# How do I apply for contract?
When uploading a book on our platform, you will need to register an account on our website first and then start uploading your book chapter by chapter.
When you create a new book, the synopsis and book cover needs to be reviewed to make sure there’s no infringement or anything inappropriate. The reviewing process normally takes about 10 working days, and it may vary depending on how long the waiting list is. When we finish reviewing it, your book can be published and will be qualified to applying for contract.
After you upload more than 5,000 words, you need to click the “Apply for contract” button which is on your personal page (Click your avatar) to submit your application. Then, the editors will review your book and decide whether we will sign a contract with you.
#How do you review a book that applied for a contract?
After you have successfully submitted your contract application, your application will enter our background system and waiting in line to be reviewed. It usually takes about 2 weeks to review an application. Sometimes it’ll be quicker and sometimes it may be slower, it depends on how many books we have to review currently.
You might think 2 weeks is a long time. However, we’re already doing the best we can…Our editors needs to read 5–10 books on average in a single working day, plus doing a lot of other trivial work including preparing contracts, replying to authors’ messages and answering questions, or analyzing a story and giving feedback to it and so on. Sometimes it takes 2 hours just to reply to messages every day! For every book, we will read for about 10 chapters before we can decide if the book is up to our standards or not, and we will analyze all aspects of your story, such as background setting, character, plot twists… and then reach a final decision for your book. So it’s important that you submit a detailed outline in your application. Plus, we’re having a lot of books in the system and there could be hundreds of books waiting to be reviewed each week.
Now, you might want to know how our editors decide if a book is good or not. It’s actually simple. We want stories to be good in every aspect: it needs good pace, exciting and frequent plot twists, lots of cliffhangers, well-designed characters, strong incentives of actions and powerful struggle. It doesn’t mean the stories that don’t meet the requirements are bad stories, because there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes, but those that meet the standards are more likely to be popular stories.
You can check the status of your application by clicking on the “apply for contract” button again.
After we review the story, we will send you an email offer or reject it by sending a message to your book detail page. The editor who sends you the email will be your editor for all your books in the future, and feel free to ask him/her questions!
#When I upload my book, it immediately says “in review” and won’t publish, what does it mean?
All newly uploaded books need to be reviewed first in case there are any copyright issues or pornography involved. If your book has no such issues, then it’ll be approved in 1 or 2 work days, please wait patiently until it gets approved. Also, you could still add new chapters and edit your book when it’s in review.
#I can’t publish my book, it says my book cover/synopsis involves infringement/pornography…
When we reject a new book from publishing, we give a reason for that. you can change your book cover or synopsis accordingly and try again.
# What genres of novels do you accept?
All genres welcomed. Although we have more romance novels right now, we’re slowly changing that and trying to make our platform more diverse.
# How many words should I write in each chapter?
We suggest you to keep your each chapter between 1k-2k words. Too long or too short may leave a bad impression for readers. However, don’t worry if there’re a few chapters in your book have over 2k or less than 1k words, it’s totally fine. It’s not mandatory! You can adjust your chapter’s length according to your own needs.
# Is there a requirement about book covers?
You can design your own book cover(s). But please make sure you’re not using the pictures without the artist’s permission. Also, please avoid using book covers that is too “sexy” or too bloody/violent because it may get rejected when we review the book cover. We are currently facing strict review by Google play, app store and Facebook. Any pictures of naked/half-naked person, any sex indications, anything that might indicate violence (gun, knife, blood…) and anything that has negative influence on teenagers(tabacco, wine…) will be considered as “inappropriate”.
Also, we suggest you to use pictures with real people instead of pictures of illustration or nature scenes, because we find that most common readers prefer book covers with real people from our previous data.
#I am underage (under 18), how do I sign a legit contract with you?
If you’re underage, you have to ask your parents(or your legal guardian) to sign a underage confirmation form for you, stating that he/she is aware of you signing the contract and approves it. Then the rest is the same as all the other contracts.
# Can I use my student card as ID?
It’s advised that you use your government-issued ID card when you apply for a contract. If you don’t have it with you now, you should discuss it with your editor and submit your legal ID later.
# Can non-English books get Exclusive contracts?
We are offering exclusive contracts for English, Spanish, French, Indonesian and Filipino books for now. We’re going to build our multi-language editor team and hope that we can offer exclusive contracts for good stories in more different languages the future.
# If I have signed a contract for my book with you, can I translate it to another language and then sign another contract with you?
No. Because we have the right of translating your book if you sign the contract with us. So theoretically, if you have signed one language version with us, we will also have the same right to its different language versions. For example, if you have signed an English novel with non-exclusive, then you translated it to Indonesian, the English and Indonesian versions should both be non-exclusive on our platform.
#Can Fanfiction get a contract?
Because we know the love you guys hold toward Fanfics, and because you guys do have a lot of good works of Fanfic, so we want to post this instruction about fanfic contracts, so you won’t be too confused.
First and foremost, We are an open site for BOTH writers AND readers. We welcome all genre and style of writing, your works are more than welcome to share here with us and readers of ALL countries!!
Unfortunately while we would love to have all work on our site, we can only make writers offers for limited ones when it comes to fanfic because of copyright issues. Also, please avoid using pictures which may involve infringement as your book cover.
All the public domain IPs (in other words, characters, themes, plots, etc) can be used by anyone, hence available to our offers; sadly the most recent movies and books, such as Marvel or Harry Potter series, the ones like these two are still protected by copyrights, so we cannot really make an offer on your book. But your books are still welcome to our site, and we genuinely hope that by sharing your book and interest here, you can find lots of friends that share them with you!
If you want to know whether the original story you used is protected, please check here:
https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
Anything within the public domain is free to use, hence available to our contract if you write a fanfic based on them.
Comment below if you have any other questions!
