The catalogue page now features a "We think you'll like these" row. This row is recommendations based on what genres/tropes you've selected during the onboarding. These are not yet recommendations based on your ongoing interaction in the app (provided you'll want these, you can toggle on/off in your settings) -> this is coming for a bit later.

The search feature now is a proper search feature. You can search by title, author, genre, trope, moods, themes, or whatever would be in a book summary. You can also filter by a number of other things, like the type (web series vs. novel, vs ...) completion status, part of a series, etc.

Authors: you can request changes to your book metadata (book page -> metadata tab). Make sure you update them if you haven't done it for a while. This will help readers find your work!

Questions/comments below!

We started working on looong-awaited in-app notifications!

Authors will get nudged when something will happen around their books; chapters, comments, follows, reviews etc.

Readers will get heads-up for new stories from authors they follow, new chapters, replies/reactions to their comments, etc.

Of course, you’ll be able to toggle off whatever you’re not interested in.

Anything you’d absolutely want a notification for? 👀

Hi everyone! Glad to be here! I'm a freelance artist and illustrator, recently completed book covers and interior illustrations for Aethon Books and Shadow Alley Press. I would love to work with new authors who might find my style to be a good fit to their story! Here is my portfolio: http://michelleperic.art - Thank you!!

Writing a book is already a massive achievement. Promoting it shouldn't require a graphic design degree too. So we made ready-to-use, customizable social media templates for authors to promote their stories. You can now just plug in your cover and post something gorgeous.

Figma Community Link: Quibble Author Media Kit.

To use the kit, simply duplicate the file (all edits happen in your own copy, never the original), then swap in your book cover, title, and copy.

To export: select the frame → Export (bottom right panel) → PNG at 2x (recommended).

Feel free to mention or add us as collaborators on social media when you post.

Our social media accounts:

• Instagram
• TikTok
• YouTube

In the future, we'd love to go further with matching genre aesthetics and building out more templates for quote cards, cover reveals, countdowns, character intros and more.

If something’s missing or you need it urgently, drop your wish in the comments!

Feels really good to say this again!

For the past few months, we’ve been deep in the backend work: improving our editorial systems to be able to process thousands of stories in the future, building monetization infrastructure, revenue dashboards, serials, and updating a ton of tiny invisible things.

During that time, submissions didn’t stop. We're currently receiving more than ever before - yay. We’ve been reading everything, we just couldn’t move them into publication smoothly without a lot of manual handling behind the scenes.

So throughout all this, many books have been sitting across different stages of production waiting for their turn. We’re truly sorry for how long it’s taken, and genuinely grateful for your patience and understanding.

But now… we’re back to releasing new Quibble stories!

You can discover the new books in the app now. Many more will be scheduled for release soon across different genres and themes.

If you’ve got a story you want to publish on Quibble, send it our way. More info is on the website.

Hey folks,

Big news. We've worked hard the past couple of months to deliver one of the biggest features we've been planning for a long time.

We now support publishing stories chapter by chapter!

This is the beginning of a new phase. Works published on Quibble have remained static as updating them required a lot of manual work, and we were relying almost exclusively on EPUBs.

With this release, authors can now publish new chapters for their stories and edit previously published ones. Yay!

This works for all types of content, be it regular novels, or web series.

What it means for published authors

Authors can now access their published work within their dashboard and rework past chapters, or release new ones. Much like submissions, this goes through a review process with our editorial team, but review time should be typically pretty fast compared to brand new submissions.

You can find a tutorial video that will help you navigate this feature at the end of this post

What we'll release soon

This is a large feature that took quite some fine-tuning to implement. It's in early version, and not everything is yet supported.

Here's what we're going to release within a few days to a couple of weeks:

👉 A reworked submission process

Our current submission process still relies on EPUBs. It's also too complex. We're going to release a new version at the beginning of next week.

