Put your opening pages directly in front of genre readers who are actively looking for their next book, and let your writing do the talking.
What You Get
Here are just some benefits for authors who want readers to fall in love with their writing before they commit to buying.
- The hardest sell in publishing, done for you: Five-Page Friday puts your opening directly in front of genre readers — no Amazon algorithm, no advertising auction, no competing with a hundred other books for the same reader's attention — just your opening pages in front of the right genre audience.
- Comments that tell you what is landing: Readers respond to what pulls them in, what hooks them, what makes them want more. That feedback is yours. It is also visible to every other reader on the page, which means an active comment thread becomes its own form of social proof.
- A direct route to your book: Every Five-Page Friday entry carries a prominent link to purchase your book. Readers who reach the end of your five pages and want more have one click between them and buying it.
Even after your chapter goes live, it stays on the Five-Page Friday Hub and is visible to new readers every day.
See Five-Page Friday in Action
How It Works
Submit the following:
- Your opening five pages, up to 2,250 words. This must be the true opening of the book — chapter one, page one. No excerpts, no prologues pulled from later in the story.
- A one-paragraph synopsis of no more than 150 words. This appears beneath your excerpt so readers know where the story is going.
- Your book cover image and purchase link.
Your entry goes live on a Friday on the Five-Page Friday page. It remains discoverable in the archive after its featured week, linked from your author profile and your book page on I Turn Pages.
You can include a book already published, or to be published within the next few months. If you are booking a slot long in advance, you can add the published date to the claim form after you place your order.
Optional Extras
Story Bible: A summary of your main hero and villain who appear in your opening pages, your world's rules, character traits and key lore, around 1,000 words. Keep it punchy — this is a teaser, not a reference document. Readers can use it to orientate themselves, and it attracts more comments feedback.
It must be provided in a PDF and to quality standards, otherwise it will be rejected.
If you don't have a Story Bible, we can create one for you. A Story Bible Starter gives you one front page image and your text styled in your genre's theme, and a Story Bible Plus gives you images for each section.
Pricing
You can choose from two options, and you have the choice of optional extras.
HALF PRICE FOR JULY AND AUGUST!
Availability
When the Five-Page Friday slots are full, there won't be any slots to order until the slots become available for the next year!