Hello everyone! We wish to inform you that we've updated our Terms of Service, specifically clauses 3.1, 4.1, 5, 6.2.vi, 7, and 9. These updates mainly involve adding relevant links where necessary and introducing our new payment option on the website, which serves as an alternative to PayPal. If you wanted to subscribe but couldn't do it via the app, or PayPal, please check out our new alternative.  We also improved our guidelines to further clarify our artwork rules, as we received feedback that our previous Artwork guidelines were unclear. The rest of this blog post will cover the lat ..read more

Happy New Year!  Thank you for being with us for another great year . We're excited to announce the beginning of the Community Magazine Contest! The contest is all about writing based on a specific prompt that the community suggested and voted on, the event is proudly sponsored by Royal Road but is organized and judged by the community. Without further ado: The Royal Road Community Magazine: How to Participate:  Submit the first chapter. If this is your first time, you can read this post regarding the steps on how to submit a novel on Royal Road.  After your novel is approve ..read more

We’re happy to introduce the first serials selected for our publishing partnership, each receiving the Royal Road marketing treatment! If you're subscribed to our marketing emails, keep an eye out for upcoming book promotions. Otherwise, you can subscribe or unsubscribe here. Before that, publishers approached Royal Road and requested that transparency be provided about this opportunity. In the interest of full transparency, as it appears that it wasn't very clear previously, Royal Road does take a percentage from the Publishers. What does this mean to the authors? Moonquill has sta ..read more

Royal Road has been the home of amateur and budding professional authors for many years now, and we’ve become the go-to platform to begin one's writing career or just to get that one creative idea you had in highschool out there and in front of some eyes. We've always been very reader and author focused, and like any other platform that strives to be the best, we attracted the best. The only hiccup here is that we don’t offer authors a direct way to monetize their work. Currently, when an author hits it big on our platform, the obvious choice for them is to offer early chapters for a subscript ..read more

We are ever grateful for this wonderful community of Authors and Readers, thanks to you we’ve managed to push Royal Road so far, and now we wish to take Royal Road even further. That is why we would like to discuss an important update about our advertisement and premium prices.  Our vision for Royal Road is one that allows the platform and authors to grow and thrive, and we aim to do that with what we’ve already built. For a long time, we’ve made enough money to be profitable, but not enough money to confidently invest back with big moves for the platform. But in order to achieve our visi ..read more

We want to address some confusion about recent moderation actions. It has come to our attention that some authors with fanfiction have been bypassing our monetization block and that they added links individually on their fiction pages.  Fanfictions are a legal gray zone (copyright infringement protected by Fair Use); and allowing any kind of commercialisation would make us liable to be viewed as legally compliant with copyright infringement. As such, adding PayPal and Patreon links to fanfictions has been disallowed since we added monetization links in 2015 in all iterations of the Donati ..read more

Introducing the Royal Road Community Magazine: June 2024 Edition! This special edition is sponsored by Royal Road but brought to life by our wonderful community. The contest was organized by community members, the prompt was chosen by community members, and the winning novels will be selected by dedicated readers from within our community! How to Participate in the Contest:  Submit the first chapter. If this is your first time, you can read this post regarding the steps on how to submit a novel on Royal Road. After your novel is approved, register it by filling out this Form [https://for ..read more

Time sure flies by; it's April again! This means it's time for the Writathon. To participate, go to the Author dashboard via the website, and then select the Writathon tab. More about the challenge: The Writathon Challenge This is a personal challenge first and foremost. The challenge is to write and publish 55,555 words in 5 weeks (by the 5th of May), if you manage to do that, you win.  We hope that you aim to form healthy writing habits; we also encourage you to participate in discussions with other community members in the forum where you can leave your words of encouragement, frustrat ..read more

Happy Holidays!  We hope that you had a great holiday, and to kick off the new year, we bring you the Royal Road Community Magazine Contest. This contest is sponsored by Royal Road but organized and run by the community This contest revolves around writing based on a specific prompt suggested and voted on by the community. The winning submission will be chosen by readers from the community who have volunteered as judges in the forum. Who will be the winner of the January 2024 Royal Road Community Magazine Contest? The Royal Road Community Magazine: How to Participate:  Submit the fi ..read more

Sing happy birthday! We've completed another successful trip around the sun! You know what that means? It's time for the Writathon event:  2023 Writathon Challenge This is a personal challenge first and foremost. The challenge is to write and publish 55,555 words in 5 weeks (by the 5th of December), if you manage to do that, you win.  We hope that you aim to form healthy writing habits; we also encourage you to participate in discussions with other community members in the forum where you can leave your words of encouragement, frustration, or challenge to your fellow participants!&nb ..read more