Terms and software license
Version 1.4. Effective November 12, 2026. These terms govern the Novel Pillar writing service (formerly named Folio), a public beta operated by Venture Returns, 117 S Lexington St Ste 100, Harrisonville, MO 64701. Contact: help@venturereturns.com.
Your work
You keep your rights in manuscripts and references. Use Novel Pillar only for content that you own or have permission to edit. You authorize Novel Pillar to store, synchronize and back up your content as you select, so that Novel Pillar can provide its writing functions. This permission does not transfer ownership of your work. Novel Pillar does not use your work for advertising or for model training.
Software license
You may use Novel Pillar to write, manage references and export your content. This permission does not give you ownership of Novel Pillar's software or of third-party libraries. Do not bypass authentication, access the writing of another account, abuse provider services or interfere with the operation of the service.
Analysis and recovery
Analysis in your browser is advisory and can be incorrect. Review the cited evidence and decide which facts belong in your canon. Novel Pillar cannot find every plot hole, retcon or implied relationship. Cloud revision checks and device drafts reduce the risk of lost writing. Keep your own exports of valuable manuscripts. Novel Pillar confirms a save only after the cloud or the named provider acknowledges it.
Paid chapter reviews
When paid reviews are available to your account, you can request an AI editorial review of one saved chapter. Before you pay, Novel Pillar shows the scope and the price in US dollars. The price includes any sales tax, VAT or GST. A quote expires after 15 minutes. The price is set from the maximum model cost of the review: the greater of that cost divided by 0.75 and that cost plus $0.50, rounded up to the next cent.
Link, a Stripe service, processes the payment and acts as the merchant of record for the sale. Link's terms also apply to the payment, and your statement shows LINK.COM. Link can show and charge the price in your local currency, at an exchange rate that includes a conversion fee. You pay at checkout. If Novel Pillar does not deliver the review because it fails, is canceled, expires or cannot run, Novel Pillar refunds the full payment.
Review findings are advice. They can be wrong, and they never change your writing automatically. All sales of delivered reviews are final, and Novel Pillar does not give refunds, except where applicable law requires one. As merchant of record, Link can also issue a refund under its own policies or applicable consumer law. Novel Pillar can stop offering paid reviews at any time. A review that you already paid for stays available while your account exists.
Yearly subscription
Your account, sign-in and cloud sync are free. Writing past 1,000 words of chapter text in total, across all of your books, requires a subscription of $10 per year in US dollars. Notes, references and voice or style guidance do not count. The price includes any sales tax, VAT or GST. A guest draft counts toward the 1,000 words once it is in your account. If adding a guest draft to an existing account would raise the total above 1,000 words without a subscription, Novel Pillar refuses the transfer, and the draft stays in that browser. A guest draft is saved only in the browser where you typed it, until you add it to an account.
Without a subscription, you can still sign in, open and sync your writing, edit or delete text, restore earlier versions, export, back up to Google Drive and delete your account. Novel Pillar refuses only a save that raises your total above 1,000 words. Those new words stay on your device until you subscribe or remove them.
Link, a Stripe service, processes subscription payments and acts as the merchant of record. Link's terms also apply, and your statement shows LINK.COM. The subscription renews each year until you cancel it through Link. After you cancel, it stays active until the end of the year that you paid for. While Link retries a failed renewal payment, access continues to the end of the paid year. Deleting your Novel Pillar account cancels the subscription immediately, with no refund or credit for the unused part of the year. Novel Pillar does not refund a year that has started, except where applicable law requires one. Link can also issue a refund under its own policies or applicable consumer law.
Service and integrations
Novel Pillar gives no support service-level commitment. Network and provider failures can interrupt access. Google backups require your authorization, and an uncertain write can leave a document in your Drive. Google documents that already exist stay yours to manage after you delete Novel Pillar data. Novel Pillar can suspend the service for security or maintenance. Export is the supported way to move your content while the service is available.
Account controls
Settings provides writing export and deletion. Account deletion requires a fresh verified sign-in and can wait in a queue during an outage. Signing out does not erase cloud writing. These terms do not replace the terms of your Google account or of Link. They do not limit rights that applicable law does not allow you to waive.
Acceptance and changes
Account use requires your affirmative agreement to these Terms and your acknowledgment of the Privacy policy. Novel Pillar records the versions shown and server timestamps against your verified account. A material change requires new acceptance before ordinary use. Privacy access, export, deletion and sign-out stay available without accepting revised terms.
Revisions
1.4, November 12, 2026: the service name changes from Folio to Novel Pillar, at novelpillar.com, and a $10 yearly subscription is required to write past 1,000 words in total, with sign-in, sync, export and deletion always free.
1.3, November 10, 2026: public beta, operator identity, optional paid chapter reviews sold through Link as merchant of record, with a tax-inclusive price paid at checkout, a full refund when a review is not delivered, and no refunds for delivered reviews, and removal of the retired device editor.
1.2, October 15, 2026: recorded acceptance and access to privacy controls after policy changes.
1.1, October 14, 2026: added local AI editorial limitations and device requirements.
1.0, October 8, 2026: separate terms and license for the private authoring beta.