Read to earn
Word-for-word credits
A 5,000-word review earns 5,000 words of feedback on your own manuscript.
Threnne · The Exchange · In progress
Finding beta readers for romance is harder than it should be.
Writers reading writers. Readers reading writers. Matched well, you finish a better book. Matched badly, you lose a year.
The practice
A romance manuscript needs a romance reader.
General writing communities are generous, but not always genre-aware. Romance has specific promises: HEA, heat expectations, and trope fluency.
The right reader understands those promises and can tell you whether the book is delivering on them.
How it works
Reciprocal, by design.
Earn credits by reading, or buy credits directly. In both paths, matching and quality standards stay the same.
Credits are word-for-word. Read 5,000 words of someone else's manuscript and earn 5,000 words of feedback on your own. Matching is anonymous and genre-native, so a hockey-romance draft lands with readers who know the subgenre's promises.
Preview of the matching dashboard, in development
Buy in
Skip the reciprocal lane
Pay a per-word rate if you want feedback without doing review work first.
Matched for fit
Subgenre and heat-level matching
Anonymous by default, with moderation before feedback reaches writers.
Two sides
Two audiences. Same system.
Writers
Feedback that gets the book
Get reads from people who understand your subgenre, tone, and heat promises.
Readers
Just here for the reading
Read early manuscripts, leave useful notes, and collect credits as you go.
Threnne
The exchanges that exist are built for every genre at once. None are built around romance's subgenres and heat levels. We are making the one that is.
We are matching manually while the platform is built underneath. Early access opens in rounds.
The Exchange