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Learn how to use Atticus to write and format professional books.
Book Formatting Research with Publisher Rocket - Target Your Market!
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If you're struggling to decide exactly what design choices to make while formatting your book with Atticus, you may want to do a little genre research. Publisher Rocket to the rescue!
In this video Monique explains and demonstrates how she uses Publisher Rocket to research top selling books in her niche categories to help make strategic formatting decisions that her target audience will love and appreciate.
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If you're struggling to decide exactly what design choices to make while formatting your book with Atticus, you may want to do a little genre research. Publisher Rocket to the rescue!
In this video Monique explains and demonstrates how she uses Publisher Rocket to research top selling books in her niche categories to help make strategic formatting decisions that her target audience will love and appreciate.
Resources mentioned:
www.youtube.com/@UC-s3Pb8uIBm0QN8MVaulJKA
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Avoid This Critical Whitespace Mistake in Your eBooks - Book Formatting with Atticus
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Book formatting is more than just figuring out what you like to look at as the author - it's also about meeting reader expecations and rising to the strict standards of book pubilshers! This is particularly true when it comes to eBooks, which are also governed by the rules of HTML and digital device coding. This video explains the publishing dangers of using empty paragraphs to create whitespac...
Do you need an audiobook version of your masterpiece? Self-Publishing Insights & Events July 12 2024
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If you're interested in learning more about audiobook production, you won't want to miss the upcoming webinar with guest star, Derek Doepker. Audiobooks for Every Author July 18 2024 11 am Pacific | 2 pm Eastern Register: authoraudiobooks.com/monique Do you still need to format your book, and don't have Atticus yet? Get started today with a 30 day money back guarantee! atticus.io
What's Happening with KDP, AI and Authors, and more - Self Publishing Insights and Events
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Check out Kindlepreneur's latest news and advice for publishing through KDP: www.youtube.com/@Kindlepreneur/videos Self publishing author not yet using Atticus? Get started today with a 30 day money back guarnatee: atticus.io The following link is associated with an affiliate program, which means if you end up purchasing, Atticus does get a small kickback, but as always, it costs you nothing ex...
Front and Back Matter - Formatting Your Book with Atticus
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Atticus is designed to give you as much control over the format of your book as possible, while still adhering to industry standards and keeping the learning curve as simple as possible. This includes quick presets you can use to create special page types for your front and back matter. To learn more about the preset layouts, visit www.atticus.io/how-to-add-front-and-back-matter/ Don't have Att...
Create Reusable Master Pages - Book Formatting with Atticus
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If you have more than one work in progress or book in your list of published accomplishments, you can benefit from reusable master page templates. Create a page once in Atticus and use it in as many books as you'd like across your Atticus account. You can even update a master page one time and have it apply that change to all the books using that page. In this tutorial, we're going to walk thro...
Crafting Fans and Collecting Readers - Self Publishing Insights and Events April 25 2024🌟
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Publishing professional quality books is what Atticus is all about, and if you haven't tried it out for yourself yet, you can jump in today with a 30 day money back guarantee: atticus.io Formatting your book is a huge piece of the puzzle, but we know writing and marketing (aka selling!) your book have to happen before and after. This week is full of events to help you conquer the entire process...
Two Page Image Spreads - Book Formatting with Atticus
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If you want to include a stunning double page spread in your next book, Atticus is here to help! Whether you have a map that spans two pages, or you want to wow your readers with every new chapter, this tutorial will walk you step-by-step through the process of inserting full page, full bleed images for the paperback or hardcover version of your book. RESOURCES MENTIONED: Note: some of the link...
Fantasy Writers Week, Atticus Authors, and Image Sizing for your Books - April 18 2024
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ProWritingAid is hosting a Fantasy Writer's Week live event - you can attend for free here: prowritingaid.com/fantasy-week/sign-up New tutorials coming soon by popular demand - two page spreads for your novels! Subscribe to the channel to get all notifications when new videos drop! Don't have Atticus yet? Sign up with a 30-day money back guarantee today! atticus.io
Sizing Images for a Two Page Spread - Book Formatting with Atticus
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In this tutorial, Monique Danielle from Atticus will show you how to size images to perfectly match the trim size plus bleed of your paperback or hardcover book, to create a stunning 2 page spread of images in book formatting. Learn how to use BookBrush, Canva, and/or Adobe Express to resize images so they're ready to upload into Atticus for your book formatting. When you're ready to upload you...
