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You won’t need to change most of them unless you really want to. Scrivener does a great job with most of the settings. Typically, that’s title page, copyright, dedication, epigraph, and before the afterword and other back matter. Check Pg Break Before wherever you want a new page.Check Add Front Matter and choose the files or folder(s) where your front matter resides.

You can deselect items you can also filter them by label. All of the Manuscript is selected by default. Because of this, we’ll use the “ePub eBook” format, and then finish the conversion job in Calibre. Note: Yes, there is a “Kindle eBook (.mobi)” format, but in my experience with it, it’s still a little quirky and doesn’t handle the special Table of Contents and “location” stuff the Kindle needs to display a document correctly.Later you’ll create your own format, with your preferred options, and you’ll use that. ePub is a format included by Scrivener, and it’s what we’ll use for the universal export format. Select ePub eBook from the Compile For dropdown menu.For Compile, choose Included documents (Manuscript).Once you have the compilation features you want, you can save them as a custom compilation template and use it everywhere. Scrivener has an amazing built-in compiling feature, but you'll want to tweak a few things. Once you’re happy with the hierarchy you’ve chosen, it’s time to compile.

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Remember, compilation has to happen in the Mac version of Scrivener the PC version doesn’t have the functionality yet. You can use another set of labels to identify your complete MS and exclude certain files, to include/exclude files for certain formats, etc. You can muck around with the content simply by adding or removing labels.

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Find Label, and add the Free Sample label to these files.

Click on the files in Scrivener's Binder that you want in your Free Sample.

To change a label's color, click on the colored box next to the label and choose a new color.

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Add a label “Free Sample.” Create a new label by clicking on Edit, Label tab, and the plus button.

This ensures that color is applied not just to your cue cards, but in your Binder as well. Go to View, Use Label Color In, and select Binder. Later you’ll filter by this label to create the free sample. Identify the free sample files with Scrivener labels Just split that Scrivener file at the cliffhanger. You may want to split a chapter so that the free sample ends with a cliffhanger.

Select the parts of the MS that will be in your free sampleĭecide how much of the book should be in your free sample. Let me know how you do it.there has to be a better way. “Sabine annoys Perdita.” “Reisden and Perdita have lunch out.” Shades of tea with a doubtful guest. Unfortunately, this seems to make them sound twee or Edward Gorey-esque.

The trick is to give them names that will identify the place in the MS without creating horrible spoilers.

I give the folders names that help the eBook reader find their place when they lose it. Readers will see the folder names in your finished ePub. Some of these pages need to be separately produced for each eBook format.ĭivide the manuscript into chapters or parts, and put each chapter in a folder.

Manuscript, which includes Back Matter such as acknowledgments, afterword, conversation with the author, reading group questions, reviews, About the Author, and links to where satisfied customers can write a review or buy more books.

Front matter (cover, title page, copyright page, dedication, front-quote, foreword, anything you like).

Elaborate tables and design will get gronched anyway, so don’t bother. Keep any input formatting simple, though. You don’t have to make sure that formats match from chapter to chapter Scrivener will override almost all formats. The PC version of Scrivener doesn’t have the functionality yet. You’ll prepare the manuscript, select the parts of it that will be in the free sample, compile the two files, test them, and make any necessary tweaks in Calibre. This doc is about using Scrivener to prepare two versions of your ePub: one complete, and one free sample that contains only a part of the manuscript. Great information on using images as separatorsįull book and free teaser book from one source file!

h ttp:///your-scrivener-questions-on-compiling-answered/ - more formatting options.

- the amazing Scrivener guru Ed Ditto on formatting.

I have stolen with both hands from everyone where appropriate. This information is based on but with extra stuff and many changes.