Looking for a way to sell your books direct to readers? Spicy romance author Emilia Rose built a full-time income on Patreon before she’d even finished college. Then Patreon pulled her account down over her content, more than once. So she and her husband built their own platform for fiction authors. It’s called Ream.

In this episode of The Write Podcast, Emilia shares how she went from writing werewolf romance on Wattpad to publishing more than 30 books wide. She explains why she chose wide publishing over Kindle Unlimited, and how authors can use Ream to sell ebooks, subscriptions, audiobooks and webcomics in one place, for a 10 percent fee. Ream has been open to the public for about three years and now has 20,000 author signups and around 160,000 readers, most of them reading romance.

If you haven’t published yet, Ream lets you share your story chapter by chapter, see exactly where readers stop reading, and build your email list before your book is in any store.

In this episode:

• How Emilia turned Wattpad reads into a full-time author income on Patreon
• Why she publishes wide instead of Kindle Unlimited, and how that saved her business
• What Ream is and how its 10 percent fee compares to other platforms
• Selling ebooks direct with preorders, discounts and your own pricing
• Social reading, where readers comment paragraph by paragraph
• Serialized fiction and writing chapter by chapter with reader feedback
• Ream’s reader discovery tools, from genre pages to Top 50 and Rising lists
• Releasing audiobooks and webcomics alongside your ebooks
• Building your newsletter list from every reader who buys, subscribes or follows
• The top genres on Ream and what’s coming next, including print on demand

Find Ream: reamstories.com

Free training: Learn the three decisions that turn a finished manuscript into a career, and the order most authors get wrong, in my free one-hour training. It runs live every month. You’ll leave knowing which decision to make first for your book.

Claim your seat: serenadepublishing.com/training