Posted on February 12, 2024.
In this episode, we delve into the launch of Discovery on Ream. Join us as we navigate the intricacies of what discovery entails on Ream and discover strategies for authors to optimize their visibility on the platform.
Our special guest, Arielle Bailey, leads us behind the curtain, unraveling the process of crafting the revolutionary Discovery 1.0 system. From dissecting genres to reimagining categorization, Arielle narrates her journey in building a coherent and reader-friendly discovery experience for both authors and readers alike.
Learn About Discovery on Ream: https://help.reamstories.com/article/26-a-guide-to-reams-discovery-system
#69 Episode Transcript:
Arielle Bailey: [00:00:00] A lot of retailers were not built by people who understand publishing, so they don’t really understand like the history of genre. Which you have to understand in order to know why we are where we are today with it and to really understand, where it can or should go, because I feel like genre is a language and you don’t really, in order to speak the language, you do have Learn how to speak it, but also learn a little bit about like why it is the way it is
Welcome to Subscriptions for Authors. Meet your co hosts, Michael Evans, sci fi thriller author of a dozen novels, and Amelia Rose, a semi romance author that makes six figures per year in subscriptions. Together, we will help you make more money with subscriptions and succeed in the future of publishing.
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Michael Evans: Welcome back to the Subscriptions for Authors podcast. We have a very exciting episode today, and it’s all about discovery, um, discovery for subscription authors, and specifically Discovery on Ream, which was released in the last 72 hours from us. We’re actually recording this, and by the time this podcast goes out, it’ll Probably only be a couple days old.
And, I really want to talk about what does discovery look like on Ream? How can you all, as authors, maximize your discovery on Ream? And then talking a little bit about, like, why we’re doing it, and what we see as the future of discovery for subscription authors, how we really thought about when actually building this.
And, As you’ll see this is an evolving system. We call it Discovery 1. 0, specifically because there’s going to be a lot of iterations, even on what you see currently. So it’s like you’re seeing like a public beta of it. And that’s partially because Discovery is something that we have to see like in real time How readers of all different [00:02:00] genres are discovering things and what stories are getting surfaced?
And it’s been really fun to start to see that over the last couple days, but I brought Arielle here with us who played a very pivotal role in actually building out what discovery looks like And for those who don’t know Arielle, she was on a previous episode, which actually hasn’t been released yet partially because there’s 10 episodes that we haven’t released from last year that we need to get out.
then. I’m now recording two podcast episodes a week on average, that’s the goal for this year. We’re, yeah, we have to figure that out. But, Arielle’s episode will come out I will edit it, or our editor will. And that’s an amazing episode of Phantoms. But, since that podcast episode, life has changed a lot for you, Arielle.
Cause we recorded that back in July, actually, right about six months ago. I think a little over six months ago. Oh no, a little less than six months ago at this point. The end. Since that podcast episode, I think in the beginning of October, you started working on the Ream team. And then in the [00:03:00] last couple months, that turned into you starting off helping me with a lot of different tasks, being an amazing executive assistant, then building out the whole genre and category system on Ream, which we’ll talk about.
And then The last now, like where you are now is like leading the accelerator and doing all these other things every, so it’s been a wild last couple of months for you, but it’s great to have you back on because for those who don’t know this is the first episode, actually, no one knows this this is the
first episode
of what we’re calling the storytellers of the world diary.
I think I need an excuse to just record a podcast episode every week. Yeah. At the same time and I want to share things with all of y’all that will help you so today our goal is to share with you how you can get discovered on ring, which is I think a great episode and Occasionally, we’ll be bringing on people from the team Other authors or it might just be solo episodes for me.
So today Arielle is that person our first ever guest on this edition It’s like a special like it’s part of the subscription for authors podcast But it’s just [00:04:00] slightly like a a different category of episode, right? so with all that said with that long introduction Arielle, how are you doing? And how does it feel now that Discovery, which you worked really hard on, is now finally out in the world for everyone to see?
Arielle Bailey: I am doing pretty well starting off the year with a bang. We literally started off the year with a bang on Ream. It’s amazing that Discovery is live now. I literally had to sit on my I was going to do a Q& A, but I forgot to do that. Month alone, or about, Oh, I need a better categorization system or, Oh, this doesn’t work for me, especially with authors coming from like fan fiction to the original fiction side.
