Share a draft
Share a book draft with your beta readers through a single private link. You stay in control: readers see only what you have explicitly shared, and you can revoke the link at any time.
What you need
- An account, so the share belongs to you and you can manage it (see Account).
- The book you want to share, open.
Sharing is the one place beyond following a feedback report where an account is needed. If you are not signed in, the share panel explains why and offers a sign-in button.
How it works
The thing you share is the whole book draft — not individual chapters. A reader who opens your link reads the draft in their browser; nothing to install.
A share is a snapshot, not a live window into your work. The moment you share, Writer Studio sends a copy of the current draft. After that, your local edits stay on your machine — readers keep seeing the shared snapshot until you explicitly update it. You decide when readers see new work.
Anything in the Trash is left out of the share, exactly as it is left out of export.
Share a draft
Open the Share panel, then:
- Pick the book to share.
- Enter your pen name — the author name shown to readers. Writer Studio prefills it from your book's metadata; you can edit it. Sharing stays disabled until this field has a value.
- Optionally turn on Allow reader feedback so readers can leave comments on your book. It is off by default.
- Choose Share draft — Writer Studio builds the snapshot and gives you a private link.
- Send the link to your beta readers.
The link is unlisted: only people you send it to can find it. It is not listed or searchable anywhere.
Manage your shares
The Share panel lists every draft you currently have shared, with the last time you updated each one.
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Copy link | Copies the reader link to your clipboard |
| Open in browser | Opens the reader link in your browser |
| View analytics | Opens the platform's analytics dashboard for that share |
| Update share | Sends your latest draft so readers see your recent work |
| Revoke | Deletes the share — the link stops working and the snapshot is gone |
Revoking
Revoke a share and the link immediately returns nothing. Revoking also deletes the snapshot from the server — revoked means gone, not merely hidden. If you want to share again later, that creates a fresh link.
If you are offline
Sharing needs the network, but a network problem never touches your writing. If a share or update can't go through, only the Share panel reports it — the editor and everything else keep working normally.