FREE PRIVATE BOOK COACH
Discover the book you want to write
You do not need a title, a plan, or any idea where to begin. Ten minutes of questions and you will have a working idea, a likely reader and a possible chapter list.
If you want to write a book but can't yet say what it is, you are exactly where everybody starts. The problem isn't that the idea is bad. It's that nobody has asked you the right question about it.
The Coach asks one at a time, in private, and never writes a word for you.
You will answer the Coach after opening your private link; no manuscript is needed.
How this works
Tell us where to send it
Enter your email address. No card or password is needed.
Open your private Book Coach
Use the personal link we email you, now or later.
Answer one question at a time
Start with an idea or memory and leave with your reader, shape and next step.
Clearly labelled example
Illustrative Book Coach outcome
ILLUSTRATIVE: written to show the kind of outcome, not output from a recorded run.
- Book: a family history built around the corner shop
- Reader: grandchildren who know the names but not the choices
- Next step: record the story of the shop's first winter
By the end of the conversation, you should have:
- what your book is actually about - which is rarely what you thought
- who it's for, specifically enough to write towards them
- the promise or the story holding the whole thing together
- the themes and chapters already sitting in your head, written down
- the one next thing to do, small enough that you'll actually do it
A free first step. A supercharged whole-book workspace.
The free Book Coach is a lite taster of Your Book Pro: it helps you discover your idea, your reader and the shape of your book. In the full platform you keep developing that plan, test it with Plan Feedback, then write and organise the chapters yourself.
About Your Book Pro
Your Book Pro is a book-writing platform built in Britain. Start with an idea, notes, half a draft, a podcast, or a finished manuscript, and use our purpose-built AI tools for planning, feedback, editing, proofreading, cover designs, and to create print-ready files. Writing is totally free: you can type, upload or speak your book as much as you like, and use only the editing tools you need with Plus, or go unlimited with Pro.
Produce world-class drafts at the fraction of the cost of hiring a human editorial team.
Every account starts with 1,000 welcome credits, and a plain export of your own words is free.
I'm not going to write your book for you
I could have built a button that produces eighty thousand words. It would have been quicker to make and it would have been worthless, because a book nobody wrote is a book nobody wants to read.
The Coach asks, listens and organises. Every decision, every sentence and every judgement stays with you. That isn't a limitation I apologise for. It's the entire point.
Your writing and AI
We do not publish your writing or use it in our marketing. We say no to AI training whenever the provider gives us that option. AI providers process the material needed to deliver the tool. Read our [Privacy Notice](/privacy) for details.
Why I built this
I'm Tom Collins. I built Your Book Pro after watching too many people carry a book around for thirty years without ever starting it.
Not one of them was short of material. What they were short of was somebody sitting beside them asking the right question at the right moment - which is what a good editor does, and what almost nobody can afford at the beginning.
So I built the beginning. It's free, because the beginning is where people give up.
Questions
- I don't know what kind of book I want to write.
- Good. That's the problem this was built for. Turning up with nothing but a feeling is the normal starting position, and it's a better one than turning up with a plan you've talked yourself into.
- Will it write the book for me?
- No, and it won't offer to. It asks questions, reflects your answers back and helps you see the shape. The words are yours to write, which is the only way they'll be worth reading.
- Do I need an account or a card?
- No card, ever, for this. You only create a free account when you want to save the work - and that account comes with 1,000 credits, also free.
- How long does it take?
- Most people get somewhere useful in twenty minutes. You can stop and come back; your answers wait for you.
- What happens to what I tell it?
- It stays private. Your link is personal, your answers are yours, and nothing you write is used to sell anything to anybody.
Discover the book you want to write
You do not need a title, a plan, or any idea where to begin. Ten minutes of questions and you will have a working idea, a likely reader and a possible chapter list.