At The Author Buddy, we’re always trying to make sure we have the services our authors need, and we’re so excited to launch these brand new services in 2025, and bring back an old favorite! ☆ Announcing: Author Websites, Book Formatting, … Read More
A Buddy Read is SO much more than a Beta Read! At The Author Buddy, our team of professional readers provide so much more than a standard Beta Read. Not only does our team share valuable reaction feedback so you … Read More
☆ Platinum Developmental Reads and Platinum Line Edits are CLOSED for November & December 2024 ☆ Now accepting projects for 2025 for these services. Premium and Professional Level Reads and Proofreading have limited availability for November & December 2024, and … Read More
A Buddy Read is SO much more than a Beta Read! At The Author Buddy, our team of professional readers provide so much more than a standard Beta Read. Not only does our team share valuable reaction feedback so you … Read More
Hello Author Buddies, As many of you know, most of The Author Buddy team members live in the Carolinas. If you’ve been on social media or watched the news this week, you probably know that Hurricane Helene hit both North … Read More
This is an availability & life update! So life update first, we know we’ve been radio silent since the hurricane hit our state a month ago and we’re ready to tell you why. We wanted to say thank you to … Read More
Beta Reading ☆ Are you looking for a beta reader, but not sure where to start?☆ Are you in need of help getting your story polished and ready to go to your editor?☆ Do you wish you had some help … Read More
So we’ve been a little sneaky lol We’ve been teasing for a while that some exciting changes were coming, and we’ve just quietly launched the first of those new services! ☆ Our Authors can now sign up for two new … Read More
☆ UPDATE 2/11 – All February deadline Beta Read spots are now closed ☆ ☆ UPDATE 2/18 – All February and early March deadline Beta Read spots are now closed. Limited spots are available for March deadlines after 3/21 ☆ … Read More
Beta Reading ☆ Are you looking for a beta reader, but not sure where to start?☆ Are you in need of help getting your story polished and ready to go to your editor?☆ Do you wish you had some help … Read More
Our Quick Pass service provides reaction feedback at the chapter level within the manuscript. This is great for between draft stages, or when you want quick reader feedback before publishing. Includes chapter-level in-line reaction feedback of:
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Buddy Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our Quick Pass service provides reaction feedback at the chapter level within the manuscript. This is great for between draft stages, or when you want quick reader feedback before publishing. Includes chapter-level in-line reaction feedback of:
This upgrade provides the same valuable reaction feedback as the Standard with a special focus on your steamy scenes to help you make your readers melt into a puddle of swoon!
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Buddy Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our experienced team of professional beta readers provide valuable reaction feedback to take your story to the next level, including analysis of:
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Buddy Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our Premium Beta Reading Service is perfect for the author seeking an affordable, but more in-depth, evaluation of their manuscript. Our Premium Beta Reading Service includes valuable reaction feedback and analysis of, as well as solutions and suggestions for:
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Buddy Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
We’re thrilled to now offer Developmental Editing for our authors who need an extensive evaluation of their story in it’s earlier writing stage. This service includes:
Our Developmental Editing service is most effective early in your writing process, as it includes story and conceptual editing.
Turnaround time for Developmental Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Includes single or double side design using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover, plus your website url and social media handles
For authors in need of an affordable story analysis beyond Beta Reading, we now offer Line Editing, where we provide extensive line-by-line feedback to help your story shine its brightest. This service includes:
Our Line Editing service is most effective later in your writing process, as it includes story and mechanical editing.
Turnaround time for Line Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Want more eyes on your manuscript? Add an additional reader at a discount!
Team Read Pricing when added to a Quick Pass
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Team Read Pricing when added to a Professional Beta
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Team Read Pricing when added to a Premium Beta
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
*Pricing is dependent upon the primary Beta Level chosen
Price per 1k words is in addition to the cost of the primary Beta Read
Our authors love this service where we pull the most eye-catching teasers from your book for use in promotional materials.
You’ll share your manuscript with us via Google Doc and we will highlight all of the wonderful quotes you’ve created that we think would ensnare a reader and work for teasers, snippets, and promotional graphics. That way, you can reference the context of the quote. We’ll also copy them into another doc, formatted and spaced for easy access whenever you need them.
We will never deliver less than 3 quotes for a novella or 5 quotes for a full-length novel, although there is no maximum!
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Or Add-On the Quote & Teaser Service to any Beta Read and Save 40%!
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words – Add-On Pricing
Our Proofreading Service includes a quick pass of your manuscript for typos, missing words, and grammar and punctuation mistakes. While our readers occasionally make note of typos and other proofreading concerns as they see them, our Buddy Read packages do not include comprehensive proofreading by default.
Standalone
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words
Or Add-On the Proofreading Service to any Buddy Read and Save 33%!
Special Launch Pricing
per 1,000 manuscript words – Add-On Pricing
In this 30 minute Live Buddy Session, Rachel helps you work through any pesky plot holes or story struggles, offering a fresh perspective and brainstorm new outcomes together.
Special Launch Pricing
per 30 minute session
Our Quick Pass service provides reaction feedback at the chapter level within the manuscript. This is great for between draft stages, or when you want quick reader feedback before publishing. Includes chapter-level in-line reaction feedback of:
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Beta Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our Quick Pass service provides reaction feedback at the chapter level within the manuscript. This is great for between draft stages, or when you want quick reader feedback before publishing. Includes chapter-level in-line reaction feedback of:
This upgrade provides the same valuable reaction feedback as the Standard with a special focus on your steamy scenes to help you make your readers melt into a puddle of swoon!
