The Best Sites to Self-Publish Your Book Online

I’m not going to ramble, but try and cut to the chase, as I’ve been down this road — trust me — and it’s a very diverse one, these days.

For testing your writing, gaining an audience, improving and developing: use Wattpad. You can make alterations fast, get feedback. You can develop your style.

For a more mature readership, and for getting some first rewards and more recognition: use Medium, but take time to submit to relevant publications.

Do the above two preferably in order, and you should receive motivation enough to reach the end of your writing project(s).

Then…

Consider Blockchain

There are new, emerging writing platforms where your words can live on the blockchain, decentralised. These sites should be ad-free and ‘community-run’. This means they are not subject to any one company so will not disappear, or are subject to new subscriptions etc. You can still edit the content, don’t worry.

These writing and content ‘dapps’ include Steempeak, Publica (which also helps you publish your own tokenised book) and Narrative.org.

It’s a matter of choice as to which blockchain you ‘believe’ in, what nature/consensus protocol it uses, and what has the best, or most active…