Find your way around the Library

What the Library is for

The Library is home: every series and book you have, grouped under the pen names you publish them with. The line under the heading keeps count—series, books, words—and the search box finds a series or title by name. If you've set something aside, Show archived brings it back into view.

Screenshot: The Library with a pen name and a few series and books listed, showing the count line under the heading, the search box, the Bring in / Back up / Manage toolbar and the New series and New book buttons at the top right.

Reading the rows

A series appears as a heading with its books listed beneath it in order. Any omnibuses (boxed sets) made from it sit below its books, under an Omnibuses line. A standalone book gets a row of its own. On a series heading you'll find:

a small arrow at the left that folds the series shut, or opens it again;
the universe it belongs to, shown as a small tag you can click to open the universe's codex—or, if the series isn't in a universe yet but the pen name has some, a dashed + universe button to put it in one;
Add book and Import, which add a new book to this series;
a … menu for renaming, pinning it to the top, creating an omnibus (boxed set), changing its pen name and/or universe, archiving, or deleting for good.

Screenshot: One series heading in the Library with its books beneath it, showing the fold arrow, the universe tag, the Add book and Import buttons and the … menu.

Each book row has its own … menu: Open book, Rename book, Change series and/or pen name, and Archive book. Clicking a title opens it in the editor.

Pin and fold your series

With a lot of series, you can keep the ones you're working on close at hand:

Pin to top (in the series' … menu) moves it above the rest, marked with a small pin. Click the pin, or choose Unpin from top, to put it back. Pinned series keep their shelf order among themselves, and you can drag them to reorder.
Fold a series shut with the arrow beside its name, and its books are tucked away until you open it again. A search still finds books in a folded series.

Write remembers both with your account, so the Library looks the same the next time you open it, on any device.

Three groups of buttons, each with a label:

Bring in

Manuscript — a manuscript from Word, Markdown or plain text, as a new book.
Backup — a book's backup zip from Write, restored just as it was: over the book it came from, or as a new book.

Back up

All my books — every book you own, each as its own backup, in one zip. A good habit before anything big.

Manage

Pen names — the names you publish under, the universes their series share, and your About the Author bios.
Codexes — your universes and their codexes: the characters, places, factions and rules that a setting's series share.
Media library — every picture your books print, by book, series, universe, or all of them together.
Book lists — your catalogue as the back matter prints it, one list per pen name.

New series and New book

Both are at the top right. New book makes a standalone. A book that belongs in a series is added from that series' row instead, so it lands in the right place with its number. New series asks for a name, the pen name, and—if you like—a universe.

Archiving and deleting aren't the same thing

Archiving sets a book or series aside: it leaves the list but is kept safe, and Restore brings it back. Deleting for good is exactly that, and the menu will ask you to confirm before it does anything.