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Front & back matter

Add a dedication, foreword, or other section

What you'll do: turn on the standard supporting pages your book needs — a dedication, foreword, acknowledgements, about-the-author, and more.

These are managed on the Matter step. See What is front matter & back matter? for the idea.

The Matter screen

Turn a section on

  1. Go to the Matter step.
  2. Find the section in the Front matter or Back matter list — for example Dedication or Acknowledgements.
  3. Click its toggle to turn it on.

Add the content

Click to expand the section. Most sections give you a rich-text editor where you can type and format the content — for example your dedication text or a foreword. A few simple sections (like an epigraph) use a plain text box with an optional attribution line.

Common sections

Don't see the one you want? You can add a custom section. To change the order, or move a section between front and back, see Reorder sections.

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