Diversity in Fonts - Using Global Languages in Your Writing 🌍✍️
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Dive into our latest update with Google Fonts, now available for chapter headings and subheadings. Add diversity to your books with global languages like Chinese, Russian, and Arabic and more! Discover how to find the best fonts to use and set up using Atticus, the book writing and formatting software. Don't have Atticus yet? Try it out today with a 30-day money-back guarantee! atticus.io
Google Fonts in Atticus - How to Use - March 28, 2024
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Google Fonts are now available in Atticus! This has been a highly requested features for a long time and we're so excited for the release! This quick video shows you how to access and use them. Resources mentioned: Update Atticus: www.atticus.io/how-to-update-atticus/ Get started with Atticus today with a 30 day money back guarantee atticus.io
Book Covers, Trim Sizes, and Author Profits - March 21 2024
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Every one is talking about book covers and Atticus can help! You'll need the total page count and trim size of your finished manuscript to generate the perfect template. But did you know choosing the right trim size can impact how much profit you - the self publishing author - gets to keep with every sale? Watch on to find out more! Don't have Atticus yet? Grab your copy with a 30 day money bac...
Add Images to Your Book with Atticus
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Add images to the content of your book easily and professionally using Atticus, book writing and formatting software. This tutorial shows you exactly how to set up your images, and gives you a glimpse at the amazing results possible with just a few clicks! If you don't have your copy of Atticus yet, visit atticus.io to get started with a 30 day money back guarantee!
Atticus Authors & Self Publisher Events - Feb 29 2024
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Atticus Authors & Self Publisher Events - Feb 29 2024
Atticus Authors & Self Publishers Weekly Insights Playlist
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Atticus Authors & Self Publishers Weekly Insights Playlist
Atticus Book Writing and Formatting Software Demonstration
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Atticus Book Writing and Formatting Software Demonstration
Prepare Your Document to Import into Atticus
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Prepare Your Document to Import into Atticus
Atticus User Interface Update - What's New February 2024
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Atticus User Interface Update - What's New February 2024
Create a Custom Book Theme Using Atticus Formatting Software [2024 Version]
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Create a Custom Book Theme Using Atticus Formatting Software [2024 Version]
How to Format Your Book With Atticus Book Formatting Software [2024 Version]
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How to Format Your Book With Atticus Book Formatting Software [2024 Version]
Quickstart Guide to Atticus [2024 Version]
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Quickstart Guide to Atticus [2024 Version]
Does Atticus support special keyboard characters like diacritical marks, even simple ones such an a tilde or umlaut as these are often carried into English conversations and jargon? Thank you.
I agree with another viewer - the music is crazy loud. i’ve tried to watch this video twice and have given up. Luckily, there are many better videos covering atticus!
We no longer use music in videos.
Hi, how can I create a title page (with text only) so that the text isnt bumping against each other? Would I use the Master page feature to do this?
If you don't love the automatically generated title page, it can be best to custom create one either with a full page image or just a regular chapter dropped into place. You can message our support email if you need help!
@ thanks so much. I used photoshop to create a full page image last night to test it out and uploaded it. It looks fabulous. 🥰 thanks for posting this video so I could update that page since I was looking for a more professional layout 👍🏽
I just bought Atticus a couple of days ago. I've wanted to try it out since it was first introduced, but never had the funds. I was almost going to go for WordPerfect since it has an eBook creator feature which I've used before--and then thought, why do that? For Less money, go get the program you REALLY want! I've been using Draft2Digita's formatting tool for ebooks, but it doesn't let you choose your own fonts, and there's very limited themes. Also, I don't like how their PDFs turn out. Atticus doesn't have all the fonts I'd love to be using for my kids' books, but I have way more choices than just Garamond which they use for everything. So, I'm happy. If there could be a preview of those fonts that are available, that would be helpful. Getting my middle grade novel ready to republish with a new cover and fresh edits. I want this time to be perfect as I'm going to do a print version finally!
