Jonathan Vatner is a fiction writer in Yonkers, New York. “I don’t think I would have written anywhere near the amount I did if it hadn’t been for that consistent support.”
“My work has reached a mind-blowing number of people all over the world,” she says. This chorus of support is what motivated Leigh Ansell, the twenty-three-year-old British author of Trapeze, forthcoming in September, to write several novels on Wattpad, starting when she was fifteen years old. Wattpad authors also get a tremendous amount of feedback: Readers leave comments and praise, and for many writers the platform becomes a supportive community of readers. “If everyone who picks it up can’t put it down,” Gardner says, “it’s something sticky that we should take a look at.” Wattpad editors will edit the stories for length and consistency, and some novels will be expanded to appeal to fans who have already read them on the site.įor aspiring authors, Wattpad can be a good way to share work and build a platform and not just because the company offers several opportunities to earn money, including book, TV, and film deals sponsorships with brands ad-revenue sharing and stories for purchase. Wattpad’s editors also consider a book’s trajectory, or how fast its audience is growing, along with completion rate and average session length-how long readers spend with the story in one sitting. Santoni, debuting October 29, has racked up only about 1 percent of that number. Cupid’s Match by Lauren Palphreyman, which Wattpad Books will publish on October 1, has been read more than forty-seven million times I’m a Gay Wizard by V. A novel’s total number of reads is important, but it’s not everything. To select the titles that will be published from the 565 million stories uploaded to the site, editors rely on the company’s Story DNA Machine Learning technology, which compiles billions of data points drawn from Wattpad’s users. Wattpad Books plans to expand to adult fiction and nonfiction titles in the future. The stories represent marginalized communities and tackle larger social issues, such as bullying, body positivity, and mental illness. Given that Wattpad’s core audience is composed of millennials and Generation Z, early releases from the publisher will all fall within the young adult category, with a focus on fantasy, romance, and mystery. (Despite getting panned by critics, one in three viewers of the film, according to the streaming service, has watched it more than once.)
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The Kissing Booth (Ember, 2013), written by Beth Reekles when she was fifteen, was adapted into the most-watched Netflix movie in the United States in 2018. Three novels that originated on Wattpad have become New York Times best-sellers: Anna Todd’s After (Gallery Books, 2014), Taran Matharu’s The Novice (Square Fish, 2015), and Natasha Preston’s The Cellar (Sourcebooks, 2014). “Since we understand our stories better than anyone else, we decided to publish them ourselves.” Roughly a thousand Wattpad stories have been published as books and adapted into TV, film, and digital media. “Our sales statistics have been better than the average titles that publishers take risks on,” she says. Wattpad Books will move that publishing process in-house, with distribution by Macmillan in the United States and Raincoast Books in Canada.Īshleigh Gardner, the deputy general manager of the publishing arm of Wattpad Studios, will head the books initiative and is confident that the books will be a success. The company, headquartered in Toronto, has long connected writers of its most popular stories with publishing houses and film producers, and in 2016 it launched Wattpad Studios to help writers negotiate such deals. Wattpad was founded in 2007 by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen as a social platform for users to self-publish book-length works one chapter at a time. Twenty more titles, all works of fiction, are slated for publication in 2020. In January the company announced the launch of Wattpad Books, a new book-publishing arm that will release its first titles, six young adult novels drawn from the site’s most engaging reads, in August. At a time when publishers and media companies are constantly adapting print content for digital platforms, Wattpad, an online storytelling community with seventy million active writers and readers worldwide, is expanding to print.
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