ATTENTION: Mentorship is done for the year. Please, wait for 2024.
All the questions about the program could be answered and the full list of mentors can be found at the @BootcampMentors profile! The book also has a lot of tips on preparing your book for Watty.
YES
Your book is 40K to 100K in length, either completed or solidly on track for completion.
Adventure in any setting—real world contemporary, space-opera, alt or real history and fantasy—is at the top of my wish-list. Vow me with that strong escapist vibe. Sci-fi, fantasy or RL hot-spot settings, peeps on a mission, knights on quests, mafia assassins, rogues, spies and agents, heists... yum!
Life-affirming, hopeful tone is what I am looking for. Playful, campy or fluffy is also great. Larger-than-life characters will be enthusiastically welcomed.
I prefer for a romance to be in the cards, any pairings, so long as it's not in violation of Wattpad's guidelines. If you don't have romance, however, it's not a deal breaker. I also have strong interest in books focusing on other positive relationships, like friendships, healthy parent-child dynamic or siblings' love. I actively seek out older protagonists, particularly in unexpected roles (a heroic granny, anyone?).
I want historical and contemporary romances, or chick-lits with a caveat that I want them ring true. If you are writing a sports' romance, I want to feel like I'm watching a competition or a game when I am reading the story. If your protagonist is a CEO of a publishing company, I want her to know her way around the boardroom. In short, put an authentic love story before me—and I'm yours.
Paranormal, werewolves and vampires... neato, so long as the story is not about some poor, unfortunate soul force-mated to an alpha to discover joys of sex in his domineering embrace. I'm not afraid of tropes, but I want the story to be fun to read (for me).
Open fanfictions are totally fine, particularly for lesser known video games or TV.
I am fine with first or third, Past or Present tense narration. I enthusiastically accept LGBTQ+ stories.
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NO
Conversely, I will not consider dreary, abuse, suicide or sexual assault focused stories.
I don't do scary things either. No horror, no zombies, no creepy stuff, no psychological thrillers, no eldritch horrors, ancient, newborn or in the prime of their life.
No Westerns, unless it's space cowboys. I can read space cowboys all day. Space cowboys are my jam!
If you have questions about the mentorship program, most of them can be answered on the profile in the Wattys Bootcamp Mentorship Book.
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