Your Shop. Your Stories.
Turn an empty shop into a cozy home for books, readers, and stories of your own. The Publisher’s Magic Bookshop brings together hands-on bookshop management, decorating, writing, and publishing in a warm coastal town.
Spend the morning arranging a new display, welcome readers through the door, then settle in to write a book that could find its way onto another player’s shelves.
Make Every Corner Your Own
Arrange shelves, furniture, plants, paintings, and displays to create a shop that feels like you. Find a home for that perfect reading chair, move a plant into the sunlight, and turn a bare room into a place readers will want to linger.
One Reader at a Time
Order books, unpack deliveries, and stock your shelves by hand. Set prices, ring up purchases, and manage the money that keeps the doors open. Put the day’s earnings toward fresh stock or the next addition to your shop.
Write. Design. Publish.
Take a seat at the writing desk and create a story of your own. Shape its cover in the Cover Studio, publish your finished book, and bring it to the shelf. Open it and read the pages you wrote—a little piece of your imagination, now part of the shop.
Friends & Fellow Booksellers
Step into other players’ bookshops, meet fellow booksellers, and see how they have made their spaces their own. Browse player-created titles, discover authors, and choose which stories belong in your collection and on your shelves.
A Little Magic Between the Pages
There is more to this world than buying and selling books. Reading, rare discoveries, and shared knowledge are at the heart of its magical side, which will grow alongside the shopkeeping and publishing systems throughout development.
Whether you are serving readers, finishing another chapter, or moving that last bookshelf into place, build a business—and a cozy corner of the world—that feels like yours.
Help shape the next chapter
Request access to the playtest and help bring our magical bookshop to life.
Make yourself at home, try your hand at bookselling, and share your feedback. Your ideas and discoveries will help shape The Publisher’s Magic Bookshop as it grows.
