#arc team

[djrusso-romance]

ARC Team/Readers Wanted

Hi! Do you like free ebooks? Do you like sexy romances involving queer people, high fantasy, and exclusive art? If you fancy, check out my ARC team! I still have about 15 slots left before I close on the 25th! My next release is my merman m/m romance, Scales Like Stars (planned trilogy), and the next one will be out ~hopefully by the summer~ (m/m/f pairing but it's still being written and worked on so everything is subject to change)! You can sign up here: linktr.ee/djrusso

[authorlaurawinter]

BIG NEWS! New look, same great taste for the Smoke and Shadow series!

I would love to get this post boosted around the community, and will be forever grateful for your reblogs 💜

I am so very thrilled to be announcing this new set of covers and I would LOVE to have some help celebrating. If you're interested in joining my street team to help out with this reveal on social media, you can find the form here. There's also a place to sign up for ARCs with The Wings of Shattered Fire coming 11.30. You also don’t have to join the team to help with this reveal 💜

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About the series: Chunky character driven tomes featuring multiple POVs, elemental magics, politics and snarky humor. Features found family, enemies to lovers, strong friendships, queer rep, and a polyamorous relationship.

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Street team perks: being your awesome self and helping out an indie author, private Discord channels, swag, sneak previews, and more! I hope you'll join me as I celebrate this new release!

[lilibetbombshell]

[menagerie-of-monsters]

Calling all ARC readers!

It's happening...

To save a constellation, Rain fed her soul to the void. To save humanity, she'll have to face annihilation.

Betrayal touched Rain's life long ago—and left the night sky shattered. The powerful sorceress is the last thing standing between her world and apocalypse, capturing the meteors that still rain down from the broken sky. When a mouse disrupting her spell diagram nearly leads to the destruction of a city, she tries to summon a cat as a familiar to keep it from ever happening again.

Escaping death on the battlefield, an incubus answers instead.

❧ High fantasy full of mage politics and apocalyptic danger ❧ Slow burn romance where he falls first ❧ Forced proximity ❧ Shared orgasms ❧ Incubus lust

The Sorceress and the Incubus is up for ARC reviews! Interested in reading it before everyone else? Want something to do over the long weekend? Send me a DM to get added to my ARC team!

[littlegrrl7]

All of this.

Up goes the cry “but I’m too poor to buy books”.

Here’s how to help indie authors instead of hurting them:

Join their ARC team and leave great reviews for stories you loved. This gets you a free advanced copy of their book.

Become a book reviewer for services like Book Sirens, Story Origin, Net Galley, or Book Funnel. AND LEAVE A GREAT REVIEW IF YOU LOVED THE BOOK. Using these services you can get more books then you’ll ever be able to read for free, and help the author out by reviewing them on Book bub, Amazon, or Goodreads. Or leave a review on all three, no need to be stingy.

Use a local library--really.

If you want books to exist, stop pirating them.

This sounds like drama, but it's not.

Not only is it well documented that pirating contributes to publishers not buying more manuscripts from an author (Maggie Stiefvater's experiment being the most famous), now we have evidence that Amazon's Kindle Unlimited algorithm is registering pirated copies of books online as the book being "offered" somewhere else, and punishing the authors for it.

And I don't know how much you know about Kindle Unlimited, but the thing is, if your book is in KU, you have to check a little box that says you're not offering the book anywhere else for sale. At all. So when the algorithm is finding the pirated copies, it's pinging it as, Oh! The author lied! The author misrepresented their sales strategy! ACCOUNT DELETION FOR AUTHOR. NO ROYALTIES FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS.

Miette jokes aside, that's actually what's happening to very popular self-pub authors. Ruby Dixon just had her account deleted, her 15+ volume popular KU series taken down, and Amazon fighting her over the KU Pages royalties she'd already earned on those books. Now, Ruby's got her account back because she's popular enough that people shouted at Kindle executives very, very loudly, but what about other authors? This could ruin someone's career.

Well, why not publish wide, I hear you saying. Why stick to Kindle Unlimited? After all, Amazon sucks.

Here's the thing. Whether we like it or not, Amazon has a massive corner market on books, and for authors who are self-publishing, it is by far the most accessible and cost-effective method, PLUS, it's a great way to be discovered by new readers.

Because readers don't have to pay for individual titles under KU (they pay for a subscription, and then Amazon pays out authors based on how many pages of the book someone read), they can give new authors a try. They can take a chance on a book they're not sure they'll like. And Amazon tends to promote KU titles more aggressively because it's good for their business.

My little $0.99 short story, Swelter, is on Kindle Unlimited, and I can tell you that a good 85% of my royalties from it come from KU pages, not from people buying it. And that's for a story that costs less than a dollar and is not a big investment and has pretty good word-of-mouth in the f/f reading community.

Self-publishing is expensive, and time consuming. I'm getting away with it pretty cheaply right now because I am also a professional editor, and I have friends in the business who are willing to trade in kind rather than be paid. I have a really wonderful friend who is doing my ebook formatting for free because I beta read and do proofing for her. But if I were paying for all the services that I'm trading for, as most authors have to do? I'd be well over $1500 sunk into this little ebook coming out in a week that is going to cost $3.99 and be free to read on Kindle Unlimited. And that's not counting marketing. Because yeah, you have to pay for marketing. Hell, I had to pay $35 upfront to a popular site to be considered for their marketing campaign, and would've paid another $65 if they'd accepted me. (They did not, so I'm out that $35 without even a marketing campaign to show for it.)

