Your profile

Your profile is your public page. It shows your pen name, your bio, your published work, and your public stats, and it opens on an Overview that you arrange.

The Overview tab

Overview is the first thing a reader sees. It pulls together, in order:

• Your bio.
• Your featured work: up to three pieces you pin to the top.
• Community highlights: the Chapters you are in, whether you are open to beta reads, your competition placements, and a glimpse of your reading shelf.

Each highlight only appears when you have something to show for it and have left it switched on. A brand-new profile with nothing pinned simply shows less, and fills in as you write and take part.

Editing your profile

From your own profile, choose Edit profile. That opens Preferences → Writer profile, where the Spotlight sub-tab holds everything on the Overview:

• Bio. A short introduction at the top of your profile. Free for everyone.
• Featured pieces. Choose up to three pieces to pin. The picker lets you search your work and check the ones you want. Free for everyone.
• Community sections. Switches for which highlights appear: featured work, writing groups, beta availability, competition placements, and a reading-shelf preview. Free for everyone.
• Accent colour. Tint your profile with a signature colour. A Pro feature, and your Pro trial counts.
• Cover banner. A wide header image behind your avatar. A Pro feature on paid plans, like other image uploads.

The other Writer profile sub-tabs hold your pen name, photo, writing types, and social links.

Your username

Your username appears in the URL of your profile and your published pieces (inkbreaker.com/username/piece-slug). You can change it whenever you like. When you do, Inkbreaker keeps your old username and sends anyone who follows an old link to your current page, so shared links to your work keep working.

Badges and stats

Your profile shows public counts: followers, following, reactions received, your current streak, and how many reads you have given. Badges sit alongside them. They are awarded automatically from your activity, including the Feedback Contributor and Trusted Reader badges, and they update as you earn them. A Pro or Pro Trial badge shows next to your name while your subscription is active. See Peer feedback for how the reader badges work.