Manage books in the Author desk — ARC Library Field Notes

Guide

Review books attached to your author identity and submit a missing title for catalogue review.

Published 2026-08-11 · Reviewed 2026-08-15

Open My Books in the Author desk to review the catalogue titles connected to the author you are managing.

If a title is missing, use the Author navigation's submit action or the empty-state prompt. Enter the requested book information and send it for catalogue review. Submission does not publish the book immediately; it enters the review process first.

You can leave the Submit Book window with the close control, move back a step, or start over from its header. These controls follow your chosen theme on desktop, tablet, and phone, and closing an unfinished submission keeps its draft so you can continue later.

Reviewer guidance is private to the verified Author workspace. It is saved with the book through the protected submit or edit action, appears again when you reopen Manage book, and is not added to the public catalogue description.

Open Manage book to move between Identity, Discoverability, Reader experience, Editions, and Advanced. Save the full reader-facing metadata together, then reopen the book to confirm the values. For an approved book, Editions can add another ISBN, format, and country without replacing the primary edition. Closing the editor returns keyboard focus to the same catalogue action, even after the catalogue refreshes.

When you are working as a PA, check the active author before editing or submitting. The author switcher changes which connected author's workspace you are viewing.

Reuse your usual genres and tropes

Open Manage book, then choose Discoverability. Genre and trope choices already used on this author's approved or pending books carry a Used badge. The most-used choices rise to the top of each list, so the author's recurring catalogue themes are quicker to select; ties remain alphabetical, and search keeps the same useful order.

Public catalogue information and a reader's private tracking copy are separate. Correcting an author book does not overwrite a reader's private notes or progress.