Is there a different site meant for novels? Or is Tapas the best place?

[jmccubbins]

Like is there another place that novels do better at? Like I'm really curious about this. Do you guys have any recommendations or even any warnings about other sites?

[satyamkumarjhar]

While I don't know much about Tapas as I have never uploaded anything here. I have heard it's pretty good but i think you should try for webnovel and wattpad too they are really good.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

After failing pretty hard here on Tapas, I found moderate success on Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/home

A novel that struggled to crack 50 views here is gonna reach 10,000 there in a few weeks. ^^

[wispysing]

booksie.com is a pretty good place for novels.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Besides the dreaded Wattpad and Webnovel.

• fictionate.me
• royalroad.com
• scribblehub.com
• neovel.io
• booksie.com
• inkitt.com
• radishfiction.com

Choose what you like.

[LettieK]

I would like to know too, and I'm curious about people's experiences on other novel hosting sites.

I'm currently on both Tapas and Wattpad. After a month I have about 1.3K views on Tapas, and only 53 on Wattpad. My story seems pretty dead on Wattpad, but I'm having great reader engagement on Tapas- that has been pretty encouraging. I'm not sure why it's so dismal for me on Wattpad, but maybe it's because I don't do much promoting, or I just got lucky on Tapas.

I'll be seeing what others have to say. I haven't done anything on Webnovel.

[AnimeKitty]

Tapas has been really great for me. I used to enjoy Wattpad, but it seems like a lot of the writing communities are falling apart or just don't have the time for it anymore. There's been known to be a lot of toxic groups on there too lately. I've heard some have had success with RoyalRoad, but I personally wasn't fond of it. Neovel is pretty new and doesn't have a lot of users yet, but it's cool if you want to publish somewhere else. Don't expect millions of reads on there though.

[jmccubbins]

Yeah I'm mostly just interested to see what happens and what others have to say on it

[cherrystark]

I am on Fictionate and I'm leaving. The site has a clean format and its easy to read. And I liked how it was a plae where sci-fi/fantasy novels stood a chance over romance heavy sites. THEN they decided they wanted to be a self-publishing site and in came a bunch of fantasy/romance novels.

The biggest issue I have with the site is how they run their business. Their writing contest was a joke. They run social media pages but they post generic "book-related" posts or posts about their blog over their authors. When they do promote an author, it's limited to their social media pages. Other hosting sites like webnovel have purchased ad space on FB, but not Fictionate. I've had pretty good success readership wise but it's pretty much stalled now.

*Related to the previous note - they also do not tell authors about their site. There was no TOS when I started but then there is. They'll create pages that you can't see from the home screen. There is no app, no way to view analytics so you think you're more successful than you actually are.

They also stole one of my cover images to use as a banner for their TOS page. When they used the banner image in one of their social media campaigns, they didn't even bother to credit the authors. They only did that after pushback. They didn't bother to ask for my permission because I had given permission to use quotes and images for a totally unrelated advertising campaign.

[blakestackman]

Thanks @cherrystark for sharing that info about Fictionate.me. I am only new to it, so I appreciate hearing other people's thoughts about it. Definitely an eye opener.

[Teddy-Stonehill]

It really depends on your genre.

Tapas is one of the better sites for Fantasy Romance, GL, and BL stories. Stories that are at least somewhat adjacent in plot/style to popular East Asian webtoons and webnovels aimed at a female audience. After all, those translated webtoons and webnovels are the main draw of this website, so the reader base here tends to like that sort of thing.

If you're writing litRPG or isekai stories aimed at a male audience (or to a lesser extent straightforward fantasy or science fiction), Royal Road is by far your better bet.

I share my novel on both (and on Wattpad) and I've by far had the most success on Tapas because my story matches the readership better here.

You may want to research what the reader base is like on different websites and look for one that matches your story. You have to find out where the readers who would like your story are already hanging out and go meet them where they are.

[thedude3445]

Here's my handy directory of every web fiction site I know of, minus known scammers. If the site isn't on this list, that means the list is out of date by the time you're reading this, or it's so small I haven't even heard of it.

Royal Road and Scribble Hub have good interfaces but not all stories will appeal to the audiences there. Neovel and MoonQuill are somewhat promising but they don't have many views. There's more beyond those that I haven't tried or looked into much, too.

Web Fiction Sites: The Mega List Directory - Thedude3445's Blog

I still like Tapas, though. It's a good site for books if you stick with it for long enough.

[cavralcheriye]

This comment is probably late but to summarize the following:
Wattpad = lucky to those stories under the dreadful Romance, Love, Being pregnant and etc.. They do not care about other genre
Royal Road and Scribble Hub = have choosy readers and lucky to those stories under the new "Sci-Fi/Gaming/System/Cultivation" or all about gaming stuff.
Penana = 8/10. Mostly caters different genre. My Fantasy story florished there after 15 months while on the first three above never.
Web Novel = I am contracted unpaid author there and it literally taxing to compete under these mediocre genre thet mostly cater: Romance, Historical Fantasy, Love, CEO and stuff, "Cultivation/System".
Tapas = I am a new user here I must say dividing my story into multiple episodes is hard. Will update after a month.

Thank you.