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Brook is a publishing platform where readers choose what gets written. Vote for ideas you love or submit your own. When 250 readers back an idea, it becomes a real book.

Your $35 pledge is charged today, the moment you back a book. When you back a book with a $35 pledge, you're helping bring a story into the world. Pledges are non-refundable, even if a campaign doesn't reach 250 readers, but your support never disappears. If a book doesn't move forward, your pledge stays with Brook, helping future authors, future ideas, and the next story that sparks our community. Every dollar keeps the lights on for the books that deserve to be born.

Milestone updates while the book is written, a vote on the final cover, your name in the back of the book, a free e-book of the finished story, and a discount code for the printed edition.

The book does not move forward, and that is how Brook keeps every published book truly reader-chosen. When you back a book with a $35 pledge, you're helping bring a story into the world. Pledges are non-refundable, even if a campaign doesn't reach 250 readers, but your support never disappears. If a book doesn't move forward, your pledge stays with Brook, helping future authors, future ideas, and the next story that sparks our community. Every dollar keeps the lights on for the books that deserve to be born.

60 days. The goal is 250 backers at $35 each, which is $8,750. If the book gets there, it is greenlit and a writer is commissioned. If it does not, the campaign closes and every backer gets a warm thank-you explaining where their support goes.

A writer is commissioned and starts the manuscript, sending backers milestone updates along the way. Editing follows, backers vote on the cover, then the book is formatted with every backer name in the back and published in e-book and print. A final thank-you closes the campaign and the book joins a growing collection of books.

By the people who backed the book. Brook sends two cover options to every backer of that campaign and you have two weeks to vote. The cover with the most votes is the one the book wears.

Yes. All 250 backer names go in the back of the book as part of Brook's community imprint. If you would rather not be named, tick the box when you back the book and your line reads Anonymous instead, so you are still credited.

It joins a growing collection of books and stays there. Every finished book keeps its campaign page, with the story of how it was made and the readers who made it, so anyone arriving later can find it.

Commissioned writers chosen for each project. Every campaign page discloses how its book is made.

Absolutely. That is the heart of Brook. Submitting an idea costs $35, which keeps every idea serious and personally read. Our staff reviews each one for quality, feasibility, and whether it will resonate with readers. Approved ideas become 60-day campaigns.

In one case only. If your idea is declined because it does not fit Brook's values, the fee goes back to your card. In every other case the fee is non-refundable: it covers our staff reading and considering your idea with care.