And I was just so excited and eager to have it go [00:05:00] into beta. We had a lot of work to do building it so much work to do building it. And it was great. Finally getting to say it’s live is incredible. It’s absolutely incredible.
Michael Evans: It’s very fun to see it. I love being able to load the homepage for the first time, and see the new Vream, because this is really what we’re calling the second chapter of Vream, because, At this point, Ream has been out for under a year in beta.
We haven’t even been out for just about 8 months publicly. And, we built a lot of different things over the last year, whether it was following, whether it was, making community posts better, making the story experience better, scheduling, all these amazing things that we added for authors.
But this is really like the next step in building on all that we have. You have an amazing world inside of Ream that you’re able to bring readers to. And it’s only going to keep getting better, but now we want to say, you can still keep bringing readers to your REAM and still keep having that direct relationship with them.[00:06:00]
But we also want to help bring more readers to your REAM. And that’s, I think, the thing that we’re taking a step into. That’s going to be really awesome as we continue building it out because, We’re going to keep making audio, all these things we’re releasing on the platform, but Discovery is the biggest thing in the long run.
And it’s like what we want to keep building on, so Discovery is really, I think everything for us in the long run, and it’s everything we want to help you do, because Ream isn’t just trying to be, like, the only Discovery platform, we’re trying to be your platform, that you can connect with your readers, and to give you that Discovery too, which is huge, and I think it’s going to be Just help a lot of subscription authors, but Arielle, like what you did on it, and it was a really fun process is like actually building discovery.
You got. Together with the community in hundreds of comments, but also even more than that, you really reflected on it yourself. And you were trying to think of what a better way for authors to categorize books would look like. And I want you to describe what you [00:07:00] ended up Building like the discovery summary and what you ended up coming up with.
And of course, Sean, who’s our lead developer, he’s amazing. He behind the scenes, like actually led all the coding for this, but you were the one who masterminded what that discovery looks like in terms of the book page on green. And I would love for you to share like why and what it is.
Arielle Bailey: So the way that most retailers have categorized books or stories before this drives me nuts. It doesn’t make sense. It’s illogical and fundamentally flawed because a lot of retailers were not built by people who understand publishing, so they don’t really understand like the history of genre. Which you have to understand in order to know why we are where we are today with it and to really understand, where it can or should go, because I feel like genre is a language and you don’t really, [00:08:00] in order to speak the language, you do have Learn how to speak it, but also learn a little bit about like why it is the way it is, right?
So genre history has been a thing that I’ve been into for years and years. And when we got the chance to build a system from the ground up, I really went in and dissected genres and looked at what Amazon has done, what other places have done and just took it all apart. To see what wasn’t working and why it wasn’t working and then look at the history of genre and fiction and combine all of that plus the research of like just in the last two years what has changed in genre because Indie Fiction has changed genre.
It’s a fact. Just like language changes over time, so does genre. And so Indie Fiction has changed genre. Amazon, specifically, among all retailers, has also Mixed in a lot of categories that are [00:09:00] not actually genre, and that’s confused a lot of people, completely fair, but we needed to build something that worked and to do that, I took all of those things, broke it all down, reorganized it into a logical structure, what seemed like a logical structure, pushed it at the team, they came back, we went in and did a complete revision, and Then I think that was the very first draft that was released to the community.
And then we revised it at least three times since with community feedback, going in and doing deeper research on some things, breaking some things down further and really discussing. With Sean, our developer, how to do things like hybrid genres on Ream or what things were common sub genres to multiple genres.
So that’s the core of the process. There’s just break it all down and reassemble it [00:10:00] based on research and history, as well as looking at what recent changes have been made.
So it was extremely exciting to get to do that because it’s a dream to be able to do that. I’ve wanted to do that for so many years. It’s just reorganize genre so that it actually works for authors and it actually works for readers based on the way that readers search and based on the way that genre is supposed to work down through history before some retailers got their hands on it.
It was literally a dream project.
