Spacejock Software (Simon Haynes)

Spacejock Software is the personal software label of Australian author and developer Simon Haynes. Haynes is best known in software circles as the creator and maintainer of the yWriter line of novel-writing applications (yWriter5, yWriter6), lightweight Windows tools designed specifically to help novelists break their work into scenes, chapters, characters and items for easier project management. The software is distributed as free/shareware from the Spacejock site and is accompanied by documentation, release notes and support information.

The site and project grew out of Haynes' dual career as a professional writer (author of the Hal Spacejock series and other fiction) and a hobbyist programmer who built tools to support his own writing workflow. Spacejock Software has historically focused on yWriter development and maintenance, releasing iterative updates, occasional mobile/companion utilities, and providing downloads and support pages from the main Spacejock site. The offerings are...