Everything in one place, so the rest of the library can stay simple.
Bring a book, give it a verdict, and leave your email. That's it — you're a member of the Reading Room. No password, no account to set up, no fee.
Your verdict read on air by name. An invitation to come on The Verdict live and read it yourself. The newsletter. And you never fill in the form again — we'll know you next time.
No. Membership is free and always will be. The moment a reader has to pay to be heard, the verdicts stop being honest.
Yes, and you don't apply for it. Members who keep showing up become featured readers — recurring critics who get books before anyone else and are invited back.
So we know a verdict is yours, so you only get one per book, and so we can invite you on air. It's never shown publicly.
Any time, from any email we send. Your verdicts stay on the books unless you ask us to take them down.
A conversation with a book at the centre of it. Wednesdays, 6PM ET — video on YouTube, audio everywhere you listen to podcasts.
The Verdict is a shared room — several readers, a few minutes each, judging books, live and free. Lynn's Library is your own episode, your name on it, the whole conversation.
Say what you actually thought. You can call a book boring, badly written, overrated or a waste of money. Nobody is ever held for disliking a book — that is the entire point of Bask or Burn.
Four things get a comment held:
Go after the book, not the person. “This book didn’t work for me and here’s why” is always welcome. “The author is an idiot” is not — and it says less anyway.
Held comments don’t appear to others. You’ll still see your own.
Almost everything is welcome. Published or not yet out, big publisher or printed at home, first book or tenth. A hard book, a strange book, a book most people hated — that’s the point.
There are only four things we can never take:
Bringing a book someone else wrote is not only fine, it’s half the point — just don’t claim you wrote it.
Beyond those four, we may still say no — if a book needs checking we can’t do, or it simply isn’t right for the show. If we say no, we tell you why.
Full wording in our publishing terms.
No. Bring the book that says what you're trying to say — it can be someone else's. A founder, a teacher, a nurse, a pastor. The book gives the conversation its spine.
Whatever you came to say — your business, your book, something personal, an idea you've been carrying. The book is how the conversation gets at it, not a limit on the subject. What we don't do is read your CV back to you.
One. At the end: what chapter of your life are you in right now, and what would you call it?
Editorially. Every conversation is accepted on its own story — never on the feature selected alongside it.
No. A feature is chosen as part of your application, but it has no bearing on the editorial decision — that's reviewed on your story alone. If your conversation isn't approved, your selected feature is fully refunded.
Yes — your name, how you're described, and the title of your conversation. We'll tell you honestly if we think a title doesn't fit, but it's yours to pick.
If it's your own book on the shelf, yes. If you're presenting someone else's book, it isn't put to a verdict — it isn't your work to be judged on.
Remotely or in studio, and it runs about an hour.
Yes, if you wrote it — and a watermarked review copy is fine, a version marked so it can't be resold. The reason is simple: if we invite you onto the show, we're not chasing you for a book at the last minute. It's held privately, never published, never shared, never sold.
From your Amazon listing, and that costs you nothing — your cover on the shelf becomes the buy link.
Then we can point readers at your own page instead — a paid listing held for 12 months. Same if you have Amazon but want your own link as well.
Yes. Bringing a book, giving a verdict and coming on The Verdict are all free. The paid listing only applies if you want readers sent somewhere other than Amazon.
Nothing of your book. Readers use Amazon's own sample. Your manuscript is only ever read by Lynn.
No — just the Amazon link. Never send us someone else's manuscript.
Optional add-ons you choose as part of your application, extending the reach of your conversation if it's approved. Library Guest Basic includes 40 targeted promotional placements. Library Guest Standard and Library Guest Premium add a 30-day Spotlight placement on the Lynn’s Library website, a longer intensive promotional push (7 or 14 days), more targeted placements, and a preferred purchase link.
No. Every Lynn’s Library conversation is editorially reviewed. Your selected feature determines how your conversation is presented, promoted and distributed if approved. Features to extend your reach start at $99. If the conversation is not approved, the selected feature is fully refunded.
Library Guest Basic is $99: 3 days of promotion and 40 targeted placements. Library Guest Standard is $199: 7 days of intensive promotion, 80 targeted placements, a 30-day Spotlight and a preferred destination link. Library Guest Premium is $299: 14 days of intensive promotion, 140 targeted placements, a 30-day Spotlight and a preferred destination link.
Audio, video or both cost the same within each tier. See the application page for the current options. Selection is editorial; if your conversation is not approved, your selected feature is fully refunded.
