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Front matter is everything before chapter one—the title page, the copyright page, a dedication, the contents. Back matter is everything after the last chapter—acknowledgments, an afterword, your author bio, a list of your other books. This page is about adding...

Most front and back matter belongs in every edition of a book. Now and then, though, a page makes sense in print but not on a screen, or the other way round. Each section has two boxes for exactly this, so you can keep a print-only version and an ebook-only ve...

Some pages are the same in every book of a series: your author bio, a note on the reading order, a "Join my newsletter" page at the back. Rather than keep a copy in each book and update them all by hand, you can write the section once on the series, and every ...