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

We did it!!  Thanks to everyone who reviewed the app. When you search for "Royal Road," you can now find the app as the first result in most locations!  Please test this for your location, and if you still can't find the app as the first option in your country, please comment below to notify us. We owe our success to all of you for helping us establish our presence.  Please consider downloading the app, and sharing it:  Google Play Link: Download it from Google Play App Store Link ..read more

Hi everyone, It’s been over 24 hours since we launched the app. We want to thank everyone who reported any bug to us, as this will help us fix the app and improve it as soon as possible.  Not everyone is affected, but for those that found a bug, you can check the list below for known issues and instructions on how to fix the issue until an official solution is released. If you have a suggestion, please add it here If you have a bug report, please add it here  Premium If you've purchased a premium subscription through the app, once you're finished, please log out, close the app, and ..read more

We are thrilled to announce that the wait is finally over! The much-anticipated iOS and Android app for our platform is now available on the App Store(Apple) and the Play Store(Google). It's time to celebrate and check out the App both on mobile and tablet, wherever you prefer to read. We've dedicated a whopping 11 months to making this app as smooth as possible, and we are very excited it’s finally here. We hope you enjoy it as well. Here are some new features that we want to highlight: 1. Dictionary Feature: With our new dictionary feature, you can simply highlight a word while reading and t ..read more

Dear users of Royal Road, We are excited to announce that our reader mobile app will be released for Android and iOS soon. In preparation for that, and for many other future developments, as well as to be up to date on the state of the community, we have many legal and guideline updates.  We have published a new version of the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and DMCA guidelines to ensure compliance with the latest legal and privacy requirements. If you have any questions about them, we encourage you to ask in the comments below.  Please note that the new Terms of Service has ..read more

Hi everyone,  Over the past few days, we've become aware of a minor rule violation by a relatively large number of users in a discord group called ‘Secret Mafia’. The rule violations were as follows: Rule 1: “Campaigns encouraging others to upvote or downvote reviews, whether positive or negative are forbidden.” Despite this rule, authors were sharing their favorite reviews on their novels in an effort to encourage people to upvote the reviews they deemed favorable for their story, or, to upvote the reviews they wrote for someone else in that very same group This caused those manipulated ..read more

Royal Road AI-text policy The use of AI on the platform is a topic that can be both exciting and worrisome. It’s hard to decide a policy for it as all sides are controversial or unrealistically idealistic; laws are not set yet; and the development of AI is not done yet either – tomorrow there might be something new to consider. But, we feel the need to provide an AI-text policy at least to start with, to allow users to navigate the options. However, please note that this is a dynamic policy and as the world around us changes, we are going to adapt to it rather than fight it.  On one side ..read more

On May 11th we updated how the fiction rank number is displayed on the author dashboard and on individual fiction dashboards. By doing that authors could see where their fiction was ranked in a range, rather than the specific number. As an example, a fiction ranked at #321 would see the rank as 251-500. This was to steer away from a competitive element on the platform and to promote a culture that focuses less on arbitrary numbers that are outside of the author's direct control and did not sufficiently provide information on how well a story is doing, as the position in the ranking is highly i ..read more