How Wattpad Women Authors Are Getting Big Movie Deals

For Ansell, writing fiction on Wattpad was a fulfilling but “nerdy” hobby — a precursor, hopefully, to a career as an author. So she was surprised by how things have turned out: In September 2019, Trapeze, Ansell’s novel about a circus performer whose life changes after an injury, will be one of the first books published by Wattpad Books, the brand’s newly launched imprint. “Being a published writer felt far off. I was just writing for fun. I never thought it would turn into this,” Ansell said.