Help · Video tutorials
A little guidance, step by step.
Short walkthroughs for publishing an ARC campaign, looking after your readers and getting your next book to read. Watch a lesson or follow its written steps.
Start here
New to Hamsterra as an author? Follow these six lessons, from your profile to personalised copies.
24 lessons
A · Getting started
For authors
B · ARC campaigns
For authors
- B3
Approve readers: manually or automatically
Review applications one by one, decide several at once, or approve readers automatically.
- B4
Deliver personalised copies
Choose when approved readers get your book and what arrives in their inbox.
C · Your readers
For authors
- C1
Your reader contacts
See where your contacts come from, tag them, export your reader list and block addresses.
- C2
Invite your readers to a new ARC
Invite contacts who asked for your future ARCs to a new campaign.
D · Grow your audience
For authors
E · Analytics and account
For authors · E3 is also for readers
- E2
Plan and usage
Check your author plan, how much of each limit you have used and where to change it.
Readers
R1–R6 · For readers
- R1
Find an ARC and apply
Find an open ARC in the catalogue and apply to read it, with or without an account.
- R3
After reading: review or feedback
Share your review links or private feedback, or tell the author you did not finish.
- R4
Your ARCs and favourite authors
Organise My ARCs with your own tags, follow authors and join their mailing lists.
- R5
Free books and group giveaways
Get an author's free book, or choose one book from a group giveaway.
- R6
Emails and your data
Choose the emails you get, delete a guest application's data and see what deleting your account does.
