Field-tested guides on ARC reviews, building a reliable reviewer team, and protecting your work — written for indie authors, not search engines.
A ready-to-use Excel and Google Sheets template to track ARC reviewers, downloads, and reviews — with an automatic reliability score and status for every reader. Free download, no email required.
Your unreleased book turned up on a piracy site. Here's exactly what to do — how to find who leaked it, file a DMCA takedown, and stop it happening again.
If you send 100 ARCs and get a handful of reviews, you're not doing anything wrong. Here's why ARC ghosting happens and the one thing that reliably reduces it.
A practical playbook for indie authors: where to find your first ARC readers, how to vet them, and how to turn a one-off list into a roster that shows up launch after launch.
These three terms get used interchangeably and mean very different things. Here's what each actually does to your ebook — and which one lets you trace a leak.
Running an ARC campaign is more than handing out free copies. It's recruiting readers who'll actually show up, keeping a roster you own instead of renting an audience, knowing who reviewed on time versus who quietly ghosted, and protecting the copies you send so a leak can be traced back to a name. These guides work through each of those problems in plain language — how to build an ARC team from zero, why most reviewers never leave a review and what fixes it, the difference between watermarking, fingerprinting, and DRM, and what to do the day an advance copy turns up somewhere it shouldn't.
Every article is written for working indie authors, not search engines — practical, specific, and drawn from how real launches actually run. New guides are added as the beta grows, so check back orjoin the beta to follow along.
We're opening ArcRoster to the first 100 indie authors. Free during beta, early pricing locked in for life — in exchange for telling us what to build next.