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Authors: Missing Tropes in Your Book Description Means Missing Readers
Readers often reach out asking how to find the tropes included in each ARC. Many are now deciding whether to apply for a book based on its tropes before even reading the description. Because of this, it’s important for authors to clearly list their tropes when submitting their book.
When setting up your ARC details, we strongly recommend using the Genre and Tropes input box to include the key tropes in your story. This helps readers quickly understand the type of book you’ve written and whether it matches what they enjoy.
Tropes like enemies-to-lovers, found family, slow burn romance, …
This week's Thursday Spotlight is live. 🌹 [03/05/2026]
Thursday ARC Spotlight is live. 🌹
Every week we hand-pick 4 ARCs from our Pen Pinery authors and put them in front of thousands of romance readers. Not algorithms. Not ads. Just great romance books that deserve more eyes.
This week's selected titles:
- Intercepting Katie by Jesi Haynes — romance
- The Shackled Oath by Zenna Lake — romantasy
- Wings of the Fallen by M. Legendere — romantasy
- Shadows of Deceit by Alicia Barnes — romantic suspense
Congrats to this week's authors. Readers — your next ARC is waiting. 🌹
Want your book in next week's spotlight? Your readers are already …
This week's Thursday Spotlight is live. 🌹 [03/05/2026]
Thursday ARC Spotlight is live. 🌹
Every week we hand-pick 4 ARCs from our Pen Pinery authors and put them in front of thousands of romance readers. Not algorithms. Not ads. Just great romance books that deserve more eyes.
This week's selected titles:
- Intercepting Katie by Jesi Haynes — romance
- The Shackled Oath by Zenna Lake — romantasy
- Wings of the Fallen by M. Legendere — romantasy
- Shadows of Deceit by Alicia Barnes — romantic suspense
Congrats to this week's authors. Readers — your next ARC is waiting. 🌹
Want your book in next week's spotlight? Your readers are already …
This week's Thursday Spotlight is live. 🌹 [02/26/2026]
This week's Thursday Spotlight is live. 🌹
5 romance ARCs from our Pen Pinery authors. Handpicked. Ready for readers right now:
🔥 The Dawn of Peace by Rebecca Hefner - romantasy
🔥 Realms of the After: Mortal Love by K. Rosé - whychose
🏒 Hellebore Fields: A Dark Academia Hockey Romance by Rivkah Plume - hockey romance
⚽ Play Mates by Leona Bolt - football romance
👑 Strawberries and Snow by Michelle John - royal romance
All free to apply. Happy ARC reading~
Pen Pinery is launching a weekly spotlight for listed romance ARC campaigns: concentrated promotion, limited slots
Hey everyone,
Team Pen Pinery here, starting this Thursday we're kicking off a weekly feature called the Thursday Spotlight.
Here's how it works: each week we select 5–8 campaigns from our listed authors and put the full promotional weight of the platform behind them; email blast to our reader list, social media push, newsletter feature. The goal is concentrated attention rather than passive discovery.
What Pen Pinery offers:
* ~1000 romance readers, all actively looking for ARCs
* Promoted to 1,500+ social followers
* Flat $10 per listing, no per-reader fees
* Romance-only so every reader is already your target …
