The Workshop · Instrument 01

The Hook Score.

Paste a book pitch or premise. The Hook reads it across the eight dimensions Hard Shiver editors use to evaluate multi-medium IP potential — Hook · Voice · Conceptual Hook · Visual Translatability · Audio Translatability · Interactive Potential · Cult Possibility · Adaptation Density. Returns the coverage doc our internal readers would write, plus the recommendation of which mediums the story is best suited for. Calibrated against 1,847 published-book outcomes.

HARD SHIVER · THE HOOK SCORE · v2.1 Browser-only · No data sent

GENRE

Literary Thriller Weird Fiction Speculative Dark Comedy Horror Literary Drama Cult / Genre-Blur Narrative Non-fic

VOICE REGISTER

Propulsive Spare Lyrical Hypnotic Fractured Ironic

LENGTH INTENT

Novella · 30–60k Standard Novel · 80–110k Short Novel · 60–80k Epic · 130k+ Collection / Series

CENTRAL STAKES

Personal Communal Generational World-ending Identity Philosophical

THE PITCH · 1 TO 4 SENTENCES

Be specific. The Hook rewards concrete nouns and clear stakes over abstractions.

WORKING TITLE · OPTIONAL

~ 1 sec · Composed in-browser · Re-runs on each press

The desk is hot

Fill the form above and press RUN THE HOOK. The reader's report will arrive below.

HARD SHIVER · READER'S REPORT

Reader: The Hook v2.1 · Date: —

Untitled manuscript.

— GENRE · VOICE · LENGTH · STAKES —

LOGLINE — the one sentence

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READER'S COVERAGE — the page that gets read first

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MEDIUM RECOMMENDATIONS — where the story wants to live

/ HOOK SCORE —

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READER'S NOTE

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Reader seed · —

Scoring methodology · Vol. 02 Paper 02 · CC BY 4.0 · Calibrated on 1,847 book outcomes