How to set up FRONT AND BACK MATTER when formatting your novel from scratch (Book Formatting Part 3)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2024
- Front and back matter refers to everything in your book that's not the story itself--which means things like the title page, copyrights page, acknowledgments page, author page, and so many more! I'm sharing front and back matter pages to include that are standard in traditional publishing and self-publishing but also some fun bonus pages you can consider including in your book as well!
FORMATTING PLAYLIST: • FORMATTING A NOVEL FRO...
(1) Introduction to the Series: • FORMATTING A BOOK - Wh...
(2) 10 Essential Formatting Rules: • 10 UNBREAKABLE FORMATT...
(4) Sizing (and Re-sizing): • CHOOSING THE SIZE OF Y...
(5) Fonts and Styles: • Choosing the FONT(s) +...
(6) Adding Images: • How to ADD IMAGES to y...
(7) Chapter Headers:(link coming soon)
(8) Putting it all together: (link coming soon)
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0:00 - What is FRONT AND BACK MATTER?
0:27 - WHAT will be covered in this video
1:16 - WHO this video is for
1:42 - Introducing myself
2:05 - Our teaching assistant
2:42 - Notes
2:53 - My experience
3:33 - Template
3:47 - Series
4:04 - Time stamps
4:34 - Title Page
7:15 - Copyrights Page
12:04 - Dedication
12:24 - Also By Page
12:40 - Adding Hyperlinks
13:03 - Removing Hyperlinks
13:24 - Call to Action
14:04 - Map
15:11 - Acknowledgments
15:46 - Author Page / Bio / Contact Info
16:43 - Glossary
17:15 - An Excerpt from Another Book / Coming Soon Pages
18:30 - Character Art
19:01 - Frequently Asked Questions
19:19 - Short Story / Exclusive
19:52 - Turn the Page for More
20:18 - Formatting Series Playlist and What’s Next…
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Thank you. This video has saved me SO MUCH TIME. Love it.
Fantastic! Gave me some great ideas and will use them for sure. Thanks for sharing.
Formatting my first book, this series is absolutely amazing 👏🏿 thank you for taking the time to make this
Thank you so much for yet another amazingly informative video. I appreciate you taking the time to do this series.
Yay! So glad that the videos have been helpful, thank you! :)
Thank you so much! You are giving invaluable advice to those of us who are self-publishing.
I'm quickly becoming a fan of your channel. You cover such useful topics and really help to clear up the "fog of war" of being an author.
I came across your videos late one night and binge-watched 5 or 10. Your material is definitely the most useful information I’ve found on YT regarding self-publishing and formatting. Thank you. I am a subscriber and fellow author. I went from book writing to screenwriting to filmmaking and producing to TV producing and now back to writing novels. (Whew). You’ve inspired me. Thanks.
This was so thorough and informative--great job, Bethany, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
This was very helpful! I agree that having the appropriate (industry standard) matter in the right places of a book give it an official, credible look.
Thank you! So glad it was helpful! :)
Again, thank you so much! I was editing my novel in word while watching your video (I had absolutely no back matter except a chapter overview) and it is sooo much better :) Learning so much thanks to this series
Yay! So glad it was helpful!
This was great!🤗
Great stuff! Thanks
I'm absolutely loving this series
Thank you! So glad it's been helpful! :)
First, I love your cardigan! Second, this is a fantastic series so far! Even if you already know most of this information, it's SO helpful to be able to reference these videos when you're feeling frazzled from deadlines or just want a quick refresher to make sure you aren't forgetting anything! If you're starting from the beginning, this is invaluable information to be able to start with! Love it!
Thank you so much! I'm so happy you like it and I hope it'll be a super helpful resource! :D
I think that this series is so helpful! I'm currently choosing to print personal copies of books I've finished to have for myself as well as to lend to friends and family and I try to make them look as professional as possible. This series will definitely help with future printings! -Sarah
Yay! So glad the videos have been helpful!
Another great one. Thanks, Bethany!
Thank you! So glad it was helpful! :)
I literally could sit down and listen to Bethany's videos all day. Her voice is so calming and she gives such great advice and tips! Thanks Bethany!
Thank you!
@@BethanyAtazadeh you're very welcome!
Font on title page to match--excellent tip.
I love all the bonus stuff and freedom you have with it as an Indie author! I've been thinking about adding the 2nd book blurb and/or quotes to the end of book 1 to help move readers on to the next book :)
Yay thank you! It was a lot of fun to put together - that sounds like an awesome idea to try for your book! :D
Such a great job teaching me, thank you so much!!!!👍
So glad it was helpful!
