A Press for One Author. You.
You Write It. We Make It Real.
Our Little Book isn’t a shop of finished books. It’s the studio, the press, and the quiet craft behind one, handed to you. You bring the people you love and the story only you could tell; we give you the tools to write it, illustrate it, and shape every page, and we keep your characters unmistakably themselves from the first page to the last. We enable. You create.
Free to start, and you can read a whole example book before you buy. See sample pages first.
Where would you like to start?
Three Ways In
Every book begins with you and an idea. Relive a real memory, dream up a new adventure, or hand the page to characters entirely your own. Whichever door you walk through, you’re the author from word one.
Relive a memory
A Moment Worth Keeping
A first day, a big move, an ordinary afternoon you never want to forget. Shape the real story, page by page.
Shape the memoryA new adventure
Somewhere You've Never Been
Dream up a brand-new tale: a dragon, a faraway kingdom, a quest only your family could imagine. Type the gist and we draft it.
Begin the adventureYour own characters
Bring Your Cast to Life
The people, the pets, the made-up ones. Build every character and shape every detail yourself, top to bottom.
Build your castThree ways to author
How Hands-On Do You Want to Be?
Some authors hand over a single line and watch it come alive. Some want to shape every page. The studio meets you wherever you sit on that spectrum, and you can move between the three any time. The book is always yours.
Spark
Type One Line
Type one sentence, the gist of it, and the studio hands back a whole illustrated first draft for you to refine.
Start with SparkStudio
Build It Together
A guided, step-by-step build, with the studio alongside you at every turn as the story takes shape.
Start in StudioAtelier
Shape Every Page
Full control. You shape the plan and sign off the words and the exact look of every page before a single illustration is drawn.
Open the Atelier
A book, just because
A Personalized Birthday Book
Someone you love always has a birthday coming.
Inside the studio
How It Works
A handful of choices, and a book made just the way you want it. Pick your depth: Spark drafts the cast and a first version from one sentence, Studio guides you through it, and Atelier hands you the full plan to shape before a page is drawn.
Choose Who, and How Big
Make it for someone you love, or together with them. A single story, or a collection of five. You pick the shape.
Build the Cast, Your Way
The people, the pets, even the made-up ones (a dragon counts). Build each character and approve them before a word is written.
Make It Yours, Then Keep It
We email you the moment your book is ready, and every page is yours to rewrite or redraw. The finished book is yours to download and keep, print-ready, and a hardcover book is on its way.
Real Finished Books
See What a Book Becomes
Not mockups. Complete example books, written and illustrated start to finish. Open one and read the whole thing, then flip a page to the editor.
The press behind it
The Press Behind Your Name.
Anyone can drop a name into a template. A real press does the harder, quieter work, so the book you author comes out right. You shape the settings, the moments, and the characters; the craft below makes sure the pages live up to them.
The whole thing runs on tools we built ourselves, Quill, Ink, and Paper. Quill writes and paints every page. Ink redraws when you want one different. Paper is the editor where you read it all and reach for Ink.
The Same Child, Every Page
Each character gets an approved reference illustration, and that same face is carried onto every page, so your cast stays recognizably themselves, story after story.
A Quiet Second Look
Before any page reaches you, each illustration is checked for the things AI art gets wrong, a face that slipped, a stranger, an extra finger, stray text, and anything off is redrawn and checked again.
A Cast You Build Once
Make your characters once and reuse them in every book, in English or Spanish. Save them to your library and share them with family, so the next book is nearly instant.
Hard Moments, Handled with Care
A move, a new sibling, a goodbye. We sit with the feeling instead of rushing past it.
The Book Is Yours
You get the finished file the moment it is done, yours to keep and print-ready. A hardcover book is on its way; until then, keep the file and do as you like with it. Your call.
What it costs
Pricing
The studio is free to step into, and free to start your first book. When you’re ready to keep one, choose how you pay: per book, digital first, or Ever After, a monthly membership with credits to make more. Every finished book is yours to download and keep.
One short story
A Short Story
$9.99
digital, yours to keep
one book, one price
A little ten-page story, and the easy way in on a budget.
Start a BookLearn moreOne story
A Single Story
$24.99
digital, yours to keep
one book, one price
One full twenty-five-page story, written and illustrated start to finish.
Start a BookLearn moreFive stories
The Anthology
$69.99
digital, yours to keep
one book, one price
Five full stories starring one cast of your characters: a keepsake collection to read again and again.
Start a BookLearn moreAbout 3 books a month
Ever After
$49.99
per month, about $16.66 a book
For families who keep making: every book works out cheaper than buying one at a time, and you can pause or stop whenever you like.
Start a BookLearn moreYour characters, drawn just for your familyReview and edit every page before it's finalYours to download and keep, print-ready
An add-on, either way you pay: remove the small colophon for $2.99 or 1 credit.
Listed prices don't include tax, which is added at checkout and paid by the buyer.
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The press is yours
Go Author Something.
We built the studio, the craft, and the careful second look so you can do the one thing only you can: tell the story that’s yours. We made our first book for our own family. Now it’s your turn behind the press.
Open the StudioFree to start. Read a whole example book before you buy.