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Make an omnibus

Books and series

An omnibus is one book made of several of yours: a whole series in one volume, a box set of books...

Updated 3 hours ago by Malorie Cooper

Write, Outline and Preview

Writing

The editor has three ways of looking at your book, and you can flip between them at any time from...

Updated 4 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Front and back matter

Books and series

Front matter is everything before chapter one—the title page, the copyright page, a dedication, t...

Updated 4 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Find your way around the Library

Getting started

What the Library is for The Library is home: every series and book you have, grouped under the pe...

Updated 4 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Find your way around the editor

Getting started

Three parts to the screen It helps to think of the editor as three columns. On the left: your man...

Updated 4 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Publish an ebook (EPUB)

Publishing your book

This page walks through making your ebook: an EPUB file you can upload to Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Ba...

Updated 5 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Check your book before you publish

Publishing your book

Before Write makes your files, it looks the book over and tells you anything worth knowing—an una...

Updated 5 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Suggest changes instead of making them

Writing

This page is about the Writing and Suggesting switch at the top of the editor. In Writing, what y...

Updated 5 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Put a text-message exchange in a scene

Writing

What this is for Characters text each other, and a page of "Where are you?" she typed gets old fa...

Updated 5 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Put a full-page picture or a spread in a scene

Writing

This page is for giving a picture whole pages in the middle of a scene: a full-page illustration,...

Updated 5 days ago by AuthorTools Write

How an AI writes formatting into your scenes

Working with an AI

What this is for When an AI reads or writes a scene through Write's connector, it doesn't see but...

Updated 5 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Choose where a section appears: print, ebook or both

Books and series

Most front and back matter belongs in every edition of a book. Now and then, though, a page makes...

Updated 5 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Restore from a backup

Importing and backups

This page is for bringing a book back from a backup you made in Write—to undo a revision that wen...

Updated 5 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Invite an editor, co-author or reader

Collaborators

You can bring other people into a book—an editor to go over the draft, a co-author to write along...

Updated 5 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Pictures in a chapter opening

Chapter headers, images, and decorations

What this is for A chapter's opening page can carry pictures: a glyph or banner over the title, a...

Updated 6 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Connect ChatGPT to Write

Working with an AI

What connecting means Write can work alongside an AI assistant. Once connected, the assistant can...

Updated 6 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Disconnect an AI

Working with an AI

Two places you can do it An AI reaches Write through a connection you approved, and you can end t...

Updated 6 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Connect Claude to Write

Working with an AI

What connecting means Write can work alongside an AI assistant. Once connected, the assistant can...

Updated 6 days ago by AuthorTools Write

Write your first scene

Getting started

Chapters and scenes A book in Write is made of chapters, and each chapter is made of one or more ...

Updated 1 week ago by AuthorTools Write

Format your text

Writing

Write keeps formatting simple on purpose: you mark what the words mean—emphasis, a link, a line i...

Updated 1 week ago by AuthorTools Write