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Yes, I thought your teacher's assistant was going to be Penny LOL...Google is always my assistant. This was informative and right on time for me as I'm working on my front and back matter. Thank you so much!
Thanks Bethany!!!
Absolutely! Glad you enjoyed it!
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Thank you. Love this series. I need it for my apocalypse series rather than paying hundreds to someone else.
So glad it's helpful!
I actually had a glossary for my historical fiction for the Big Nerds and for the few Gaelic phrases :D
That's awesome!
Every time you introduce your TA, I keep expecting you to introduce your dog.
Seriously though, I'm finding the series extremely helpful...and I hope to be able to make use of the information some day...
Haha! Yay so glad you're enjoying them and I hope they'll be super helpful when you're ready to use them!
I stumbled across you channel while looking how to format my own book and I have fell in love. I'm having a dilemma about front matter and figured I'd ask you! My book is a very dark romance. It has a lot of abuse and other stuff. Should I include a disclaimer in/on my book anywhere? Should I just put "A dark romance" or something?
Thank you for all the useful information on your channel!
Thank you for putting all of this together! It is extremely helpful for beginner authors like myself! I was curious, how did you put together your glossary? More specifically the pronunciation part of it. I have names in my book that might be a little tricky for readers to pronounce and would love to provide them with the support.
Thank you! I took a look at books on my shelf and found as many glossaries as possible to get ideas from!
Question regarding, ALSO BY
when you publish 2nd book do you go back to first book and add also by with title/link etc of your second book?
Likewise when you have added more books to your SK series do you go back and update each existing book with new title in your also by ?
Assuming this would then need a republishing of each book as an updated version/edition ?
Hope this makes sense
I think it's personal preference. Some authors do, some don't. It's more work, but potentially it could lead to many more sales if a reader is made aware that more books exist, so I personally like to update my back matter (at least for all books within a series). And yep, you'll have to fix each version separately - the ebook version, paperback version, etc, and upload each one separately, so it does get a bit time consuming.
Front and back matter #winning
How do you copy write a book?
Dear Bethany, I inserted a png of my book title in ms word and then uploaded it on Amazon but in the launch previewer the title got shifted to the left side in (tablet and kindle) previewer and it is showing properly aligned in mobile previewer. I am not getting the problem. Do I have to stretch the book title to full size?
I have never understood the countdown for editions--a-ha!
I think there are different conventions for Acknowledgements being at beginning? I'm always surprised when I see it in front though--I don't care yet! lol
That's true, I've seen that once or twice, but it looks really strange to me haha
Ah, I've never seen all the ISBNs together. It doesn't prevent you from needing to create different versions, though, because front and back matter will be different for ebooks, right?
Really? I see them listed together all the time. It's just a reference, it doesn't affect uploading the book anywhere.
@@BethanyAtazadeh I actually had one caught in the uploading-and-checking- period because the ISBN was wrong--I think it was the ebook that had the paperback ISBN or something like, and I was alerted to the mistake. So I took from that I could only have one--apparently the wrong lesson to learn! :P
Why do you use a PNG file for print? I could see why for an eBook. Did you do a chapter page for the front matter?
Do you mean PDF? Because a PDF is the format required for print books.
@@BethanyAtazadeh You said in your video PNG file for the title art of your book.
@@BethanyAtazadeh In the vid you say your title art and author name is a png file at 6:25 on. Are all aren't all images saved as jpegs 300 dpi?
Ahhh I misunderstood, I was told once that photos should be downloaded as png files because they’re a lot higher quality than jpegs. That’s pretty much the extent of my knowledge tho haha!
@@BethanyAtazadeh How about making a plush toy that resembles Penny? I would buy one. Love Penny.
If the title page should always be a right-sided page, shouldn't there be a blank page before this? As I understand it, right-sided pages are always even numbered and left-sided pages are odd numbered, unless I've got this wrong? These technical details are so confusing. Great vids though, easy to follow and understand.
Glad you enjoyed! The left side next to a title page will always be the book cover :) It helps to look at a physical book, and you'll see that they actually always start on the right, because the book cover is on the left
The formatting is so different for poetry
Oh interesting! Does poetry not have the standard front and back matter for some reason? (Title page, copyrights, acknowledgments, author page? I thought for some reason that it did...)
@@BethanyAtazadeh the front page has the title and the copyright then the back pages are for acknowledgements. In addition to that, there's the optional table of contents if there's no chapters involved.
"Boilerplate" 😇
Don't know how I bumped onto this. All in all Awesome content 🥇. I also have been watching those similar from MStarTutorials and kinda wonder how you guys make these stuff. MSTAR TUTORIALS also had cool info about similiar things on his channel.