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Cricelia’s Writing's avatar

I uploaded a draft manuscript and for the life of me none of the suggestions are allowing me to tap into the pages to make edits. I googled it and none of the options are working. Has anyone experienced this?

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

I’m a freelance designer on Reedsy and even I didn’t know about this! Interesting. Might have to kick the tires a bit so I can share accurate info with my clients. Thanks for sharing!

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Chef’s Wife's avatar

Love it. How do I add a book cover to it ? You didn’t mention

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Justin Zimmer's avatar

On the Bookshelf, hit Manage <Gear Icon> button on your book and there should be an area to upload an image on the right.

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Jamie Northrup's avatar

I bought and more importantly started using Atticus a few months before I found Reedsy Studio. Have you used Atticus? I was wondering if I should switch at this point.

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Justin Zimmer's avatar

The free Reedsy Studio only has three formatting options: Reedsy, Classic (Serif), and Romance. If you already own Atticus, I'd hold on to it for formatting, but if you need collaboration tools and a public preview link, then Reedsy looks pretty good. I don't use Atticus as my main editor, only formatting. However, Atticus promised collaboration back in February and the Roadmap (https://atticuswriter.notion.site/Atticus-Roadmap-58d75fe66e0f40e0a7b39192c2cff6c3) shows that this is in progress for Beta).

I might go through the painstaking process of copying over chapters to Reedsy just for comments and collaboration since it's free but I don't see myself using it for formatting.

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Jamie Northrup's avatar

Thanks for taking the time to break it down for me Justin, I appreciate it.

I think I'll stick with Atticus for now since I have all my formatting templates set. I don't use collaborations (yet), but maybe they will add them before I get to that point.

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Justin Zimmer's avatar

Ah, so Reedsy is more than just another email I delete every day. I've been using Atticus for a few years with decent results but the collaboration tools look intriguing, and the pricetag is nice. I'll check it out and if it honors markdown formatting I'm all in.

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Justin Zimmer's avatar

Nope, doesn't honor markdown. Sigh, oh well, I have a solution for that problem already.

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Justin Zimmer's avatar

😂 So, I sign in and see a book in there already that I was testing with several years ago.

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Sol Luckman's avatar

Very interesting and potentially quite helpful. Also enjoyed Monica and Russell's Kickstarter book.

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