Every author wants and needs to connect with readers continually. We’ve built a site to do exactly that because, like you, Paula needs this for her own book promotion and marketing.
At long last, we can reveal our very exciting BIG news!
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Introducing our brand new social network connecting readers and writers. It's one of the most advanced and useful social networks for writers and readers. It provides both audiences with many extraordinary new features and useful benefits. And there is no charge to join!
You Asked For a Community
Every year our entrants on Page Turner Awards have asked us to build them a community.
So we did!
It is the social network we have been dreaming of building for years — and it is finally here.
Paula Sheridan built the site to do everything she needs to promote her own books and have new readers continually discover them.
And we built I Turn Pages author community for you to have a dedicated reading sanctuary where, unlike other social networking sites, you own your own audience, free from noisy social media and generic, unexplained algorithms. Our community is designed for you at every stage of your writing career.
Without further ado, we're inviting you to join Something BIG for writers!
What is I Turn Pages?
There is a lot to absorb with I Turn Pages as it has so much to offer writers.
Essentially, it is just the same as a social network like Facebook. If you use Facebook a lot, it will be very similar where you can add groups or join groups, add posts on anything to do with reading and writing, like posts and other content, and follow people as well as connect with others in the community via tags.
The BIG difference is that we are a dedicated space for readers and writers - all book lovers. But everything else is just the same as what you can do on Facebook.
Build Your Own Reading Community
Although writing can be a solitary pursuit, finding readers who genuinely engage with your writing, building an audience before your book is finished, and connecting with a community are all about connecting with your future readers.
Readers on a social network are hard to find in one place.
I Turn Pages is that place.
Essentially, you add your posts and let the site do the work for you. We have brilliant writers in our midst with enormous commitment to their writing, but ongoing book promotion can be challenging.
That's where I Turn Pages can help to create a long-term, consistent flow of getting your books discovered by new readers. As we add readers, they find your community and your future books.
Try New Ways to Get Your Writing Discovered
There are stacks of unlimited book promotion activities (groups, posts, images, cross-promotions), always at zero cost, and we’d love you to take advantage of these activities.
As we add readers, they find your author community and your books. Check these Writers Tips to Promote Your Writing on I Turn Pages
Tap Into Our Reading Community
We already have 39,631 active readers in our community, and we're inviting thousands more readers between now and the end of 2026. That is 39,631 readers already looking for their next favourite writer. Because our community displays active, fully profiled writers, getting established right now ensures you capture the attention of these hungry readers the moment they log in.
Over the next year, we'll be promoting the site heavily each month. We are spending over £25,000 on advertising in major publications to bring new readers to your author community, so they can connect with you and your books.
We start in two weeks' time with the first global advertising campaign, again in September with a cross-promotion book giveaway, and more adverts every month.
This gives you time to post your content and start building your own community. Getting established now means you will be there to meet the new readers.
If you know of any great reader audience advertising, let us know and we'll include them in our advertising outreach.
Get Started Here
Find out more about I Turn Pages for writers. And see if you're one of our 22,291 authors. Search for your name. If you're there, simply go to the login button, ask for a password reset, click the link you are sent, and get going. Please note that writers with no bio or image will not show on our writers' page.
Features to Help You Build Your Own Community
Build your community with these unlimited and always-available activities. They are yours from day one and will always be there for you at no cost.
- Create and join groups for your genre, your writing style, or your stage of the journey. When you publish an update or announcement in your group, you can instantly push it as a beautifully formatted email notification straight to your community members' inboxes.
- Post topics, share images of your writing life, your works in progress, and your milestones.
- Run cross-promotions through groups at no cost. Collaborate with other writers and authors in your genre to reach new readers together.
- When you're ready and published, get your books listed. Add your titles, covers, and everything readers need to discover them, so our September launch drives traffic to them.
Limited Availability
The following activities have limited availability, so don't delay in booking your slot.
- Genre Champions: An exciting venture for pre-published writers who want to play an active role in shaping their genre community on I Turn Pages. There are milestone tiers to progress through as your engagement grows, with recognition at every stage.
- Launch your own events: The ideal way to grow your community of future readers is with book events, which includes everything from finding beta readers to giving away sample chapters. Host writing sessions, Q&As, and community events - all to build your following well before your publication date so your audience is already primed when your book arrives. Agents and publishers will be impressed when you reveal a well-established author platform.
- Test-Drive Tuesdays: Each week, share your opening chapter, your Book Bible, and invite real reader feedback in a structured, supportive format. It is the closest thing to a table read for your book — and the responses will tell you more than any writing group ever could. We encourage readers to find you and your genre and to follow you. Ensure you have an image or avatar and a profile bio; otherwise, you will not show on this page for readers to find you.
Please note: When the Tuesday slots are filled, there won't be any more available until this time next year.
As we said, the site is automated to do your future book promotion work for you. But you have to engage with readers by adding posts, images, news, and anything that you normally do on social media, except here you are sharing directly to an audience who love books.
A Potential Launchpad to Publication
Got a completed manuscript ready to pitch? The entries that generate the strongest reader response based on their comments, follows, likes, and engagement will be pitched to our agent and publisher network as community-endorsed and reader-validated submissions ready for their consideration.
Find and Connect With Readers
Authors who get their books listed and their community established now will be the ones readers discover first. We would love for you to be among them.
The readers are coming. The only question is whether they will find you. Head to our Join or Login to get started. If you have questions, please explore the guidelines for writers.
We are still refining some areas, such as the albums and group cross-promotions, and they will be live within the next week.
We hope to welcome you to I Turn Pages and see you growing your own reading community.