Norton, Eyre writes, had more than 340,000 reads
on Wattpad of an earlier work, Metawars: Fight For the Future, also published by Hachette.
As a reader
of wattpad stories from past two years i think its great place for people like us to read stories from various genres.
Typically, you want to begin building your author platform at least six months before your first book even comes out — start your blog, comment on others» blogs, set up a newsletter, and grow your presence online and in readers» circles
like Wattpad by posting excerpts of your work.
And finally, several notable Sourcebooks writers including CJ Lyons, Miranda Kenneally, Janet Gurtler, and Zoraida Cordova, among others, will be making exciting new stories available for free and engaging with readers on
Wattpad as part of their social media marketing strategies.
«Millions of millennials
use Wattpad for discovering and sharing stories.
Ashleigh Gardner is Head of Partnerships
for Wattpad Studios where she creates meaningful promotional and editorial partnerships with the publishing, advertising, and entertainment industries.
Nazia Khan the Communications Lead of WattPad told me «Initial titles were selected by a special editorial team, with both companies working together to pick titles that we think range a good variety of genre and will translate well to audio while also representing what
Wattpad community storytellers do best.
With the launch of
Wattpad Stories, readers have a whole new opportunity to connect with the authors of the content, as it brings a more personal understanding of the writing process for some of these creators and the way that writing and reading have transformed them.
Covers
by Wattpad allows authors to upload images from your phone or tablet or choose from a selection of beautiful sample photos.
Allen
from Wattpad said, «Smartphone adoption across the globe is skyrocketing.
Additionally, if you're a dating expert who doesn't possess the skillset of a seasoned writer, you can be matched
with Wattpad Stars who can craft engaging stories that can help spread the word about your brand.
Now, they can support
Wattpad writers in a way that increases the writer's income, without having to pay out of pocket.»
I read David's post on Lindsay Buroker's blog last year and got interested
in Wattpad as a way to reach more readers.
By using
Wattpad Studios, romance writers and dating experts can draw from their own experiences and create stories for other media, and as a result, they have an opportunity to see their stories turned into books, films, and TV shows.
«I think that a lot of things that are at the core of what
Wattpad does, that we're very mobile, very social, tends to appeal very strongly to a millenial audience, that's not to say that we don't have a lot of users over thirty.
The number of
Wattpad users in The Philippines in 2007 stood at 80.
Community - writing site
Wattpad says over 70 percent of time spent on the service comes from users on tablets or smartphones, and one of its most requested features is the ability to write and edit stories from mobile devices.
Many
Wattpad authors also allow readers to collaborate on stories by giving them the chance to vote on chapters, ask questions about the characters / story or decide how the story will continue.
The new
Wattpad Futures offering allows readers to support writers by watching in - story ads.
Ashleigh Gardner,
Wattpad content director, spoke with us this week as part of London Book Fair's #Quantum16 Virtual Conference.
Through Wattpad Brand Solutions, we connect brands like Kraft and General Electric with influential writers.
I
joined Wattpad only recently, but I'm hoping it'll help me reach new readers that otherwise wouldn't know about me.
As a result, I might not be making the best plans from a marketing perspective (I am giving away stories for free on
Wattpad after all, and I don't think the cover of «A Flight of Marewings» looks like any traditionally published fantasy book released in the last five years).
Play around with the features and get familiar with what
Wattpad Cover Creator can do!
Online storytelling app
Wattpad gives users an ad - free option for $ 5.99 a month — The Toronto - based company says it is responding to reader requests — and hoping for a revenue boost — by rolling out a subscriber - paid version of its free... to premium users and so have online dating sites and things like that,» she said.
In exchange for incentives such as paid royalties when Kindle owners borrowed the books, authors were not allowed to list their ebooks for sale anywhere else, including their own websites, and were not able to use platforms like
Wattpad where users could interact with the book.
Some authors post their books on
Wattpad chapter by chapter (once or twice a week) and build up a fanbase this way, which might later go on to buy other books of that author (but remember — many users are not especially high in funds).
Along the way, why not more efforts to develop local minority writers, the best of whose work could be served up to cellphone audiences, just as
Wattpad so successfully does at a global level?
When
Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.
This funding avalanche continues to accelerate in 2018 with significant recent raises from Toronto companies
including Wattpad ($ 51M USD), Wealthsimple ($ 51M USD), Drop, ($ 21M USD), Platterz ($ 15M USD), and Ratehub ($ 12M USD).
«It is all about the content since the reading experience on various iPhone e-book apps are pretty close now,» said
Wattpad co-founder Allen Lau in an e-mail interview.
One aspect that has
made Wattpad so successful is the attitude of support between both the authors and the readers, especially in light of the fact that authors are putting their raw material out there for others to see and enjoy.
Its arm
called Wattpad Presents generates content for film and television productions.
I
think Wattpad may be onto something with their new initiative with Soundcloud.
At this year's BookExpo, Good e-Reader interviewed Ashleigh Gardner about
how Wattpad can continue to operate without expecting fees from its users.
One of the most common ways people
find Wattpad is through their mobile phones.
Announced in September 2014, the partnership sees TV5 Manila dramatize popular stories from the Toronto -
based Wattpad site.