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€199 once for every feature, every export format and every future update. No subscription, no tiers, and a no-questions-asked 14-day refund policy.
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CHAPTER ONE
A Scandal in Bohemia
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.
I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.
“Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
He waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner.
* * *
“Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
Glossary
gasogene
A Victorian siphon for making soda water at home: two glass globes in a wire or wicker cage. Holmes keeps one in the corner of the sitting room at Baker Street.
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Galley
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- 14-day refund
- Export everything, any time
- Never used to train AI
- All features & export formats
- All future updates included
- Unlimited books, chapters, and versions
- Use on up to 3 devices at a time
- No lock-in. Export a full backup any time
- For desks, laptops, and iPads in landscape. There is no phone app
What the €199 replaces
- A writing app. Chapters, drafts, history, and everything you want to type your manuscript.
- Layout software. The print interior at your trim, with mirrored margins and a real gutter.
- An EPUB converter. A valid EPUB 3, and a tuned file for Kindle, Kobo and Apple Books.
- Manuscript formatting. Double-spaced standard format, with the synopsis and bio an agent asks for.
- Beta-reader copies. One PDF, EPUB or URL generated per reader, with their name watermarked on it.
- A story bible somewhere else. Characters, locations, the timeline, references, and your research.
Everything that comes with it
All 79 features, on every device you sign in on. There is no “pro” plan.
The page
- True book pages Six trim sizes, mass market to Royal
- 35 book typefaces Latin, Arabic, Devanagari, Japanese and more, all licensed for commercial publishing
- Chapter openings Five styles, from a plain title to one with an ornament
- Scene breaks Type three dashes for a scene break
- Running heads Your name and the title at the top of each page
- House style British or American, justified, properly hyphenated
- Your own ornaments Upload the flourish that opens a chapter or breaks a scene
The writing room
- Focus mode Nothing on screen but the page
- Typewriter scroll The line you are writing stays at eye level
- A chapter beside Read another chapter next to the one you’re writing
- Light & dark paper Switch the page, keep the room dark
- Accent themes Five accent colours for the app
- @ and # mentions Type @ for a character or # for a place, and the name is always spelled right
- Block styles Body text, titles and scene breaks
- Inline comments Notes in the margin that you can resolve
- Search everything ⌘K finds any chapter, name, term or clipping
- Keyboard shortcuts A shortcut for most things, with the full list in the docs
Structure
- Chapters & parts Drag to reorder, group into parts
- Prologue & epilogue Prologues, epilogues and interludes, without a chapter number
- Chapter stages Draft, revised, final
- Synopses A short summary on each chapter
- Point of view Set whose eyes each chapter is told through
- Front & back matter Title page to acknowledgements
- Table of contents Made from your chapter titles
- Import your draft Bring in a .docx, .md or .txt and it’s split into chapters
Story bible
- Characters Aliases, roles, and sections you name yourself
- Cast overview Who appears where, counted from the prose
- Locations Places get the same kind of sheet as characters
- Timeline Your story’s dates, linked to chapters
- World-building Notes on history, magic, culture and anything else
- Research clippings Save a passage with your note and where it came from
- Style sheet Your own spelling and hyphenation rules
- Glossary Terms are highlighted in the text and get a page at the back
- References Notes are numbered for you when you export
Revision
- Read-through The whole book from start to finish, without the sidebar
- Read aloud Hear the book in a voice your computer already has
- Book-wide find & replace Rename a character across every chapter at once
- Overused words Counts your filler words and shows the chapter that uses each one most
- Name consistency Finds a name spelled two ways, like Lestrade and Lestrad
- Consistency sweep Flags mixed spellings, hyphens, quotes and dashes
- Loose threads Characters who disappear, and timeline events the chapter never mentions
- Book at a glance Chapter length, dialogue and sentence length in one chart
- Who speaks How the dialogue is shared out between your characters
- Word counts Live, per chapter and per book
- Draft milestones Mark a draft done, then see which chapters changed since
Publishing
- Book preview See the print pages, or the ebook on an e-reader
- Print-ready PDF Sized to your trim, with mirrored margins and a gutter
- EPUB 3 A valid EPUB 3 with your cover page
- Store-ready EPUBs A version each for Kindle, Kobo and Apple Books
- Word & Markdown For editors and backups
- Manuscript format Double-spaced Shunn format for agents and editors
- Proofreading PDF Two pages per sheet, for marking up on paper
- Large print PDF The same book in a bigger type size
- Share a copy A file or a link for each reader, with their name on it
- Notes from readers A beta reader selects a line and leaves a note on that chapter
- Submission package Your manuscript, synopsis and bio, in the order agents ask for
- Cover template The paperback wrap, with the spine at your book’s real width
- KDP preflight Title, cover, blurb and page count checked before you upload
- Delivery readiness Flags empty chapters, open comments and a missing copyright page
- Cover & listing Cover, blurb, ISBN, categories, keywords, in one place
- The copyright page Filled in from your book’s details
- Permissions ledger Track permission for a quote, from requested to paid
Series & editions
- Series Start the next book with this one’s story bible and design
- Editions & translations A new edition or translation that keeps the chapters and story bible
- Side-by-side view The original in one column, your translation in the other
- Per-book language Hyphenation and quote marks follow the language you set
Safe & yours
- No AI on your words Nothing writes or suggests text, and no AI is trained on your book
- Autosave Saves as you type, and tells you if a save fails
- Version history Daily snapshots per chapter, restore any of them
- 30-day bin Deleted work stays in the bin for 30 days
- Offline writingBeta Saves to your device, syncs when you are back
- Keyboard and screen reader Works with a keyboard and a screen reader. The docs list the gaps
- Private by default Only you can read your books
- Three devices Use Galley on up to three devices
- One-zip backup Download the whole book and its story bible as a zip
Before you buy
Can I try it before buying?
Yes. Open the demo and you get a real, private copy of the app with a book already in it. No sign-up, no card. Write, format and run a real export for about 30 minutes, then it wipes itself. It's the actual software, not a video, so you can see how Galley works for you.
Is there a subscription?
No. Galley costs €199 once, for a one-time licence. That includes every feature, every export format, and every future update, with no upgrade fee. Why not a subscription, like everything else? Because you can't know how many words you'd write this month. Or over the next few. Some months you write every day, some months your manuscript sits still while life happens. Charging rent on a tool you use in bursts never sat right with me. You pay once, and Galley is yours whether the book takes one year or five.
How long is my licence valid, and what if Galley shuts down?
It doesn't expire. A one-time licence is bought once and stays yours through every update, with no renewal, no expiry date, and no way to lose it by not paying again. You can also export everything you've written (print PDF, EPUB, Word, Markdown, and a full one-zip backup) at any time, so a current copy of your book lives on your own disk rather than only on my server. What no hosted app can promise is that it will run forever, so there's a commitment in the Terms for that too: if Galley ever shuts down, you get at least 6 months' notice, full exports throughout, and the code open-sourced.
Is there a free tier?
No, and that's deliberate. A free tier usually means you're the product (ads, upsells, or your data training someone's model), or it means a crippled version built to nag you into paying. Galley is a one-time purchase with none of that: no ad tracking, your manuscripts never sold or used to train anything, every feature included from day one. And with a no-questions-asked 14-day refund, trying it costs you nothing anyway.
What if I buy it and it’s not for me?
Then you get your money back. Email within 14 days of buying and I'll refund you in full, no questions asked. Writing tools are personal. If Galley doesn't fit how you work, you shouldn't be paying anything.