This new version will let authors choose how they want to provide the content:

• as an EPUB
• or as individual chapters (by uploading files, or copy/pasting the content)

All in all, this should make it very easy to cross-post from or bring from work from other platforms.

👉 Edit the cover art and the metadata

Currently, authors can only rework their chapters. We're going to give more flexibility so more can be updated! The cover art, the metadata, the synopsis, the genres, and more.

👉 Email notifications

We'll let you know by email when your chapter is ready to be published, or if there's a revision needed. For now, it's still all happens within the web app. This will land in the coming days!

👉 Scheduling releases

You'll be able to either automatically publish once the review is accepted, or schedule a release at your convenience (with a provision of a few days to ensure our editors have time to review your work)

👉 Better discoverability

Newly updated work will appear more prominently on the home page. We know there's a lot of discussion around the "algorithmic" of other platforms. Remaining fair is not a trivial task, so we'll take the necessary time to do it well. This feature will deserve it's own post when it'll be ready to be released :)

👉 Some more ^^

We're listening to your feedback. If there's something we should add, fix, remove, rework, we'll also of course consider this as well. It's a new feature, after all!

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That's it, we're so so so excited about this, this alone will literally transform Quibble into a much more dynamic space.

Authors can fully choose how they want to release their work, by chapter, by arc, or however they want. They can also improve their stories over time and as they see fit.

Demo video

You can check how it works in this little video we prepared for you.

Hey everyone,

Next week we’re hosting the next monthly AMA on our Discord. No recording, just a casual chat. Anyone can join.

We’ll go through:

• what we shipped since the last AMA
• what comes next
• what’s breaking our brains at the moment
• and whatever questions or feedback you throw at us

Just a few areas we’re already thinking about:

1. Submission flow improvements
2. Recommendation system
3. Genres, labels & trope restructuring
4. Free label (lets authors publish stories for free, subject to the same editorial review and approval)
5. In-app notification center
6. Book page comments and chapter commenting
7. Onboarding flow improvements
8. How books are organised and categorised on the homepage
9. Pure black mode for mobile app (in addition to the current dark blue dark mode)
10. Art upload

If you were in charge of Quibble’s roadmap, how would you prioritise everything above? Feel free to drop your top 10 in the comments and/or tell us what we’re completely missing.

Also:

• what feels clunky right now?
• which UI detail annoys you the most?
• what feature would make you instantly happier?

And if you already have AMA questions, drop them in the comments as well, and we’ll go through them during the session.

See you next week!

Hey everyone, been a while since my last update here.

Monetization is now available on Quibble. The payout rates will vary a lot in the early days, since this is tied to the total reading and of course the number of users.

Quibble works quite differently from most self-publishing platforms you probably know. Nothing enters our library without going through a review process, where we look closely at writing quality and, importantly, the use of AI.

If you have a finished manuscript or are working on a new story, feel free to submit it - it’s completely free. Minimum is 5 chapters. Response times depend on the submission volume, but we aim to get back to everyone within 2–3 weeks.

Good luck! :-)

More info in r/Quibble or on the website.

Hey Quibble community!

Last week I reached out to Jasper, the head mod of r/GrimDarkEpicFantasy. I found him incredibly gracious, considerate and supportive. There’s an unmistakable sense that he cares deeply about the integrity of their subreddit and the well-being of its writers.

It’s also clear his team is guided by values that closely mirror ours at Quibble: safeguarding and championing human-created work in all its forms.

Beyond that, there are three more reasons I’d warmly recommend taking a look at their subreddit:

1. They hosted an AMA with the Father of Grimdark, Glen Cook - His historical first ever Reddit appearance.
2. Joe Abercrombie agreed to come on for an AMA when they hit 10,000 members (soon!)
3. They host regular short story competitions with the winners being added to an annual physical community anthology, plus prize contests and paperback.

They’ve also put together a Grimdark Index - a well-organized resource that’s useful if you’re exploring the genre.

If those values and initiatives resonate, consider joining their community.