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Wattpad’s Ask The Expert – Online Publishing

Matthew Dawkins, Loridee De Villa and Nicole Nwosu

Pop Fiction

Wattpad’s Ask The Expert – Online Publishing

Matthew Dawkins, Loridee De Villa and Nicole Nwosu

4:00pm

Saturday, September 23, 2023

West Bays

60 mins

Online publishing. What is it? How do you get started? How do you get noticed? From story summaries to tagging and interacting with the online community, join Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group authors Matthew Dawkins, Loridee De Villa and Nicole Nwosu (who have 150 million+ reads on the Wattpad platform between them!) for this Ask The Expert session on publishing online.

Moderated by Nick Uskoski, Head of Content & Creator Development, Wattpad.

 

Attend this event for a chance to win a special Wattpad x TIFA prize pack, featuring:

  • A selection of Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group books
  • W by Wattpad Books Sleep Mask
  • Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group tote bag
  • Limited edition TIFA tote bag
  • Limited edition TIFA ceramic mug
  • One (1) free weekend pass (2 Days) to attend the 2024 Toronto International Festival of Authors (dates TBD)

No purchase required. Limit of one (1) entry per person per event. Audience members who attend one or more of Wattpad’s Ask the Expert series on September 23 will be invited to enter the contest by submitting a contest ballot form. Read the Contest Rules & Regulations, and see the full prize list, here.

 

About Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group

The Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group has redefined the publishing industry by breaking down barriers, allowing fan-driven stories from diverse voices to find a home on bookshelves everywhere. Leveraging the combined audiences of 170 million people on WEBTOON and Wattpad, The Group publishes stories the world wants to read.

Part of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, WWBG is made up of leading YA imprint Wattpad Books (launched in 2019), contemporary adult fiction imprint W by Wattpad Books, graphic novel imprint WEBTOON Unscrolled and the co-publishing imprint Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books, led by bestselling author and entrepreneur Anna Todd.

Visit books.wattpad.com for more information.

About Wattpad

Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. A leading webnovel platform and home to a community of 85 million people who spend over 23 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories, Wattpad has democratized storytelling for a new generation of diverse Gen Z writers and their fans. Alongside Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, the company’s TV, film and publishing counterparts, Wattpad combines art and science to unearth incredible stories and cultivate the fandoms driving the future of entertainment. The company is proudly based in Toronto, Canada.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation
Free

How to attend

This FREE event is open to the public.

Online publishing. What is it? How do you get started? How do you get noticed? From story summaries to tagging and interacting with the online community, join Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group authors Matthew Dawkins, Loridee De Villa and Nicole Nwosu (who have 150 million+ reads on the Wattpad platform between them!) for this Ask The Expert session on publishing online.

Moderated by Nick Uskoski, Head of Content & Creator Development, Wattpad.

 

Attend this event for a chance to win a special Wattpad x TIFA prize pack, featuring:

  • A selection of Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group books
  • W by Wattpad Books Sleep Mask
  • Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group tote bag
  • Limited edition TIFA tote bag
  • Limited edition TIFA ceramic mug
  • One (1) free weekend pass (2 Days) to attend the 2024 Toronto International Festival of Authors (dates TBD)

No purchase required. Limit of one (1) entry per person per event. Audience members who attend one or more of Wattpad’s Ask the Expert series on September 23 will be invited to enter the contest by submitting a contest ballot form. Read the Contest Rules & Regulations, and see the full prize list, here.

 

About Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group

The Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group has redefined the publishing industry by breaking down barriers, allowing fan-driven stories from diverse voices to find a home on bookshelves everywhere. Leveraging the combined audiences of 170 million people on WEBTOON and Wattpad, The Group publishes stories the world wants to read.

Part of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, WWBG is made up of leading YA imprint Wattpad Books (launched in 2019), contemporary adult fiction imprint W by Wattpad Books, graphic novel imprint WEBTOON Unscrolled and the co-publishing imprint Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books, led by bestselling author and entrepreneur Anna Todd.

Visit books.wattpad.com for more information.

About Wattpad

Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. A leading webnovel platform and home to a community of 85 million people who spend over 23 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories, Wattpad has democratized storytelling for a new generation of diverse Gen Z writers and their fans. Alongside Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, the company’s TV, film and publishing counterparts, Wattpad combines art and science to unearth incredible stories and cultivate the fandoms driving the future of entertainment. The company is proudly based in Toronto, Canada.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation
Free

Featured Authors

Matthew Dawkins is a Jamaican award-winning author and poet whose work explores subject matters including adolescence, race, nationhood and mental health. Until We Break is his debut novel. Matthew’s work has been featured in Westwind Poetry, Indolent Books, Pinhole Poetry and more. When he's not writing, Matthew can often be found daydreaming, talking to himself, or spending time with the people he loves.

Read more about Matthew Dawkins

Loridee De Villa is the author of the Watty Award-winning How to Be the Best Third Wheel, her debut novel that has accumulated 2.7 million reads on Wattpad. She also wrote The Infinite Worlds of Ella Jane, which won the Shaw Rocket Fund Contest in 2020 and is being turned into a theatrical podcast by the film company Shaftesbury. When she’s not typing up a new chapter, Loridee spends her days drawing, sewing and watching cartoons, all while balancing courses at the University of Toronto, where she is pursuing a career in health sciences.

Read more about Loridee De Villa

Nicole Nwosu is a Nigerian-Canadian author who began writing online when she was 14. Her most popular story, the Watty award-winning novel The Bad Boy and the Tomboy, has accumulated over a hundred million reads on Wattpad and was published in October 2020. The much-anticipated sequel, Hitting the Crossbar, was published in April 2023. When she is not writing, Nicole spends her time catching up on binge-worthy TV shows and reading. She is a recent Bachelor of Medical Sciences graduate from Western University.

Read more about Nicole Nwosu

4:00pm

Saturday, September 23

West Bays

60 mins

How to attend

This FREE event is open to the public

What to read

Until We Break by , How to Be the Best Third Wheel by , Hitting the Crossbar by ,
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