Book details

A finished book has pages nobody writes as chapters: the title page, the copyright page, a dedication, an "Also by" page. φ makes them for you from the project's Book details, so they're right in every format and never drift out of step.

Fill in the details

1. Open the project in Write. Its page shows the cover, the title, the author and the description.
2. Click the cover to add or change it, and write the description beside it. The description goes on the back cover of a printed book.
3. Open Book details, further down the page, and fill in what applies. Everything is optional; a page with nothing to say is left out.

What goes where

Section	Fields	Where it appears
People	The book's authors, translators, editors, illustrators, and who wrote a foreword or introduction, each from an author profile.	The byline, the title page, the copyright page.
Title page	Subtitle, series and number, publisher, imprint, city, website.	The title page.
Copyright page	Rights (all rights reserved, a Creative Commons licence, public domain, or your own wording), the rights holder, edition, first published, ISBN for print and ebook, credits (cover, editing, illustrations…), a notice such as "This is a work of fiction…", printed in, language.	The copyright page, and the ebook's catalogue details.
Opening pages	Dedication; epigraph and its source.	Their own pages before the first chapter.
Closing pages	An "Also by" page, from the authors' other titles.	The end of the book.

"About the author" comes from the first author's profile: their bio and photo.

You can also write the dedication or epigraph as documents in the project's front matter, if you'd rather. φ sets them on their own pages either way.

An ISBN is checked as you type it, and φ tells you when a digit looks mistyped.

See also

• How exporting works
• Projects: front matter, end matter and parts.
• Characters & authors: author profiles.