Author Guide
Task recipes and reference notes for moving from manuscript setup to preview renders inside the BadgerLeaf workspace.
Task recipes
Add sound cues
Attach simple start or end audio cues to a manuscript block.
Asset reference maintenance
Fix missing assets, soft-delete and restore assets, and migrate manuscript references.
Configure narration voices
Set narrator defaults and optional spoken-dialog voices before rendering.
Create a book and manuscript
Add a book and a manuscript manually when you want to start inside BadgerLeaf.
Edit a manuscript
Work in the manuscript editor without losing the publishing structure around the text.
Find and download render outputs
Locate completed render jobs and their available downloads in Job Status.
Import a manuscript
Bring markdown or plain text into a book manuscript.
Navigate the Explorer
Use the Explorer to move between projects, books, manuscripts, and settings.
Project package import and export
Move project packages through queued import and export workflows.
Recommended first workflow
Move through the smallest complete manuscript-to-preview path.
Render a short preview
Use a small render to validate voice, cue, and manuscript structure choices.
Render snippets and block previews
Use small render dialogs to test text, selected blocks, voice, and cue behavior.
Start a new project
Create the project container that will hold books, manuscripts, assets, and settings.
Use chat while working
Choose between resource-bound chat, floating chat, and dedicated chat.
Concept reference
Account
The membership and ownership context for projects.
Account members and permissions
How account membership, invitations, roles, and scoped permissions work together.
Account settings
Account-level collaboration settings.
Account, project, book, and manuscript
How the main writing objects fit together.
Agent review jobs
Queue a background manuscript review using one of your ready agents.
AI assistant settings
Guidance fields that shape assistant behavior for an account, project, book, or manuscript context.
Artwork and image settings
How image assets are selected, sized, and reused for book, manuscript, and inline output.
Asset picker dialogs
Choose ready project assets for artwork, inline images, and audio cues.
Assets
Uploaded project resources used by artwork, manuscript references, and sound cues.
Assets, voices, and effects
The supporting materials behind audiobook-oriented rendering.
Book
A book groups manuscripts and book-level publishing settings inside a project.
Book settings
Book-level overrides for one title inside a project.
Book-only and audio-only content
Understand why visual and spoken versions of a passage may intentionally differ.
Chat agents
Configure and manage assistant agents used from chat surfaces.
Editor block, table, image, and link settings
Controls used by manuscript editor dialogs for selected content.
Effect preset settings
Reusable audio effect definitions used by sound cues and previews.
Effects and sound cues
Reusable audio effects and placed cues for audiobook production.
EPUB and audiobook output
How manuscript structure supports reader-facing and listener-facing output.
Explorer
The sidebar for projects, books, manuscripts, headings, and actions.
Manuscript
The editable source text that drives ebook and audiobook production.
Manuscript editor
The writing surface for the selected manuscript.
Manuscript settings
Manuscript-level publishing overrides, assistant guidance, and artwork choices.
Notifications and invitations
Review account invitations and other notifications that need a response.
Profile and visibility
Pen name and discoverability controls for your public-facing profile identity.
Project
A publishing effort that collects books, manuscripts, assets, voices, and render settings.
Project and book heading settings
How heading defaults drive section rhythm, audio cues, and output tables of contents.
Project settings
The project-level defaults for render inputs, assets, voices, effects, and provider keys.
Pronunciation settings
Reusable pronunciation rules for names, invented terms, and other TTS-sensitive words.
Provider key manager
Project-scoped provider keys used by rendering and assistant integrations.
Render job
The async process that turns selected manuscript content into generated artifacts.
Voices
Narration settings for text-to-speech output.
Workspace
The authenticated writing surface where author work happens.
Troubleshooting
A render failed
Use render job details to find the narrowest actionable failure.
An audio asset is not ready
Understand why an uploaded asset may not be usable immediately.
I cannot find a project, book, or manuscript
Check account context and the Explorer before recreating missing work.
Import is still processing
What to check when an imported manuscript has not become ready.
Live updates or chat are offline
What to do when realtime workspace behavior is unavailable.
Token inspector
Inspect decoded browser tokens when debugging authentication and audience issues.