The book-to-screen pipeline has existed for as long as Hollywood has been around, but the democratization of that process really only began within the past few years, thanks in part to writer-reader community platform Wattpad . The original home of now-traditionally published works including “ My Life With the Walter Boys ,” “The Kissing Booth,” and the “After” series, Wattpad had a strong connection with fans of these titles well before Netflix made them widely famous with the film and TV show adaptations.

“I’ve been at Wattpad a very long time, almost 12 years. So in those very early days we were one of the world’s best communities for readers and writers with maybe a couple million users back then, around the world. Where we’ve evolved to today is really to be the center of fandom

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