The Writer's Desk · for every Christian with a book in them
You have a book in you. This is the desk where it gets written.
You pour what God has shown you, in your own words, rough and unfinished. The Desk shapes it into chapters, edits it with you, checks every verse, translates it into Portuguese and Spanish, sends it to readers you trust for their words, and publishes it through Beyond Book Studio, where your church, your friends and anyone else can buy it.
1 · You pour
Type it, or speak it. Sermon notes, a verse that stopped you, a story from your life, half a thought at midnight. Nothing is too rough. The Desk keeps every word in your vault.
2 · The Desk shapes and edits
Your thoughts are organized into chapters that flow, one idea upon the last. Drafts come back in your voice, never a generic one. A developmental editor, a line editor, a copy editor, a fact-checker and a proofreader each pass through, and you approve every change. Nothing is final until you say so.
3 · Reviewed, translated, published
Pastors and scholars you choose read it before anyone else and write the words that go inside the book. It is finished in English, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Then Beyond Book Studio publishes it: the Reading Shelf, the Bookstore, a paperback, an audiobook in your own voice.
Never written a book?
You do not need to know how. You need to know what you carry.
Most of the people this house is for have never written a book: pastors who preach every week, teachers, missionaries, mothers and fathers who have a testimony that keeps helping people. The desk does not ask for a manuscript. It asks for what you already have: what you preach, what you have lived, the verse that will not let you go. You pour it in your own words. The desk asks you questions, organizes your answers into chapters, drafts them in your voice, and hands them back for you to make yours. If you can tell it to a friend across a table, you can write it here.
What you keep, what you agree to
- Your words are yours.
- The copyright of your book stays with you. Beyond Book Studio receives the exclusive right to publish and sell it, in every format and language, for an agreed term, and pays you a royalty on every sale: the majority of the net on direct digital sales, half on print. Rights return to you if the book is not published or stops selling.
- The Desk is used, not copied.
- The Desk, its agents and everything that makes it work belong to Beyond Book Studio. You receive a personal desk, named after you, to write your books in. It cannot be copied or taken elsewhere, and it is not for anyone else's books.
- Your own Claude account.
- The Desk writes with Claude. To use it you create an account with Claude AI (claude.ai) and use the Desk through it, so the AI work you do is billed to you and only to you, never shared and never charged by us. A Claude Pro subscription is enough for a book.
- Images: yours, or made with your own AI account.
- Covers, chapter openers and any picture inside the book come either from images you upload, which the Desk places where they belong, or from images you generate with your own Google Gemini account. Like the writing, the images you make are billed to you, never to us. The Desk writes the prompts and lays the pages out; the accounts are yours.
- Published only here.
- Books written at the Desk are published and sold through Beyond Book Studio. Short excerpts for preaching, teaching and promotion are yours to use freely; we want your book preached.
- An agreement, signed once.
- When your application is accepted you receive the author agreement to read and sign electronically. It says, in plain words, exactly what is on this page. Your desk opens the day it is signed.
- What it costs.
- During the opening season the Desk itself costs nothing; you carry only your own Claude account. Beyond Book Studio earns when your book sells.
Apply for a Writer's Desk
Tell us who you are and what the book is. The studio reads every application and answers personally.