Publish a web novel and earn money

Most platforms let you publish a web novel. Very few pay you for it without a detour through Patreon, ad revenue thresholds or convertible points. LitFic is built the other way round: earning is native. You set a LitCoin price on the chapters you choose, readers unlock them, and you keep 50 percent of every unlock in pounds sterling. Here is exactly how it works, with the real numbers.

The economics, in plain English

LitCoins are the platform currency and the exchange rate never moves: one LitCoin is one penny (0.01 GBP). When you mark a chapter as premium or early access, you set its price in coins. A reader who unlocks it spends those coins, and half the price is credited to you as cash. Price a chapter at 50 coins and you earn 25p per unlocking reader; a hundred readers is 25 GBP; a serial with a loyal readership earns chapter after chapter, month after month. Your earnings accrue in pounds in your payouts dashboard, and once you pass 10 GBP you withdraw to your bank through Stripe. No gift cards, no platform scrip, no minimum follower count.

One detail authors appreciate: readers can also earn small amounts of free coins around the Ever After Group, and when someone unlocks your chapter with free coins, you are still paid the same. The platform absorbs that cost rather than passing it to you.

Two ways in: The Commons and Originals

The Commons is open to everyone. Make a free account, create your series, and publish your first chapter today. You keep the rights to your work and there is no exclusivity demand. To keep priced chapters trustworthy for readers, a Commons series unlocks the ability to charge once it has 500 library saves and at least 3 published chapters. Saves, not views, because saves are one per reader and show genuine intent to keep reading.

LitFic Originals is the curated track: submit your manuscript and if we accept it, your series carries the Originals badge, gets featured placement, and can charge for chapters from day one. Submissions are read by a small team, not an algorithm.

Pricing strategies that work for serials

The tools are deliberately flexible. Some authors keep everything free until the story finds its audience, then charge for early access: the newest two or three chapters cost coins, and each one becomes free as the next arrives, so patient readers never pay and eager readers fund the writing. Others keep a long free on-ramp (say fifteen chapters) and price the rest like a book. Others publish entirely free and treat LitFic as a discovery channel. All of these are supported; you choose per chapter and can change course whenever you like.

What the platform does for you

Scheduling lets you queue chapters ahead and keep a steady release rhythm, which is the single biggest driver of serial growth. Readers follow your series into their libraries and see updates in their feeds; every series also gets its own RSS feed so readers can subscribe in their feed reader of choice. The chapter editor preserves bold and italics when you paste from Word or Google Docs, supports author notes, and shows you what you will earn per unlock as you set a price. Reviews, ratings and comments live on your series page, and your author page collects everything you publish.

LitFic is part of the Ever After Group, which also runs Ever After Books, a real genre bookshop in the UK. That matters for one practical reason: this platform is run by people whose whole business is selling stories, not harvesting engagement.

Start tonight

The distance between you and a published, earnable serial is one free account and one chapter. Set up your series, post chapter one, and build from there. If you are weighing platforms, our honest comparison of sites like Royal Road covers where LitFic shines and where it does not.