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Scott McQueen

LuminScript · Founder · AI book writing

AI-assisted book writing from conversation, typing, documents and handwriting.

1. Outcome

Helps anyone write a real book with AI: by talking, typing, uploading a document or photographing pages of handwriting.

2. The problem

Memoirs, family cookbooks and handwritten manuscripts sit unfinished in drawers.

3. My responsibility

Founder and sole owner. I directed the build with Claude Code.

4. What was built

  • Seven kinds of book, including memoir, cookbook and "shoebox", where an existing handwritten manuscript is transcribed and typeset.
  • Chapter-by-chapter interviews, dictation in the browser and Word import.
  • A page-turning reader, three versions of each chapter and full version history.
  • Editor invites, and PDF and EPUB export.
Home page of LuminScript
The live site, captured 1 Oct 2026

5. AI and controls

  • Claude Haiku asks the follow-up questions.
  • Claude Sonnet transcribes handwriting. Testing showed the cheaper model misread handwriting without flagging it, so I moved the job up a tier.
  • Claude Opus writes the prose and re-checks the pages the transcriber flags.

6. Evidence

588

automated back-end tests

Source: test suite, 1 Oct 2026

73

commits from July to September 2026

Source: git history, 1 Oct 2026

7. Technical implementation

Next.js, React, Tailwind, Supabase, FastAPI, Railway, Vercel

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