Author Resources
The Creative Penn
Joanna Penn's Website and Podcast is a wealth of knowledge for all starting out in the writing world. I'm not here to reinvent the wheel so I'll share the links I found useful in my journey as a write.
You can download her author blueprint for free click image to the left for website or below to her tools page.
Tools, Tutorials and Resources for Authors and Writers | The Creative Penn
The Institute of Professional Editors
Are the professional association for Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand editors. A great source I found to locate a professional editor and proofreader for my work in Australia.
Institute of Professional Editors Limited | To advance the profession of editing
Apollo Imperium
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Because of the amount of authors and reviewers, we don't manage response. We will insert your email address so that readers can contact you directly, or if you have an ARC sign up form, we will instead insert the link to the form. This way, you can keep track of who your ARC readers are, and you can send the file yourself, which allows you to personalize the process and be in direct contact with your readers. It is free to sign up, because we know how expensive marketing is. We always welcome donations, but it is not required to donate in order to be featured! If you wish to donate, find the section underneath this one!
ARC Readers Directory
Welcome to the ARC Readers Directory, where authors can find their perfect readers.
Authors, refer to the list of genres, or you can search by tropes, contact method, and review sites.
ARC Readers Directory – A free directory for authors to find their readers
Book Life
Publishers Weekly Reviews Are Not Guaranteed and Require a $25 Submission
FeeBookLife Reviews Are Guaranteed and Cost $399Use the Same Form to Submit for BothSubmit for Both At the Same Time or IndependentlyWhen you submit your book to Publishers Weekly for review consideration or purchase a BookLife Review, your book will be judged by the same professional standards that Publishers Weekly applies to traditionally published books. This means your book must be ready for a wide, general-interest readership that expects cleanly written, well-edited, and engaging books. This comparison of Publishers Weekly reviews and BookLife Reviews will help you decide whether to choose one or both. You use the same submission form for either or both.
Book Sirens
The book blog sites listed in our directory are vetted for quality: they are active, have clear review policies, and usually have a good following on social media. In fact, the ~1000 book blogs in our catalog have a cumulative following of over 1,000,000 readers. The most popular book review sites in our catalog have between 10,000 and 70,000 followers.
Children's Chapter Books
Click on the linktree they have a form for Reviews, ARC promotions and Release promotions. I've found this page to be very supportive of Indie Chapter Book and Middle Grade authors.
The Indie Reviewers List
page provides links to where Indie books are reviewed. If you review Indie books please go here and I’ll add your link to the list.
To be on this list the Indie Reviewer has to be:
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Actively posting reviews
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Review eBooks
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Not charge for their reviews
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Not be affiliated to a publisher
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Have submission guidelines in place for an Indie author to submit an eBook
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Putting a link back to TheIndieView on their site
Indies Today
Indies Today offers the #1 list for Indie Book Reviewers because reviewers are regularly verified for activity and our list is sorted by their posting frequency so that you can focus on the most active reviewers.
Independent and self-published authors know how important Amazon reviews are to the success of their books. One of the easiest ways to get reviews is by contacting book review bloggers and asking them to read your book and post a review. In addition to their website, many will also post their review of your book on Amazon, Goodreads, social media, etc. The directory below contains over 300 reviewers that accept submissions from indie authors.
ARCs-Directory Submission
A proactive site offering ARC's landing page and they send out information over social media regularly.
Site does not allow any sort of discriminatory content. If your content is found to be any of the following, it will be removed from our site: Homophobic, Transphobic, Sexist, Racist, or any other type of inappropriate content.
Indie Author Fan Club
Submissions through linktree and they offer exposure over their social feeds
The Library Thing
The LibraryThing Early Reviewers program ("ER") helps publishers and authors generate buzz and reviews for new and forthcoming books. You provide the books, and we match you with readers eager to review them. We also promote your books to the close to 100,000 members of Early Reviewers, the more than 1 million recipients of LibraryThing's monthly newsletter, and through our social-media channels.
Early Reviewers | Authors | LibraryThing
Reedsy Discovery
Submit your book to our reviewers for $50 and gain exposure to thousands of readers in your genre.
Discover the best new stories | Reedsy Discovery
Reader's Favourite
We review manuscripts, published and unpublished books, eBooks, audiobooks, poetry books, comic books, graphic novels and short stories. Your review will be posted on our site, KOBO, Books-A-Million, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. In addition, our reviewers often post reviews to their blogs and social media sites. Your review will also be indexed by search engines like Google, which recognizes our reviews and formats them with their starred rating, just like Amazon and Goodreads.All 5-star reviews receive a FREE "Five Star" digital seal for your website and a high-resolution version for your book cover. Our seal can be seen on book covers from indie authors to iconic publishers like Simon & Schuster. All reviews come with a Readers' Favorite Review Page and a host of free features to help you promote your book and your new review.
Book Reviews - Readers' Favorite: Book Reviews and Award Contest
Victory Editing Netgalley Co-op
NetGalley is one of the largest digital ARC distribution sites in the industry. A huge advantage of listing your title on NetGalley’s platform is access to people you might not otherwise reach, from reviewers for major publications like USA Today and Publishers Weekly to librarians and booksellers looking for new titles to purchase.
Pricing Monthly Rental
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$63.00 / month for e-book slots
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$68.25 / month for audiobook slots
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$131.25 / month for e-book / audiobook package
Yearly Lease
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$575.00 per year. This will run from June 2025–May 2026. There’s a grace period for one quarter that I can prorate the fee. From September on, only monthly slots will be available. This can be used for either e-book or audiobook ARCs, though it’s one title per slot per month.
Voracious Readers Only
is dedicated to helping readers discover new authors AND to help authors find readers who will love their work, write reviews, and help them build word of mouth.
We accomplish this by attracting the right kind of readers to our list, primarily through multi-step advertising campaigns and referrals from our best readers to their friends in book clubs and reading groups.
Voracious Readers Only readers are not only willing to read books from authors they may not have heard about before but if they enjoy your book, they can help you writing a review and/or recommending your work to other readers.
If we’re both happy with the results, then we can do an ongoing promotion to continually drive readers to your novel starting at just $30 USD a month.
But we’ll get to that when you’re ready. For now, please sign up for our introductory 20 Book Giveaway and let us get to work FOR YOU.
Facebook Groups to try
ARC Group - For Readers and AuthorsPrivate Group you'll need to join
Authors: If you have an ARC that you would like to share, feel free to post it. As authors on this site, you have to keep track of who you gave Arcs to and if they review.Please use a 'HashTag' to make it easier for readers to find your work. For example, if the book is a paranormal shifter romance, use the hashtags #PNR #Romance #Shifter.
ARC readers & Authors
Authors and Writers Forum to share the Knowledge and Resources. Please share free and Bargain books information.