For working authors
Import your manuscript straight from Scrivener. Hand each reader a private link. Read their reactions beside the sentences that caused them.
Chapter Twelve
The tide had already taken the letters when Mara reached the shore. She knelt anyway, pressing her palm to the wet sand as if the words might rise back through it.
Nobody had told her that grief could feel so much like reading — the going back, the rereading, the hoping it ends differently.
This line broke me. Whatever you do, don't cut it.
We don't read, mine, or train AI on your manuscript. EVER.It's your draft, we just help you share it!
Before you sign up, watch a full round. Delphine Marsh shares The Salt Archive with six readers, hears where the book holds and where it sags, and leaves with a plan for draft two.
The Salt Archive
by Delphine Marsh
✓ 24 chapters found
1 of 6Delphine compiles The Salt Archive in Scrivener and drops the .docx in.
Compile to .docx, .epub, or Markdown and import. Your chapter structure survives, and when you re-import a revision, every comment carries across to the new text.
Readers sign an NDA before they see a word: use ours, write your own, or switch it off. Links are private, revocable, and need no reader account.
Readers select a sentence and speak to it, tagged as character, plot, prose, loved it, or didn’t work. Each reader sees only their own.
Quick emoji reactions inline, plus your own end-of-chapter questions: How engaged were you? What do you think happens next?
A drop-off funnel per chapter, sentiment over the arc of the book, hot passages where readers converged, and every reader’s progress at a glance.
Mark each comment revise, mull over, or shelve. When the next draft is ready, your opted-in readers are one email away.
No dashboard clutter on the reader's side. A quiet serif page, their own margin, and nothing else. Your readers won't bounce off the software.
Try it — select a sentence.
Marguerite read the entries twice before she understood what her grandfather had been doing. He wasn’t recording the ships that vanished. He was recording the ones he had chosen not to save.
The light had never failed. That was the terrible thing. The light had never once failed.
She set the ledger down and did not, for a long while, pick it up again. Outside, the sea went on keeping its own accounts.
Retire the spreadsheet. If you publish on a schedule, DraftShare replaces the Google-Docs-and-tracker routine with one flow you repeat every book.
Drop in your compile, post one bulk link (50 spots) to your street team, and everyone signs your NDA on the way in.
A daily email with every new comment and reaction. The progress grid shows who’s actually reading without asking anyone.
Next book, bring your whole team across in one click: names, labels, and opted-in emails come along.
Most writing tools now feed on manuscripts. DraftShare doesn't. This is a tool for authors, built like a library reading room: what happens with your draft stays between you and the readers you chose.
Beta readers who love draft one are your first audience for draft two. DraftShare collects their emails for you, with their permission, and stays out of the way.
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The Salt Archive
by Delphine Marsh
1 of 4Readers land on the book page: title, pen name, and an NDA if Delphine wants one.
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