• From Wattpad to Prime Video: How online stories become screen hits

    From Wattpad to Prime Video: How online stories become screen hits

    Some of the most recent book-to-screen adaptations have come from a somewhat surprising source, Wattpad. Launched in 2006, Wattpad, a global storytelling platform, has over 665 million story uploads. This is plenty of material for new TV shows and films. The most recent Wattpad book to leap to video is “Love Me, Love Me,” arriving

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  • Adapt this: Queer romance novels Hollywood is sleeping on

    Adapt this: Queer romance novels Hollywood is sleeping on

    Queer romance isn’t just having a moment—it’s having momentum. Case in point: the runaway popularity of “Heated Rivalry” by Rachel Reid, a gay hockey romance that has exploded online and launched leads Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie into the pop culture stratosphere. Readers clearly want emotionally rich LGBTQ+ love stories that balance longing, humor, genuine

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