My books never really went anywhere on Wattpad. After 2 years, my Crimson Qi, a fantasy story with Ancient Chinese inspired setting is only at 35.9K and that’s after it was featured and periodically got into the top 100 in fantasy and adventure. My other stories are added to all kinds of ambassador-run lists, even the Romance one, and zip. I still do my Book Club on Wattpad.
Here, on Tapas, it is wonderful.
People see my book in Fresh section and just... read it, getting me over 100 reads per day. The only time I had this # of reads on WP was when Crimson Qi was featured.
when I got Staff Pick on Tapas I had 500+ reads per day!
The same book, Trapped by the Mafia, has 14K reads here after 2 months, while on WP, after frantic r4r, that I had to stop once the WP forum went down, it got to 1.6K without ever getting any organic readers.
People sub and unsub, I get reads, so I feel that my book is alive, being seen and checked out.
And I have promoted, promoted and promoted. I don’t have to right now, since I am perfectly happy with what I get from Fresh.