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The Digital Slush Pile

How to Land a Book Deal by Writing Online!

Writers seeking an audience no longer have to wait on publishers to get their books out. Millions are flocking to social reading and writing sites like Wattpad and Scribd, which allow users to upload their writing and read and comment on each other's work. Some writers have leveraged their online audience to get big advances from publishing houses.

The Oxford Student

Like millions of other teenage girls, Abbie Gibbs fell in love with Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series. In 2009, when she was 15 years old, Ms....

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