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Rain fell through the canopy. The path split ahead - two trails swallowed by the dark.
Your torch was almost out. Choose quickly.
Mama gripped a chicken by its clawed and wrinkled feet, headless over a yellow bucket, with blood dripping; thick and red from where its head had been, ruffled feathers littered the ground and stuck around the rim of the bucket, slick and shiny. That musty smell which came when you dipped a bird in warm water filled the air, and mama looked like a sangoma; her hands covered in blood and tufts of...
Variables, conditions, player input, effects on choices - all compiled into a single EPUB that runs anywhere LazyReader is installed.
Chapters, a full TOC, cover art, fine-grained typography control. Import your manuscript from Word or start from scratch.
Create a free account in seconds. Then pick your mode - Interactive Story for branching fiction with choices and variables, or Book for a clean chapter-based ebook.
The scene list sits on the left - add, reorder, and mark any scene as the start. Each scene has a narrative body and a choices panel where you link to other scenes, creating your branching structure.
Define named variables - numbers, text, flags. Apply effects on choices to modify them, then gate other choices behind conditions. The reader's decisions shape what they see next.
{{playerName}}text—{{courage}}number3{{hasKey}}flagfalseAttach images, audio, and video to any scene using inline markers. Switch a scene to Player Input to collect reader text, or to Ending to close a story branch. Add time limits and validation as needed.
Toggle into Preview mode on any scene to see it exactly as a reader will - rendered narrative, choices, conditions evaluated, variables interpolated, and your theme applied.
Rain fell through the canopy. The path split ahead - two trails swallowed by the dark. Your torch was almost out. Choose quickly.
Bring in an existing EPUB or Word document - LazyAuthor maps it to scenes or chapters automatically. When you're done, export builds a fully playable EPUB 3 file entirely in the browser. No server. No wait.
LazyAuthor is free to use. Just Sign up, choose your format, and you're good to go. Simple. Fast.