After much consideration, I think it's likely time for me to depart from Wattpad. I've met the most wonderful group of people in the reading/writing world, and am glad to have read so many ARCs, drafts, and finished stories, but being endlessly ignored by the program that invited me to write consistently for a year is really weighing on me. I've done a lot of soul searching in this last year, and I have come to the conclusion that I'm not prepared to write romance or werewolf stories that revolve around packs, and not insane amounts of gore, simply for the reads or notice by Wattpad :3 Obviously, I throw no shade to those of you who do write this stuff (writing is hard and admirable regardless of what genre you write); it's Wattpad's handling of promotion and utter disregard for diversity in any form that I'm throwing shade at.
In the next year, I'm hoping to self publish a few of the stories I have completed since joining Wattpad. Self promotion has to be easier on my rather old fashioned genre of choice, anyway.
As Winn Peterson was my book for the Creators program (whether that meant anything or not, aha), I'll probably leave her up until my contract ends in August. Otherwise, the rest will be down likely by Friday at the latest. If you're keen on reading anything before it goes, you're more than welcome to visit my website, where I'll be putting up links for these lil stories' new home. Saturnalia is, of course, still published via my last penname Eli Gregory on Amazon, if you're keen on supporting me that way. If you want to keep in contact, you can find me on Instagram via ellis.van.wyk, the easiest way to get in contact with me.
Cheers for a scribbly four years!
Ellis
