Sometimes you make ill-advised decisions, but you must trust yourself in the end. I have read up on book design considerations and understand that readers want to have that quick visual approval that the genre is correct and the author understands conventions. I have an art background and strong opinions on visual impact. I kept looking for designers that matched my style and ended up going with a minimalistic design that felt like a better fit. My stories aren’t swashbuckling romance stories, and the buxom women and muscled males with thunder in the background and large neon text didn’t seem right. I thought I would ask someone on Fiverr to create new covers for the entire series so it would look more like a fantasy book series, but when I looked at the art of typical fantasy series, I had second thoughts. The imagery wasn’t cohesive the fonts were different, and the books didn’t look like they belonged together. When I looked at the collection of covers a decade later, I realized it didn’t look like a series. As each book came out, I created cover designs specific to each story. It took me ten years to write and finish the series. This strategy also helps marketing and publicity – releasing each book close to the others builds momentum. This allowed me the time to make changes throughout the series for consistency. I waited to release the last three books and did so within a month of one other. After publishing the first two stories of my series, it occurred to me it might have been wise to withhold publication and release the series all at once so I could change characters’ backstories or names if it made sense for later stories. Like most new writers, I stumbled along and changed my mind about story arcs, improving my writing skills as I went. So it’s easier to handle this when your ‘master document’ is in Jutoh and you’re not having to continually reimport from a freshly edited word processor document.Your first book is probably the most important story of the collection, but if you are a new author, it will not be as well-written as the later books. In our experience, editing isn’t a one-off job – it’s hard to upload a perfect manuscript first time and your books will benefit from revisiting and making little improvements. Author and editor can use Jutoh as an exchange format, and after the initial edit, further corrections and updates can easily be made directly in Jutoh, enabling you to keep tight control over quality. Jutoh Plus has a very powerful ‘custom compile message’ feature which helps you track down hundreds of typos that you might easily miss during manual proofreading. You can add a text document under Scraps and drag it to the side of the window so you can see both your notes, and each chapter, as shown in the screenshot above. It’s also great for editors and proofreaders. Another benefit of writing in Jutoh is that at any point, you can easily hit Compile and Launch to see your work as an ebook – definitely a morale boost. My wife Harriet enjoys writing all her books with Jutoh, using Writer’s Café for planning. You can still export your project to a different word processor if you wish, using the OpenDocument configuration – the resulting ODT document can be opened in word processors such as Word and LibreOffice, and you can make PDFs from it.Įqually, you can write your book in another word processor and import it into Jutoh before editing it further. You can add images and have text flow to their left or right and Jutoh provides full support for tables and text boxes if you need them. Keyboard shortcuts are customisable so you can speed up editing, and you can add auto-replacements for words, phrases or punctuation. There’s search and replace, a word count, spell-checking, writing goals to encourage you, and you can add notes that won’t appear in the final book. Absolutely! Jutoh’s editor has a rich set of editing and formatting tools, and the list of chapters in the Organizer makes it a very convenient way to work.
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