PUBLISHING DEAL FOR WATTPAD WRITER ABIGAIL GIBBS

I am sharing this exciting news and brilliant success story as it is AWESOME!

Abbie has been a teen writer on Wattpad for about three years. It is also where she met her boyfriend Chris Tackett, he read her story and fell in love with the words and her... adorable!

Her story 'Dinner with a Vampire,' was inspired by the Twilight Saga. She loved the romance element but felt it needed a bit more blood and guts so she started to write her own. Now three years on she has just turned 18, passed her exams, due to start studying English Literature at Oxford University and... has secured a six figure advance, two book publishing deal with Harper Collins! 

Let us all take a moment to give a fellow writer a round of applause. Go Abbie!

I'm going to let Wattpad take it from here and tell you how proud they are. 

http://blog.wattpad.com/post/31175094962/publishing-deal-for-wattpad-teen-writer-abbie-gibbs

WATTPAD

We’re happy to share the news that Abbie, a long-time Wattpadder (known as Canse12) and winner of the first-ever writing contest on Wattpad back in 2010, has announced the publication of her novel The Dark Heroine: Dinner With A Vampire. 

Wattpadder Abbie Gibbs is one of the youngest writers in the UK to become a published author.

Her most avid fans remember that Abbie originally started writing this novel serially on Wattpad as Dinner With A Vampire: Did I Mention I’m Vegetarian, which had over 17 million reads before getting picked up by Harper Collins UK for publication.

Abigail Gibbs’ message to the Wattpad community:

Gratitude doesn’t really cover what I feel about Wattpad, its team, members, and especially my fans based on the site. I think it’s actually undying love, and that the past three years has been one long and happy romance.

Without Wattpad, and all the praise, feedback and support the community provides, I highly doubt I would ever have seen my novel The Dark Heroine: Dinner With A Vampire in print, let alone finished it. So this is a thank you to all my Wattpad fans, but also a promise to try and do the site proud.

Congratulations, Abbie. We’re really proud of you and everything that Wattpadders continue to achieve through their immense talent and creativity.

This is just the tip of the iceberg! We look forward to seeing writers continue to build a fan base, develop their writing, and discover the joy of storytelling on Wattpad.

The Dark Heroine:

Ebook: available in all the usual places, but to help you out: 
Kindle UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Dark-Heroine-Vampire-ebook/dp/B008ZU6B3C (from 13th Sept).
Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dark-heroine-abigail-gibbs/1112757135?ean=9780062248749 (from the 18th Sept).
Paperback: available in the UK on the 25th October 2012 (later in the US, Canada and Australia. Will keep this updated as and when there is news). 

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Twitter:@AuthorAbigailG