Can Atticus format books written in Apple Pages? Are there AI elements that help with image/cover creation?
You can write in Apple pages, but then when you're ready to import into Atticus, you'll need to save as a docx and upload that file. That's what I used to do when I didn't have Word...but now I just write my books in Atticus. As for AI elements, no. A big reason for this is that we want to make sure our system is not learning from authors work, and keep it safe. However, there are many programs that can integrate wth Atticus or you can use and copy and paste in.
I bought this recently specifically for the formatting tools and I am extremely happy with my purchase. Easy and quick to use and it gives you professional results.
Glad you enjoy it!
I do a lot of writing without Internet. On airplanes et cetera. Am I able to use this software if I’m not connected to the Internet?
Yes you can. The only thing you need the internet for is to initially log in, and when you want to export your formatted version. I too do a lot of my writing on flights. Just make sure you’re logged in before you roll out :)
@ yes!! that’s awesome! Thank you.
Basic formatting question. Where do I go to choose a 6x9 book for amazon. That must be prebuilt but it wasn’t mentioned
In the theme section of Atticus, look down the left side where all the formatting options are. Trim size is the last option. Click that and you'll find it. I wasn't looking left for a few things myself. Like how do I get rid of that drop cap? Pick Paragraph! So, left side pane, trim size is the last option listed! :)
My book is 544 pages. Amazon wants a 1.0 inner. Does Atticus know this I’m or do I change in the page layout?
You can adjust the margins within the custom theme settings. Feel free to write into our support email if you have specific questions, it'll be a much quicker response!
One major problem I have with Jutoh is it hyphenates paperback and I hate that. Are you saying if I turn off the hyphen button I can avoid hyphenations?
Yes!
I cannot get my docx file to import, it is very frustrating. I took out photos, i removed hyperlinks. I followed all of the instructions but it just does NOTHING!😥
It's best to write into our support email for any support questions, our team will help you there!
Hi Atticus! Quick question please, is there a my image doesn't show up in the 'introduction' page when I included an image in the heading area (alongside the title introduction)? It works in the chapters, but not the intro. Thanks! :)
All good, I fixed it - anyone having this problem, just slick on the gear icon on the right of the introduction heading, and unlick 'hide chapter image' or relevant one. :)
Glad you got it figured out! If you ever have trouble in the future, you can write into our support email and our team will help out!
Thank you, will do!
Delete children... that just sounds wrong 🤣 I'm trying to format a square book for kids. I can't seem to find a video for that. I'm kinda stuck, can't figure it out. I need writing on one side and a full page photo on the other.
Industry jargon...it makes you wonder where it originated from, doesn't it!? For the kids book, it'll be best if you write into our support email and our team can help you out directly!
Is there a way to insert full page images mid chapter or do they alway have to function as their own independent chapters/chapter intros?
Full page images with bleed will need to be between chapters. You can insert a full page image that extends only to the margins within a chapter though. When you insert the image, if you edit it using the gear icon, you can set it to Separate Page. Just be sure to size it before importing. I hope that helps!
Hello all. Almost ready to format my religious devotional
Was kind of interested until I saw it was an online editor. 😫
It’s both. You can access online and or you can download to your computer as well.
Very helpful! Thank you! Keep up the good work Atticus! ❤
I'm watching tutorials while I wait for support to get back to me. This is a very complicated program to learn. I wish I had never purchased it.
Our support team is excellent, I hope they'll be able to help you out! We realize every program has a learning curve, but we do our best to help you get over it!
@ No, no support.
Help! I have a scene break then switch POV's. When I type the characters name, that's technically taking up the first line, then the paragraph to follow has an indent. How can I make it not have an indent?
You can either put the POV name in a subheading format, or you can press SHIFT ENTER to start the next line without an indent. I hope that helps!
