I'm going to pin this to the beginning of the page and would like it see if everyone wanted to post their books that they've written on here. You can post as many links as you want as often as you want. I'd like to celebrate wins for everyone!

Time for accountability and what everyone has been working on this week. Let us know where you are, if you have blockers we can help with, had a rough go with personal life, made a win, started something new, or anything else. This doesn't have to do with books could be anything...

Tonight I'll be demoing a couple of new things, the one i am most excited about is the 141Ways Website version of the book. This is a completely separate app and website that only needs a book upload to work with. It turns the Sell it Again: 141 Ways to Make Money on A Book You Already Wrote book I gave away a couple weeks ago into an interactive dashboard and planning site. As always it' a time for Q&A, walk thrus, ask me anything, and a sneak peak at projects in progress.

So I saw a nifty idea on another site that got me noodling after work tonight... And now We have NarrativeCrafter!!! This is extensive, interesting and underwhelming. Available now in WordCrafter.Pro under plugins. This will be available at the Writer Tier so everyone will always have access. It is purely informational. A searchable/clickable database on everything to do with narrative structure. It is Cross referenced and includes many things: Story structure, base genre, archetypes, tropes, etc. It will be continually added to and is also going to be available free to anyone on the web in a few days. As usual this is step towards something bigger and will be more fully integrated to both BookWeaver.pro and Wordcrafter.pro in coming weeks. This is also research I needed for my series of books on writing that is coming soon. For now it is purely informational. PLay with it an click on things to see how far you can drill down and what links to what. A few sample screens are below, but there is so much here

The Beta Reader Handoff: Sharing Only What You Meant To Your draft is done. Before anyone reads it — human or otherwise — here's how to send exactly the book and nothing else, and how to know later which version they read. --- Here's the moment this article is about. The draft is finished. You want eyes on it. So you export the whole book, attach it to an email, and send it to four people. Then, somewhere around the second reply, you get a very polite question about a document called Character Notes — Tam (DO NOT USE, old version). That's the failure. Not the formatting loss, not the version confusion — though both of those are real. The one that actually stings is discovering that "export the book" sent more of your binder than you meant to. So this week: the handoff. How to send the book and only the book, how to mark which version you sent, and the option where you don't send a file at all. There's one thing you need to know before any of the steps, and it's the thing I got wrong. --- The important part: not every export obeys the same rule Your binder rows each have three little boxes: B, S, and ¶. The third one, ¶, is the print flag. It means this document is part of the book. Tick it on your chapters, leave it off your notes, and your export contains a manuscript instead of a filing cabinet. That's true. It is just not true of every export format. | Format | Obeys the ¶ tick? | |------------------------|---------------------------------------------| | EPUB | ✅ Yes | | PDF | ✅ Yes | | DOCX | ✅ Yes | | Markdown | ❌ No — sends everything | | Plain text | ❌ No — sends everything | This isn't a bug, and the code says so out loud: > export_enabled is deliberately IGNORED here — Markdown export doubles as a backup format and always carries every document. Which is a completely reasonable decision for a backup. A backup that only saved the chapters you'd ticked would be a bad backup. But it means the Markdown and plain-text options are the wrong tool for handing your book to a person, and they're sitting in the same menu as the right ones.