For authors

Give Your Books a Lasting Home.

Bring your books, author profile, and reader reviews together in one shareable place. Stated Bookshelf helps readers discover your work and gives you a dedicated destination for collecting genuine reader perspectives.

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What you get

An author profile

A public page with your biography, your books and the reviews they have received, at one shareable address.

Book listings

Each book gets its own page with cover, description, official purchase link and a review form.

Genuine reviews

Readers submit reviews, the Stated team approves them, and you can invite readers with a link for each book.

Annual memberships

Stated Author

₹2,000 per year

  • ✓Dedicated public author profile
  • ✓Up to 3 active book listings
  • ✓One shareable URL for your bookshelf
  • ✓Reader reviews on every book, after moderation
  • ✓Access to your published reviews and basic review information
  • ✓Permitted profile editing and official book links
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Stated Author Plus

₹5,000 per year

  • ✓Everything in Stated Author
  • ✓Up to 10 active book listings
  • ✓Enhanced biography and expanded book presentation
  • ✓More detailed reporting, where data supports it
  • ✓Eligible for featured placement, subject to editorial availability and clear disclosure
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Online membership checkout is being set up. Register your interest and the Stated team will confirm your plan and next steps.

What a membership does not do

Payment does not guarantee positive reviews, media coverage, readership, sales or featured placement. Membership never influences whether a review is approved. Authors cannot edit reader reviews, approve their own reviews or remove legitimate criticism. They can flag a review for the Stated team to assess against our guidelines on abuse, spam, impersonation and irrelevant content.

Distinguished authors and paid memberships

These are separate. Distinguished-author invitations are an editorial decision made by Stated and cannot be bought. A paid membership never confers distinguished status, and taking part in the Stated Principles series is never conditional on buying a membership.

Term, renewal and expiry

Memberships run for one year and are renewed manually; nothing is charged automatically. If a membership expires, your books and their reviews stay on the Bookshelf. You simply cannot add new listings beyond your plan until you renew or upgrade. We never delete existing books because a limit is exceeded.

Refunds and cancellation

Cancelling does not automatically refund a completed payment. For a refund or cancellation question, write to hello@stated.in and the Stated team will respond.

Readers can always browse books and read reviews for free. Back to the Bookshelf