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.

Reading the rows

A series appears as a heading with its books listed beneath it in order. A standalone book gets a row of its own. On a series heading you'll find:

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, moving to another series or pen name, archiving, or deleting for good.

Each book row has the same … menu, plus Open book. Clicking a title opens it in the editor.

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.