Your story. Your call.

01Your work stays yours

Operator: frwrd.team LLC, doing business as dks.studio. These proposed terms do not transfer ownership of your work. You must have the permissions needed for submitted prose, branches, artwork, translations, recordings, credits and collaborators’ contributions. Access to a file, image generator or synthetic voice does not establish every right needed to use it.

Keep authorship and AI-use declarations accurate. A pseudonym must not impersonate someone else. Keep relevant permission and license records. Origin labels do not certify copyright protection, originality or legal clearance.

02Five separate actions

1. Write locally. Ordinary editing and local export do not submit prose for publication. Keep a backup; local storage is not a guaranteed cloud backup.
2. Create a private review revision. You deliberately send a frozen copy of the manuscript, structure, metadata and declarations to the restricted service. This is separate from autosave and sign-in.
3. Compile. Booka checks and packages that exact revision. Human-authored text is not sent to a prose model for rewriting.
4. Prepare media. A separately approved narration request sends the frozen spoken text, including reachable alternatives, to ElevenLabs. An uploaded cover is stored for that release, not replaced with a generated image.
5. Add to the private test Library. A ready release is frozen and explicitly promoted to the owner-only catalog. This is not general-public publication.

The new combined in-app/media workflow is still undergoing release qualification. This page does not announce its availability in your installed build.

03A narrow proposed permission

After effective terms are approved and accepted, choosing an operation would give dks.studio nonexclusive permission to copy, store, validate, technically format and deliver the selected material only as needed for that private review or test operation. Necessary service providers would process it for those purposes. Synthetic narration requires separate authorization.

This proposed permission does not authorize public marketing of your manuscript, sale to unrelated parties, general-purpose model training or ownership transfer. It is not a promise about every provider’s own retention or training settings: those must be disclosed separately in the Privacy Policy.

Public distribution, paid access, creator payments and broader uses require a separately presented and accepted arrangement. No royalties, publication, exclusivity or minimum audience are promised.

04Voice, cover and cost approval

Approve only media you have the right to authorize. A synthetic narrator does not imply endorsement by a performer. Do not provide another person’s voice for cloning without permission. General human-recording upload and custom voice cloning are not offered by this private workflow.

Media preparation asks for explicit character and list-price exposure ceilings. Those are operational limits, not a consumer price, invoice or subscription. Cancellation can stop later stages but cannot reverse a provider request that already started.

05Corrections, withdrawal and deletion

Corrections create a new immutable revision instead of silently rewriting a saved playthrough. Delisting stops future discovery; it does not prove that previously downloaded copies were erased. Deleting a local draft does not delete cloud revisions, prepared assets, account records or provider history.

Withdrawal, cloud deletion, lawful retention and downloaded-copy treatment must be specified and tested before public submissions open. This draft does not create an indefinite retention right. Final terms need owner and qualified legal review, a working contact, age/territory decisions and deliberate versioned acceptance.

Also review the Content Rules, Reports & Appeals and AI labels.