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From the last draft to the world.

Bring your editor, agent, publisher, producer or early readers into one room around the work. Only you change the writing.

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The Launch Room on a desktop monitor
The ScriptoriumLaunch Room in the Scriptorium menuChoosing a project to start a roomThe room's first page
01In your Scriptorium, open Launch Room.
02Choose the project and start its room.
03Your room opens on its first page.
04Everything for the book, in one place.

A room for the book.

SUBMISSIONS

Drafts out. Notes back.

Send the whole manuscript or chosen chapters for structural notes, a line edit, proofreading or reader feedback. Readers comment or suggest edits right on the text.

FINALS

Keep the approved files together.

The versions signed off for use, from the final manuscript and cover to the print interior and press release.

SCHEDULE

A schedule everyone can work from.

Meetings, deadlines and tasks in a list or month calendar, in each person's time zone. Or build the whole plan back from publication day.

MARKETING

Plan around publication day.

Marketing activities, dates and who does what, with four starter plans to help you begin.

CONVERSATIONS

Conversations that stay with the work.

A general channel, smaller channels for an edit, cover or publicity, or a direct message.

IN THE ROOM

The right people, with the right access.

Invite your editor, agent, publisher, designer or beta readers by name or email. Each role sees only what it needs.

Drafts out. Notes back.Keep the approved files together.A schedule everyone can work from.Plan around publication day.Conversations that stay with the work.The right people, with the right access.

A room for the script.

DRAFTS

Give every draft the response it needs.

Ask for development notes, script editor notes, coverage, table read notes or sign-off.

COVERAGE

Bring the coverage together.

Each reader gives a verdict, Pass, Consider or Recommend, with ratings for premise, structure, character, dialogue and market.

PRODUCTION PACK

Keep track as the script moves into production.

Lock a draft, send revised pages with changed lines marked, and keep the script, casting, locations and legal documents together.

PITCH PAGE

A pitch page you can share.

A small website for the project, built section by section. People read it without a Karde account.

PITCHING

Keep track of where the work has gone.

Move each pitch from preparing to sent to a response, and add the competitions, festivals and funding you are going for.

SERIES

A room for the series, or one episode.

Start a room for the whole series, or keep one for a single episode.

Give every draft the response it needs.Bring the coverage together.Keep track as the script moves into production.A pitch page you can share.Keep track of where the work has gone.A room for the series, or one episode.

The writing is yours. The room is for everyone who helps it out into the world.

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