Book Elements

Go look at some books that are on your shelf or in the bookstore. Take a close look at the outside of the book and notice the details. This will help you determine what is needed for your book. Cover Hire someone to design your cover who has experience! Your cover is the very first…

eBook Title page (with artwork, subtitle, author name, & publisher) in color Copyright page Dedication Table of Contents (links) Preface Acknowledgments Page with title (no artwork) Hard Cover ( left and right pertain to displaying two pages at a time in MS Word)-  Reviews [left] blank page – or 2nd page of reviews [right] Title only page…

Most published books today have reviews on the very first few pages. You don’t need these, but as an unknown author it’s a good idea to have them. Who are the most visible people that you know? Send them a copy of your book in .pdf format (electronic or hard copy) and ask if they…

Your copyright page should include: Copyright © 2017 by  author name as it appears on the cover Published by Publisher’s information ISBN: ISBN number All rights reserved. This book and its material is protected by the copyright laws of the United States of America. No portion of this material may be shared or reproduced in…

A Table of Contents can be built from your Heading styles. Heading 1 will be a main entry, while Heading 2 and Heading 3 will be sub-entries. Create a new page where you want your TOC to be placed. In the References tab, click on Table of Contents in the ribbon. Choose the style that…

A bibliography lists all the books, articles, and web sites that are used to do research for your nonfiction book, whether they are quoted from or not. In my first nonfiction book I chose to only list books and articles in the bibliography due to the volume of sources used. I put the websites that…