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When 25 year old Anna Todd began penning her novel last year for fun on her phone last spring, she had no idea where the seemingly harmless act would take her.
Cut to this year as she now has a four-book deal with Simon & Schuster and
Paramount Pictures having acquired the film rights to her first book After.
Like many writers, Anna used Wattpad to both pen her novel and get published.
Every other day, Anna would turn to Wattpad to publish a new installment of her novel,
eventually reaching 2,500 pages and having a viewership surpassing a billion!
Wattpad is currently the world’s largest writing/reader community bringing together over
40 million people internationally through their love of reading and writing.
Penning the novel in her home state of Texas while her husband was deployed in Iraq,
she used the time to nourish her need for creativity in between the odd jobs she kept.
By promoting it via Twitter and on Instagram using the artwork sent her way by readers,
After soon had over 6 million comments by the summer of 2014, being offered in print in 26 countries!
Surrounding the life of main character Tessa and her Harry Styles (of One Direction) inspired boyfriend,
the story quickly rose to e-fame due to the well written enthralling plot-line!
Giveaway
One of you will win both Book One and Book Two of the After series!
To Enter:
Leave a relevant comment on this post (1 entry)
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Best of luck!
Janelle
December 26, 2014WOW! What an amazing story and cause. Brave actions taken in order to get pen her novel and get published. Thanks for sharing this. Truly in inspiration piece. How is she doing now with writing?
xoxo
Janelle
#BLMGirls
Georgina Castellucci
December 29, 2014Agreed! I will have to check in, she must be penning #2 (or perhaps even number 3!?)
Thanks for stopping by Janelle xo
Kari | The Kari Diaries
December 29, 2014Wow, I love hearing success stories like this! Gives me so much hope!
Georgina
January 17, 2015Congratulations Kari, you have won the After giveaway! Please email me at: georgina@notesonlifestylebygeorgina.com so I may have your prizes sent your way xo