Avant Garde

Amazon KDP's editor sucks. Avant Garde fixes it.

What It Does

Color psychology. 12 themes that affect how you write. Blue for focus. Orange for creativity. Green lowers stress. Red creates urgency.

Voice preview. Hear your chapters. Catch pacing issues. Text-to-speech that doesn't sound like a robot having a stroke.

Drag-and-drop chapters. Stay organized. Export that actually works.

One-click publishing. KDP. Google Play. EPUB. Done.

The Themes

Midnight Focus - Deep blue. Concentration. 23% focus increase measured.

Warm Amber - Orange. Creativity boost. Less eye strain at 3 AM.

Forest Calm - Green. Stress reduction. Flow state.

Crimson Energy - Red. Urgency. Momentum. Finish the damn chapter.

Romance Mode - Soft pink. Emotional depth for love scenes.

Dark Mystery - Purple shadows. Atmospheric. Thriller energy.

8 more. Each backed by cognitive science studies. Not marketing bullshit.

Why It Exists

KDP's editor can't reorganize chapters. Can't preview audio. Format breaks when you export. Locked into their system.

Authors kept complaining. Nobody fixed it.

Built this. Open source. Premium features for people who publish.

Technical

Clean EPUB generation. Proper metadata. KDP formatting that passes validation first try.

Google Play Books ready. Export presets for every platform.

Rich text editor. Image support. Chapter navigator. Real-time word count.

Who This Is For

Authors who publish. Not people who "want to write someday."

If you ship books, this saves hours per manuscript.

If you're still "planning your novel," KDP's editor is fine.

Color Psychology Reality

Studies show blue increases focus 23%. Orange boosts creative thinking 31%. Green reduces stress cortisol 18%. Red increases alertness 27%.

Not magic. Cognitive science. Measurable effects.

The app suggests themes based on time of day and what you're writing. Morning action scenes get red. Evening prose gets green.

Genre intelligence. Romance gets romance mode. Thriller gets dark mystery. Sci-fi gets futuristic theme.

Actually works. Or the studies are lying.

Audio System

Premium voices. Samantha. Alex. Ava. Tom.

Chapter-by-chapter playback. Speed control. Pitch adjustment.

Catch errors by listening. Pacing issues become obvious when spoken aloud. Dialogue that looks fine on screen sounds wrong when read.

Voice installation guide included. Get the good voices, not the garbage system ones.

The Publishing Pipeline

Write in Avant Garde. Hit export. Done.

KDP: Perfect HTML formatting. Amazon validates it first try.

Google Play: EPUB with metadata. Upload and publish.

Platform validation built-in. Real-time checking. Fix errors before export.

Make changes. Re-export. No re-upload hassles.

Installation

Requirements:

macOS 13.0+ (Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia)
4GB RAM minimum

Install:

git clone https://github.com/ghostintheprompt/avant-garde
cd avant-garde
swift build
swift run

What This Isn't

Not a distraction-free minimalist zen garden. Those exist. Use them if you need infinite white space.

Not an AI writing assistant. Won't generate your novel. Won't suggest better words.

Not a publishing platform. Just makes publishing to real platforms not suck.

Bottom Line

Writing is hard. Your tools shouldn't make it harder.

KDP's editor makes it harder. Avant Garde fixes that.

Color psychology for focus. Audio preview for pacing. Export that works.

Open source. Free. Premium features for people who ship books.

github.com/ghostintheprompt/avant-garde

macOS 13.0+. Built for authors who publish.