Seventy thousand words or it is not a book
Eight pen name titles got rebuilt as full books. Five are done. Three are still writing on the local machine.
I made a hard rule for this house. New Novelmate books target at least seventy thousand words. Short pamphlets pretending to be novels are out.
The eight Sproule Lit pen name titles that once sat as shorts got pulled, rebuilt as briefing packs, and sent through Novelmate again. The Orchard Gate. The Last Platform. A Quiet Hour. The Spare Signal. Fern and the Paper Boat. Those five already cleared the floor. One True Hour, The Exact Line, and The Weeknight Pot are still writing on the machine as I type this.
Local model. Markdown first. OpenRouter off for the run. Honest length on the page when they land. Coming soon until I approve a shop wall move. That last part still needs my explicit yes.
If you want the tool that does this, start at Novelmate.