r/ARCReaders

🎁 I'm offering two free Keyword Sprints to early indie authors — honest feedback is all I ask. No catch.

Because here's the truth:
🔍 Most indie authors waste some of their 7 Amazon backend keyword slots without realising it.

The Metadata Lab helps fix that — using 10 years of research expertise 🎓 and advanced search tools ⚙️ to match your book with the right reader intent, not guesswork.

Entry point: €10 Keyword Sprint 💶
(After the free spots are gone)

You get:

✅ 7 suggested backend keywords
✅ Short rationale for each
✅ 3 keywords to avoid

Built from the same process I use on my own books 📚.

💬 Comment “keywords” for one of the free Sprints — or fill out the intake form here:

→ https://forms.gle/zv59UE6RfDFumx8FA

Blurb:

To repress is natural. To die, divine.

The Saint has been killed twice. His assassins have vanished without a trace, leaving the island of Taisala vulnerable to unnatural influence.

After a period of mourning, Raki, Yunai, and Esera have returned to Taisala to continue scout training. The events surrounding the Saint’s downfall have led them to question the dictate of repressing their emotions. Their bonds are fractured, but they’ll need each other to navigate a Scouthood tightening its control over Taisala. And tensions flare further as a suspected unnatural person is coerced into joining their ranks.

The cadets must come together and confront the Scouthood’s teachings to uncover Taisala’s newest unnatural crisis—the rise of people with dying spirits. As they gather in secret for reasons unknown, their existence threatens everything the Scouthood stands for.

With newfound convictions, the cadets must make a choice. Abandon their emotions and let the spirits surrender to oblivion, or save them by connecting with their humanity—and betraying the Scouthood.

Posts without a list of potential triggers will automatically be deleted, no exceptions. If your book doesn't have any triggering content, please add the line "Triggers: None" under your blurb. Yes, you must still include the trigger line even if there are no triggers in your story!

Triggers:
- mentions of death by suicide
- alcoholism
- mentions of family abuse/domestic violence and torture
- institutionalization and abuse of people perceived as unable to control their emotions
- graphic violence
- graphic descriptions of body, horror of monstrous, animal like creatures, referred to as “zonbi”

Publication date: August 13, 2026

ARCs will be sent week of July 13

Reviews expected August 11

Sign up here! https://forms.gle/CWwTRL4Cbvpd2wnAA

• Amelia Delarue is a sorceress in hiding, scraping together enough gold to flee the kingdom that wants her dead. She has a partner and a promise to keep, and no interest in complications. Then the resistance drops the most wanted child in Tourain in her lap. Getting him north is the price of leaving. That means dodging a vengeful Inquisition captain through enemy-held country, with her own magic tearing her apart from the inside. Amelia doesn't do heroics. But the boy won't stop talking, and won't stop trusting her. Walking away was supposed to be easy.
• TRIGGERS!! Posts without a list of potential triggers will automatically be deleted, no exceptions. If your book doesn't have any triggering content, please add the line "Triggers: None" under your blurb. Yes, you must still include the trigger line even if there are no triggers in your story!
• TRIGGERS: Violence, torture (referenced), suicidal ideation, character death.
• Storyorigin link in comments

Looking for ARCS: "Married with Permission" (Release date: August 13th, 2026)

Blurb: Natalie Weinstein came of age alongside the internet – at the exact moment technology began changing not just how people communicated, but how they constructed themselves behind closed doors. Late-night messages, anonymous attention, and carefully curated versions of herself begin to offer her something she didn’t realize she was missing: validation, escape, and the thrill of being seen. But when her husband, Ben, makes an unexpected offer, fantasy begins bleeding into real life, forcing Natalie to confront the growing gap between who she is online, who she is at home, and who she still wants to become.

Perfect for readers of The Paper Palace, Three Women, and emotionally layered women’s fiction about intimacy, identity and self-worth.

Main Tropes:
Coming of Age
Self-Discovery
Marriage in Crisis
Midlife Reinvention
Technology & Temptation
Morally Gray Choices
Domestic Secrets
Attention vs. Love

Mature Content: profanity, sexual content, and infidelity.

Other Info: First POV story; Follow Natalie's journey from early childhood (dial-up in the '90s) through the present day (social media).

To sign up (open until July 2, 2026):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1LYrXSxZZdwSlkGogjCgGZfMpX1myOAWpyxQPimfRcgg5uw/viewform?usp=preview