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 ...

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 ...

Wattpad played a huge role in making it possible, as Denny’s novel was read by over 21 million reads online, with over 48,500 comments from her readers. There are even Wattpad stories based on ...

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.

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 ...