Could Dreame be legit and scooping Wattpad on their upcoming service? I guess it is possible (they have been open to negotiation from me on finer points of the contract but have also repeatedly dodged the question of exactly how stories will generate funds to split with authors). (And let’s not forget about the infamous 50 Shades of Gandalf the Grey I referenced before… you can’t make this stuff up.) Interestingly enough, Wattpad is also toying with a “paid” option, although this service is currently in limited beta and not currently available in the US. Honestly, a guy can only stomach so much Mario on Luigi gay erotica on a landing page before he gives up on a platform altogether. They talk a bunch about quality of stories, etc… but just like Wattpad, it seems like mostly bad romance fiction or rip-offs and fanfics. Dreame runs under the business name of Stary PTE Ltd There is a thread going about it over at Reddit which is worth checking out. It is affiliated with Ficfun, which has a rating of two thumbs down from some writing services. It’s an advance, which means if they make money on the book (by whatever metric they determine) they still might not have to pay you unless they exceed that original amount.ĭreame, which looks like a Wattpad clone with a paywall for certain stories, is based out of Singapore. They are cautious to mention in the contract that you retain paperback rights, but audiobooks are on the rise, and you might be agreeing to give them 20% of your sales in exchange for that tiny advance they give you… that’s right. They offered me sixty bucks, which is a bit of a slap in the face since I would be prohibited from sharing this story electronically (ebook) and possibly they would get the audible rights as well. It didn’t take much looking around the internet to find that my experience with Dreame is not uncommon they’ve made a habit of soliciting authors from Wattpad to try and gain rights to their stories and then publish them exclusively on. The company in question is Dreame… with an E. They are, however, not looking play by the same rules as regular publishers. But this company might not actually be a scam. On second glance at their initial message and subsequent ones I was asked to “kindly reply” or “kindly send XYZ.” That’s not how native English speakers speak and is usually a giveaway of an overseas scam.
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It sounds too good to be true, right? You put something on Wattpad and then a publisher comes calling? But that’s what happened to guys like Taran Matharu who writes the Summoner series (and who I’ve had conversations with via the social writing platform.) But as I often caution folks, plan to be the rule rather than the exception. This morning, after a brief interaction with a publisher, I was offered a contract. So my SF story Dekker’s Dozen: The Last Watchmen has over 65,000 reads on Wattpad and had been featured in the past. A publisher recently contacted because they found my book online and want to offer me a contract… should I take it?
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