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# Recommended order of material within the book

**Mandatory**

*Recommended*

 

Our recommended order of an ebook is:

 

Cover Matter:   
**Cover Image**

 

Front Matter:  
*Title Page*

*Copyright Page*

*Praise*

*Dedication*

*Epigraph  
Acknowledgments*  
*Table of Contents*

 

Interior:  
**Main text (chapters, etc....)**

 

**Back Matter:**  
*Bibliography*  
*Glossary*  
*Index*  
*Plates*  
*Chapter 1 of next book by the same author*  
*By the Same Author (without direct links)*  
*About the Author*

 

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