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Galley for Self-Publishing

What self-publishing a novel in Galley involves: a print-ready interior PDF, a valid EPUB, a tuned file per store, and two checks that run before you upload to KDP.

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Galley for Traditional Publishing

Querying agents or working with an editor: standard manuscript format, the submission package, watermarked beta drafts, and getting an editor's Word comments back where they belong.

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Is Your Writing Being Used to Train AI?

How to find out what your writing app is allowed to do with your manuscript: the licence grant, the improve-our-services clause, the sub-processor list, and what no hosted tool can honestly promise.

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Why Galley Will Never Put AI in Your Prose

AI writing tools are everywhere. Galley deliberately has none in your manuscript: no generation, no rewriting, no training on your words. Here's the reasoning, in full.

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What You See Is What Prints: Writing on the Real Book Page

Most writing apps show you a text box and reveal the book only at export. Galley shows the finished 6x9 page (trim, typeface, ornaments, scene breaks) while you write.

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From Manuscript to Published Book, Without Leaving One Tool

The back half of self-publishing (print PDF, EPUB, KDP preflight, beta-reader drafts, submission packages) usually means a second tool or a freelancer. In Galley it's a menu.

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Why Galley Is Buy-Once, Not a Subscription

Most writing tools now rent by the month. Galley is €199, paid once, with every feature and every future update included. Here's the reasoning, and the maths.

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Keep the Story Bible Beside Your Manuscript, Not in Another App

A story bible only works if you keep it updated, and a bible in a separate app is a bible you forget. Galley's lives next to the prose, one keystroke away.