Michael Evans: Yeah, I mean, I just knew you were the perfect person for this. I mean, just even listening to you now and, you know, hearing the passion that came through. It’s so, so funny how things work out, because the reason why I mean, like, even really connected and got to know each other and then eventually, you know.
You began working on your own team was because you made that series of, I keep referencing it at least privately, but I don’t think I’ve talked to much about it publicly, you made those 12 posts about like fandom and genre in the group. And I [00:11:00] was just like, wow, this is amazing. This is perfect. And I was super interested just in how your, your mind thought about these things.
I didn’t know why. And to be honest, there’s a lot of things that, like, I’ll read that I’ll, I’ll learn some things from and just learning something from something’s amazing. And there was a lot of your things. I’m like, oh, wow. Like, this was all really new for me. This was all something I never really thought about.
So I just knew, like, you had this amazing knowledge, but, and then, you know, just definitely ended up kind of working for their team. Like, just that just ended up being like, something in the back pocket. But then when, um, Discovery was coming as like us developing it behind the scenes. Like, we know we want to do this and you know, many, many authors, right, have asked us like, Hey, why can’t we just search for, you know, the genre just a little bit, just make, give us something.
They could have done it maybe six months ago, but we wanted to make it really, really good. And we did it. And we just knew that the second we started doing something related to discovery that [00:12:00] There’s no going back. Like, once that’s something that people, and rightfully so, once authors and readers start to view Ream as a place that they can, like, find readers, and then most importantly, find new stories, the dynamic shifts where, you know, the expectation, talking about, like, in subscriptions, right, we want to under promise.
And over deliver immediately, like, even if we don’t promise much, even if we say this isn’t a big deal, it’s going to be viewed as something much bigger and we knew that. So we kind of just for, like, no discovery is better than discovery in terms of, like, having a system that just allows you to search for, because then most people come in and are just going to be disappointed by that.
So we knew we needed to be more, we knew we needed to. To, you know, create something that was like a really decent start. And this is just the start so that everyone knows like, this is not the end game, but like, giving it a really, really good first draft. And that’s when, you know. Sean, especially early development was super, super passionate about that.
So was Emilia, like, very, very strongly. I was a little bit more willing to like, let’s just get something out there. I think [00:13:00] because I’m more, see a lot of the requests from authors, like, I love when I hear from y’all because it does get us to work as a thing, but like y’all were like, it got to the point where like half the questions were becoming about discovery.
And I was like, this is just like, let’s just do something because like, I think it’ll save, save me. It’ll save Bobby, everyone who works to support just more time. And it’s just like, If we just do some things, like, Hey, like some things here, right. And, but they’re like, no, no, no, we have to make it really, really good.
Um, and I’m like, Okay.
fine. Like, let’s do it. And then, you know, it was like, we have to really, like you said, rethink, almost like blow up what discovery is. It’s why every author, if you’re listening to this, if you haven’t done this yet. Every author with a new update actually has to recategorize their stories, basically has to go to the book detail page, and that’s because we made some fundamental changes.
If you write romance for erotica, and it’s one of the genres you choose, you can actually have romance pairings that are added to your stories. So you can choose, like, oh, do you write MF? Is it an MF [00:14:00] story? Is it I mean, all the different romance pairings, a lot of them are in there. Um, there’s even other non binary, um, all, all different types of romance pairings represented.
Then there’s also the diversity, um, designations, which was another thing Arielle came up with. This idea that, you know, in a sense, like, you’re talking about a genre, like, Highlighting. Highlighting. Stories maybe featuring BIPOC characters or sensory impaired characters is like really, really important for highlighting neurodivergent characters, but like making neurodivergent its own genre and like kind of like throwing it like in its own corner or doing that to BIPOC stories isn’t really great either.
What we want to do is have all these different types of stories together, but also give. People who want to see BIPOC stories, BIPOC authors, who are writing, you know, featuring BIPOC main characters, give them a special space to be able to be discovered and readers to search for. And that was something that, again, you came up with.
So just kind of rethinking, again, [00:15:00] how book discovery, how story discovery works, and really going back to, what do readers care about? And when this started to happen, Well before we even got to coming up with these things and Arielle came up with all these brilliant ideas It was really just realizing that like we had to do something We had to do something different here in the long run like the system that we build matters so much and we’re not going to build a better discovery system if you just tag on and Put your genres in on Ream and do everything the same way that everyone else does so we knew that like over the long run We had to do something special, but I also knew that like I wasn’t the person to do it and I also knew that like You know, love Sean.
