Practical, free guides from actually doing it. Still a work in progress — more coming soon.
The exact tools I used to run my ARC campaign as a budget indie author — a free Google Form to collect readers, BookFunnel vs Booksprout to deliver the book, and MailerLite to chase reviews.
Read more →How I found ARC readers for my debut as a first-time indie author — Reddit, Goodreads groups, a £10 Instagram ad and direct outreach — and what actually worked.
Read more →How to find good beta readers for free on Reddit, Goodreads and through author swaps — what to expect from them, and the exact questions to ask to get feedback worth having.
Read more →What copyright actually gives you, how to lock down a Google Doc, and the safest platforms for sharing your book with beta and ARC readers — without it ending up somewhere it shouldn't.
Read more →How to self-edit your novel for free — the editing passes that catch most of the problems before a single beta reader or editor ever sees your manuscript.
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