The Table of Contents is in the way and I can't see to write or edit my book. Why is that, and how can I change it?

Is there any update on when the "royalty payout info" will be fixed? My reports are still only from 2012 and are all in German (not that there's anything wrong with that, except that I can't read them).

Friends, Acquaintances, other...

I was just wondering if one of the 'behind the scenes' folks (hereafter referred to as 'BTSF' had a strong yearning to look into an 'organizational' concept dealing with the messaging/friend system here at BR.

One of the things I've come to notice on other sites (not just like on Facebook) but also with Google+, the New Myspace, and a couple others whose names escape me, is that they all have some sort of way to 'categorize' friends to help make messaging friends a bit easier.

For instance, I have many 'friends' here at BR. But they're not all the same level of friend. That sounds weird but hear me out... Some of my friends with whom I am in contact a lot I consider 'CLOSE FRIENDS' other friends who I sometimes reach out to for specific things but who I don't necessarily keep up with on a daily basis are 'ACQUAINTANCES' and then there are the 'friends' who have minimal contact with (for example younger writers who might contact me every now and again seeking advice) that fall into a weird 'Other' category.

NOW FOR THE QUESTIONS!

1. Do you think it would be at all possible to actually categorize our Friends ?
-Not by 'Chronological' - it always puts the newest first - which is weird because my CLOSE friends are not my 'newest' ones;
-Not by User Ranking - that, quite frankly is a really STUPID way to sort 'friends' because it's rather 'clique' like wherein people go --- OOOH, so and so is ranked #1, I Have to be their friend because they must be better than the guy ranked at #284! --- Dumb; and,
-Not by Alphabetical Ranking - which is NOT ONLY give s 'Dead end' 404 error but is ridiculous in a place where the majority of people go by user names like 'ILoveVampires-SoWhat?' (if that's your name - sorry) and have author names like 'Adam Smith'...

It would be great if we could categorize by Close Friends, Acquaintances, 'Other' (wherein we put in the designation like 'Young Writers', 'European Friends' whatever)

2. In the same vein, if those designations could carry over to our MESSAGING it would be great so we could send messages to a select few instead of the option of trying to remember their user name OR hitting that stupid 'Select All' option.

I am SO tired of getting mass messages who are lazy and just click 'select all' If we had the option to select 'Close Friends' we could direct messages just to a select group.

3. Last, is there some way we could have a 'sorting option' in our messages? I'd love to be able to click on an option to 'See all messages from Close Friends' or possibly click on a particular user and select an option like 'See all messages from Adam Smith'.

Hopefully you sort of see where I'm going with this.

Oh, well, just another something for you all to mull over!

To begin, I'm fairly certain the ideas I offer are things that would probably take a while to implement - if they're even possible - but I was wondering about one of the actual 'book design' elements here at BR.

--Covers -

One of the things I really enjoy about reading hard copy books is being able to see the author's photo along with a little blurb about them or maybe why they've written the book.

It would be so awesome if we could somehow have an 'Inside Jacket' (which would most logically actually go at the END of the book, after the Imprint page)

It could simply be called 'About the Author' and might have a place for a 1/4 page size picture and a brief bio.

To the best of my knowledge, this is something no other 'write your book here' site offers and would help to push BookRix even farther ahead of the rest!

Okay, I've placed the idea on the table! Now I suppose it's up to you all to ponder the possibility!

how do you message all your friends at the same time??!!

Hi!
I am writing some books and I am wondering how long they should be. I have looked at one of my cousin's book and it is like 35 pages long. Thanks!

Hi. I was noticing that when we look at our books we can 'see' how many people have actually seen our book by looking at the nifty little eyeball with the # beside it.

I was wondering... is it possible to have a counter on the number of times someone has actually clicked on a discussion we may have started? Also, I do love the fact that we can comment on a discussion but is it also possible to perhaps have a way to comment on a comment?

I ask because sometimes I will read a comment that I agree with completely and instead of 'adding a comment that says that at the very end of the discussion line' it would be much easier to simply click on a secondary comment option.

For example:

'My new poem'
BILLYBOB

Mary had a little lamb, it's fleas was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go
It tried to follow her to school one day
But the bus driver squashed it flat along the way!

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BETTY SUE-
I think you have misspelled the word 'fleece'

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JIMBO-
Yes, I believe Betty Sue is correct.

BILLYBOB-
Thanks!

FRANK-
I like the poem.

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MINDY-

I don't like lambs.

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BILLYBOB
Mindy, you are weird.

(HEHE, I hope you like my visual! Yes, I'm a believer in 'show it one way - show it a second!)

Just something for you all to ponder because it would be great.