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Pen names, books, series, campaigns, the Journal and Studio.

1. 1.Becoming an authorA reader account becomes an author account from For authors: choose a pen name, add a short bio, and Studio opens. Your library, reviews and follows come with you; the reader-only surfaces close, and the change cannot be undone from the product.For readers and authors · updated 2026-09-20
2. 2.Your pen name and public pageYour pen name is your public identity; books, series, campaigns and Journal entries attach to it. Edit its name, bios, avatar, banner, the genres you write, the languages you publish in and external links under Studio, Settings. Several pen names per account from Studio, Pen names: add, open in Studio, make primary, archive; Author and Creator one, Pro up to five, Publisher unlimited.For authors · updated 2026-09-22
3. 3.Publishing your first bookCreate a book from Studio, Books, New book, with its synopsis, up to three genres and six tropes, content level and warnings, language, page count and a cover (uploaded, or a pattern with the title drawn on). It starts as a draft only you can see; set it to Coming soon (with a date) or Published when ready. Add a sample and buy links from the edit page; archiving takes it off the catalog without deleting anything.For authors · updated 2026-09-27
4. 4.Series and reading orderA series is a reading order of your books with its own public page readers can follow. Create it from Studio, Series, then Manage to add books from your catalog and arrange them; followers are told when the next book is published.For authors · updated 2026-09-20
5. 5.Running an ARC campaignStudio, Campaigns, New campaign walks through the book, dates and reader spots, ideal readers (genres, tropes, languages, regions, requirements), delivery (formats, files, your message) and how to launch (draft, scheduled, or now). Applications gather under Applications with each reader's match and reliability; approve or decline one by one or in batches, and every decision notifies the reader.For authors · updated 2026-10-12
6. 6.ARC delivery and trackingYou choose per campaign how readers receive the book: Read on Booklabria (the file stays on the server, readers open it on the site or in the app, and the Reading tab shows progress by chapter, who finished and where readers stop, as counts), a Protected download (signed links that expire after fifteen minutes, five downloads per approval, every EPUB watermarked) or Send to Kindle (we e-mail the watermarked EPUB to the reader's own Kindle address, five sends per approval). Tick one or more; with two or more, each approved reader picks one. Upload the EPUB or PDF on the Delivery tab; reading on Booklabria and Send to Kindle need the EPUB. The Activity tab notes approvals, downloads and reviews as they happen; the analytics funnel shows how many downloads became reviews.For authors · updated 2026-10-17
7. 7.The Author JournalNew entry opens the Journal composer with fourteen formats in four groups (General; Book and Story; Launch and ARC; Community), each asking only for what it needs, an audience (Public, Followers, Only me), an optional content note that hides the entry behind a spoiler warning, and a preview. Entries can be saved as drafts under Studio, Posts, and one can be pinned to your page.For authors · updated 2026-09-21
8. 8.Your first ARC campaign on BooklabriaA walk from a book with a file to reviews you can count: choose the book and its EPUB, decide how readers receive it (read on Booklabria, a protected download, Send to Kindle, or a choice of them), set the dates and spots, describe the readers you want, launch, approve the requests that fit, watch the reading or the downloads, answer extension requests, and read the reviews and the funnel. Every step names the screen it happens on.For authors · updated 2026-10-17
9. 9.Understanding your Readers pageStudio, Readers answers one question per tab in plain words: Overview (followers, monthly readers, monthly reach), Followers (recent followers and the tastes they chose to make public), Mailing list (your email list and its export history), Journal, Books, Early copies (the campaign funnel) and Letters. Aggregated nightly; no sales figures, nothing faked.For authors · updated 2026-09-22
10. 10.Promotions and eventsStudio, Promotions holds deals (a discount, a free run or a bundle, with dates, an optional book and a where-to-buy link) and events (a launch, a signing, a panel, with a place or an online link). Save one quietly or announce it; announcing notifies everyone following your pen name, and there is no unsend.For authors · updated 2026-09-20
11. 11.Working with a team on a pen nameFrom Settings, Teams, the owner of a pen name invites another account by username as an Editor or a Manager; once they accept from their own Settings, Teams, they work on that pen name in Studio (books, campaigns, entries, promotions, analytics). Only the owner can invite, remove or change roles; team members can never rename or delete the pen name or see billing.For authors · updated 2026-09-21
12. 12.Identity marks: the seal, the nib, the bookOne mark beside every name. A blue seal for a verified author, a plum nib for an author, a teal book for a reader; the only reader who can carry the blue seal is the Booklabria team's own account. Verification asserts identity, not quality; it is granted by staff and can be revoked, and a reader cannot ask for it.For readers and authors · updated 2026-10-15
13. 13.Inviting your readersAn author makes reader invite links from Studio › Invite readers. Each link admits as many readers as the author chooses, up to 100, until a day the author picks, up to 90 days out. A reader who arrives through yours is counted as yours.For authors · updated 2026-09-26
14. 14.Pen names: creating, switching, the primary one, archivingAn author account can publish under more than one pen name on the Pro plan (up to five) and on Publisher (unlimited across the imprint); Author and Creator have one. Studio, Pen names lists them, creates one with a name, address, bio and avatar, sets the primary, and archives one; the pen switcher in Studio's header moves you between them. Archiving keeps that pen's published books public; the limit is stated in a sentence with the plan that lifts it.For authors · updated 2026-09-22
15. 15.Imprints and teamsAn imprint is the Publisher plan's workspace, several pen names and people in one place with roles (owner, editor, marketer, analyst). It invites an existing author's pen name; the author accepts from Settings, Teams, keeps ownership of the pen and its public page, and can leave with one click. Members run campaigns on behalf of a pen, every action is in the imprint's audit trail, and nobody but the reader path ever downloads a campaign's file. A Publisher account uses the same support as everyone.For authors · updated 2026-09-22
