2026 HEADLINERS

ProWritingAid

ProWritingAid is the storytellers' toolkit. We're here to help you craft your story and bring it to life.
ProWritingAid works wherever you write, integrating with every writing app and offering the security and privacy you need. As well as the basics of grammar, style, and clarity, ProWritingAid helps you craft vivid descriptions, add depth to your characters, and impetus to your plot. It’s like having an English teacher, editor, writing buddy, and honest critic sitting inside your favourite writing app.
BookFunnel

BookFunnel is the premier software service for authors.
Whether it’s delivering your reader magnet or ARCs, finding great ways to promote and swap books with other authors, or doing direct sales and Kickstarter fulfillment, BookFunnel is the essential tool for your author business.
WELCOME COCKTAIL PARTY

Reedsy

Reedsy offers a suite of tools to help authors write, publish, and market bestselling books.
On the Reedsy Marketplace, authors can connect with the world's most talented publishing professionals — from developmental editors to proofreaders, cover designers, ghostwriters, marketers, or literary translators. Search by service and genre, get free quotes, and find the perfect collaborator for your project.
Reedsy Studio is the ultimate free planning, writing, and formatting tool. Complete with outlining boards, timelines, writing goals, track changes, and export to EPUB and print-ready PDF, it is the only tool you'll ever need to use from idea conception to publication.
Finally, Reedsy Learning offers a series of free 10-day courses on a variety of writing, publishing, and marketing topics, as well as a premium 90-day novel writing course.
NOTEBOOK SPONSOR

Epistolary

Founded by bestselling horror author and ScareMail creator David Viergutz, Epistolary is the world’s first publishing house dedicated exclusively to storyletters—serialized fiction delivered through letters, documents, and immersive artifacts.
Built on the belief that storytelling should involve the reader as much as possible, Epistolary reintroduces readers to the intimate power of epistolary writing. Each Epistolary story unfolds one envelope at a time, inviting readers to experience a character’s voice firsthand and blur the boundary between fiction and reality. As the largest publisher devoted solely to storyletters, Epistolary is pioneering a new category of immersive reading—where every letter opened becomes part of the story itself.
PREMIER SPONSORS

The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)

The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) is a global membership association empowering writers to create great books, reach more readers, and build successful publishing businesses.
Their campaigns advocate for indie authors in the literary and publishing sectors, while members enjoy tailored education programs, top-flight resources, and the best author community anywhere.
AuthorScale

AuthorScale is the go-to marketing tool for indie authors who want to turn their stories into viral slideshow posts for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and beyond—without showing their face or spending hours creating content.
Just upload your manuscript, and AuthorScale will find the most emotionally gripping scenes, transform them into viral-ready posts with mood-driven visuals, and let you review, tweak, and publish in minutes.
Whether you’re launching your debut or promoting a 20-book backlist, AuthorScale helps you stay consistent, boost sales, and stay visible—while keeping your time focused on writing.
Curios

Curios is a self publishing platform for digital content that puts the creator and their audience first.
On Curios the creator of the content keeps 100% of any revenue they earn. Additionally, with the audience's permission, creators can access their fans' contact information, and any IP stays with the creator.
Dibbly

Dibbly is a software company that focuses exclusively on the needs of indie authors, providing a refreshing alternative to generic solutions. No more adapting general software to fit your publishing workflow! Dibbly provides tools built from the ground up to address your specific needs.
From formatting and design to marketing and distribution, Dibbly simplifies your self-publishing journey, allowing you to focus on what you do best: writing.
Literature and Latte (Scrivener)

Scrivener is the go-to app for writers of all kinds, used every day by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators and more. Scrivener won’t tell you how to write—it simply provides everything you need to start writing and keep writing.
Spoken

Sudowrite

Sudowrite is the AI writing partner for creative writers, so you can get unstuck, hit your word counts, and finish your novels faster than ever.
Written Word Media

Written Word Media specializes in book marketing and promotion for authors and publishers.
They offer a range of services designed to boost book sales and rank, including daily email promotions to hundreds of thousands of readers, fully-managed social media & Amazon ads, and newsletter building services for authors.
Their expertise in digital marketing & reaching avid readers makes them a go-to resource for indies looking to outsource their book marketing.
Amazon

Audible/ACX: Stories are transformative. They have the power to create new possibilities—for our lives, and for those around us. That’s why we work with some of the world’s greatest creators, producing Originals, audiobooks and podcasts that ignite imaginations and bring new ideas and voices to our millions of listeners around the globe each day. With this customer-centric approach to innovation, Audible has reinvented a media category and is the driving force behind the audio entertainment revolution.
Kindle Direct Publishing: KDP is a fast, easy and free way for authors and publishers to keep control and publish their books worldwide on the Kindle and Kindle reading apps.
Amazon Ads: Online book buying provides readers with a huge selection of titles and authors to choose from. Amazon Ads offers unique solutions to help you reach readers who are seeking books like yours, whether you’ve published one title or thousands.
Bookvault

