✍️For AuthorsIntermediate6 min

How to Get Started as an Author

Reach the readers already discussing your work. Set up your author profile, connect your books, and engage clubs from one dashboard.

🎧 Narrated walkthrough — turn on sound for the voiceover.

1
Apply for an author account
Visit the author sign-up page and apply with the name you publish under. Once approved, an Author Dashboard option appears in your account menu.
2
Open your Author Dashboard
From your profile menu, choose Author Dashboard. This is your home base for everything author-related: your books, the clubs reading them, messages, Q&A, and earnings.
3
Connect your books
Add the titles you have written so they are linked to your author profile. Readfeed surfaces your books to relevant book clubs and lets readers add them to their shelves.

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Claiming every edition of a title ensures all the clubs reading it roll up under your profile.
4
Engage the clubs reading you
See which book clubs are reading your work, answer reader questions in the Q&A section, and message clubs to offer to join a discussion or do a virtual visit.

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Offering to drop into a discussion is one of the highest-impact things an author can do on Readfeed.
5
Offer signed copies and track earnings
Enable signed-copy orders so clubs can buy personalized books directly from you, then track orders and earnings right inside the dashboard.

Jump back into Readfeed and try it out for yourself.

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