August 30, 2010. Toronto — — Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community and Chooseco, publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure series are pleased to announce a new digital partnership aimed at the Young Adult fiction market featuring Chooseco’s first title aimed at teen girls, “Fabulous Terrible: The Adventures of You”.
 
As Chooseco expands its offerings for teen girls into the teen marketplace, the company will work with Wattpad to connect with Wattpad’s YA demographic of online readers and writers.
 
“Chooseco is constantly thinking of new and exciting opportunities to expand our products to online and digital readers. Interactive gamebooks share their creative roots with new publishing venues on digital readers and the internet,” explains Melissa Bounty, Managing Editor at Chooseco. “Wattpad’s demographic is an ideal platform for us to gain exposure among highly social and active readers to explore those connections with active, social readers.”
 
Starting this September, Wattpad will host a unique and interactive event that will introduce Choose Co.’s “Fabulous Terrible” series to thousands of new readers and give young writers an opportunity to experience what the publishing industry is like first hand.
 
Chooseco will re-release it’s 2008 title; “Fabulous Terrible: The Adventures of You” on Wattpad over the course of several months. Writers on Wattpad will be invited to contribute concepts and story outlines for a sequel to “Fabulous Terrible: The Adventure of You: Chloe.” Three story concepts will be chosen by Chooseco editors and the most popular idea will be developed shaped into a book proposal that Chooseco will consider for publication into a full-length novel.
 
“Wattpad is pleased to be working with Chooseco on this new venture. Not only will this contest provide valuable experience for young writers, the release of “Fabulous Terrible: The Adventure of You” on Wattpad’s site will grow the Chooseco’s online presence to a highly targeted demographic. This innovative project will also guarantee a large base of highly social readers for the next installment of the Fabulous Terrible series.” explains Allen Lau, CEO and co-founder of Wattpad.
 
To see comments from readers, author Sophie Talbot’s responses, read the novel and for more details on the project, please visit: http://www.wattpad.com/590144-fabulous-terrible-the-adventures-of-you

About Chooseco
Founded in 2003, Chooseco, LLC publishes The Choose Your Own Adventure series. Widely commended for its appeal to reluctant readers, the series is among the most popular series for children ever published, with more than 252 million copies sold in 38 languages. Each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character’s actions in response to the plot and its outcome. Find out more at www.cyoa.com.

About Wattpad
Founded in 2006, Wattpad is now the world’s most popular ebook community. Wattpad has revolutionized the way people read written works by providing a social networking platform for readers and writers to discover, share and connect. Anyone can publish what they have written on Wattpad – a romantic story, a piece of science fiction, poetry, an essay or a novel – and interact with readers and make fans. Content is easily accessible through Wattpad’s website (www.wattpad.com), mobile site (m.wattpad.com) or with Wattpad apps available for over 1,000 mobile devices including iPad/iPhone, BlackBerry, Google Android, Nokia and Samsung.
 
Wattpad has experienced explosive growth since its inception and has become the world’s most popular destination to publish and read ebooks. Wattpad delivers billions of pages from its library of hundreds of thousands of works created and published by the Wattpad community. Millions of readers visit Wattpad every month on www.wattpad.com and through their mobile apps.
 
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