Education Layer
An optional real-world curriculum woven into every chapter — what the reader learns about the actual world while the fiction plays out.
What is the Education Layer?
Some novels teach while they entertain — climate science through solarpunk community practice, Victorian medicine through an apothecary's daily work, pipeline construction through a family living in its shadow. The Education Layer is how you declare that intention to Bespoke Books.
It is optional. Leave it disabled and your book runs with no educational mandates. Enable it when you want each chapter to carry a specific real-world lesson, scoped to one topic domain and delivered in a tone you control.
The three parts
Topic domain — The overall subject area for the whole book (one domain, not a chapter list). Specific domains produce specific prose: Victorian apothecary craft and botanical medicine rather than herbs.
Tone — How teaching appears on the page. Integrated: inside scene action and character knowledge, invisible as "education." Interstitial: brief standalone passages between beats, visible as education. Hybrid: integrated in scenes, plus one closing signpost sentence naming the real-world subject.
Chapter subjects — One specific lesson per chapter within the domain. Each should be a complete thought, not a label, and should build cumulatively across the book.
How Bespoke Books uses it
In the Composer Education tab, enable the layer, set your topic domain and tone, then build a curriculum (manually or with ✦ Build curriculum for all chapters). The pipeline renders an EDUCATION_LAYER section in your seed and expects a mandatory education beat per chapter when the layer is active — prose that delivers that chapter's subject in your chosen tone, without lecturing.