01. Sign up & verify your email

Click Sign in → Sign up. We email you a confirmation link; click it to activate your account.

02. Become an author

Set a pen name, a handle (your public URL becomes technovize.com/publisher/@your-handle/), an avatar, and a short bio. Markdown is supported in the bio.

You can rename the handle later — old URLs auto-redirect, so existing links don't break.

03. Free vs Pro

Free authors can publish up to 2 books. Author Pro lifts the cap, includes a free platform-issued ISBN, and lowers the platform cut on every sale.

Headings

# Chapter title
## Section
### Subsection
#### Smaller subsection

Skip # at the very top — the chapter title field already supplies it. Start your chapter body at ## or below.

Emphasis

**bold text**
*italic text*
***bold and italic***
~~strikethrough~~
`inline code`

Lists

- bullet item
- another bullet
  - nested bullet
  - another nested

1. numbered step
2. second step
3. third step

Use two spaces of indentation to nest. Numbered lists auto-renumber on render — you can write 1./1./1. and it'll come out 1./2./3.

Links

[link text](https://example.com)
[link with title](https://example.com "Hover tooltip")

URLs render as clickable in the EPUB and as printed footnotes in the PDF.

Images

![alt text](https://example.com/picture.jpg)

Code blocks

```python
def hello(name):
    print(f"Hello, {name}!")
```

```javascript
const greet = (name) => `Hello, ${name}!`;
```

Add a language hint after the opening fence (python, javascript, bash, sql, html, css, ...) and you'll get syntax highlighting in the PDF via the codehilite extension.

Blockquotes & rules

> A quoted line.
> Continues on the next line.
>
> > Nested quote.

---     (horizontal rule)

Tables

| Column A | Column B | Column C |
|----------|---------:|:--------:|
| left     |    right |  centre  |
| value    |     1.23 |   yes    |

Colons in the separator row control alignment: :--- left, ---: right, :---: centre.

Footnotes & superscript

A claim with a citation.[^1]

[^1]: Source goes here.

E = mc^2^   (superscript via the caret extension)

Editor shortcuts

• Ctrl+S / ⌘ S — save now (autosave still fires every ~1.5 s on its own)
• ? button in toolbar — slide-over with this same syntax cheatsheet
• Paste / drop image — uploads and inserts the Markdown automatically
• Live preview updates ~1 s after you stop typing in Split or Preview view

How it works

On the book's Settings page, pick existing Technovize authors as co-authors. They appear in the byline ("Jane Doe with John Smith") on:

• Storefront page
• PDF title page
• EPUB metadata
• Marketplace metadata sheet