Verso
An open book for young authors

Your imagination,
in ink.

The next generation of authors.

Verso is where young writers turn wild ideas into real, finished books — with Madie, your AI writing companion, from blank page to back cover.

Free to begin · Safe by design · Ages 9–20
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01
The Editor
Your words, exactly as you wrote them
YOUR VOICE
Nothing ever rewrites a sentence without your permission. Every word stays yours.
AUTOSAVE
Close the lid, pick it back up. Every keystroke is saved the moment you type it.
CHAPTERS
Build your book one piece at a time — drag, rename and reorder as the story grows.
FOCUS MODE
Hide every panel and let the story fill the screen when you're in the zone.
Iza's Book — Chapter 3 · The Forest
CHAPTERS
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
CHAPTER 3 · THE FOREST

The trees stood silent as Iza crept between them, her lantern casting long shadows across the moss.

Something was watching. She could feel it in the way the branches stopped moving, even as the wind still blew.

02
Meet Madie
Your AI writing companion
SHE READS
Madie reads your chapter before she says a word. No generic advice, ever.
SHE ASKS
"What does the river smell like?" — questions that pull the story out of you.
SHE WAITS
Madie only appears when you call her. The rest of the time, the page is just yours.
SHE ADAPTS
A gentle spark at 9, a sharper editor at 17 — Madie grows with your writing.
Iza's Book — Madie is here

The trees stood silent as Iza crept between them, her lantern casting long shadows across the cold moss.

Something was watching. She could feel it in the way the branches stopped moving.

M
MADIE
"What does the forest smell like to Iza right now — wet leaves, pine, or something stranger?"
Write to Madie…
03
Brainstorm & Craft
Ideas, never answers
BRAINSTORM
Throw out a spark and Madie fans it into options. You take the flame you want.
HIGHLIGHT
Select a line and ask how else it could go. Keep what fits, drop the rest.
CHARACTERS
"What is she afraid of?" — questions that help you discover your own cast.
WORLDVIEW
Rules for your world stay in Madie's memory so she never breaks them by accident.
Ideas Board — Chapter 3
Brainstorm
4 IDEAS FROM MADIE
01The dragon remembers her from a dreamKEEP
02A secret door hidden behind the waterfall
03The old woman knows Iza's grandmother
04Her lantern was never really hers to keep

Why we built Verso

From frustration to product
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FINISVERSO IS BORN
The idea

What if we
built this for her?

What if there was something that could help her write — without writing it for her? Help her brainstorm, research, discover — without taking over. Without spying. With our guardrails already in place, and her voice completely, permanently protected.

That question became Verso.

FREE TO BEGIN · SAFE BY DESIGN · AGES 9–20
✦ VERSO ✦
HOW VERSO WAS BORNIZA'S STORY
The beginning

8 months.
One story.

Iza spent eight months writing a book. Not a page, not a chapter — a real, finished book. Written sentence by sentence, scene by scene, in the quiet before school and the long hours after. A whole world, pulled entirely from her imagination.

HER BOOKA full-length story, written with the kind of sustained focus most adults struggle to find.
HER WORDSEvery sentence hers — not a template, not a prompt. A world she invented from scratch.
HER TIMEEight months of mornings and evenings poured into a single, stubborn dream.
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CHAPTER IFRAN & TALY
Two very tech-savvy parents

ChatGPT.
Gemini.

We are Iza's parents — Fran and Taly. Proud of her in every way, and completely lost in what came next. Fortunately, we're both very tech-savvy. So we turned to the tools we knew best and spent countless hours trying to edit her book without losing what made it hers.

CHATGPTHelpful — but it wanted to rewrite everything its own way. Iza's voice kept disappearing.
GEMINISame problem. Great at language. Not great at protecting a child's particular, irreplaceable voice.
THE STRUGGLEFighting to keep it hers, while every tool wanted to make it 'better' — and wrong.
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CHAPTER IITHE FORMAT
Adobe Captivate. Months of it.

Margins.
Gutters. Bleed.

We formatted using Adobe Captivate. We learned typesetting, interior margins, exterior margins, bleed, gutter, chapter headers, font pairing, page layout — a mountain of decisions that had nothing to do with Iza's actual story.

Months of research into editing
Every expert had a different answer. Best practices shifted with every article we read.
Months of learning formatting
A whole profession's worth of knowledge — needed just to hold the book together on a page.
The deeper question
Why was all of this standing between a child's story and the rest of the world?
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CHAPTER IIIPUBLISHING
ISBN? Publisher? Amazon?

The questions
never ended.

Then came publishing. We spent months unraveling it. With every answer came three more questions.

Do we need a publisher?
Or could we self-publish? What does that even mean for a first book by a young author?
What is an ISBN?
How do you get one? Does a child author need one? Do we register it in her name?
How does Amazon work?
KDP, print-on-demand, royalties, categories — an entire industry hidden behind a single button.
And how do you actually sell it?
To strangers, not just family. That turned out to be a completely different rabbit hole.
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CHAPTER IVTHE GLITCH
The unexpected

All of it.
Gone.

Then the unexpected happened. A computer glitch. The formatting, the edits, the weeks of careful patient work — erased. We had to start from scratch.

The glitch
A single moment wiped everything we had built around Iza's story.
The grief
Iza cried. We sat in front of a blank screen and felt the full weight of it.
The reset
We started over. And this time, we started asking a very different kind of question.
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04
Polish & Review
Refine without losing your voice
PROOFREAD
Catches typos and repeated words, but leaves your voice exactly as you wrote it.
STORY NOTES
Pacing, tension, character moments — Madie shares what she noticed; you decide what matters.
ACCEPT OR IGNORE
Every note is a suggestion. No auto-correct, no silent rewrites. Always your call.
05
Safe by Design
Built for ages 9–20
PARENTAL CONTROL
Grown-ups stay fully in control without getting in the way of the writing.
PASSCODE
A guardian can put Madie behind a family passcode — there when it should be, paused when not.
TOPICS TO KEEP OUT
Add topics to block — Verso reads context, not just keywords.
GENTLE OVERSIGHT
Guardians get a flag with the message — not a full log of every word their child wrote.
06
Publish Your Book
From last word to first reader
BOOK COVER
Design a cover that turns heads — layouts, fonts and art styles to make it yours.
FORMATTING
Verso lays your chapters into a print-ready file. No design skills needed.
YOUR ISBN
We register a unique ISBN in your name so your book has an official identity on every shelf.
AMAZON
One click lists your book on Amazon worldwide — hardcover, paperback or ebook.
PRINTED & SHIPPED
Real copies, printed on demand and shipped straight to your door or your readers.
Madie's Notes — Chapter 3
3 NOTES · YOUR CALL ON EACH
PACING
The opening moves quickly — you might want a beat of stillness before Iza notices she's being watched.
ACCEPTIGNORE
TYPO
"even as the wind still blowed" → blew
ACCEPTIGNORE
WORD REPEAT
"silent" appears twice in three sentences. One could breathe a little more.
ACCEPTIGNORE
Pricing

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Every plan includes the full editor, Ideas board, cover design and publishing tools.

Verso
Everything a young author needs.
$19.95/mo
✦Unlimited books
✦Full Madie writing companion
✦Story reviews & proofreading
✦Cover design & publishing
✦Ideas board & chapter tools
✦Parental controls & safety
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Verso Together
Write side-by-side with friends.
$29.95/mo
✦Everything in Verso
✦Real-time co-writing
✦Shared story projects
✦Writing clubs & groups
✦Collaborative Ideas board
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