![]() The Dedication is usually recto, giving you the opportunity to dedicate your work prominently to someone special or who has played a part in the creation of the book. This is a good opportunity to provide information such as the order of a series, or to direct your reader to other series you may have written. The Other Books section is most often included as a verso page, and this is often a good pair with the half title. This dates from when printers would have stacks of books sitting around waiting for their covers, and they would need to be labelled so they could be identified easily! If a half title is included it is the very first page of the book, and therefore recto. The half title consists of the title of the book only, usually centred on the page. This is always verso, on the back of the title page. The imprint page contains information about the publisher, copyright declaration, any other legal declarations, information about the printer, any information about design etc. The Title page consists of the title, any subtitle, author’s name (but without the word “by”) and maybe the publisher’s name/logo. And there are conventions as to whether the content appears on a recto (right-hand page) or verso (left-hand page). Some of this content is necessary, while others are optional. The front matter is everything that comes before the main story.įiction books do not usually include a table of contents. Please note that here I am considering novels only – non-fiction books are a completely different issue. The most important part of your book is the story, but when you’re producing a book for print there are other sections to consider as well.
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