Author's Guidebook

This guidebook is aiming to solve all your problems about being a SIGNED author on GoodNovel, like what benefits you can get as a signed author, what different contract types GoodNovel can offer and how the payment is made… So, don't forget to add it to your library.

Note: 

1. Please do not comment on this book. If you didn’t find the answer to your question here, contact your editor who sent you the contract offer and tell him/her to improve this guidebook.

2. Before you proceed into uploading the book or applying for contract, please make sure that your book is an ORIGINAL work of yours. Plagiarism is crime!!

If we find out that you copied other authors' work, you'll be legally responsible and forever on our black list.

3. If your editor doesn't reply your email in time, please send him/her an email reminder again ;)

#Is GoodNovel a legit platform?

Of course yes! Check out our website (www.goodnovel.com)  or download our app in Google Play or App Store, you’ll find that GN is a growing and prospering platform!

We’re a Singapore company and we value legitimacy, because we consider legitimacy the foundation of gaining trust and building a healthy relationship with our authors.  As a new platform, we have gained many loyal readers and authors who place their trust in us. Currently, we have thousands of authors and the number is still growing fast. In fact, many authors turn to us because we value the rights of authors, and provide greater benefits for authors. I mean, you can’t just claim a platform illegal just because it’s new and it offers better deals than many other platforms;) 

I know that it’s hard to trust someone and some company over the Internet, so our every contract is signed in a very formal way. We send and sign our contracts through HelloSign system, a commonly used e-signature system. All contracts will be reviewed by our lawyer after signing, and then reviewed by a third-party lawyer monthly. This is to make sure that all contracts have legal effect, so that both our rights and authors’ rights will be protected.

If you have concerns about the terms and conditions in our contracts, you can directly contact one of our editors and he/she will be happy to answer your questions. If you don’t know any GoodNovel editor yet, you can also send an email to writers@goodnovel.com for more information.

You’re also welcome to join our online community where there are our editors and many GN contracted authors, you can find more info about us and our authors there. Join us and let us provide you with more support for your writing career!

You can find and get in touch with us here:

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GoodNovels/

FB group:Writing Good Novels https://www.facebook.com/groups/3507785855919538

Instagram: @goodnovelist

Forum:https://forum.goodnovel.com/

Discord server:https://discord.gg/Mh5RC59

Terms of use:https://www.goodnovel.com/terms

contact info: contact@goodnovel.com (for customer service)/ writers@goodnovel.com (for contract problems)

#I heard some bad rumors about you.

eg. authors don't get paid even if they should have earned.

eg. that I will have to translate my Indonesian books to English if I sign the contract.

eg. You ask authors to pay money to you if their books are not popular and make little money.

First of all, PLEASE keep in mind that the information you heard about might be WRONG if there's no solid proof. Please be aware that it is a CRIME to spread false rumors against someone or some company without solid proof and you'll be legally responsible. If we find out that you're spreading untruthful information against us, we will sue you. Also, Please don't come to us, especially our editors with a preset suspect. It's extremely impolite and offensive if you go straight to a person without any proof and question him/her "I think you're a liar".

Now let's get to these specific questions.

1.do we pay our authors?

Just go to any of our social media platform, FB, discrod, IG and ask a random contracted author who has earned on our platform. If someone who claims to be our author and has earned but never get paid, please ask his/her book name and penname, and contact any of our editor, we can help you find out if his/her words are true or false.

In fact, there were a few who claim they were like that, but the truth was that one of them didn't update their book so there was no earning in the first place, and the others just refuse to tell us their book name or penname. Well, if they're telling the truth why do they refuse to tell us the book name? I wonder.

2. I will have to translate my Indonesian books to English if I sign the contract.

What? Why? Are we a translation platform? I don't get it. Why would we ask authors to translate their books? This is such a weird question to ask.

3.You ask authors to pay money to you if their books are not popular and make little money.

Haha, so that's our way of profitting? Interesting.

The only condition where authors need to pay us is when authors violate the contract and if it's the share you earned is under $200, you just need to pay back to amount we paid to you. e.g. the book is stolen. Hey, shouldn't we ask authors to pay our money back if the book is not even his/hers? Or, if you want to end the contract when it's not time to end it yet. This makes perfect sense too. We used our resources and funds to promoted your book and even put your book to ads, and once you gained readers you just go away with your book to other platforms, shouldn't we get back what we paid?

There're many more different rumors about us out there, many are made up by "spy" or people who work for other platforms. Please think twice when you hear the rumors. Thank you.

P.S. Come and Join GoodNovel Academy!

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Search “Writing Good Novels” on Facebook to join our group and chat with other passionate authors, or search GoodNovel Academy on YouTube to get the training video and podcast immediately.