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I'm a Watty winner from Wattpad with millions of views who came to post my webnovel-inspired book that nobody on Wattpad wants to read. And dude, let me tell you. Popular Wattpad authors get tons of solicitation from companies and publishers, both sketchy ones and legit but mediocre ones. The naive authors will fall for it. Ones like me will not even respond and just mute. I might have even gotten solicited for this site. I don't remember; there's a few Chinese sites that contacted me. But I mean, I didn't come here because Webnovel may have once invited me. Pretty sure I only came to read comics at first. It's actually against Wattpad's guidelines for people to slide into your DMs and try to sell you a deal. Sliding into my DMs or business email and asking me to come to your site fails with wise authors 100% of the time. Also, the fact that Webnovel is having its users recommend with monetary payment is weird. It's a really bizarre bribe. Generally, people will recommend things because they want to. "We will pay you if they sign with us" really cheapens it all. The "support" from readers. The author's work. And the fact that Webnovel isn't using it's own trained staff and is going to take random recs from people after an Amazon card. I wonder if quality is even a concern. This just.... Smh. Poor business plan.

Enlightened_Being I've done a couple of contracts and I'm not sure what all Webnovel asks for, but with websites like this, it's typically not full rights. If it is full rights, run. You never want to sell your copyright, film and television rights, non-digital publishing rights, etc. If they want rights to publish the story on their site that should be the only thing requested in the contract. There's possibility of the first right of refusal, but that shouldn't be a big issue for most. It's pretty standard in contracts these days. On that note, 50% is standard for digital one-website publishers. It's not a bad deal at all considering traditionally published books get half that or less.

lenapresents that nobody on Wattpad wants to read. A

That's a shame because WBFK was a big thing when I became active on that site. I hope your WN journey is just as fruitful. I'm still posting there, but not hoping for much. My reads have stopped completely over there. Anyway, WP issues.

Welcome again. Hope you enjoy it here. Just some things to keep in mind if you post here.

• You can't delete your novel. Inkstone doesn't have this capability. If you want to delete your book, clear everything out, put a delete label of some kind on it and set it as suspended.
• No HTML is available on chapters. Again, Inkstone application isn't built for this. So, this means you can't use bold, italic, paragraph formatting that you could in WP.
• Tags only show when 10 x others have tagged your story. 10 is the magic reveal number here.
• Ratings only show when it can average on 10 x ratings given.
• The rating and review system is a big hit or miss. At least you can delete a spam or troll review.
• Non contract stories have a harder time being featured. It's possible but you need to satisfy the basic criteria (20K+ words, regular daily updates basically pushing you near the 100 chapter mark it seems, high views, high powerstone votes.. hmm, anyone else want to add?) and can only have your book featured once and once only. So, a lot of us use Discord and these forums to self promote. Here's a starter pack that might help here with this: Shameless Promotion List thread

Anything else, just ask. :grin:

Tey_Aranjuez be able to do up to fourth level and pass the test