Dedications. Do you use them? If so how?

[MFontana]

The topic is fairly self-explanatory in the title, but it's a simple question.
Do you use dedications in your stories/books?
And if so, how do you go about doing it?
In a separate chapter?
Author's Notes in the Synopsis?
Authors notes in the first chapter?

I'm genuinely curious how some of you here go about it. Personally, I was thinking of doing it as a separate chapter added to the beginning after I finish the series I'm working on.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I did on one novel when I posted it here, but the dedication has been removed in the version at Pocket FM. I may add it back ini as an author's note.

 

[Author_Riceball]

The topic is fairly self-explanatory in the title, but it's a simple question.
Do you use dedications in your stories/books?
And if so, how do you go about doing it?
In a separate chapter?
Author's Notes in the Synopsis?
Authors notes in the first chapter?

I'm genuinely curious how some of you here go about it. Personally, I was thinking of doing it as a separate chapter added to the beginning after I finish the series I'm working on.

I don’t even know what that is

 

[foxes]

Just to clarify. Are you referring to the book's complex, unusual lore?
I try to weave it into the plot with small explanations. For example, in conversations between people, like their dialogue or reasoning, and comparisons to similar things. Plus, there's a separate glossary at the end of the book, as a separate section, but not here.
When a specialist in the relevant profession appears in a story, they always provide their explanations. This can be supplemented by an illustration, a drawing, a portion of a cookbook, maps, or a butcher diagram. Other reference books that the hero studied.
These things are best done from the perspective of a character who doesn't understand anything.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

I don't really dedicate an entire book, just individual chapters. The one time I dedicated one of my Villainess, Retry! chapters on SH (Red Pill 45: Staircases, Disappearances), I did it via announcement at the end of the chapter.

 

[CinnaSloth]

Physical books:
Dedications
Prologue
Chapter 1

Scribblehub:
Chapter 1

Prologues are in the description/ synopsis/ details... whatever you want to call it Idgaf.
Dedications go in the title, or in the comment section. Sometimes, they go into the QnA page, or right there above the chapter.
But these aren't "must do's or dont's". Every author, and writer does things different. Nobody really cares how it's done, when it is done. Nice things are just nice to see, even if we don't know who the person is. We go "aww" for two seconds, and move on to the chapter, and never think about it again.

Who you SHOULD be asking, is the person(s) whose name is going on there. I think their thoughts on the matter are the ones that, well... matter.

 

[MFontana]

Just to clarify. Are you referring to the book's complex, unusual lore?
I try to weave it into the plot with small explanations. For example, in conversations between people, like their dialogue or reasoning, and comparisons to similar things. Plus, there's a separate glossary at the end of the book, as a separate section, but not here.
When a specialist in the relevant profession appears in a story, they always provide their explanations. This can be supplemented by an illustration, a drawing, a portion of a cookbook, maps, or a butcher diagram. Other reference books that the hero studied.
These things are best done from the perspective of a character who doesn't understand anything.

In a different thread, yes.
In this one, I'm talking about the dedications page that you'll typically find in most published (print) books; where the author leaves a message dedicating the book, usually to a person in their life).

 

[Rhaps]

I only do that after finish my story, as it is the norm. It was my love for humanity, for all of its flaws and all of its greatness. Pretty much a Human Fuck Yeah story that went on way longer than expected.

But I did wrote two dedications, one to my old DM (rest in peace, Felix), and to Benny Potter, the voice behind Comicstorian.