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updated at 07 Mar 01:57
Any money you make from book sales will be available to see in your online CompletelyNovel account. CompletelyNovel will credit you with the money you have made from selling your books at the end of each quarter. If the amount is less than £50, we will automatically roll it over to the next quar…
updated at 12 Mar 21:55
This is the area where you can share your taste in books with others by displaying the books you have read, are currently reading or plan to read in the future.
To go to your library, click on the My Home tab.
On the left-hand navigation bar, click on Library. In order to add a book to y…
Category Publishing
updated at 12 Mar 07:46
What if someone wants to copy my book?
We have taken appropriate measures to prevent anyone from copying your book. Each file is presented online in a way which means that the user cannot download it, cannot select the text from it, copy it or print it.
Protecting your work is an importan…
Category Writing
Tags rights, copyright, work, steal, idea, sharing, and ownership
updated at 11 Mar 23:49
At the moment books published through CompletelyNovel are not downloadable but can be read online through our BookStreamer. Just click on the Read Online button next to the book.
Remember, if you like the book, you can buy a paperback copy that you can read anywhere. The proceeds of the sale …
Category Reading
updated at 11 Mar 11:24
You can find books to read online on CompletelyNovel by going to the Readers tab. On the left hand side of the page you will see a menu headed ‘Browse Books’.
Click on ‘CompletelyNovel’ to view all the books published through CompletelyNovel, which can be read online in their enti…
Tags online reader, online, and books
updated at 12 Mar 15:55
Check the printers’ profiles on CompletelyNovel for the prices they cahrge. The printers calculate the pricing by multiplying the cost per page by the number of pages and then adding on a cover and bind fee:
price per page x no. of pages + standard cover and binding cost
Wh…
Category Publishing
Tags cost, publish, print, and handling fee
updated at 12 Mar 10:26
You can make a list of books for all sorts of reasons and making one is really easy!
To begin with, click on the My Home tab. From here, click on Library in the left-hand side menu bar. At the top of your Library you will see the Lists section, and on the left of this title, there is an …
updated at 11 Mar 19:55
If you share your work and sell it through CompletelyNovel, you grant CompletelyNovel a specific, non-exclusive license to display and sell your book on our website . You will also grant a specific license to the printer you use to reproduce your work when you sell a paperback copy. However, *you…
Category Legal
Tags rights, copyright, work, copywriting, and book
updated at 12 Mar 15:55
Yes. You keep the rights to your work, so you are free to submit it to any other publisher. We hope that CompletelyNovel will be a great springboard for new writers to use to get the attention of larger publishers.
Tags publish, copyright, and submissions
updated at 12 Mar 15:55
You can set the name in your Profile when you first join CompletelyNovel, or you can change the name at a later stage. Just go the the My Home tab and click on Profile in the left-hand menu bar.
You can then click on the ‘Edit Profile’ button and change your name to your pen name. This wi…
Category Publishing
updated at 12 Mar 15:56
The first stage is to start a book project. You can do this by signing up for one of our publishing plans on the Publish tab.
Then start publishing by visiting our Self-publishing page and clicking on the type of book project you would like to st…
Category Publishing
Tags upload, manuscripts, book, word, and format
updated at 12 Mar 15:55
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Category Marketing
Tags people, read, review, publish, active, promote, and sell
updated at 07 Mar 05:48
There are quite a few ways to find a book on CompletelyNovel.
updated at 12 Mar 07:50
On CompletelyNovel, every user has their own Message Board. To access your message board, go to your My Home tab and click on the Message Board link. You will see recent messages in your main ‘News’ section of your Home page. You can reply to messages by clicking on the ’Reply to m…
Tags message board, clubs, reading, community, and profile
updated at 12 Mar 15:56
As a writer self-publsihing on CompletelyNovel you will be keeping all of the proceeds from the sale of your book so it is easier to make it more affordable to the reader.
