A reading room with a desk attached

Most book clubs are built for readers, and most author events are built for publicity. Both are fine. Neither does much for a writer who has published their own book and now has to work out why nobody can find it.

So we built something in between. The first hour belongs to the readers — the book, the argument about the ending, the questions only people who finished it would ask. The last half hour belongs to the work: what the author has tried, what is not moving, and the one change worth making this week.

Members who have never written a word get a great deal out of that second half, because it turns out the reasons a book reaches you or does not are genuinely interesting. And authors get a room of people who read the whole thing and will tell them the truth.

Who this is for

Readers who want more than a monthly meeting. Self-published and small-press authors who are doing their own marketing. Anyone curious about how a book actually gets into somebody’s hands, which is a stranger process than most people assume.

What we do not do

We do not charge authors for a spotlight, we do not promise sales, and we do not run paid tiers. The club works because the room is honest, and that stops being true the moment somebody is paying to be in it.