16. 16.Your pen name inside an imprintAn imprint can work on your pen name without owning it. An editor drafts and runs things, and every delivery, campaign and letter goes out under your pen name; a letter is sent only after you sign it, unless you allow the imprint's owner to sign for you, which you can take back. The imprint's activity trail records who ran its campaigns and letters, and you can leave at any time and keep everything.For authors · updated 2026-09-25
17. 17.Several campaigns at onceOn the Publisher plan, Studio, Campaigns lets you pause, resume, close and export up to 25 campaigns at once, decide the requests of every campaign of a pen name in one queue, and create campaigns for several books from one template. Every campaign, request and book answers for itself on its row. The export is one CSV of the approved readers and their reviews; a held review exports as held only, and review text, readers' notes, match scores and e-mail addresses are never in it. During the beta every author tool is unlocked, this one included.For authors · updated 2026-09-25
18. 18.Delivery links, codes and certified sends: a protected copy to your own readersA delivery link (or its QR code) hands a protected copy of your book to readers you already have, outside any campaign and with no review owed, on the Creator plan and above. From Studio, Advance copies, Deliver to your readers: choose the book, how readers get it (read on Booklabria, a protected download, Send to Kindle, or a choice of them), how many copies, how long the link accepts claims, an optional password, who can claim, and a note. Revoking stops new claims only; claimed copies stay readable and count toward the readers your plan allows. A campaign can also send certified copies to addresses you know; a send counts as a reader once it is claimed.For authors · updated 2026-10-17
19. 19.Kindle Unlimited, KDP Select and advance copiesIf your ebook is enrolled in KDP Select, and so in Kindle Unlimited, Amazon's own terms decide what you may do with it, and Booklabria does not interpret them. Their exclusivity section covers selling or distributing the digital book elsewhere and says nothing about review copies either way. What Booklabria does is hand one reader a protected copy, for a review or as a gift, and never as a sale.For authors · updated 2026-10-03
20. 20.Letters as e-mails, their analytics, and your subscribersOn the Creator plan and above a Journal letter goes to your subscribers as a full e-mail with your name and mark, one button, and open and read counts on Studio, Analytics, Letters; readers answer it in the comments on Booklabria. Subscribers are followers who ticked one box saying you can export their e-mail address; export them as a CSV any time.For authors · updated 2026-09-22
21. 21.What the campaign funnel shows, cross-posts includedStudio, Readers, Early copies counts every stage of a campaign: Applications, Approved, Downloaded (an approval, a delivery-link claim or a certified send each count as one reader), Reviewed, Cross-posted (as readers mark them, with a line per site), Kept following, with lines for DNF and held reviews. Counts, never names, each with its definition on the page. A giveaway has no funnel.For authors · updated 2026-10-17
22. 22.Embeds for your own siteOn the Pro plan and above, Studio, Share gives you a snippet to place on your own website: an open campaign (with Request), a shelf, or a Follow button for your pen name. Each is a small frame that shows live data from Booklabria and sends the reader here to act; nothing about your visitors is collected by the frame.For authors · updated 2026-09-22
23. 23.Scheduled postsOn the Pro plan and above, the arrow beside Publish now opens Schedule, a day and a time for an entry to publish itself; until then it is a draft only you see, listed under Studio, Posts, Scheduled. A scheduled entry publishes to your followers and, for a letter, to your subscribers at that time; you can edit it, publish it now or cancel it back to a draft until it goes out.For authors · updated 2026-09-22
24. 24.Importing your subscribersOn the Pro plan, Studio, Readers, Mailing list, Invite your mailing list takes a list you already own. Importing is inviting, never adding: each valid address gets one invitation, once, and becomes a follower only when the reader presses the button. Duplicates, readers already following you, addresses invited before, readers who said no and addresses that bounced twice are skipped; invitations go out in waves you control, and an address that gets no answer is deleted after 30 days.For authors · updated 2026-09-25
25. 25.How to run an ARC campaign, step by stepThe short guide: pick the book and its EPUB, choose how readers get it (read on Booklabria, a protected download or Send to Kindle), say who it is for, set the dates and spots, launch, then decide requests and watch the funnel. Free during the beta; readers never pay.For authors · updated 2026-10-20
26. 26.How to protect your advance copies from piracyBooklabria keeps your file off public addresses, ties every copy to one reader with a hidden watermark (never their name), expires download links after fifteen minutes, limits each copy to five downloads or sends, and lets you keep the file on our servers with Read on Booklabria. Here is what each does and what to choose.For authors · updated 2026-10-20
27. 27.Choosing an ARC platform: what to compare, and where Booklabria fitsA plain checklist for choosing a place to run advance copies (tools such as BookFunnel, Booksprout and NetGalley are the ones authors usually compare): who finds your book, how the file is protected, how readers read it, what you can see, what it costs, and who owns the relationship. Booklabria's answer to each is listed.For authors · updated 2026-10-20
28. 28.How readers get your advance copy on their KindleTick Send to Kindle on a campaign and Booklabria e-mails the watermarked EPUB to each approved reader's own Kindle address, up to five sends per copy. It needs the EPUB, you see Sent to Kindle and the date but never the address, and readers set it up once.For authors · updated 2026-10-20
29. 29.How pen names work on BooklabriaOne account, one login, and a public author page for each pen name. Each pen name has its own books, followers, bios and campaigns; you switch between them in Studio, one is primary, and archiving never deletes published books. How many you can hold depends on your plan.For authors · updated 2026-10-20