Title and Author Information

Accessing Title Info

To access and edit Title Info, select your book’s title at the top of the Navigator:

If it’s not already showing, select the Title Info tab. You’ll be shown these controls:

Title and Subtitle

Use the first fields of Title Info to specify your book’s title and (optional) subtitle:

The book’s title is used in:

• Your book’s Title Page or Half Title
• The headers of your print edition
• The metadata for your ebook edition
• The names of book files generated by Vellum

Series Name

If your book is part of a series, you can specify the name of the series:

Once you provide a Series Name, you can optionally enter Book Number to define when the book comes in the series.

Series information will be included in your ebook metadata and on your Title Page, e.g. “Book 1.” If you want to customize the term “Book,” you can do so in Terminology.

Author and Contributors

Next, you’ll list the primary author and any other contributors to the book:

Use Contributors to add additional authors, or credit a translator or editor. To add a contributor, click the + button and enter a name in the newly-created fields:

If you’d like to change the role of the contributor, click on the Author label to the left of the text fields. This will bring up the role popup menu:

If you’ve added multiple contributors and you need to reorder them, you can do so using drag-and-drop:

Additional Metadata

The following values are not shown on your book’s title page, but are included in your ebook’s metadata.

Language

Use this control to specify the language in which your book was written.

Vellum will translate certain key terms (e.g. “Chapter”) for French, Italian, German, and Spanish. However, if you choose another language from the popup menu, Vellum will display the Edit Terminology button:

Clicking this button opens the Terminology panel, where you can provide your own translations and customize terms used for contributors.