And the thing is, I'm currently gainfully employed. I'm salaried. My spouse is also salaried, so I have enough disposable income to spend what I've spent on this ebook (which is still about $600, even with all the things I'm trading for). Most authors? Especially most self-publishing authors? Don't have that.

So Kindle Unlimited, for all its flaws, is a way to get more diverse voices in the business because you don't even have to buy an ISBN. Amazon assigns you an Amazon Sales Index Number (ASIN) and you're good to go, as long as you're not listing it on any other sites. Hell, they even have tools for you to make your own cover art if you don't want to pay someone to make it for you. They do a lot of their own internal promotion on Kindle. Readers can try you out for little-to-no personal investment on their part and maybe discover that they love your writing, and you've gained a whole audience. It's a great return-on-investment for self-published authors.

So that's why a lot of self-pub authors choose Kindle Unlimited. And a lot of authors will do a limited run on KU in order to get some early word-of-mouth and discovery readers, and then publish wide later. (That's my current strategy with Welcome to the Show, if it does well. If it's not doing well, I probably won't sink the money and time into expanding its availability.) But if this happens, if Amazon shuts down their account over "KU membership misrepresentation," then even if the book has been published wide and is available on other platforms by then, Amazon is going to dispute their KU Pages royalties and try to take them back.

So by pirating books, not only are authors losing "potential" sales (I know, there's a whole argument there), they could be losing real, actual sales that they've already sold.

In conclusion:

1. Don't pirate books.

2. If you see someone requesting where they can read a book "for free", speak up.

3. If you see someone providing links where people can read a book "for free" (if it is not provided by the author for free), speak up.

Thanks, and have a good day.

[autumnhares]

ARC Readers Wanted

I'm looking for ARC readers for An Immortal Threat, the second book in my Fractured Gods series. The series is a dark portal fantasy that follows the journey of a human from Earth, Keiro, as she learns to exist among the elves of Chantra. After being bound to a powerful relic that allows her to open portals, the spirit within made a deal with her that if she can find the fractured pieces of his soul and free him from his prison, she'll be free to live her life.

The first book is available on Amazon and KU.

This series has:

Magic🪄, gods, monsters🐉, elves🧝‍♀️, family secrets, adult situations, assault, death💀, torture, and spice🌶️ of different levels.

If you're interested, please have a look at this form and sign up.

[leminaus]

red and vee :)

[theromanceriot]

Author Jaye Viner Looking to Expand ARC Team

Looking to join an ARC team? Apply for the Advanced Review Team (ARC) of Casta Diva, the third book in the Elaborate Lives series. It’s alright if you haven’t read the first two books in the series, but you will probably have a better reading experience if you have at least read Terrible Love. Summary: In this gender bent Mission Impossible-II romantic suspense, Quinn and Larisa’s first…

[moog-enthusiast]

comforting presence

[elbdot]

This man HAS to have a favorite Pokemon that isn't a bug, there is just NO WAY, GO GET HIS AS-

EDIT: Part 2 is here! :D Thank you all for your patience, glad to be back with a new update! Comic Guide | Webtoons

Special Thanks to my Patrons for supporting this series!! You can already read the next update now on Patreon! ☺️💖

[neo-kid-funk]

Pyrrha Nikos

[stblake]

ARC readers needed!

New York needs a hero. As usual. But is it ready for a hero as absolutely, outrageously unusual as this?!

Hi everyone, I'm looking for ARC readers for my #urbanfantasy novel set in the early New York punk scene.

Transformer Kit is a gritty pop culture comedy & a tender, witty LGBTQ+ love story, featuring a hero who will make you laugh out loud and gasp in disbelief. It’s a story about desperately romantic and unique characters who are fighting for what they believe in the big, bad, beautiful city.

Ideally, I'm looking for readers who are happy to leave honest reviews on Amazon - but Goodreads and Bookbub are also good :) ARCs are available on StoryOrigin and BookSirens through the links below - or just message me if you're not using those sites and I can send it over direct.

StoryOrigins - https://storyoriginapp.com/reviewcopies/45eda2ee-a22c-11ed-957e-bf446db1591d

BookSirens - https://booksirens.com/book/G0H6P6Z/ZL12Q6X

[kroosluvr]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐎𝐃.

[lilibetbombshell]

[menagerie-of-monsters]

Calling all ARC readers!

It's happening...

To save a constellation, Rain fed her soul to the void. To save humanity, she'll have to face annihilation.

Betrayal touched Rain's life long ago—and left the night sky shattered. The powerful sorceress is the last thing standing between her world and apocalypse, capturing the meteors that still rain down from the broken sky. When a mouse disrupting her spell diagram nearly leads to the destruction of a city, she tries to summon a cat as a familiar to keep it from ever happening again.

Escaping death on the battlefield, an incubus answers instead.

❧ High fantasy full of mage politics and apocalyptic danger ❧ Slow burn romance where he falls first ❧ Forced proximity ❧ Shared orgasms ❧ Incubus lust

The Sorceress and the Incubus is up for ARC reviews! Interested in reading it before everyone else? Want to cap off the long weekend? Send me a DM to get added to my ARC team!

[knightscanfeeltoo]

I'm Happy for the Two Ladies from Guilty Gear XX and One Enby from The Missing Link for making it in a 3D Guilty Gear Game for the Very First Time...

(which is not guilty gear xrd...)