Four ways in.
The first two are about money: where a writer can get it, and where to send it. The third asks readers why they give up on books, which is a question nobody has answered in public since 2013. The fourth is what happens to a book once it is written — that one is shut for the moment, and says so. The last is indie authors telling each other what went wrong and what they did about it. Pick the one you came for.
Seek funding
A searchable index of grants, fellowships and awards open to writers, with what each one actually wants and when it closes.
Seek donations
The other side of the same ledger: sixteen organisations that fund writers, defend them, or catch them when something goes wrong — who they help, and how to give to them directly.
Say why you quit a book
Two minutes, anonymous. The last public survey asking readers why they abandon books was in 2013, and its numbers only ever existed inside a picture. This one runs every year and publishes everything.
Have your book read
Everything that can happen to a manuscript here: send it in for a public review, free; get your opening read closely, free if you are chasing a grant; or buy that read for $85. Nothing in between and nothing hidden in another tab.
Read what went wrong
Indie authors, in their own words: a problem they ran into, what they did about it, and where they landed. Not reviews and not advice from anybody selling anything — just the thing somebody would have told you, if you had known to ask.