Where Authors and Readers Collaborate
Kywok helps authors organise reader collaboration in one place, and helps readers discover books, share feedback, and support the stories they care about.
Our mission
Publishing is better when authors and readers work together.
Kywok exists to make author-reader collaboration easier to organise. Authors can coordinate campaigns, invite the right readers, collect feedback, and manage activities such as beta reading, cover feedback, and ARC campaigns. Readers can discover books early, choose campaigns that fit their interests, and support authors with thoughtful participation.
Campaigns with clear expectations
Authors can set goals, timelines, and reader tasks so participants understand what kind of help is needed.
Discovery for readers
Readers can find books before publication, join projects that interest them, and follow authors from draft to launch.
Feedback in one place
Beta reads, cover opinions, blurb feedback, ARC reviews, and launch support can be organised around the same book.
Trust through honest participation
Kywok values reliable participation, constructive feedback, and honest opinions — not just positive reviews.
Why Kywok exists
Built by authors, for authors.
Because publishing shouldn't mean doing everything alone.
Bringing a book into the world takes more than writing. It takes early readers, thoughtful feedback, honest opinions, and people willing to support your work. Kywok was created to make these collaborations easier to organise and more meaningful, helping authors and readers work together, book after book.
What you can do on Kywok
Authors get a practical place to coordinate book campaigns. Readers get meaningful ways to take part in the books they want to see succeed.
For authors
- Manage your books and publishing projects
- Create focused campaigns with goals, dates, and instructions
- Find ARC readers for upcoming releases
- Coordinate beta readers for earlier drafts
- Ask readers for cover feedback before committing to a design
- Collect reactions to blurbs and book descriptions
- Organise launch-team activities around committed readers
- Invite honest opinions and reviews from engaged participants
For readers
- Discover new books and authors before publication
- Join campaigns that match your interests, time, and reading preferences
- Share constructive feedback that helps authors improve their work
- Receive early access to books, drafts, covers, and descriptions
- Support authors you care about through launch teams and repeat collaboration
More than an ARC platform
ARC campaigns matter, but authors and readers often need to collaborate earlier and in different ways. Kywok brings those moments into one shared workflow.
Different moments of collaboration
Use Kywok when a book needs reading, reactions, opinions, or launch support.
Before, during, and after launch
Work with readers while a book is still taking shape, not only when publication is close.
Respectful by design
The platform encourages clear expectations, useful feedback, and honest opinions rather than guaranteed praise.
Focused on publishing work
Kywok keeps books, campaigns, reader participation, and feedback connected.
Looking ahead
A focused platform that will keep improving
Today, Kywok focuses on helping authors and readers organise campaigns and feedback. Future improvements may make participation history, writing workflows, and collaboration tools easier to connect, but the goal stays the same: useful author-reader collaboration.
Future participation signals
Planned ways to help authors and readers better understand participation history over time.
Future writing support
Potential tools for authors who want help while developing and preparing their books.
Future Story Loom connections
Possible closer links with writing and manuscript tools for authors using Story Loom.
Future collaboration improvements
Additional ways to make author-reader collaboration clearer and easier to manage.
Join Kywok as an author or reader
Create an account to organise your next book campaign, or browse open campaigns to discover books and support authors from the start.