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Once you're approved, you get a personal referral link. Drop it in your bio, your newsletter, or your video captions, wherever your readers already find you.
For Affiliates
You're already telling everyone about your latest five-star read. Yearn's affiliate program turns those recommendations into earnings. Share the app with your audience and earn for every reader who subscribes through your link. And that's just the start: request collabs or interviews with our authors and podcasters, chat with your fellow creators, and get the chance to win special edition books every month.
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How It Works
Recommend what you love. Get rewarded for it.
If your audience loves romance and romantasy, you already have everything the program needs. We're not looking for the biggest followings, we want the most fanatical: the creators whose readers actually pick up the book. We handle the graphics, the tracking, and the monthly payouts. You just keep talking about the books you love.
Readers join Yearn
Your audience trusts your taste. When someone follows your link and subscribes, that referral is tracked to you automatically. No codes to remember, nothing to reconcile.
You earn
Every subscriber you bring earns you a commission. Recommend the books you already love and get rewarded when your people fall for them too.
More Than a Payout
It was never just about the money. It's about belonging.
Earnings are only the beginning. As a Yearn affiliate you join a community of creators who read what you read, with a real team behind everything you post.
New content collabs
Partner with other creators, authors, and podcasters, and request collabs straight from your own dashboard.
Custom graphics and a graphic bank
Request custom graphics for your posts, or pull from a whole bank of ready-made ones whenever you need something to share.
An easier payment path
Watch the subscribers you've converted climb in a live tracker, and get your royalties auto-transferred to you every single month.
A monthly book box
Compete for a book box every month, complete with Yearn swag and as many as three special edition books.
And we don't care about your following. We're better than that. What matters is whether you're a trusted voice inside the community.
From One Creator to Another
A note from our affiliate ambassador
I found Yearn the way I find most things I love: a friend wouldn't shut up about it. Then I downloaded it and understood why. It's a whole app built around the books I'm already obsessed with, and the people running it clearly read the same shelf I do.
What made me stick around wasn't the app, though. It was the community. As a book creator, I've spent years in spaces that felt like a competition … for followers, for ARCs, for whose review goes viral first. Yearn is the opposite. Authors actually show up. Other creators cheer for you instead of side-eyeing you. When I post about a book I love, I'm not shouting into a void; I'm part of a conversation that includes the person who wrote it.
The affiliate program is the easiest way I've found to be part of that. I share the books I'd be talking about anyway, my readers get a discount, and I earn for every one of them who subscribes. I've collabed with authors I never thought I'd get to talk to. I've gotten graphics made that look better than anything I'd make at midnight in Canva. And once, I opened my door to a box of special editions with my name on it.
If you make book content and you care about the people who make it alongside you, this is the place. Apply. It takes two seconds, and you'll be glad you did. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me anytime.
Alyssa
Yearn Ambassador
Application 101
Your questions, honestly answered
No follower minimums to memorize. No media kits required. Just tell us where you talk about books.
Why should I apply? What makes Yearn different?
Most affiliate programs hand you a link and disappear. We're building a community. You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with our authors and fellow creators, get custom graphics made for your posts, and have a real hype team behind you that actually reads what you read. We're building the place where romance and romantasy readers find their next obsession, and creators like you are at the center of it.
Who can apply?
BookTokers, bookstagrammers, reviewers, newsletter writers, podcasters … anyone with an audience that loves romance or romantasy. You don't need a massive following; you need readers who trust your taste.
How do payouts work?
You earn a commission for every new subscriber who joins through your link. Referrals show up in your live tracker, and we pay out automatically every month. You can see the full terms by applying.
What happens after I apply?
Our team reviews every application. Once you're approved, we send your personal link along with everything you need to start sharing.
What's your policy on AI?
Every book on Yearn is written by a human author, and we don't use AI to generate the stories our readers pay for. We ask the same of our creators: your recommendations should be your own. Tools that help you edit or schedule are fine, but the taste, the opinions, and the voice need to be yours. That trust is the whole point.
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