If you are a new writer then you should probably take this into account when setting the price, as readers may be a little …
Category Publishing
updated at 12 Mar 02:58
Tags BookStreamer and read online
updated at 11 Mar 02:34
This is a fairly common question but one with a good answer. Paper books have survived throughout the digital age simply because there are still a lot of people who love a real book. For one thing, books don’t run out of batteries. They are robust and very portable. It’s still pretty rare to meet…
Category Publishing
Tags buying, purchasing, free, online, and book shop
updated at 12 Mar 20:57
Our BookStreamer allows your books to be read online without being downloaded. This is a great promotional tool for spreading the word.
First you need to sign up for one of our publishing plans: Publishing Free, Plus or Pro.
Once you have done that, you can publish with o…
Category Publishing
Tags publish, BookStreamer, and online
updated at 12 Mar 15:55
If you are new to the world of writing and publishing, it can be difficult and time-consuming to navigate your way around and find out about the kind of agents and publishers who might be interested in your work. By enabling publishers and literary agents to have profiles on CompletelyNovel, we m…
Category Publishers, agents, organisations
Tags publishers, agents, and new writers
updated at 12 Mar 07:50
In the UK and many other countries, you own the copyright of your work as soon as you create it. This can be in written form, or saved in electronic format. You do not, therefore, need to do anything to ‘register’ your copyright if you are in the UK – this is done automatically. If you are worrie…
Tags rights, copyright, work, copywriting, and book
updated at 10 Mar 18:10
You may be able to publish your work on CompletelyNovel but we advise that you check with your publisher first.
However, if you are an published author there is nothing stopping you creating a profile on CompletelyNovel. You can use this profile to tell people about any other websites that yo…
Category Legal
updated at 12 Mar 07:49
This is the text on the back of the book and in the book’s summary online. It will need to grab the reader’s attention as soon as they see it. If it is for a work of fiction it needs to evoke the atmosphere and feeling of the book without giving away the plot…and most importantly, leave the reade…
Category Publishing
updated at 12 Mar 16:30
CompletelyNovel was created to link everyone who loves books together. There is a big movement on the internet to make services free and open to everyone and we are part of that movement. With our Publishing Free Plan, you don’t have to pay anything to use the website, upload your work , share it…
Category General
Tags cost, publish, printing, commission-free, and price
updated at 11 Mar 09:22
If you want your words to appear in bold or italic, or include a hyperlink, then the way to do it is using a markup language called textile.
You can use textile on your profile page, your reviews, clubs, and discussions.
Here are some basic tips:
To type in bold you should put a * at …
Tags textile, text, writing, italic, hyperlink, markup, bold, messages, discussions, article, comments, and typing
updated at 12 Mar 07:49
We are called CompletelyNovel to emphasise the fact that our service is new…and it’s a nice little play on words. But we’re not restricted to fiction or novels. CompletelyNovel is a great place for poetry, short stories and non-fiction books too.
CompletelyNovel is also great for books on n…
Category Publishing
Tags writing, using, clubs, library, fiction, non-fiction, lont-tail, and specialist
updated at 12 Mar 15:55
You can make the following changes by visiting your Projects and clicking on ‘Revise’ button:
To finali…
Category Publishing
Tags editing, amending, book project, and republish
updated at 12 Mar 12:02
Creating a printable PDF in Word 2007 is fairly simple thanks to a great free plugin from Microsoft. The plugin will stay on your computer so whenever you need to save a PDF file you can use it.
To make a print ready document involves three steps:
1. Download and install plugin
2. Format yo…
Tags Word 2007, Office 2007, PDF, convert, and manuscript
updated at 12 Mar 21:45
In order to write a message to someone, find the person to whom you would like to post a message. Type what you want to say in the blank white box on their profile page, and when you’re done click the ‘Send’ button. Your message will then appear on their Message Board.
If you would like to mak…
Tags message board, reading, community, profile, and friends
updated at 12 Mar 00:11
CompletelyNovel is a great way to promote your work and generate some buzz around your book.
You can link to listings of your books that have been published already to let other people on the site know about them.
You can do this by starting a profile on CompletelyNovel and adding your ’p…
Category Writing
updated at 11 Mar 22:48
In order for your book to be available to print with print-on-demand, it must be between 56 and 750 pages long. If it is outside of these limits, then it will not be possible to print your work as a perfect-bound paperback at this stage.
If you are publishing with our BookStreamer only, there …
Category Publishing
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