A book format

Somebody had to think of it. That was the hard part.

A neopulp is a book whose premise, structure and ending belong to a person, and whose sentences were written by a machine at that person's instruction. The idea is the authorship. It always was.

One big premise, followed all the way.

The promise every neopulp makes

Idea-first fiction

One premise, taken seriously, followed to the end. Not a genre — a way of deciding what a book is for. The concept carries the weight the prose style used to.

Said out loud

Every neopulp names how it was made, on the title page, in the same size as the byline. Not a disclaimer at the back. A credit at the front.

Nobody's brand

There's no publisher here. The mark is free to apply to your own book if you keep the promise and print the credit. That's the whole membership test.

“It's a
neopulp.”

Lowercase, with an article, like a novel, a zine, a podcast. Plural: neopulps. The word is a common noun and belongs to everyone using it — that's the point, and it's why nobody trademarks it.

NOT “A NEOPULP™ BOOK” · NOT “NEOPULP-STYLE” · NOT “AI-ASSISTED”

The credit line

Required · title page · byline scale

The Salt
Cathedral

Seeded by

Marielle Okonjo

NEOPULP

The premise, structure and direction of this book are hers. The sentences were written by a machine at her instruction.

Set it exactly like this

Seeded by [your name]

The premise, structure and direction of this book are [hers / his / theirs]. The sentences were written by a machine at [her / his / their] instruction.

WHY IT'S FIRSTA disclosure at the back reads as something you were caught at. At byline scale on the title page it reads as what it is — a claim on the part that was hard.

WORDS TO AVOID“AI-assisted”, “co-created”, “in collaboration with”, and anything that begins “While some may…”. Hedging is the only thing that actually looks like shame.

Apply the mark

Three rules, then it's yours to use

RULE 01

Keep the promise

One big premise, followed all the way. If the book pads, hedges, or abandons its premise halfway, the mark is a lie and readers will price it in.

RULE 02

Print the credit

“Seeded by [name]” on the title page, at byline scale, with the two sentences underneath. Front of book, not back.

RULE 03

Don't redraw it

Use the supplied files. The keyline and wordmark may take your cover's text colour; the acid square never changes and the stamp never rotates. Full rules →

YOUR IMPRINT

Your Title Here

Your Name

NEOPULP

DARK COVER → BADGE, KEYLINE IN
YOUR TEXT COLOUR

YOUR IMPRINT

Your Title Here

Your Name

NEOPULP

HUMAN IDEA · MACHINE PROSE

CALM COVER → COMPACT STAMP,
ROOM FOR THE DISCLOSURE

YOUR SERIES

YOUR TITLE HERE

YOUR ARTWORK

YOUR NAME

NEOPULP

BUSY COVER → BADGE ON A SOLID
STOCK FIELD, NEVER KEYLINE-ONLY

Any corner, any edge, any of the three sizes. The mark is not the publisher and never sits above the title in the reading order.

Never: recolour or resize the acid square, rotate or arch the stamp, outline or shadow it, or set it larger than the author's name.

Take the files

Eight SVGs and matching 4× PNGs. Free to use on any book that keeps the promise and prints the credit — no permission, no registration, no fee. Click any tile to download the SVG; the PNG link sits beneath it.

Read the rules →

Which file, and when