Hi Nell! I’m sure there are a lot of authors who are in the same position as you, and this forum is a great place to post this sort of request.

Here’s what I would suggest: write up a summary of what you’re looking for and post it in this thread or as a new thread, whatever you prefer. Hopefully that will help people know whether or not they’d be a good fit for you.
Something like...

Timeline for critique: [one chapter per week until we both get through our whole books? a single critique of a 5,000-word excerpt? an exchange of 1,000 words and one critique session via email/instant messaging/Google hangout/? so that we can decide if we’re a good fit? etc etc]
My genre(s): [your genre(s)]
Type of writing I’m aiming for: [Terry Pratchett-style humor and world building, Harry Potter-esque YA, combination of whatever authors/books you like, etc]
Type of critique I would appreciate: [straightforward hard critique, exploratory questions to help me deepen my writing, suggestions for ways to strengthen plot, help with character development, advice on the romance angle, etc]
Genres I would be ready to critique: [genres]
Type of critique I’m good at giving: [workshop-style analysis, line editing for sentence strength and clarity, general exploration of themes, etc]

Does that make sense?
Good luck!

I love how you’re continuously working on this stuff, and everything is getting so much better!

The Discover page seems fine for people who are new and just want to browse a wide range of things. I far prefer to use the search function to narrow down what I’m looking for - I can look by Status + Genre, which is fantastic. In thinking of what I would want to suggest, I decided to be smart and check to see if it already exists, and...

GUYS. Maybe everyone knew this and I didn’t, but YOU CAN SEARCH BY ANY WORD IN THE SYNOPSIS!! Which means you can tag your stuff - feminist, LGBTQ+, humor, etc etc etc, AND PEOPLE CAN SEARCH BY THAT STUFF!!! I’m so excited!

And it works to search by a term and then narrow it down by status and genre, so I could search for, say, "humor" and then narrow it down to Currently Funding + Science Fiction, and see the humorous scifi books that I can pre-order!!!

Of course, it’s not very functional if nobody knows you can search that way. Readers need to know they can search by general terms AND authors need to tag their books in order for it to be useful, but the functionality is there!!!

I recommend, then, some sort of note or guide for when authors create their projects so they know they can include a tags section to make their projects easier to find; and also a note underneath the search function letting people know they can search by general categories besides just the status and genre ones (ex: young adult, humor, werewolves). (Yes, I know YA is a genre, but search for that term and you’ll see lots of YA categorized as fiction, scifi, fantasy, etc that doesn’t come up when you choose just the YA genre.)

I know, I know, this stuff might be obvious to some of you. But I didn’t realize the functionality was already there, and I sure haven’t tried adding any sort of tags beyond whatever words are already in my synopsis naturally.