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f your literary tastes run toward lesbian hockey romances, zombie shark mysteries, or and Afrofuturist romance . Cofounder and CEO Allen Lau credits Wattpad readers with helping to surface “stories that you wouldn’t see in traditional systems.” A similar approach powers Wattpad Studios, the company’s film and television arm, which produced , one of 2019’s highest-grossing indie films. It has about 40 more projects in development.

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