Create your Lanternbee account

Lanternbee is not open yet. Authors join the waitlist, and we send an invitation when a spot opens. These steps are what you will see then.

Sign up

Signing up takes two short steps.

1. Open the sign-up page from your invitation.
2. Enter your name, your email and a password of at least 8 characters, then choose Continue.
3. Tell us who you are. We check every new author by hand before their store goes public, so readers know each store is run by the person it names:
   • the author or pen name you write as,
   • at least one social profile (up to five), and your website if you have one,
   • links to your books elsewhere, such as Amazon, Goodreads or your publisher (optional),
   • anything else we should know (optional).
4. Choose Create account.

Every new account starts on the Free plan. You can add your store and your books straight away.

Sign up with Google

Instead of typing a password, you can choose Continue with Google on the sign-up page. Google shares your name and email with us, and because Google has already confirmed the email, you don’t need to confirm it again. You still tell us who you are as an author (the same details as above), and we still check your account by hand before your store goes public.

Later you can add a password, or connect and disconnect Google, under Sign-in security.

Verify your account

After you sign up, the note at the top of the page links to See your code. That page shows a code like lanternbee-AB12CD. Add it to one of your profiles, in your bio or a post, so we can see the profile is yours. You can remove it once we approve you. We usually reply within a day. You can change your details on the same page and send them again. If we need more, we email you and show what we need there too.

Confirm your email

If you signed up with Google, you can skip this step. Otherwise, we send a link to the address you signed up with. Until you open it, a note at the top of every page reminds you to check your inbox. Can’t find it? Look in your spam folder.

Forgot your password

On the log-in page, choose Forgot password. We email you a link to set a new one.

Next step

Create your store. It takes a minute.