User Guide | Inkwren Documentation

📄️ Managing Publications

Track every publication in your catalog — novels, novellas, anthologies, collections, bundles, and non-fiction — with covers, metadata, genres, editors, and per-publication feature settings.

📄️ Managing Stories

Track every short story, novelette, novella, novel, and non-fiction piece in your workspace — with authors, genres, tags, series associations, and rich metadata.

📄️ Managing Series

Group related stories and publications into series — an author's connected story sequence or a publisher's anthology line — with flexible decimal ordering.

📄️ Publication Command Center

The detail page for any publication — a tabbed hub for managing the publication's content, formats, editorial pipeline, manuscripts, contracts, calls for submissions, royalty splits, and tasks.

The Story Command Center is a comprehensive story detail view that serves as the complete management hub for each story. Access everything you need to know about a story in one centralized interface with powerful tab-based organization.

📄️ Calls for Submissions

Invite authors to submit stories to a publication, then track who's interested — for anthology editors and publishers building an issue or collection.

📄️ Manuscripts

Collect and review the stories authors submit to a publication — the publisher-side slush pile for anthology editors.

📄️ Author Invitations

Share a publication with the authors in it — each author gets a read-only copy in their own workspace that they can match their stories to, watch for updates, and annotate privately.

📄️ Royalty Splits

Record how a publication's royalties are divided among its contributors — fixed percentages off the top, with the rest split proportionally by shares.

📄️ Pull Quotes

Curate a publication's best review excerpts — formatted and ready to paste onto covers, websites, and social media.

📄️ Tracking Submissions

Track your story submissions to magazines, anthologies, contests, and publishers — from submission through acceptance, with payment and rights tracking on the back end.

📄️ Publishers

Keep a roster of the publishing houses and imprints whose publications flow through your workspace.

📄️ Managing Markets

Track the publications and venues where you submit your stories — magazines, anthologies, contests, and publishers.

📄️ Sales

Track book revenue across your distribution channels by importing the sales and royalty reports your retailers produce.

📄️ Managing Tasks

Track everything you need to do — drafts, edits, marketing, admin — across List, Board, and Calendar views, with recurrence, dependencies, attachments, saved views, and per-category custom workflows.

📄️ Editing Workflows

Track the editing progress of stories in your publications.

📄️ Managing Contracts

Track contributor agreements from draft through signature — for publication contracts with authors and service contracts with editors, designers, and other collaborators.

📄️ Pen Names

Mark a contributor as a pen name of another contributor to keep your roster organized when one author writes under multiple identities.

📄️ Contributors

Keep a roster of everyone whose work flows through your workspace — authors, co-authors, editors, illustrators, narrators, and translators.

📄️ Managing Cover Credits

Track the artists, designers, and photographers behind your publication covers — with licensing and attribution details.

📄️ Managing Reference Data

Reference data provides the building blocks for organizing your content in Inkwren. This guide covers genres and tags (managed under Reference Data), plus series and publishers (which have their own top-level navigation items).

📄️ Managing Collaborators

Inkwren supports team collaboration through workspace membership. This guide covers how to invite team members, manage roles, and work together effectively.