Two things, kept separate. A 30-day Spotlight placement on the Lynn’s Library website (Library Guest Standard and Library Guest Premium), and targeted promotional placements outside the website — book clubs, our social channels, reader communities, partner and discovery channels, the newsletter, the Reading Room. You get a report afterwards showing where each one went and when.
No. We tell you where things are posted and roughly how many people each of those places reaches. We don't add it up and call it a number.
Recommendations are unnamed by default — the book is simply on the shelf. Putting your name to a recommendation, so readers see who brought it, is a choice, and it's one of the things a feature buys.
To the book's own Amazon page, through our link — that commission is part of how the free reader show stays free. On Library Guest Standard and Library Guest Premium, you may give a preferred purchase link instead — your own website, an independent bookstore, another retailer, a publisher sales page or another approved destination — and readers are sent there. Your book stays discoverable through Lynn’s Library either way.
Never. Paying buys prominence and duration. It doesn't buy a reader's opinion, and we don't hide the tally.
Read enough to have a real opinion. Most books have a free sample on Amazon — first chapter, no cost — and that's often enough to say something honest. If you finished it, say so, and say more.
Use the Read a sample link on any book — it opens Amazon's own sample, usually the first chapter, free. We don't host extracts; the publisher's sample is better and it's the author's to give.
Yes. Your verdict still counts toward the book. But to be heard on The Verdict we need your name privately — you can still appear as “Sarah, a reader from Atlanta.”
Please be. A shelf where everything is Basked is a shelf nobody believes.
Your verdict shows in the Reading Room straight away. New books join the shelf on the 1st of each month.
One verdict per reader per book. Write to us if you've genuinely changed your mind — it happens, and it's interesting.
Only if you leave their email, and only as an invitation — never as a complaint. A reader bringing someone's book in is the best introduction we can make.
A live show, Sundays 7PM ET. Leave a verdict on a book, and if it's chosen you're invited on to say it to the author yourself. They answer you live. Nobody sees the verdicts in advance.
Give a verdict and tick yes, I'd come on. That puts you in the room we choose from — reader reaction is what surfaces a verdict, and Lynn decides which ones make the show. It isn't automatic, and there's no number to hit.
No. Reaction tells us which books people are actually arguing about; the selection is editorial, the same way the podcast is. A book with fewer verdicts and a sharper argument will beat a book with more.
Either. Some people want to be heard and not seen — that's fine, and it's free either way.
Right here. The live button appears across the site when we're on.
Yes — share your thoughts with the Reading Room. A piece of your own at the top of the room: your name, your photograph, around 300 words on what you actually think, and a link to your business or a book. Authors bring books; readers bring thoughts. Held for 12 months.
Library Guest prices are shown on the application page before you continue to payment. Payment does not guarantee editorial acceptance. Bringing a book, giving a verdict and participating in The Verdict remain free. For other placements or sponsorship, ask us for the available options and pricing before deciding.
Use the personal Guest Portal invitation emailed to you. On your first visit, follow the instructions to choose your passcode, then complete your Guest Introduction and request an interview time.
Reply to your invitation or email library@thelynnshow.com with your name, book title and the error you see. You may include a screenshot, but do not send your passcode. We will help you access your portal.
Not yet. Choosing a time submits a request for approval. Wait for your confirmation and recording link before treating it as booked. Portal interview times are shown in Eastern Time; check the date and time zone in your confirmation.
Your Riverside recording link is sent when your interview time is approved. If it has not arrived, check your spam folder and contact library@thelynnshow.com. Your Guest Portal invitation is separate from your recording link.
The listed feature fees are per approved author, not a package covering several authors. An ongoing agency agreement can cover the relationship, so a new agreement is not needed for every author. Each author is considered individually for editorial approval.
Yes. Individual author fees can be combined on one itemised invoice. This does not turn them into a single feature fee. Any tailored pricing must be agreed in writing. Follow the payment arrangements in your agency agreement and invoice.
Yes. Write to hello@thelynnshow.com and tell us what you have in mind — we'll send you what's available.
Not a public one. Tell us what you're trying to reach and we'll come back with the options that fit, and what they cost.
Distribution — book clubs, our social channels, the newsletter and the Reading Room — with every mention read personally by Lynn. You get a report afterwards showing where it ran and when.
There are two Lynn's Libraries. One is a podcast; the other has a roof. We're building a Learning Centre in Ghana — here's the project.
No. It's a personal fundraiser collected through GoFundMe and passed to Lynn Care Foundation, a registered Ghanaian NGO. It isn't processed by The Lynn Show.
Anything else — hello@thelynnshow.com
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