The publisher offered Ronin a two-book deal, splitting the 170,000-word story into two volumes. On Wattpad, Ronin’s contemporary romance had attracted more than one million readers, many of whom read the story more than once, and earned more than 4.6 million positive votes for various chapters.
Ashley Gardner, head of content at Wattpad Studios, recently got in touch with Sourcebooks Casablanca to point out Chasing Red by Isabelle Ronin, the platform’s top story of 2016. Romancing the Undead, the second book in Lyons’s Undead Dating Service series (which Clyne calls “Bridget Jones with vampires”), pubs in October.Īfter a busy year and a half spent reading and responding to manuscripts, Sourcebooks pulled the hashtag and now relies on Wattpad’s content team to identify trending titles. “Most of the writers on Wattpad are writing from the heart,” says Cat Clyne, an editor at Sourcebooks, “so they’re not trying to conform to specific ideas of what a romance novel is.” Her first discovery through the hashtag was Dating the Undead by Juliet Lyons, which Sourcebooks Casablanca published in May.
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