Hi Indies!

As promised, this is an update for more sites authors can move their serialized fiction to now that Kindle Vella is shutting down. Inkitt actually published an article showcasing the benefits of moving to their site from Vella, which you can read here.

In a nutshell, Inkitt is Patreon without all the restrictions. They claim to be a Censorship-Free writing platform (within legal limits, I’m sure) that offers authors the chance to set up Subscription Tiers for their readers rather than a pay-per-episode system.

Note: I don’t yet have all these tiers available, only Spark, but they’re ready to go live whenever I want them to! The ability to save them as Drafts is a bonus IMO, so you can get a feel for how they’ll look to readers once you publish them all.

Like Wattpad, they also host writing contests where authors have the opportunity to not only win prize money, but an exclusive deal with their publishing site, Galatea.

At any time, Inkitt can and does offer its writers publishing contracts with Galatea, which is another benefit to moving your stories to their platform—IF you’re a writer interested in getting a book contract.

According to the Apple Store, Galatea is literally the #1 app for fiction on mobile devices—just FYI. So, this is not a hollow opportunity for some obscure, lackluster publishing company that may or may not be a scam.

I’ll admit, Inkitt is a bit of a learning curve if you’ve never worked with subscription tiers before. Luckily, they have a very large and active community on Discord with tons of helpful topics already posted and members who respond relatively quickly.

The scheduling of episodes with subscription tiers for me was the most difficult to grasp, but that’s because they don’t actually have any step-by-step tutorials for those of us who desperately need them when learning anything new for the first time.

That’s my only complaint about them thus far, and once I’ve mastered using Inkitt’s platform I do plan to make my own tutorial here for you all, in case anyone is interested.

For the number of authors using their site and published through Galatea, I was really stunned at their lack of videos on YouTube and just in general Google searches. However, I do think that’s because of their massive and well-established Discord channel.

The best feature is that everything that has to do with your story and its chapters (episodes) is 100% changeable by you at any given time. You can still edit your chapters after scheduling them for release. You can unpubllish them at any time, change the subscription tier they fall under, add them to multiple tiers, basically anything you want.

You have complete control and even better – 100% of the proceeds minus transaction fees goes to you. Inkitt doesn’t charge you any percent of your royalties to post on their site! Everything you make from your subscriptions is yours to keep and there are no exclusivity restrictions to maneuver around because you also retain 100% of your Intellectual Property.

Now, I’m sure that changes if you’re offered a contract with Galatea, but that’s because they provide all the same services any other publishing company would.

The ultimate bonus, though, is that they allow you to add already published books as long as they’re SELF-PUBLISHED. So, they can’t be under a book contract with a different publishing company.

I’m already in the process of uploading all my books on this platform to gain more exposure for them. Most of my books get zero views on retailer sites, yet I’ve already gained readers for Hearthstone Alpha on Inkitt just within the first day of posting chapters!

Engagement levels with readers on Inkitt is more akin to Wattpad than any other platform I’ve used because they actually do put your stories in front of readers as promised and give you a wall to write posts on to stay in touch with your followers.

You can also offer as many chapters as you want for free to entice readers, even for subscription stories. That aspect was part of the difficulty I ran across with not having a ‘How-To’ guide, but I’ve got it all worked out now.

In short, I’m totally in love with Inkitt and think that it is, hands-down, the best writing platform with the most benefits and opportunities for writers at this current time. This is the model that Amazon should’ve tried to mimic when they created Vella and it’s far better than Radish to get started on, even with the learning curve.

Stay tuned for my Step-by-Step tutorial for those who are interested in Inkitt. I do think at least one needs to exist outside of Discord because I fully deny that I’m the only one who needs that much help, LOL.

Happy December Y’all! I’ll be back with more goodies later!

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