Fan fiction is not a new phenomenon. Established writers have set their stories in the worlds of Sherlock Holmes, Cthulhu, and Conan the Barbarian, to name but a few, using characters invented by ...

Bel Watson is a 25-year-old Chilean author with over 30 titles and 100 million readers – but you won't find her on Amazon. She's on Wattpad, an online writing platform popular for fan-written ...

With no one filtering the thousands of stories that are published every day, Wattpad has become well-known as the breeding ground for trashy young adult and fan fiction.

Fans have spent over 17 million minutes reading stories about Zayn since 2015, including "She is My Slave" written from Malik's perspective and "The Nanny," in which a girl named Abigale tries to ...