My Dashboard
The dashboard is your control center for your Book Country account.
From your dashboard, you'll receive messages from your connections or from Book Country staff about your works in progress, navigate to your manuscript editor to post a manuscript for peer review, navigate to your eBook Wizard to publish an eBook, edit your profile, check your sales and author earnings,manage your reports and forms,and find links to update your browsers and Adobe Flash player.
These FAQs will help you get the most out of your dashboard—from your very first visit to the publication and sale of your first eBook:
How do I get to My Dashboard?
What is available on My Dashboard?
Why is my manuscript not showing up yet?
How do I get to My Dashboard?
If you have registered a Book Country account and are logged in, navigate to either the Read & Review or Publish menu tabs at the top of the screen and then select My Dashboard from either dropdown menu or by selecting the My Dashboard button from
your logged in homepage. If you don't yet have an account, what are you waiting for? Register and a link to your dashboard will appear in the previously mentioned locations.
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What is available on My Dashboard?
To make it easy to control your Book Country account from one place, your dashboard includes the following helpful links and tools:
1. My Account Sidebar
Your My Account sidebar provides quick access to the areas of Book Country you use most, including:
Project Messages
Our team at Book Country will post important messages related to your eBook project(s)in this space. Some alerts require you to take immediate action, so check out each one.
My Profile
Navigate to your profile to view your profile details, update your password, and connect with other users.
My Home Page
Navigate to your logged in homepage, where you'll find your News Feed, in addition to discussions and books you're following.
My Messages
Navigate to your messages center to send or receive messages from your Book Country connections.
My Connections
Navigate to your connections center to interact with other Book Country members.
My Reports
If you have published an eBook with Book Country, navigate to the following customized reports:
Sales Activity Report to find out how how many copies of your eBooks have sold and where they are selling.
Quarterly Author Earnings Report to find out how much money you've earned from sales of your eBooks.
Payment Remediation Report to see payments made to you that are outside the normal royalty payment schedule.
BookStub Redemption Report to discover how many of your BookStubs for a particular eBook have been redeemed.
My Forms
From My Forms, you'll find tax and banking forms, including:
Update my tax info form which will help you comply with your country of residence's tax requirements based on any author earnings you have made. (For more details about the quarterly author earnings schedule, view our "Sell My eBooks FAQs.)
Update my EFT banking info form to provide electronic banking information so Book Country can deposit any author earnings from your book sales on a quarterly basis.
(For more details about the quarterly author earnings schedule, view our "Sell My eBooks FAQs.)
EFT Banking Mail-In form to provide a mail-in version of your electronic banking information so Book Country can deposit any author earnings from your book sales on a quarterly basis. (For more details about the quarterly author earnings schedule, view our "Sell My eBooks FAQs.)
2) Tech Corner
In our Tech Corner, you'll find links to the latest versions of Flash player and Firefox and Chrome browsers, which are recommended for Book Country users.
3) My Projects Section
Ready to workshop a new manuscript via peer review or publish an eBook? You're only a click away. Simply select the "workshop a book" or "start a new eBook" buttons from the Get Started sidebar to enter our workshop and publishing wizards.
From your My Projects Section, you'll find your Manuscripts in Peer Review and your eBook Publishing Projects.
4) Get Started Sidebar
Your Get Started sidebar includes links to Guides & Best Practices for your peer review and publishing needs. The sidebar also includes quick links to your manuscript and eBook online editors.
Back to top » Why isn't my manuscript/eBook showing up yet?
If you have uploaded a manuscript for peer review correctly, you should see it under "Books in Peer Review" on your dashboard. If you have uploaded an eBook correctly, you should see it displayed in "eBook Publishing Projects". If you cannot find your manuscript or eBook, make sure that you are logged in with the correct username and password. If it still does not appear, refresh the page.
If your manuscript or eBook still does not display, consider refreshing your cache then logging out and logging back in. If you continue to have technical difficulties, check out our
Upload My Manuscript or
Create My eBook FAQs or contact us.
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