Publishing Your Creations

Who Can Publish

Publishing to the Genesis Writer Marketplace requires a paid subscription. Any user on the Writer, Creator, or Professional plan can publish their creations for the community to discover and use.

Starter (free) users can browse and add marketplace items to their library, but they cannot publish their own. If you're on the Starter plan and want to share your work, upgrading to Writer unlocks publishing along with all other subscriber features.

What You Can Publish

Four types of creations can be published to the Marketplace:

The Publishing Flow

Publishing follows the same pattern for all four item types. You create the item first, then set its visibility to make it available to the community.

Step 1: Create Your Item

Use the creation wizard for whichever item type you want to publish. Each type has its own wizard:

• Styles — the 5-step wizard (Intent, Basics, Prompts, Illustration, Publish). See Creating Custom Styles.
• Characters — the 4-step wizard (Intent, Identity, Portrait, Publish). See Creating Characters.
• Plugins — the 4-step wizard (Intent, Details, Prompts, Publish). See Creating Custom Plugins.
• Beta Readers — the creation flow with persona definition, focus areas, and portrait. See Creating Custom Beta Readers.

Fill in all required fields and take time to craft a compelling name, description, and tagline. These are the first things other users see when browsing, and they heavily influence whether someone adds your item to their library.

The final step in every creation wizard lets you set visibility

Step 2: Set Visibility

The final step in every creation wizard includes a visibility setting. This controls who can see and use your item:

For styles, there's an additional prompt visibility toggle. Setting prompts to Visible lets other users read your pipeline prompts, which is valuable for educational purposes and building community trust. Setting them to Hidden means users can use your style but can't see how it works under the hood.

Step 3: Submit to Marketplace

Click Create (or Save if editing an existing item) to finalize your submission. If visibility is set to Public or Curated, your item appears on the Marketplace immediately.

For Curated submissions, the Genesis Writer team reviews the item for quality and completeness. If approved, it receives featured placement on the Marketplace hub. This review process doesn't block access — curated items are publicly visible while under review, and featured status is added afterward.

Marketplace Guidelines

To maintain a high-quality marketplace experience for everyone, published items must follow these guidelines:

• Original work. Everything you publish should be your own creation. Don't republish other users' items or copyrighted material.
• Accurate descriptions. Your item's name, tagline, and description should honestly represent what it does. Don't use misleading titles.
• Quality effort. Items should be functional and useful. Placeholder content, empty prompts, or broken configurations will be removed.
• Appropriate content. Items must comply with Genesis Writer's content policy. Items that promote hate, harassment, or illegal activity will be removed.
• No spam. Don't publish large numbers of nearly-identical items to flood the marketplace. Quality over quantity.

Managing Published Items

After publishing, you retain full control over your items. You can:

• Edit — update the name, description, prompts, or any other field. Navigate to the item's detail view and click Edit. Changes take effect immediately for new users who add the item.
• Unpublish — switch visibility back to Private to remove the item from the Marketplace. Users who already added it to their library keep their copy, but no new users can discover it.
• Delete — permanently remove the item from your account and the Marketplace. This action cannot be undone.

Edits to a published item do not automatically update copies in other users' libraries. When someone adds your item, they get a snapshot of the current version. If you make significant improvements, users would need to remove and re-add the item to get the updated version.

Manage your published items — edit, change visibility, or remove at any time

Ratings & Feedback

Once your item is public, other users can rate it on a five-star scale. You can see your item's average rating and total number of ratings from its detail view.

Ratings are anonymous — you'll see the numbers but not who rated. Use the feedback to gauge how well your item resonates with the community:

• High ratings (4–5 stars) indicate strong quality and usefulness.
• Lower ratings suggest room for improvement. Consider updating your prompts or description.
• A high number of library adds with a strong rating is the best indicator of a successful marketplace item.

Tips for Creating Popular Items

The most successful marketplace items share a few common traits. Here's what sets them apart:

• Solve a real problem. The best styles, plugins, and beta readers address a specific writing challenge. “A style for writing tense courtroom scenes” is more compelling than “a general writing style.”
• Write a great description. Your description is your pitch. Explain what the item does, who it's for, and what makes it different from the defaults. Be specific about the results users can expect.
• Choose an evocative name. “Midnight Ink” tells you more than “My Dark Style.” The name should hint at the experience.
• Add a portrait or illustration. Items with visuals get significantly more attention than those with default placeholders. For styles, generate an ink illustration. For characters, create a portrait.
• Test thoroughly. Run your style with multiple models, try your plugin on different text types, and test your beta reader on various genres. Make sure it works well across a range of inputs before publishing.
• Share your prompts. For styles, setting prompt visibility to Visible builds trust and often earns higher ratings. Users appreciate knowing how a style works and being able to learn from your pipeline design.