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Beta Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our experienced team of professional beta readers provide valuable reaction feedback to take your story to the next level, including analysis of:
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Beta Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
Our Premium Beta Reading Service is perfect for the author seeking an affordable, but more in-depth, evaluation of their manuscript. Our Premium Beta Reading Service includes valuable reaction feedback and analysis of, as well as solutions and suggestions for:
per 1,000 manuscript words
All of our Beta Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience.
We’re thrilled to now offer Developmental Editing for our authors who need an extensive evaluation of their story in it’s earlier writing stage. This service includes:
Our Developmental Editing service is most effective early in your writing process, as it includes story and conceptual editing.
Turnaround time for Developmental Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*
per 1,000 manuscript words
Includes single or double side design using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover, plus your website url and social media handles
For authors in need of an affordable story analysis beyond Beta Reading, we now offer Line Editing, where we provide extensive line-by-line feedback to help your story shine its brightest. This service includes:
Our Line Editing service is most effective later in your writing process, as it includes story and mechanical editing.
Turnaround time for Line Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*
per 1,000 manuscript words
Want more eyes on your manuscript? Add an additional Beta Reader at a discount!
Team Read Pricing when added to a Quick Pass
per 1,000 manuscript words
Team Read Pricing when added to a Professional Beta
per 1,000 manuscript words
Team Read Pricing when added to a Premium Beta
per 1,000 manuscript words
*Pricing is dependent upon the primary Beta Level chosen
Price per 1k words is in addition to the cost of the primary Beta Read
Our authors love this service where we pull the most eye-catching teasers from your book for use in promotional materials.
You’ll share your manuscript with us via Google Doc and we will highlight all of the wonderful quotes you’ve created that we think would ensnare a reader and work for teasers, snippets, and promotional graphics. That way, you can reference the context of the quote. We’ll also copy them into another doc, formatted and spaced for easy access whenever you need them.
We will never deliver less than 3 quotes for a novella or 5 quotes for a full-length novel, although there is no maximum!
per 1,000 manuscript words
Or Add-On the Quote & Teaser Service to any Beta Read and Save 40%!
per 1,000 manuscript words – Add-On Pricing
Our Proofreading Service includes a quick pass of your manuscript for typos, missing words, and grammar and punctuation mistakes. While our Beta Readers occasionally make note of typos and other proofreading concerns as they see them, our Beta Reading packages do not include comprehensive proofreading by default.
per 1,000 manuscript words
Or Add-On the Proofreading Service to any Beta Read and Save 33%!
per 1,000 manuscript words – Add-On Pricing
In this 30 minute Live Buddy Session, Rachel helps you work through any pesky plot holes or story struggles, offering a fresh perspective and brainstorm new outcomes together.
per 30 minute session
Formatted for publishing on KDP
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Included FREE with all premade and custom cover orders
Includes TWO (2) graphics using the title and author name from your finished cover:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Starting at $30 add-on price for premade and regular custom cover orders
Starting at $50 add-on price for advanced custom cover orders
Reformatting your cover for Paperback using your finished cover, trim size, paper color, page count, and blurb.
There may be an additional fee for acquiring additional images depending on trim size, or an additional licensing fee for larger print runs.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Starting at $40 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders
Starting at $60 add-on price for advanced custom cover orders
Reformatting your cover for Hardback (including wrap) using your finished cover, trim size, paper color, page count, and blurb.
There may be an additional fee for acquiring larger source images depending on trim size, or an additional licensing fee for larger print runs.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
$50 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders
Reformatting your cover for Audiobook (2400x2400px) using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
$15 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders (regular price $20)
Includes TWO (2) graphics using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
$25 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders (regular price $30)
Includes THREE (3) square graphics using your finished cover:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
$40 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders (regular price $50)
Includes one set of THREE (3) full width graphics for use with the KDP Standard Image Module using the art from your finished cover. We will use your book blurb to write promotional text to catch readers’ eye.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Single side design: $25 add-on price for premade and custom cover orders (regular price $30)
Double side design: $45 (regular $50)
Includes single or double side design using the title, author name, and art from your finished cover, plus your website url and social media handles
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Choose the Social Media Graphics Set as your FREE add-on to any cover order, or as a standard add-on for $15.
Includes TWO (2) finished graphics:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Choose the Title Graphics Set as your FREE add-on to any cover order, or as a standard add-on for $15.
Choose the Cover Reveal Graphics Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $5, or as a standard add-on for $20.
Includes FOUR (4) finished graphics:
We will email you after your order is complete to request your choice of “coming soon” or a date in your graphics.
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Choose the Countdown Graphics Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $5, or as a standard add-on for $20.
Choose the 3D Renders Graphics Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $10, or as a standard add-on for $25.
Includes SIX (6) finished graphics:
Images shown are examples. Your graphics will coordinate with your cover.
Choose the Amazon KDP A+ Content Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $25, or as a standard add-on for $40.
Choose the Audiobook Cover as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $25, or as a standard add-on for $40.
Choose the Kindle Vella Story Cover as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $25, or as a standard add-on for $40.
Choose the Promo Graphics Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $25, or as a standard add-on for $40.
Choose the New Release Set as your discounted add-on to any cover order for $60 ($40 savings), or as a standard add-on for $100.