Tim's World of Wattpad

Today we have a really exciting guest.

He has been on Wattpad since 2011 and has done it all, he’s a writer, he’s been a Wattpad ambassador who helped build the Wattpad science fiction profile to 491,000 followers. He’s written many short stories, some on Wattpad and some available on Amazon. 

In 2012 he took two years to write the first version of his full length novel The Solution.

In 2017 he took a few years off from Wattpad to focus on his craft, and got bit by the copy editing bug. And now has made a return - publishing the revised version of The Solution which he has been updating chapter by chapter onto Wattpad.

The Solution is the story of two Chinese brothers in an unstable earth that is on the brink of environmental collapse. One brother is an international journalist and the other is a successful scientist with a dark past, grappling to find, with a dark past, who grappling to find The Solution. That’s all we know for now, as it is being updated live!

So - Louis F. Williams aka @GeekAtlas on Wattpad- welcome to the show!

Jessica Cunsolo’s young adult series, With Me, has amassed over one hundred million reads on Wattpad since she posted her first story, She’s With Me, on the platform in 2015. 

The novel has since won the 2016 Wattys award for Best Teen Fiction, and has been published in French by Hachette Romans, in Spanish by Grupo Planeta, and now in English by Wattpad Books!

Jessica lives with her dog, Leo, just outside Toronto, where she enjoys the outdoors and transforming her real-life awkward situations into plotlines for her viral stories.

You can find her on Twitter @AvaViolet17, on Instagram @jesscunsolo, or on Wattpad @AvaViolet!

You can buy her books here: https://books.wattpad.com/shes-with-me

Learn more about the host Tim Johnson at www.tejjohnson.com or on Wattpad at www.wattpad.com/tim

Today’s author has been on Wattpad since  2011, Her novels FROST, FIRE and FLOOD on Wattpad have reached over 21M reads.

She’s a wattpad star, a Watty’s award winner and has since got a literary agent - has previously worked as a literary agent assistant, she teaches a publishing workshop at the Vancouver Public Library, has a youtube channel on writing and… has been published!

Infact she has just wrapped an international tour for Her brand new novel Witches of Ash & Ruin, which is out right now published by Disney Hyperion.

This book is a sweeping, mesmerizing story of dark magic and brutal mythology set against a backdrop of contemporary Ireland that's impossible to put down.

Today we have none other than Erin Latimer!

Website: http://www.elatimer.com/

Twitter https://twitter.com/elatimerwrites

Wattpad:  www.wattpad.com/elatimer 

Today’s author has been on Wattpad since  2012. Her novels Out of Focus and  Stilletto Sisterhood both were major successes on Wattpad- reaching over 1.5 million reads and winning a coveted Wattpad Watty’s award in 2016!

She then was accepted into the Wattpad stars program becoming a Wattpad star AND soon scored a literary agent.

She has been a prolific author- in her own words - "I have more completed rough drafts under my bed then most women have shoes in their closet ... And I own a LOT of shoes."

Her most recent story is TOUCHED BY FIRE - which she’s uploading to Wattpad now.

Outside of writing she is a mother, a bikini fitness competitor and salsa dancer extraordinaire.

Today we have none other than Fallon DeMornay!

https://www.fallondemornay.com/

Twitter @FallondeMornay

https://www.wattpad.com/user/FallonDeMornay

Lindsey Summers

Today’s author has been on Wattpad since  2012, her novel The Cell Phone Swap became an absolute fan-favourite across Wattpad and reached an incredible 117M reads. It was then published by KidsCanPress as Textrovert in May 2017.

Her most recent story is The Trouble with Friendship which is available now on Wattpad, as a Wattpad paid story. 

Our guest today is none other than the one and only Lindsey Summers!

You can connect with Lindsey below:

https://www.lindseysummers.com/

www.instagram.com/donotmicrowavex

https://www.facebook.com/DoNotMicrowaveX/

Rebecca Sky

Today we have a really special guest. This author faced some incredible adversity and turned to her writing in a hard time - writing success beckoned! 

Her story Arrowheart reached an incredible 12.1M reads on Wattpad, before she was picked up by her agent and landed a publishing deal with Hodder. The sequel - Heartstruck is out now.

As important as the writing, she is a body positivity influencer and spends her day writing kickass fat feminists, enjoying life with her Boston terrier and rock star husband!

You can find out more at:

http://www.rebeccasky.com/

https://www.wattpad.com/user/RebeccaSky

https://www.instagram.com/therebeccasky/

Our guest today is did something many of us dream of – took six months off work to write his novel. And so his book: The God Complex: The Book Of Alan, Destroyer Of Worlds, was born. After four years of edits, this year – in 2020 – he joined Wattpad and started uploading this novel to the site. Just a few months in and he’s already reached 800 reads and #5 in New Gods #28 in Armaggeddon! In his day job, he is a Partnerships Manager at ITV, which means he integrates brands into your favourite TV shows - for our UK audience - that’s shows like Love Island and many more. Our guest today is Aaron Pinto del Rio! We really get into; The process of writing, what Aaron has found worked and what hasn't.  Why did he choose to share his story on Wattoad What it takes to succeed on Wattpad How Aaron manages to balance his day job with his writing How he is inspired by the crazy world of media! Writing with COVID and being in self-isolation What his upcoming goals are.  You can find Aaron on Wattpad here. It's was a great conversation - so I hope you enjoy!

Our guest today joined Wattpad in July 2010.

His book on Wattpad: Merlin’s Gold reached 1.5M reads. He volunteered on the Wattpad Ambassador team, and then joined Wattpad as a member of staff in Nov 2012.

He worked as a content specialist and eventually became the Ambassador Program Manager. The ambassador program has flourished underneath him, growing from 70 people to 700. 

We speak today to none other than Gavin Wilson!

https://www.wattpad.com/user/TheOrangutan

https://www.instagram.com/theorangutan_

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-wilson-616ab265

Our guest today is a really special one. She is the reason I am on Wattpad and this podcasts exists!

She’s been writing on Wattpad since 2011 where she has had some incredible success, writing 4 books which have hit over a million reads.

Her first novel, called The Enchantment of Emma Fletcher came out with Simon and Schuster in 2017

Her newest book is called All our Broken Pieces came out with Disney Hyperion in 2019.  Reviewers have called it “Nothing short of superb” and her book has been nominated for the prestigious Forest of Reading award.

Our guest has recently left a 15 year career to now become full-time professional creative writer. She balances her novel writing with crafting narratives for the popular Chapters interactive game.

She also a die-hard Marianna’s Tench fan!

Today’s author is none other than Leah Crichton, known everywhere as LD Crichton!

www.ldcrichton.com

https://twitter.com/LDCrichton

https://www.instagram.com/ldcrichton/

https://www.wattpad.com/user/LDCrichton

Our guest today shared his first novel on Wattpad 2013. He racked up 3 million reads in less than six months. This success led to him being interviewed in the US on the news channel NBC. After that, he scored an amazing agent in Juliet Mushens and published his first book. This book became a New York times bestseller and the following several sequels have been  New York times bestselling books - with over a million copies copies sold!

We welcome Taran Matharu to the show!

See the link below to pre-order his latest book in the THE CONTENDER SERIES here: 

Taran Matharu: The Challenger https://us.macmillan.com/series/contender/

If you haven't read the first one purchase The Chosen here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250138705

Taran Matharu's website: www.authortaranmatharu.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taranmatharuauthor

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/tm285

Wattpad: www.Wattpad.com/TaranMatharu