Readers · Writers
Buy a book and it remains yours for good. Join as a reader to explore the wider Pen & Muse library — or enter the Studio to write, finish and publish books of your own.
For readers
Books are bought on their own pages and are yours regardless of anything here. Most readers who want the library choose Explorer.
For readers who want the complete Pen & Muse library.
£9.99/ month
Monthly fuel for about 2–3 full evenings inside the stories
For readers who want every sensory layer switched on.
£19.99/ month
Monthly fuel for about 7–8 full evenings, with the lights on
A free account gives you the dispatches and a sample of the living editions. No card required.
Dispatch+ gives you every premium dispatch and the complete archive for £4.99 a month — a pure reading membership, no fuel.
For writers
Pen & Muse Studio is the complete literary production environment — the desk our own catalogue is made at. Plan the world, draft the manuscript, diagnose what is failing, create its media, export a professional edition and carry it to the Pen & Muse gate.
Studio membership includes the full Immersion reader membership — the library, the living editions, scenes read aloud, and its monthly fuel. One membership; every room of the house.
£24.99/ month
Includes 5,000 ink each month. Cancel anytime.
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Concept Studio, outlines, the chapter board, and a living world canon that remembers your characters, places and laws as you write.
Drafting routes, rewrites and continuations that know the whole manuscript — not just the paragraph under the cursor.
Story Check, Name Guard, continuity, narrative pressure and prose diagnostics. Every note is a proposal; nothing changes unless you approve it.
Covers and illustrations, keyframe film, scenes narrated in custom voices, and original typefaces from the Type Studio.
Page design against real trim sizes, then clean EPUB and PDF editions — yours to take anywhere.
Local-first, with cloud sync to your account, project history and recoverable versions.
A finished edition leaves the desk already structured for Pen & Muse. It walks through the same gate as every submission — a shorter road, not a bought shelf.
Bring a published work back to the desk for a new edition, with its world, history and media intact.
Side by side
Dispatch+ (£4.99/month) is the premium dispatches and the full archive alone — no living editions, no fuel.
For writers
The Studio is a creation environment, not a reader tier, so it is shown on its own terms. House images are included in all but name; fine images and film spend ink. Everything else is included with the membership.
Two measures
They are separate measures with separate gauges, and neither draws on the other. Nothing that ownership promised ever depends on either.
Fuel carries marathon evenings inside living editions, conversations in dispatches and scenes read aloud. Your membership refills it every month; reserve fuel waits in the tank and never expires — it is drawn on only after the monthly measure.
Drafting, editing, narration, page design and exports are included without measure. Ink is spent only on imagery and film, at the Studio’s standing rates — so each month’s 5,000 ink will make, for example:
Unused ink stays in your well. Top-ups add 5,000 ink at a time.
Questions
No — and you never will. Buying a book buys its interior for good: the download, the reader, and entry to its living edition, with nothing counting your visits. A membership adds the library around your shelf; it is never the price of what already sits on it.
Yes. Studio membership carries the full Immersion membership with it — the premium dispatches, living editions across the catalogue, scenes read aloud, saves and exports, and the same monthly fuel. A writer never needs a second membership to read.
Drafting, editing, narration, page design and exports are included without measure. Ink is spent only on imagery and film. House images — the press’s own models, with the house’s prompting behind them — cost 1 ink each, so a month’s 5,000 ink is thousands of them; or about 125 fine images; or 40 short film clips; or any mix.
Yes. Ink sits in your well until you spend it; each billing month adds to what is there. Monthly reader fuel refills rather than rolls over — but reserve fuel you top up never expires.
No. Fuel is the reader measure — it carries long evenings inside borrowed stories, conversations in dispatches, scenes read aloud. Ink is the Studio measure — it carries imagery and film made at the desk. Each has its own gauge and its own top-up, and neither draws on the other.
Nothing is lost. Your saves, worksheets and library stay exactly where they are — the borrowed doors simply rest until your gauge refills next month, or you can add reserve fuel at any time. Books you own are not affected at all.
Yes. Memberships replace one another — you hold one at a time, pro-rated on your next bill — but nothing you own or made moves: the books on your shelf, your saves, your Studio projects, your ink and any reserve fuel all stay put.
They remain yours. The Studio is local-first: your projects live on your machine and sync to your account, and you can export clean EPUB and PDF editions at any time. When the membership lapses, the desk’s editor and ink rest until you return; the manuscripts do not.
Yes. Editions you export are yours to take anywhere, and writing in the Studio asks no exclusivity. If you bring a finished work to the Pen & Muse gate it walks the same road as every submission — a real reading, a real answer.
Dispatch+ is pure reading patronage — premium dispatches, the full archive and subscriber-only series, with no fuel. Explorer includes all of that and opens the living side of the catalogue: the living editions, saves and replay.
Any time, and gracefully. A lapsed membership closes the borrowed doors — the library, the premium dispatches — but your saves are kept for your return, and the books you own never close. Ownership is not a subscription.
All plans billed in GBP · Cancel anytime · Owned books, saves and projects are never taken away