Sean’s amazing. He’s the one who could build it. But he probably didn’t have that unique insight either. And even Emilia, I think Emilia had amazing insights. But we needed someone else to like, take the lead on it. And it was just so perfect that like, when you came onto the team, then this project started I think I gave it to you like 30 days after you joined, but it was like two weeks after you joined that I kind of knew that we maybe weren’t moving in that [00:16:00] direction.
And yeah, it just worked out so well. It’s really, really cool to see it, see it live now and now just keep going. You know, we’re still at the very beginning.
Arielle Bailey: I think you were actually at 20
books when you sent me the project officially,
cause we had spent the
previous day, no, the previous two days, just constantly chatting back and forth about the meetings that you were taking at 20 books. And then it was early in the morning on Wednesday, you sent me a message and
you’re just like, okay, do this blow up
what we currently know for genres.
Like, Build a system
that can be sustainable into the future. Build a system that we can add on to as things change. Build a system that is actually
going to work
for authors
and readers.
And I just
stared at my screen for a minute when that message came in and then I was like, Yes, please. Oh
my gosh,
are you serious?
So very [00:17:00] special.
Michael Evans: Yeah, that was a fun moment. That was a fun week. Because I think, yeah, before that, you were, you were working on so much, like, helping behind the scenes, setting up for, um, what is now AuthorNation was 20 books. Oh, yeah.
And it was like a very busy week.
Like, the moment I thought, like, you, you maybe were able to start thinking about something else, I was like, we gotta, we gotta get this over, because I just knew to coming 20 books and All of you, like it energized me to just to be like, like you all deserve something and being So many of you in person, um, getting to say hello, getting, getting to hug some of you, getting to, getting to listen to you all.
I was like, we have. We have this amazing group of people and it’s like, they’re here and like, we owe you all to do something better. And, um. Uh, and that, that was when I was like, you know, we have a new mission, uh, so it was a lot of fun and, you know, now I think it’d be really great to talk about [00:18:00] with this new system that we talked about how can authors make use of this to actually get discovery.
How would you approach it area as author? Or if you were maybe writing a series of blog posts on discovery. How do you approach thinking about what genres are my story in? What romance parents? What tags should I put? What even is a tag? Like, how do we go through all of this? Um, and what would be your advice for authors who are trying to categorize their stories and hopefully, you know, that will lead to discovery?
How
Arielle Bailey: do they do that? So my first
advice would be to look over
the help guide that
we wrote on genre definitions because
as we know,
previous systems
didn’t really have A
uniform
definition guide. They didn’t really have a uniformly logical tree. And so you couldn’t really follow it out. Like [00:19:00] nothing really fit together in all
the ways that we’re doing it on Ream. because we rebuilt the system
in a way
to be sustainable
five years, 10
years into the future.
Of course there’ll be updates, but we built the foundation to be that way. So even if you think, you know, what a
genre is.
I would personally
go in and review that list just to make
triply sure like that’s what I always
do as an author. I’m like, okay, I’m pretty sure I know what this is, but I’m going to check it just because this is a new platform.
It is a new system. Even if it
greatly resembles a lot
of things
that we do know from
previous systems. So, just to make sure, I would go in and I would
read that list.
And then, with every book, I would start out
with, what are your main genres?
And, Which
of those genres does your book fit into the most?
Let’s say
that you wrote, uh, [00:20:00] Contemporary
Portal, Pan uh, Contemporary Portal Fantasy.
So that’s fantasy
is your main genre.
Maybe it has
some horror in it too. So you can tag it horror as well, but contemporary, or fantasy is going to be the main genre that you select.
And then from that you can
pull , portal and contemporary and, you know,
your, your sub genres after that,
but really think about what genre.
So
choose one genre.
Most stories are going to primarily fit into one or two genres. Like,
that’s more
of their world than other genres. There’s always exceptions. There’s always exceptions.
So just really think
about
what your
story world is
and what that is
for a main genre.
