How it works
How Vellumwise works
One life. Many perspectives. A story worth following.
The shape of a series
- A real question. Each series starts from a problem people genuinely face — repaying debt, passing a resit, a redundancy, caring for a parent.
- A believable protagonist. One person with constraints, relationships and something to lose, followed across several books.
- A fictional council. Original characters with different expertise and temperaments examine the problem and disagree in good faith.
- Consequences. The protagonist implements or questions their ideas, and the story follows what actually happens.
How the books are made
Vellumwise series are developed with the help of generative AI, including AI-generated prose, under the editorial direction of the Vellumwise publisher. Research, technical accuracy and continuity are checked before release; the fictional councils are not real professionals and nothing in the books is personal advice.
- Editorial direction. The publisher decides which series are made, how each is structured, and whether and when it is published.
- Research and checking. Before a series can be released, its technical, numerical and factual content must be checked against sources, and high-stakes subjects must pass a specialist review recorded with jurisdiction and date. No series has reached this stage yet.
- Release gates. Plot continuity, reader comprehension, sources and narrative quality must pass before a series is sold.
We don’t describe our books as human-written or as professionally human-edited unless that is documented for the specific title.