Having a difficult time finding book software after discovering Reedsy was a mistake. I am writing a textbook and footnote-endnote ease is important. Also in the navigation pane on the side bar, can it also show subchapters or sub-sub chapters for easy navigation?
Not in the Atticus navigation panel, no. If you break your chapters into scenes, you can see scene lists, and you can include your first level of subheadings in the TOC. Hope that helps!
Can I use it for children's coloring books with text or picture books?
You can, yes! You'd just want to upload each individual image one at a time as a full page image.
What are the smallest Trim Sizes for a book in Atticus? (Landscape orientation).
Atticus currently doesn't have a landscape orientation, sorry. In the future we're hoping to work in a custom trim size option though!
Does Atticus have built-in AI software like ChatGPT
No, Atticus has no AI at all.
Hi Monique, I have just started to edit a book and am searching around for a suitable editing software. My first concern is that i need to import a fair amount of Arabic quotes, has there been any issues with Atticus and pasting in foreign languages such as Arabic? Secondly, with the Google font option does it mean we can choose different Arabic fonts from their library? Thank you
You would need to have the Arabic quotes set as a Subheading style and yes, you would have to set that subheaading style to one of the Arabic Google fonts available. I hope it works out for you!
I just purchased Atticus. Their How To instruction videos are very bad. Like this one they flicker the mouse arrow all over the screen showing what Atticus can do, but NOT how to do it. They know how to do it but not how to communicate. They need to stop being so full of themselves and do some simple slow paced step by step instruction videos. I am thinking of asking for my money back.
We also have written tutorials on our website if that's easier to follow: atticus.io/tutorials
This is excellent! I'm happy I learned how and where to upload my ebook cover in Atticus! How many pixels should the ebook cover have? In previous videos, you mentioned different Kindle and Apple iBooks pixel requirements.
Kindle recommends 2560x1600 you should be good to go. Apple iPages restricts to 1600x2400 pixels or a total of 4 million pixels
Question: how do you determine the correct size for pictures if the book size is A5?
This tutorial has a helpful calculator; www.atticus.io/calculate-image-size-for-print-and-ebooks/
What if you wanted your title with a space before it, how would one do that?
Do you mean your title page? I'm not sure I understand, but if you write into our support inbox, they should be able to help!
Holy crap. I had NO idea you could do this in Atticus 😂 this is great!!
There doesn't seem to be an option to add Image Description (Alt Text) which is really important for screen readers. Would you consider adding it?
We are working on this, yes!
Self-publishing like a professional is hard, but FORTUNATELY, Atticus helps us do it for paper and ebooks--it's an enormous relief! Before knowing of any economic aspect of it, I thought that it would be nice to have the book in all formats so that the reader to pick what suits him/her best. But it's great when there is a market for it, too! Derek also gives a course related to audiobooks that I heard is great.
Thank you for showing us step-by-step how to edit a picture in BooknBrush, Canva, and Adobe Express because this thing isn't easy. Great continuation, Atticus!
Over 1,500 fonts it's a lot to choose from! Creative Fabrica also has great fonts that I used; many are free or low-price bundles. I don't know if Atticus can incorporate that, too, but I wanted to suggest it as an idea.
Thanks for the suggestion! You can't currently upload your own fonts but we're always considering new options!
@@AtticusWriter We can even download our own fonts in Atticus?! Wow! It's an awesome software!
Could we create an Atticus Arc team if there isn’t one already? So all Atticus users can help each other in the review process?
That's a fun idea! I don't know it'll happen in the very near future, but we'll put it on our list!
how to change the words "Chapter" to "Capitulo" in Spanish?
Automated headings within Atticus (like automated chapter numbers) currently only appear in English. You can manually change the title and subtitle of any chapter/page in Atticus, but if you select Chapter Numbers to appear in the header, this text will be in English. You can either deselect Number Chapter Heading section of your custom theme on the formatting page so it doesn't show at all, or select the numeral only style under Chapter Number View (also in the Chapter Heading section) so it doesn't have the word, only the number. I hope that helps,
I am seeing broken images in few of my chapter headings, not all though, not only in the kindle preview, but when I email my kindle the epub, the broken chapter img
You may want to try deleting those images and uploading fresh copies. Be sure they're either jpg or png file types. Email into support if you continue to have trouble!