And then
your sub genres come after that
and we have, we’re still adding to the sub genre list. We’re still building that out completely. We will be for [00:21:00] a few
years probably. After that, this
was, this was one of the things that I was most excited about. Uh, audience, you can select audience. So YA, new adults, adults. One of the things that Amazon in particular has really, really messed up for authors and readers is they combine audience and genre, so it can get really confusing.
And we wanted to build a system that was going to be better at that. So young adults, which is not actually a genre, as far as genre definitions go, it’s not really a genre. So we put that under audience, and if someone goes onto Ream and types young adults, Books with a young adult audience are going to come up so you can readers can still find books the same way they do on Amazon, but the system is built differently for authors on the backend to categorize
Like Michael mentioned diversity and [00:22:00] romance pairings really the romance pairings are about your primary Romantic pairing in a story. So if your primary romantic pairing is
uh, mm
mm romance, then you’re going to choose the mm tag if your primary romance pairing is male, female, you’re going to choose that tag.
And this is also built to handle things like stories where maybe your aliens don’t have gender in the same way that on earth we have gender. Most alien romance does follow the earth concept of gender. So it’s male and female. So you just use the male and female pairing tag. But there are some sci fi stories where aliens don’t have Gender, the same way that Earth does.
And also we have a huge gender spectrum here on Earth that can’t really be contained in non binary. So we have other for that. So, um, if someone is [00:23:00] agender or gender fluid, that’s a great thing to use other for.
Michael Evans: And then
And then there’s, there’s one last part, which
I just just feels like a lot, but it’s actually pretty simple and intuitive. Like, what we’re trying to do is, normally most platforms just give you a genre, and then it just tags, and then you have to pick a bunch of random things. Instead, we like, broke down the way you should categorize your book.
Make it simple, so that you can focus on the things that we just care about. But, tags are a little bit more open. I know you have some great advice on how to tag your stories. Um, in fact, you can even have strong and weak tags on range. So, cover it up. There’s a lot of
Arielle Bailey: exciting stuff there. One thing right off that is going to go into tags that authors largely know about already is tropes. So if you’ve written enemies to lovers, that’s going to go in your tags. If you’ve written found family, put that in your tags.
If you’ve written something that is, you know, with the only one bed trope, put that in your tags. But other things that can go into your tags. are like dragons, right? Lots of people love dragon [00:24:00] stories. And if they come on Ream and they search dragons and your story has dragons in it and you tag it dragons, then it’ll come up for them.
One thing to know about Ream system is that unlike Amazon, you don’t need to put a bunch of information in the title. You don’t need to put it in. Places where you normally would on Amazon, your tagline, you can still include things there, but you don’t have to like optimize it with all of your keywords and write a super buzzy tagline the same way that you do on Amazon.
Of course, that’s great.
You
have the tag section now and readers will be able to search by tag, by element that they’re looking for. So dragons or fae or pixies even if they’re looking for a specific kind of fae. So tropes, elements, and think about your keywords. So, if I’ve written Star Wars like story, one of the things that would [00:25:00] be a keyword for me is probably, space battles. You know, if, if that’s a component, so think about your tags, the way you would think about keywords, except don’t put in genre because that’s already covered genre and subgenre already covered. You don’t need to put those in your keywords, um, your diversity, that’s actually a great thing you can expand on in your tags and romance pairings as well, because we have general romance pairings.
But if you want to get super specific, aromantic, asexual or something, put that in your tags. Diversity. So we have BIPOC there, but if you’re specifically writing about Moroccan culture, put that in your text so that readers who want to read about Moroccan culture or they want to read a Moroccan inspired fantasy, they can search by Morocco or African.
And it’ll come up for them. There’s a lot of ways that you can use tags, and it’ll make your story so much more discoverable. We have, [00:26:00] you can use up to 30 tags right now, between 10 and 20 is optimal. So really think about your world, think about your character types, think about other things that are Strong features of your book and that’s where you’re going to put it is in the text.
And it’ll come up for them. There’s a lot of ways that you can use tags, and it’ll make your story so much more discoverable. We have, you can use up to 30 tags right now, between 10 and 20 is optimal. So really think about your world, think about your character types,
think
about other things that are Strong features of your book and that’s where you’re going to put it is in the text.