Bookvault is a print-on-demand & publishing service, specialising in direct sales and high-quality bespoke printing from a single copy. Their direct sales integrations help authors entirely automate fulfillment with no extra costs and automated shipping profiles.
With BookvaultBespoke, authors can open up their titles to a range of special edition features like foiling, ribbons, endpapers and more!
Damonza

Damonza provides professional book cover design, interior formatting, and related publishing services for authors and publishers across a wide range of genres.
Since 2012, the company has worked on thousands of titles, including multiple covers for bestselling authors and works released by major publishing houses.
Services include custom design for print and eBook covers, typesetting and layout for both fiction and non-fiction, and creation of promotional materials such as social media graphics and Amazon A+ content. Every project is tailored to the book’s specific genre, target readership, and market positioning, ensuring both visual impact and technical precision.
The Damonza team combines creative direction with a deep understanding of publishing requirements, balancing originality with market expectations to give every book the strongest possible chance to stand out in a competitive marketplace.
IngramSpark

If you're looking to publish quality print books and ebooks, you've come to the right place!
We offer global book distribution and free resources to help you self-publish successfully. Once you write and format your book, Publish on Demand® with IngramSpark, and share it with the world.
Lulu

Lulu is a self-publishing and print-on-demand platform that puts you in control.
Since 2002, Lulu has empowered over two million authors, creators, educators, and businesses from all over the world to publish, print and prosper.
With Lulu’s global distribution network, direct sales solutions, and industry-leading print-on-demand technology, writers can share their stories while growing their brand, audience, and bank account.
Spotify for Authors

Spotify for Authors enables independent authors and publishers to distribute their audiobook directly to Spotify. Maximize your royalties by going direct to the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service and leverage powerful analytics to understand your audience.
Voices by INaudio

Welcome to the easiest way to build your audiobook business.
Voices by INaudio saves you time, gives you control, and gets you paid fast.
THE WRITER'S LOUNGE SPONSORS

BookBub

BookBub is a free service that helps millions of readers discover books they'll love while providing publishers and authors with a way to drive sales and find new fans.
Upon joining, members receive unbeatable deals selected by our expert editorial team, handpicked recommendations from people they trust, and real-time updates from their favorite authors.
BookBub works with all major ebook retailers and devices, and partners with thousands of the industry’s leading publishers and authors to promote their books.
PublishDrive

PublishDrive is an online self-publishing platform that helps self-publish ebook, audiobook, and print formats to every market possible. We're talking hundreds of book channels worldwide, like all the big retailers, digital libraries, niche apps, and more.
We support our indie authors and publishers with formatting, metadata, royalty reporting, sales analytics, book promotion services, and beyond. Founded in 2015, and based out of the US and Europe, PublishDrive has helped tens of thousands of indies publish over 100,000 digital books all around the globe. Our team goes beyond distribution, streamlining the entire publishing process with innovative and exclusive tools in the book industry.
Draft2Digital

Draft2Digital provides a simple process to turn authors’ documents into professionally-formatted ebooks and release them through all the industry's most powerful sales channels.
D2D gives users a single place to publish their projects, to manage any changes, and to track their performance across multiple vendors.
END CAP EXHIBITORS

AutoCrit

AutoCrit is an online manuscript editing tool that gives fiction and non-fiction writers the power to quickly and effectively self-edit their work anytime, anywhere.
Book Report

Book Report is a browser extension that imports sales data from the leading indie publishing platforms and presents that data in a simple and powerful dashboard.
ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. Our vision is to make communication and creation with technology seamless. We started by building with the first human-like voice model.
Now we’ve expanded well beyond voice. We build three platforms:
BelieversBookServices

BelieversBookServices is a custom publishing services provider. Our specialty is in high quality, custom book printing.
Creatorwood

Creatorwood helps storytellers make movies with AI, featuring conversations with top AI filmmakers and cutting-edge tips on how to turn your stories into incredible films that make money. We specifically focus on helping authors, writers, and other storytellers with no prior experience turn their ideas into six-figure movies, shows, animations, and more using just a laptop.
ScribeShadow

ScribeShadow is an author-centric service that quickly and efficiently translates manuscripts into multiple languages. This lets writers expand their global readership and unlock new markets without the exorbitant time and expense of traditional translation.
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