Is this for a book I have already published?

No, and it would be a waste of money. A published book is listed free, forever. This plan is only for a book nobody can buy yet.

What happens when I finish the book?

The happy ending: email your reader list, delete the work in progress, and submit the finished book free like any other. Then cancel, or point the plan at your next one.

Your plan runs to the end of the month you have paid for. After that the page and chapters are hidden rather than deleted, and you have 30 days to download your reader list before our copy of it goes. Resubscribe and everything comes back exactly as you left it.

Do you take a cut when the book sells?

No. We never touch your sales, on either plan. The subscription is the only money that ever changes hands.

The Upcoming Release plan

Readers, before the book is finished.

Most authors start looking for readers on launch day, which is the worst possible day to start. This gives the book you are still writing a real page, sample chapters people can read now, and a list of readers waiting for the day it lands.

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$4.99 USD a month, cancel any time

How it works

Four steps, and the first three take an afternoon.

Step 1
Set up your page
Title, blurb, cover and genre. The same details as a finished book, for one that is not finished yet.
Step 2
Add up to 3 chapters
Paste them straight from Word, Docs or Scrivener. Readers can start reading today, free.
Step 3
Readers find it
Your book appears in Upcoming and takes its turn on the homepage shelf, before it can be bought anywhere.
Step 4
They ask to be told
Anyone who wants the book leaves their email. That list is the reason this plan exists.

The part that matters

The reader list is yours

Not followers on a platform that can change its mind. Real email addresses, given deliberately by people who want your book, that you keep even if you leave.

While you write

You see the count

Readers leave their email on your book page. You watch the number grow from your dashboard.

Whenever you like

You download the addresses

One deliberate click hands you the list as a CSV. We log it, so the moment of transfer is always answerable.

On launch day

You email them yourself

From your own mailing list, in your own words. No middle layer, no algorithm deciding who sees it.

Readers are told plainly that their address goes to you and that we cannot take it back on their behalf. That honesty is why the addresses are worth having: everyone on your list chose to be there.

What $4.99 USD a month covers

Its own page in Upcoming, before the book can be bought anywhere
Up to 3 sample chapters readers can start today
A reader list that belongs to you, not to us
Daily turns on the homepage Upcoming shelf
An Upcoming release badge on your author profile
Priority support

Before you decide

Is this for a book I have already published?: No, and it would be a waste of money. A published book is listed free, forever. This plan is only for a book nobody can buy yet.
What happens when I finish the book?: The happy ending: email your reader list, delete the work in progress, and submit the finished book free like any other. Then cancel, or point the plan at your next one.
What if I cancel?: Your plan runs to the end of the month you have paid for. After that the page and chapters are hidden rather than deleted, and you have 30 days to download your reader list before our copy of it goes. Resubscribe and everything comes back exactly as you left it.
Do you take a cut when the book sells?: No. We never touch your sales, on either plan. The subscription is the only money that ever changes hands.

Still weighing it up? The pricing page puts both plans side by side.

Start collecting readers today

The book does not have to be close to finished. It only has to exist enough to describe.

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$4.99 USD a month. Cancel in two clicks from your account.