Michael Evans: With
With all of
all of that, I think
there’s this
there’s this very robust system now where you, stories can reach new readers. But what we haven’t talked about is at least explicitly how readers can actually find stories on Ream. [00:27:00] So I do want to go through those five main ways, um, in no particular order. But these are all ways that you can make use of on Ream, and that you can actually go to discovery with.
So. The first one, and the one that I think you’ll probably find first, are the genre lists. So these lists, you’ll see, randomized, basically two genres will show up every time you visit the platform. Anytime you reload the homepage, there’ll be two genres that show up. And you can click anytime to view all genres, if you want to view all 20.
I think there’s 120 new genres, but it might be less, it might be like 15. There’s definitely over 10, somewhere in that range. You can view all of them, and search, anytime. Now, these lists, it shows different number of books depending on the screen size that you’re on. And then you can click to expand and see all the books in that genre.
And they’re mostly sorted based which, to be very clear about what popularity means on Ream, this is not the number of paid members someone has. This isn’t [00:28:00] even the number of followers that someone has. Instead, this is the number of chapters being read in their stories. So. You know, some actual pretty easy ways to maybe gain discovery and reading, especially in our early days, because I’ll just always add a comment.
This discovery system could evolve. We want to, you know, give all authors a shot at getting discovery. That’s a really big goal of ours. We want to be able to ultimately connect authors, getting the stories that they love. And of course, you know. There’s always so many authors, so many readers, so it’s very hard to say, like, can you get guaranteed discovery?
No, no. We never guarantee discovery. There’s gonna be some authors that do really well, there’s gonna be other authors you can find, or readers, and hopefully there’s an opportunity for every story to be able to reach readers, blah, blah, blah. But, with that said, how it works for the genre list is that based on these reads, You could rank higher, so if you want to use your Ream story as like a newsletter magnet, send it out to some people on your newsletter list, that could be able to potentially boost you [00:29:00] in these genre searches, which could be really good.
The other way that you can get Discovery in Ream, that’s also the homepage, the For You section, which
this, this
this algorithm is Basically designed to recommend readers stories that are very similar to ones that they’ve already read on read And this is also actually weighted even like really not graded towards popularity.
It’s more graded towards similarity mostly in terms of the tags categories
Mostly
Mostly related to the tags, main genres and sub genres and then the different romance pairings and content warnings you choose so And what’s really great about that is that if you’re writing a story that’s similar to another story that someone already loves, there’s a really good chance that that’ll show up in their For You section.
That’s basically how this is designed. So having like really, you know, accurate, relevant, um, categorization of your stories is going to lead to you getting better in the For You section. Because you’re going to have readers who actually like your stories. [00:30:00] That you’re writing, see it there. so that, that’s a really fun section.
next section is actually being able to search for stories.
Ream,
So that you can easily do using the search bar. Depending on the search term used, um, different tags are weighted differently. So a strong tag is weighted more heavily than a weak tag in terms of the weighting So, for search terms that you think are highly relevant to your book and that are very popular among readers, you might want to use strong tags for.
Same thing with your main genre. The main genre is weighted higher in search. So you want to select your main genre, something that Is relevant to your story and that you think that readers searching for actually enjoy and.
that’s
That’s definitely like the third, you know, big way to gain discovery and it’s, it’s a really fun one.
Then we also have a featured author section. You’ll see this right when you log into the site only on desktop. And it’s randomized, it switches out [00:31:00] every week, um, week or so, we’re experimenting with how often we’re switching it out, but it’s only on desktop, most readers are actually on their phones or mobile devices, so a few readers won’t see the featured author section.
But the thing that all readers will see is the Rising Reamer section. The Rising Reamer section is the five stories that have had the most reads over the last 30 days on the platform, and they have to be released within the last 30 days. So it’s basically like the highest performing.
newly
released stories on the platform, and it’s updated in real time.
So whenever a new story breaks in, you can see yourself there. And that’s made visible to all readers. So, that’s another great thing that, like, if you want to, you know, gain discovery on Ream. You know, that’s, that’s a great, great place to try and rank, great place to see your story. So that’s like broadly how it all works.
