Book Library is the catalog of your books. Sales Tracker, ARC Tracker, Piracy Monitor and the other tools take their book lists from it, so add a book here once and you can use it everywhere.
Add your first book
- Click Book Library in the left sidebar.
- Click Add New Book.
- Choose how you want to add it:
- Import CSV brings in many books from a spreadsheet.
- Bulk Search by Title lets you type or paste titles and pick the right match for each.
- Create Manually opens a blank book form.
- In the book form, fill in at least the Title. Every other field is optional.
- Click Add Book. A message confirms the book was added and offers an undo.
What's in the book form
The form has four tabs:
- Details: title, pen name or author name, series name and number, ISBN-13, ASIN, genre, language, publication date, tropes, page count range, description, blurb, editions and formats, cover image and manuscript.
- Sales Links: links to the stores and libraries where readers can buy or borrow the book.
- Inventory: how many physical copies you have on hand, by format.
- Costs: production costs, with a Profit Summary that compares your revenue with your costs.
At the top of the Details tab, Find your book by title can fill in blank fields for you from book catalogues.
Book status
Each book shows a status based on its publication date:
- Draft: no publication date set.
- Pre-Order: the publication date is in the future.
- Published: the publication date is today or earlier.
The cards at the top of the page count your Total Books, Published, Pre-Orders and Drafts.
Find and arrange your books
- Use Search books… to search by title, author, series, genre or trope.
- Filter by pen name. Once your books have a series or more than one language, Series and Language filters appear too.
- Use Sort to order by title, author, series, genre or publication date, and click the arrow next to it to reverse the order. Books are listed newest-added first until you pick a sort.
- Switch between List and Grid. In grid view you can also change the Cover size.
Edit or delete a book
- Click a book's cover or title, or the pencil icon, to edit it. Click Save Changes when you're done.
- Click the trash icon to delete a book. You'll be asked to confirm, and you can undo it from the message that appears afterwards.