magical rules, character stakes, and grounded emotional arcs. | Start My Story |
| Mythological fantasy | Up to 100,000 | $899 | Fantasy drawing on myth, gods, legends, creatures, or symbolic lore. | Start My Story |
| Dark fantasy | Up to 100,000 | $899 | Fantasy with darker tone, threat, moral tension, and atmosphere. | Start My Story |
| High fantasy | Up to 110,000 | $1,049 | Secondary-world fantasy with worldbuilding, cultures, magic, and larger stakes. | Start My Story |
| Portal fantasy | Up to 100,000 | $899 | A crossing-world story requiring rules for both the ordinary and fantasy worlds. | Start My Story |
| Romantasy | Up to 100,000 | $949 | Romance plus fantasy worldbuilding, magic, stakes, and relationship progression. | Start My Story |
| Epic fantasy | Up to 120,000 | $1,299 | A large fantasy manuscript with multiple arcs, world systems, and continuity. | Start My Story |
| Extended epic fantasy | Up to 150,000 | Starting at $1,699 | A major fantasy scope with expanded world, cast, plotlines, and series planning. | Start My Story |
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Children, Middle Grade, and Young Adult
Picture-book pricing covers story text only unless illustrations, layout, or cover services are added separately.
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early-reader story | Up to 5,000 | $99 | Short fiction for emerging readers with age-appropriate structure and language. | Start My Story |
| Chapter book | Up to 20,000 | $149 | A young-reader manuscript with chapters, simple arcs, and accessible pacing. | Start My Story |
| Middle-grade contemporary | Up to 50,000 | $349 | Age-appropriate contemporary fiction with heart, stakes, and clear character growth. | Start My Story |
| Middle-grade fantasy | Up to 60,000 | $449 | Middle-grade fantasy with accessible worldbuilding, magic, and adventure. | Start My Story |
| Young-adult contemporary | Up to 70,000 | $449 | Teen-centered contemporary fiction with voice, identity, conflict, and growth. | Start My Story |
| Young-adult romance | Up to 75,000 | $499 | YA romance focused on voice, emotion, boundaries, and age-appropriate stakes. | Start My Story |
| Young-adult mystery | Up to 80,000 | $549 | YA mystery with clues, pacing, teen voice, and a clear resolution. | Start My Story |
| Young-adult fantasy or science fiction | Up to 90,000 | $699 | Speculative YA with voice, world rules, stakes, and continuity support. | Start My Story |
Included in base fiction packages
Core deliverables
Guided author questionnaireStory concept reviewGenre and audience identificationMain-character profilesChapter-by-chapter outlineAI-assisted working manuscriptBasic continuity reviewOne consolidated revision roundEditable Word documentClient ownership after final paymentConfidential treatment of submitted material
Optional add-ons
Add-on pricing
| Service | Target length | Starting price | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Additional 10,000 words - standard fiction | Optional | $75 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Additional 10,000 words - fantasy, historical, or science fiction | Optional | $100 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Additional consolidated revision round | Optional | $99 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Additional character or point of view | Optional | $49-$99 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Expanded character bible | Optional | $99 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Worldbuilding bible | Optional | $149-$299 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Series bible | Optional | $249-$499 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Sequel outline | Optional | $99 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Alternate ending | Optional | $79 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Book description and sales copy | Optional | $79 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| KDP ebook formatting | Optional | $99 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| KDP paperback formatting | Optional | $149 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Cover design coordination | Optional | Starting at $149 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Publishing setup assistance | Optional | Starting at $199 | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
| Rush service | Optional | 25%-50% surcharge | Available as an add-on or separately quoted service depending on scope. | Start My Story |
Human developmental editing, copyediting, proofreading, specialized research, and professional fact-checking are separately quoted.