This is a system that’s going to evolve, right? When we spent the first half of this, I’ll talk about the actual categorization system. What I really view Ream as moving into now is like a really great, you know, serial platform for discovery. I mean, that’s how Ream is optimized for in terms of the business model of [00:32:00] subscriptions, readers being able to get chat by chapter access to your stories, ongoing access to what you’re writing.
But I think that as far as zero platforms go, there’s just none other than even comes close to not only the categorization that we have, then the real granularity in which readers can find stories they love, but also that doesn’t, no platform gives you the kind of control that we do, or really the ability to monetize through subscriptions.
So, you know, you control all the relationship to your readers and read, you get their emails, but a reader follows you, they don’t even have to pay to subscribe you. If so, a reader just follows you, you get their email. this amazing system that ultimately is designed to help you find your readers and give you full control of your business and the relationship with your readers once a reader actually starts to like your stories.
And it’s, I think it’s a really, really big deal. It’s going to change a lot, I think, as time goes on and we evolve the system and more and more readers begin using it. It’s going to, it’s going to really change what we think of in terms of, you know, what serial fiction platforms we should use.
I
I was giving advice to an author, which I am giving advice to all of you.
I think that Ream is a [00:33:00] great serial fiction platform now to get started on, to, you know, get in on this discovery that we’re having. And not only is it a serial fiction platform now that you can do this on a dark story, but you also are able to. Utilize monetizing subscriptions on the platform too. Um, and I think making the first few chapters public, so readers can start to get into your stories, then making the next two chapters available to followers.
And then from there, making the following chapters available to paid members will really, you know, encourage readers to test out your stories, get hooked, follow you, they get really hooked and then start paying, paying you and, you know, becoming a fan of your work. That’s the goal. So.
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In terms of more information on all this, you can find our discovery guides link down below.
You can find also our guide on following, which might be really useful in terms of how you actually publish your stories to followers, public or paid members. Also the description and just, you know, like, dream also isn’t just for serial fiction. I think green can work for lots of different authors. I think if you’re writing.[00:34:00]
About sort of releasing in novel format. There’s no reason Ream couldn’t work for you either. I think there’s ample opportunity for you to have your back this time, Ream. There’s all these types of things, but I think, you know, Ream really, you know, from day one is, I think, going to be able to provide you an amazing opportunity to connect with the readers this way.
And it’s just so exciting to see it live. It’s so, so exciting. So, I hope you all enjoy it, and
Otherwise, I don’t think we
I don’t think we have anything else to say. This is our little storyteller’s little diary. We’ll keep sharing more updates. We’ll keep sharing insights to help you grow. I think that
this
this was a fun first episode.
So if you want, if for some reason you don’t like this at all and you don’t want us to do this, let me know that I think this should be something to keep up because I like the idea of being a little bit more open with y’all in terms of like our team, in terms of where we’re going and in terms of how you can make the most of rain and how you can succeed in it.
So sharing my advice, the stuff that I see on a weekly basis, because I feel like I’m always learning. I’m always seeing new [00:35:00] insights and I just one excuse to be able to talk to y’all. So, um, I hope you enjoyed this first episode. I hope you enjoyed Discovery Unread. If you have any questions, do let us know and support, support at readingstories.
We’re always here to help. We want to make the system better, and we really want to work towards a future where storytelling is the world. This is just the beginning of our discovery, and this is just the beginning of Ream. Chapter two now begins. Um, we’re on a mission here, and I think we have something really, really special, and when it comes to Subscriptions now combined with Discovery.
There’s really no other platform like it, and I think it provides an unbelievable opportunity for you all as fiction authors to continue growing your subscriptions. That’s what we want to do, that’s what we’re here for, and we’re super excited to have you all along with us. So, as always, have an amazing rest of your day.
You all rock, we all believe in you, and we’re all so grateful for you being along with us and inspiring us to always push to do more for you guys because storytellers of the world And you deserve a [00:36:00] place that recognizes that deserve a place that wants to create that future and serve that. That’s what we’re here for.
That’s why we give you that control. And, , no one else does that. So have an amazing rest of your day. , you all again are awesome and I’ll see y’all soon.