Your Paper Quest is a UK-based, book of the month subscription box that exclusively features books from self-published authors. Our aim is to help indie authors get more exposure whilst helping readers read a bit outside the box and discover some incredible authors in the process.
We send our boxes out in blocks at the end of the month, with the goal being that you receive them a few days later. Sometimes that means that if you subscribed on the 5th for example, you won’t receive the subscription box until the beginning of the following month. Don’t fret though, future you is going to be absolutely thrilled with your decision!
That’s a mystery! Our aim is to help indie authors from all genres and backgrounds, because of that we keep our ever-changing monthly themes a surprise. You won’t know until you receive and open your box! We do recognise that this could deter some who are nervous about receiving a genre or theme they dislike, but want to emphasise that we work diligently to include stories that are highly accessible to readers regardless of genre. Especially with two stories, highlighting two different perspectives of a specific theme to help broaden horizons too.
Each subscription comes with at least two self-published novels averaging 500 total pages of content, along with curated bookmarks and notes from the authors themselves. Each box also comes with an invitation to our virtual book club where you’ll have a chance to meet other subscribers and ask questions for the authors prior to our interviews with them at the end of the month!
Our subscriptions cost £18 a month, we take care of shipping and there’s no VAT to pay.
Every one of our boxes comes with a printed newsletter that has a QR-code linking you to the virtual book club.
Right now, the best way to gift someone a box would to fill our the subscription details as normal, and then write us a note in the ‘Additional Comments’ section to let us know that this is a gift. Be sure to include their address details as well.
Most subscriptions are set to automatically renew on the 10th of each month. There are a few exceptions for some of our earlier subscribers, as they were with us prior to our new payment process, and their subscriptions renew on the day that they initially subscribed.
Unfortunately we do not have the capabilities to do either at the moment, but hope to incorporate these features in the near future!
As of right now we do not sell individual boxes outside of our subscription.
Most subscribers can change their personal information through their account settings once they log into our website. That being said, there are a few exceptions for some of our earlier subscribers, as they were with us prior to our new website hosts, due to this we kindly ask that when in doubt, simply email us your request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!
There are multiple ways to cancel your subscription. The easiest would be to go through your account and do it there. It’s also possible to simply email us and we’d be happy to cancel it on our end.
That’s great! Congratulations on self-publishing, that in itself is beyond worthy of praise. The best way to potentially feature with us is to upload your story through the ‘Submissions’ page of our website, please don’t forget a cover letter as it helps us stay organised immensely. We accept stories from around the world, but they must be written in English.
If you run a blog, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, or anything of the like, please just send us an email, we’d love to try and collaborate. We just ask that you be based in the UK, as we don’t ship internationally at the moment.