Our guest today shared her first novel on Wattpad when she was just 15 years old. This novel reached 19 million reads, won the Watty Award for "Most Popular Teen Fiction” in 2012 and was then Published by Penguin Random House in 2013. Her book, The Kissing Booth was then taken on by Netflix in 2016 and released in 2018, becoming an absolute storming success worldwide.
When it was released IMDB ranked the kissing booth as the fourth most watched film coming after Deadpool, Star Wars and the Avengers. Netflix stated that the kissing booth was the most re-watched film of 2018.
Behind it all was the Author who we have on the show today- we welcome to Tim's world of Wattpad none other than Beth Reekles.
Her book Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance is out now!
About the Host: Tim Johnson
I was born and raised in London, UK and currently call Toronto, Canada home. I wrote my first novel Cataindar and posted it chapter by chapter onto Wattpad. Cataindar won a Watty award and hit #1 in it's category and stayed there for a month gathering 750,000 reads.
I am currently writing my next novel, Mother's Hand which is a dark sci-fi thriller. To research Mother's Hand I fought in a cage-fight, jumped out of a plane and learnt to hold my breath for three and a half minutes.
My next novel is a Lit RPG novel called Cryo Knight - Escape From Valeria. It will be available in Spring 2020.
You can read all my stories on Wattpad here.