We now support publishing serials!
Hey folks,
Big news. We've worked hard the past couple of months to deliver one of the biggest features we've been planning for a long time.
We now support publishing stories chapter by chapter!
This is the beginning of a new phase. Works published on Quibble have remained static as updating them required a lot of manual work, and we were relying almost exclusively on EPUBs.
With this release, authors can now publish new chapters for their stories and edit previously published ones. Yay!
This works for all types of content, be it regular novels, or web series.
What it means for published authors
Authors can now access their published work within their dashboard and rework past chapters, or release new ones. Much like submissions, this goes through a review process with our editorial team, but review time should be typically pretty fast compared to brand new submissions.
You can find a tutorial video that will help you navigate this feature at the end of this post
What we'll release soon
This is a large feature that took quite some fine-tuning to implement. It's in early version, and not everything is yet supported.
Here's what we're going to release within a few days to a couple of weeks:
👉 A reworked submission process
Our current submission process still relies on EPUBs. It's also too complex. We're going to release a new version at the beginning of next week.
This new version will let authors choose how they want to provide the content:
- as an EPUB
- or as individual chapters (by uploading files, or copy/pasting the content)
All in all, this should make it very easy to cross-post from or bring from work from other platforms.
👉 Edit the cover art and the metadata
Currently, authors can only rework their chapters. We're going to give more flexibility so more can be updated! The cover art, the metadata, the synopsis, the genres, and more.
👉 Email notifications
We'll let you know by email when your chapter is ready to be published, or if there's a revision needed. For now, it's still all happens within the web app. This will land in the coming days!
👉 Scheduling releases
You'll be able to either automatically publish once the review is accepted, or schedule a release at your convenience (with a provision of a few days to ensure our editors have time to review your work)
👉 Better discoverability
Newly updated work will appear more prominently on the home page. We know there's a lot of discussion around the "algorithmic" of other platforms. Remaining fair is not a trivial task, so we'll take the necessary time to do it well. This feature will deserve it's own post when it'll be ready to be released :)
👉 Some more ^^
We're listening to your feedback. If there's something we should add, fix, remove, rework, we'll also of course consider this as well. It's a new feature, after all!
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That's it, we're so so so excited about this, this alone will literally transform Quibble into a much more dynamic space.
Authors can fully choose how they want to release their work, by chapter, by arc, or however they want. They can also improve their stories over time and as they see fit.
Demo video
You can check how it works in this little video we prepared for you.