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HarperCollins to bring Wattpad stories to book form

HarperCollins has announced a new partnership with Wattpad to publish stories from the online writing platform as print books for a YA audience. Sara Sargent, executive editor at HarperCollins, will help select potential titles from the 375 million stories already ... Read More »

July 27, 2017 | Filed under: Book news

Dundurn to release serialized Don Easton novel on Wattpad

By Becky Robertson

Dundurn Press, in advance of the release of former undercover RCMP officer Don Easton's 10th novel in the Jack Taggart mystery series, is serializing the first Taggart book‚ 2005's Loose Ends‚ on Wattpad. The Toronto-based reading and writing app ... Read More »

August 17, 2016 | Filed under: Book news

Wattpad launches “online festival” with IFOA

By Julie Baldassi

This week, Wattpad began posting book excerpts from writers who will be featured at Toronto's International Festival of Authors, billing it as the "first-ever Online Festival." So far, samples of Carrie Snyder's Girl Runner, Paulo Coelho's Adultery, ... Read More »

September 26, 2014 | Filed under: Events

Margaret Atwood releases MaddAddam essay on Wattpad

By Julie Baldassi

There are always practical matters to attend to in the course of publishing a book. What if, God forbid, the URL corresponding to your chosen title is already taken? When this conundrum arose for Margaret ... Read More »

September 5, 2013 | Filed under: Book news

Wattpad launches serialized zombie novel co-authored by Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman

By Safa Jinje

Self-publishing platform Wattpad has released the first three chapters of The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home, a serialized novel co-written by Margaret Atwood and U.K. author Naomi Alderman. Atwood and Alderman's collaboration originated through the Rolex Mentor ... Read More »

October 24, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Wattpad teams up with Margaret Atwood to launch Atty Awards for international poetry

By Natalie Samson

Wattpad, a Toronto-based online community for international writers and readers, has put out a call for submissions for its first ever Atty Awards recognizing work by undiscovered poets. Winning entries will be selected by Margaret ... Read More »

August 2, 2012 | Filed under: Awards, Digital publishing and technology

Wattpad pulls in $3.5 million in new investment

By Steven W. Beattie

Wattpad, the Toronto-based Internet company that allows readers and writers to connect and share their work online, has completed a new round of funding, including an investment from Union Square Ventures, the New York company ... Read More »

September 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

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