HOW IT WORKS
From an idea to a finished book
The whole thing is a conversation with a few questions in it. Here is every step, including the one that most people are surprised by.
1. Build a small cast
Start with your child. Their name, their age, and a line about what they love at the moment, because a book about a five year old who is deep into diggers should have a digger in it. Add whoever else belongs: a sibling, a best friend, a grandmother, a pet, an invented creature. Describe them in your own words and we draw them, or upload a photo and we work from that. Everyone you save is kept, so the second book takes half as long as the first.
2. Choose the shape of the story
Type one line about what should happen, or pick a kind of story if nothing comes to mind: an adventure, a gentle one for a hard week, a bedtime wind-down, a first day somewhere new. Then set the age, the length, and the art style. The age is the important one, and it changes more than you would think.
3. Read the words first
This is the step people do not expect. Infinight writes the whole story and stops. You get the full text, page by page, with the instructions for each picture underneath it. Rewrite a line, correct a name, adjust what a picture should show, or decide the whole idea was wrong and start again. Nothing has been drawn and nothing has cost anything yet.
4. Make the pictures
When the words are right, you press the button, and that is the point at which the book gets drawn. Every character was given a reference sheet first, so the same child, the same dog and the same kitchen show up consistently across the pages instead of drifting into someone else by the end.
5. Read it together
Turn the pages on a phone or a tablet, with the pictures full-bleed for the youngest listeners. Tap to have it read aloud, in a chosen narrator's voice or in one you recorded yourself. The screen stays awake while you read, because a book that dims halfway down a page is not a book.
6. Keep it, send it, print it
Download it as an EPUB for an e-reader or as a PDF for the printer. Send a link to a grandparent, who needs no account to open it. Publish it for other families to read, if you want to, with your child's real name swapped for one you choose.
And then the next one
The cast, the places and the art style are all saved. The second book starts with everyone already in it, so it is mostly a matter of deciding what happens this time.
Tonight's story could have her name in it
It takes about ten minutes to make the first one, and you keep it whether or not you ever pay us a cent.
No card, no password. One book to keep, whatever you decide after.