The Spine Ambassador program.
If you write a Substack on revision, edit other people's manuscripts, run a podcast on the working life of authors, or teach the craft anywhere with an audience that listens, we want you on Spine.
Pro is yours for as long as you are using the tool, with no card on file and no contract. We don't pay you to post. We don't draft your copy. The only thing we ask is that when you mention us, the words are yours, and that you tell your readers what Spine catches and what it misses with the same care you bring to everything else you publish.
- ·Pro at no cost while you are using the tool. No expiry, no card, no upgrade prompt in the corner.
- ·Unlimited manuscripts. The brief, the plot graph, the cast network, the in-voice character chat. The full instrument.
- ·Early access to anything we are testing. Including the half-broken things, where your eye is most useful to us.
- ·A standing line into the roadmap. When we are designing a surface for the first time, we want craft people in the room before the engineers.
- ·Use Spine on your own work, or on manuscripts you are editing. Not as a favour to us, as a working tool.
- ·Write or speak about it on whatever surface you already have, when you have something honest to say. Not on a schedule.
- ·When something breaks, tell us before you tell anyone else. We fix it inside a week if we can.
- ·If your audience moves on or the tool stops fitting your work, say so and we close the seat. No awkwardness.
Tell us where your readers come from and what you'd do with Spine.
We are reading for craft people, not influencers. Three thousand readers who came for your essays on revision are worth more to us than a hundred thousand who came for anything else. If your audience trusts you on structure, querying, the working life, that is the trust we are looking to borrow.
This is not sponsored content. We do not draft your copy, vet your posts, or ask for approval before you publish. If we ever ask you to soften a piece of criticism or time a post around a launch, the deal is off and the seat is yours.
The program works only if your audience can tell that what you are writing is in the same voice you write everything else. If a single post smells like a campaign, we have failed.