Shoutout Builder

Mockup

Cards for your author notes: swap shoutouts with other authors, or ask your own readers for ratings, follows and Patreon. Colors come from the cover and are checked for contrast; the code only uses what Royal Road's editor keeps.

Story

Title Author Fiction link Cover image Tags Show tags on the card

Pitch

Eyebrow TaglineThe pull-quote in the Quote layout; an italic hook in the others. Blurb

Trim: 2 ¶ · 151 chars

Blank line = new paragraph. Readers skim author notes, so shorter usually works better.

Fold behind a toggle

Click a visible paragraph to hide it and everything after it, or a hidden one to show it again. Readers see hidden paragraphs only after they click Show.

Find a swap partner

Fictions recently on Rising Stars that share your tags (rare ones count most) and have a similar audience.

A note from the author

If you like this, try…

Your story title

by Your pen name

ProgressionLitRPGAdventure

One line that hooks: who, what they want, what stands in the way.

A second paragraph that raises the stakes. Keep it short; readers skim author notes.

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Royal Road-safe 2,424 characters

HTML

In the chapter editor, open Source code (the </> button) in the author's note box and paste. Covers hosted outside Royal Road's CDN show in the real note but not in this preview.