Creating a New Book

Publishing on Knovel starts with creating a book. You can publish all at once or build it chapter by chapter as you write.

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Starting a New Book

From your dashboard, click New Book. This creates a draft that only you can see until you're ready to publish.

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The TipTap Editor

Knovel uses a TipTap-based rich text editor for writing. It supports:

• Basic formatting: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough

• Headings: H1 through H4

• Block elements: blockquotes, horizontal rules, ordered and unordered lists

• Scene breaks: a dedicated separator for scene transitions within a chapter

The editor auto-saves your work every 30 seconds. You can also save manually with Ctrl+S (or Cmd+S on Mac).

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Drafts

Everything you create starts as a draft. Drafts are not visible to readers and are not registered on-chain. You can have as many drafts as you like.

A draft includes:

• The book's metadata (title, description, cover, genre tags)

• All chapters you've written, whether published or still in draft

• Your rights and licensing settings

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Chapters

Books on Knovel are structured as chapters. Each chapter is a separate piece of content with its own title.

Adding chapters: From your draft, click Add Chapter. Give it a title and start writing. You can reorder chapters before publishing by dragging them in the chapter list.

Chapter status: Individual chapters within a published book can be in draft status. This lets you write ahead without showing work-in-progress to readers.

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When You're Ready

Once your draft is ready, head to Publishing Your Book for the next steps — including setting your license terms and minting your IP asset on-chain.