I’ve installed the HG app and signed up, now what?
By: Hidden Gems | Posted on October 9, 2025
Congratulations! You’re now part of one of the oldest and most popular ARC programs around, which means loads of free books in the genres you want are ready for you to read and review. Here’s how it all works. Once you created an account and logged in, you should have seen a very brief tutorial and selected the book genres you’re interested in and added at least one review profile for a site you can review on. If you didn’t do either of those things, don’t worry, you can still do them. Just remember that until you do, you won’t see any free book offers as we need to know what you like to read and where you can review! To select or change your genre preferences, click the menu icon from the top left corner and then tap on “Settings”. From there, you can select your genres of interest,… Read More >
How does the Hidden Gems ARC program work?
By: Hidden Gems | Posted on October 9, 2025
The Hidden Gems ARC program has been around for over a decade, and become one of the most trusted ARC programs around for both authors and readers. It all started as a website and still continues as such to this day, although we’ve recently expanded the program as an Android (and soon iOS) app. Regardless of how you use it, though, the program works essentially the same way. Hidden Gems Books (HG) sends out a variety of new novels every day of the year, from the thousands of authors that use our service. With so much variety, every reader will eventually see something that interests them, but at the same time, they will not be interested in (or have time to read) all the ARC offerings. For that reason, each of our books is opt-in but there are often only a limited number of copies available for distribution. Here’s how… Read More >
