The promotion will run across three elements of the the Wattpad platform: 1. The Wattpad web site. 2. Wattpad's After Dark app for iOS and Android. 3. The general Wattpad app iOS and Android.
You can view the promotion now on the web at https://www.wattpad.com/user/Romance and will roll out soon to the apps mentioned above. Direct links to each catalog:
Contemporary Romance
New Adult Romance
Paranormal Romance
More than 40 million people visit Wattpad each month to read, write and publish. The featured titles are all series starters. Each series starter will be serialized at Wattpad for the free enjoyment of Wattpad readers. Participating Smashwords authors will receive significant exposure to thousands of new readers, some of whom will go on to purchase the next books in the series at Smashwords retail partners including iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and the Smashwords store.
Several bestselling Smashwords authors - including Kirsty Moseley and Natasha Preston - used Wattpad to reach millions of readers via free serialization before commercially publishing and distributing their final books at Smashwords. Not only is Wattpad a great place for new writers to build audience before they publish at Smashwords, it's a great place for veteran Smashwords authors to reach more readers.
My thanks to Wattpad for presenting our authors with such an unprecedented opportunity to build readership. Today's promotion marks a milestone of sorts. Yesterday was the four year anniversary of a Smashwords partnership with Wattpad that began four years ago. I've always been an incredible fan of Wattpad and the people who run it, and I hope this will be the first of many new merchandising collaborations for Smashwords authors across all genres.
Smashwords authors: If you're not already on Wattpad, here's a good FAQ that explains how to get started. Like Smashwords, Wattpad is a free service. Once you have your Wattpad account set up, you can add cross links between your Wattpad profile page and your Smashwords profile page (where readers can purchase your books!). To add a link from your Wattpad account to your Smashwords page, at Wattpad click on your account name in the upper right portion of the screen, then click Settings. To add a link on your Smashwords author page that points to your Wattpad page, at Smashwords click to Account, then click to Edit Profile.
Here's a summary of participating authors and titles, organized by category and alpha-sorted by first name:
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
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Anna Katmore - Play With Me
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AnnaLisa Grant - The Lake (The Lake Series, Book 1)
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Carla Krae - Kissed (My Once and Future Love Revisited #1)
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Chris Taylor - The Profiler
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DW Cee - Indelible Love (Emily's Story)
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E. L. Todd - Only For You
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Elizabeth Reyes - Forever Mine
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K.F. Breene - Back in the Saddle
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Lacey Weatherford - Crush
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Leeanna Morgan - Forever Dreams
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Lili Saint Germain - Seven Sons
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Liz Fielding - Wild Justice
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Lorhainne Eckhart - The Forgotten Child
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Max Henry - Devil You Know
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Max Henry - Pistol
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Mia Dymond - Leather, Lace & Rock-N-Roll
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Morgan Rayne - A Different Kind of Fairy Tale
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Natalie Anderson - Breathe for Me
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R.L. Mathewson - Playing for Keeps
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Ranae Rose - Hot Ink
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Ruth Ann Nordin - Suddenly a Bride
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Sydney Landon - Pierced
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T Gephart - A Twist of Fate
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Tracy Ellen - A Date with Fate (The Adventures of Anabel Axelrod)
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Verna Clay - Dream Kisses
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NEW ADULT ROMANCE
Addison Moore - 3:AM Kisses
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Alicia Michaels - V-Card
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Alyssa Rose Ivy - The Hazards of Skinny Dipping
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AM Hudson - Bound
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Bethany Lopez - 8 Weeks
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CJ Duggan - The Boys of Summer
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Demelza Carlton - Ocean's Justice
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G.J. Walker-Smith - Saving Wishes
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Jamie Magee - See
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Jennifer Snyder - Break You
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Kahlen Aymes - Famous
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Lilliana Anderson - A Beautiful Struggle (Beautiful Series Book 1)
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Lindsay Paige and Mary Smith - Breakaway
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Natasha Preston - Silence
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Nicola Marsh - Before
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Penny Reid - Attraction
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Rachel Van Dyken - Tear: A Seaside Novel
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Sabrina Stark - Unbelonging
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Samantha Young - Into the Deep
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Tawdra Kandle - The Last One
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PARANORMAL ROMANCE
Alyssa Rose Ivy - Flight (The Crescent Chronicles#1)
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Amy Miles - Forbidden
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Barbara Bretton - Somewhere in Time
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Belinda Boring - The Mystic Wolves
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Bianca D'Arc - Tales of the Were: Grif
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Brandy L Rivers - Nights Embrace
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Brenda K. Davies - Awakened (The Vampire Awakenings Series, Book 1)
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C.J. Archer - The Wrong Girl
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Caroline Hanson - Love is Darkness
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Caryn Moya Block - Alpha's Mate
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Christie Rich - Five (Elemental Enmity Book I)
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Claire Farrell - Soul
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E.B. Brown - The Legend of the Bloodstone
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Elise Marion - The Guardians
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Erica Stevens - Captured (The Captive Series, Book 1)
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Laura Harner - Highland Shift
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Lynnie Purcell - Grey Haven (The Dreamer Chronicles, Book 1)
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Maree Anderson - The Crystal Warrior
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Melissa Haag - Hope(less)
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Melissa Wright - Bound by Prophecy
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Nicky Charles - The Mating
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R. E. Butler - Mate of Her Heart (Wilde Creek One)
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Rachel Higginson - Reckless Magic
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S. E. Smith - Tink's Neverland: Cosmos' Gateway Book 1
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Sarah Woodbury - Daughter of Time
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Scott Prussing - Breathless
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Teresa Gabelman - Damon (The Protectors)
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Victoria Danann - My Familiar Stranger
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Please join me in congratulating these fine authors for their inclusion in this promotion. If you're a romance reader, please share this page with your friends so they can start discovering these awesome indie romance authors!
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5 comments:
Thank you to Mark and the Smashwords team for organizing this promo--so excited to be a part of it! I've been a huge fan of Wattpad for many years; it's a wonderful community, and the support I've personally received from fans and followers has been fantastic. Huge congrats to all the other romance authors participating in this promo! (Off to follow y'all now....)
Thanks so much Mark for creating another great opportunity for authors to find new readers. You are such a star!
Thrilled to be included and looking forward to getting to know new readers.
A big advantage of Wattpad is its "instrumentation": you get to see not only how many reads you're getting day by day, but in particular you get to see, chapter by chapter, how many people finish each chapter. This is very valuable feedback, enabling the author to see where they could, perhaps, restructure or improve their work.
The demographics information, in particular the % reads country by country are fascinating.
Another other feature, where readers "vote" for particular chapters, they like, is also useful. Wattpad readers also frequently point out typos and other errors, which I have found helpful.
Andrew, thanks for sharing this insight. I think it'll be helpful to authors considering how they might get the most out of Wattpad. Thanks!
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