The long awaited multi-author extension is now available for purchase. The main Novelist plugin is designed under the assumption that one person (the site owner) is the author of all books on the site. The new multi-author extension changes this; it allows you to create different author profiles and assign different authors to each book.

Novelist is designed for authors websites. The assumption is that you – the site creator – are the author of each book that’s added into the system. But what if you need a site for a publisher with multiple authors?

One author approached me asking how to display the purchase links twice on a book page. She wanted them listed at the beginning of the page, and again at the end. This feature isn’t built into Novelist, but I whipped up a quick plugin that allows her to do just that.

Novelist version 1.1 was just released and it comes with a new feature that allows you to set a default book cover image. This default image is used if you don’t upload a cover image to a book. Instead of showing no cover, it will fall back to this default.