I noticed the the body content shifts in/out from margin, I am using 6x9. Also is there a way to reduce the spacing between the h1 and the body text?
The margins will shift page by page to account for the inside crease of the book - this is exactly how it's supposed to be! You can't currently change the spacing between the chapter header, no, but if you have any other questions, the fastest response will always come from writing into our support email. thanks!
Another thought-prompting video, thank you Monique. You mentioned the kdp newsletter. I've searched their website and community pages but cannot find where to sign up. Any ideas? Thank you
If you go to any page on Kindlepreneur.com, you should be able to scroll down to the bottom to find the newsletter registration, or download any of the free resources that intrigue you and that will do the trick as well!
Has there been any progress since this video was posted? I want to publish in Cyrillic.
No, this is still the most relevant video on the language features, sorry.
in the body another TOC was created, I changed setting to Include > None. When I export to pdf everything looks so off. Looked better in word, but I was not able to preview beyond emaling my kindle the doc, did not look bad, but I like how I can see render in other devices.
It sounds like you created a Volume, perhaps accidentally. If you write into support with your questions, they'll be able to help you work through this!
6:20 my book is less than 150 pages… recommendations for marginal Seth?
You'll want to check the recommendations from your publisher - for example, KDP will have suggestions and recommendations for that. Using the Atticus default won't be wrong, exactly, but it might be more whitespace than you need. I hope that helps!
At 4:29, when I added an image in the first chapter, it appeared underneath the heading, not on the entire page. Also, the "upload image" under formatting and "chapter heading" doesn't have an upload button.
If you want the chapter heading image accross the page, you'll need to select Background Image, rather than Image Element. If the button isn't showing, try doing a little refresh (CTRL or CMD R) and that should help!
Atticus seems very helpful, but I cannot edit the title location and its driving me insane.
I'm not sure if you mean for the Title Page, page Header, or chapter heading, but if you write into our support email, they'll be able to help you out with more specifics!
I'm interested in buying Atticus. Only one question. Is ones purchase secure in the sense that Atticus will be around for along time? My concern is that since its web based - If Atticus closes down as a business the app will no longer work. Can we be sure that we will be able to use this for many years to come?
Great question! Atticus has no plans on going anywhere and the founders have been in the self-publishing industry already for many, many years (Kindlepreneur, Publisher Rocket). You will always be able to export your content to .docx for backups on your computer any time, and if anything ever changes, Atticus authors will have plenty of notice and support to migrate their content off the platform.
Where is the best place to request additional functions to be added to Atticus? Thank you for the informative videos; they have really helped me get up and running on using Atticus.
Glad the videos have been helpful! You're always welcome to write into our support (@atticus.io) email for questions, comments, or suggsetions!
Really super fun explanation.
Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed!
Box set: Is this like placing all your works in progress in one place or for creating a book series?
It's for creating a series. So if you have a trilogy all written and formatted in separate books in Atticus, for example, you can publish them individually but you can also combine them all together and publish them as a boxset of 3 eBooks. I hope that helps!
Is there a detailed video tutorial to upload a book from scrivener to Atticus?
No, not currently, sorry. But I mentioned in another comment that you can export form Scrivener to .docx, but we recommend then going through our tutorial to prepare your document for importing into Atticus. Scrivener uses a lot of custom styles, depending on how you've set up your project, and Atticus isn't programmed to recognize all of them. The more simple you can keep your docx, the better it will typically import, allowing you to do the formatting work inside Atticus. I hope that helps!
Can you work between Atticus and Scrivener? You mentioned your software doesn’t have all the bells and whistles like Scrivener.
You can export form Scrivener to .docx, but we recommend then going through our tutorial to prepare your document for importing into Atticus. Scrivener uses a lot of custom styles, depending on how you've set up your project, and Atticus isn't programmed to recognize all of them. The more simple you can keep your docx, the better it will typically import, allowing you to do the formatting work inside Atticus.