One-Off Workflow Pricing

One-off Workflow Services

Use AI to accelerate the first passes. The final publication and quality decisions stay with you.

Literary Translation

Translate your story for a global audience. Style-aware output with human review still recommended. Usually under 30 minutes, or up to 24 hours at peak demand. Eleven languages. Optional add-on: Advanced Quality Checks (see below).

$45.99 $49.99 Intro pricing!

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Literary Convert

Convert your manuscript into a screenplay draft with structure-aware adaptation. Usually under 30 minutes, or up to 24 hours at peak demand. Optional add-on: Advanced Quality Checks (see below).

$45.99 $49.99 Intro pricing!

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Editorial Proof

Elevate your work with developmental feedback, copy-editing and proofing in one pass. We’ll help get you most of the way to a cleaner final draft before human polish. Usually under 30 minutes, or up to 24 hours at peak demand. Advanced Analytics usually adds about 15 minutes. Optional add-ons: Advanced Quality Checks and Advanced Analytics (see below).

$45.99 $49.99 Intro pricing!

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Ghostwriting

Fast AI drafting for outlines, chapters, and scenes with local coherence checks. Designed to help you reach a workable first draft in about 1 hour, with up to 25 sections/chapters per project. Advanced Quality Checks on Ghostwriting usually adds more than 45 minutes. Optional add-on: Advanced Quality Checks (see below).

$79.99 $99.99 Intro pricing!

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Service Add-ons

Add during checkout for the matching service. Ghostwriter Basic is optimized for drafting; Advanced Quality Checks adds a manuscript-wide editorial pass. Advanced Quality Checks usually adds about 30 minutes, or more than 45 minutes on Ghostwriting. Advanced Analytics usually adds about 15 minutes.

Advanced Quality Checks (Add-on)

Add-on

Add a manuscript-wide editorial pass for stronger global coherence, cross-chapter consistency, narrative alignment, and story continuity across the full manuscript. Usually adds about 30 minutes, or more than 45 minutes on Ghostwriting. For ad-hoc Ghostwriting, Advanced Quality Checks also unlocks AI assistance throughout the manuscript brief builder. Subscribers get that assistance as a metered plan benefit.

$34.99 Manuscript-wide refinement

Requires Editorial, Translation, Convert or Ghostwriting in your cart.

Advanced Analytics (Add-on)

Add-on

Theme/trope detection, genre, keywords & character extraction — a concise editorial summary report focused on analytics only. Usually adds about 15 minutes.

$24.99 Editorial add-on

Requires Editorial in your cart.

The Author Finishing Workflow
One Workflow. From First Draft to Publish-Ready.

Finishing a draft is only half the work. Bookcicle owns the rest: copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translations, and screenplay adaptations, all in one operationalized workflow. Months of friction, condensed into under 24 hours.

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Arrive polished.
Let beta readers focus on the main ideas.

Editorial Edits

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A strong draft.
Faster.

Ghostwriting

Release your story in every market.

Translation

Literary Convert

Adapt your novel into a screenplay, and expand your brand.

The lane we own

The finishing workflow, operationalized.

Finishing your first draft is a relief. Then comes the reality that polishing and publishing is just as hard as writing. Bookcicle isn’t a tool or a single slice of that work. It’s the workflow itself: every step between “draft done” and “publishable assets,” owned end-to-end.

The old way 2–3+ months · English only

Stitched together, one human handoff at a time.

First draft. Relief. Then reality.
Developmental edit: A human editor, $3k+, 3–6 weeks.
Refine / Rewrite: Your time, weeks to months between every edit pass. The unpriced slog.
Copy edit. A human editor, $1.2k+, 2–3 weeks.
Proofread: A human editor, $1k+, 2–3 weeks.
Formatting for publication. DIY work or another contractor.
First final draft. One language. No screenplay.

Bookcicle way Under 24 hours · Many languages + screenplay · A fraction of the cost

One workflow. Draft in, publishable assets out.

First draft. Bring your own, or let Bookcicle Ghostwriting turn your imagination into a first draft.
Developmental edit: supported inside Bookcicle for drafts written with Ghostwriting. Structural rewrites, scene work, and character beats land in hours, not weeks. (Native Bookcicle dev edits coming soon.)
Everything else in Bookcicle, in under 24 hours. Refine and rewrite passes, copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translations, screenplay adaptation. One workflow, owned end-to-end.
First final draft. Many languages. Plus a screenplay. Publish-ready.

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Inside the workflow

The stages that finish your book.

These aren’t isolated tools you stitch together. They’re the stages of one operationalized workflow: copy and line edits, proofreads, translations, and format adaptations, running end-to-end inside Bookcicle, on the AI provider you prefer. Final creative polish stays in your hands. You keep 100% of your rights.

Editorial Edits

Line, copy, and developmental edits for fiction manuscripts in a single pass, so human editors can focus on character, pacing, and story.

Ghostwriting Assistance

An AI co-author that matches your voice and pacing. Outline and draft a 20–25 chapter story. Drafts written with Ghostwriting also unlock in-Bookcicle dev edit support, so structural rewrites land in hours, not weeks.

Multi-Format Exports

Write your story once, then adapt it into fiction-first formats: novel to screenplay, screenplay to short story, or translation into different languages, all via Bookcicle's AI.

One Workflow

From First Draft to Publish-Ready.

Not a tool. Not a single slice. Bookcicle is the finishing workflow itself: copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translations, and screenplay adaptations, running end-to-end between your draft and your publishable assets. Final creative polish stays in your hands. You still keep 100% of your rights.

Arrive polished.
Let editors focus on the big ideas.

Editorial Edits

Learn More →

A strong draft.
Faster.

Ghostwriting

Release your story across global markets.

Translation

Literary Convert

Adapt your novel into a screenplay, and expand your brand.

Weeks → Under 24 Hours: Copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translation, and screenplay adaptation move from a months-long stitch of contractors into a single workflow that finishes overnight.
Many Languages, Plus Screenplay: One draft in. Multiple language editions out, tuned for fiction voice, tone, and pacing, plus a screenplay adaptation, so you can scale your story into new markets.
Your AI, Your Voice, Your Rights: Run the workflow on the AI provider you prefer: OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, DeepSeek, Cohere, or Mistral. Final creative polish stays in your hands. You keep 100% of your rights.

Why we built this

Built by an indie author who lived the friction.

First draft done. Relief. Then the slog: developmental edits, copy edits, proofreads, formatting, and finally a single English edition, months later. That post-draft gauntlet is the lane Bookcicle owns. Currently focused on fiction: novels, novellas, chapters, and short stories—and built so the workflow from draft to publish-ready stops being the hard part.

Ready to finish?

One workflow. From first draft to publish-ready. Bring the draft. Bookcicle takes it the rest of the way: copy edits, proofreads, formatting, translations, and screenplay adaptation. The work between “done writing” and “ready to publish” stops being the hard part.

One-Off Workflow Pricing

One-off Workflow Services

Literary Translation

Literary Convert

Editorial Proof

Ghostwriting

Service Add-ons

Advanced Quality Checks (Add-on)

Advanced Analytics (Add-on)

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