Entry I · of 5
Yes. Joining is free, and most chapters are free to read. Coins are an optional currency you earn by showing up — or buy if you want to support an author.
Coming soon · Closed beta
A quieter home for serialized fiction.
Tellura is a quiet, candlelit place for independent writers to publish novels chapter-by-chapter — and for readers to find work that doesn't fit anywhere else. We're opening the doors slowly.
What is Tellura
A platform built around chapters, not feeds.
We're making the publishing tools we wished existed when we tried to write our first novels online. No farmable engagement, no scroll holes — just a clean place to write long-form fiction and find readers who'll stay for volume two.
Built for serialized fiction
Volumes, chapters, glossaries, drafts. The structure of a novel is a first-class citizen — not a workaround for a blog.
A reader you'll actually open
Four themes, five fonts, scroll or page-by-page. Designed by people who read paperbacks on the train, not for ad inventory.
Coins, not algorithms
Premium chapters and subscriptions. A simple coin economy that lets readers support the authors they finish — without selling them.
How it works
Made for both sides of the page.
For authors
Publish a chapter at a time.
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Submit your novel
Title, synopsis, cover, and your first chapter. A moderator reviews submissions to keep the catalog focused.
02
Write in your own room
A markdown editor, a glossary, and a private dashboard. Schedule chapters, mark them as premium, or keep the whole novel free.
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Earn from readers who finish
Premium chapters and subscription tiers — paid out monthly. You own your text, you own your audience.
For readers
Find a novel worth following.
01
Browse the library
Genres, staff picks, and a featured row that changes weekly. Editors curate; the algorithm helps but doesn't decide.
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Bookmark, follow, return
Your library remembers where you left off. Follow an author and the next chapter shows up where it should — not as a notification.
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Read your way
Light, sepia, dark, or night. Literata, Merriweather, Lora, Source Sans, Lexend. Your settings travel with the book.
A reader, not a feed
Built for the long sit.
The Tellura reader is the centerpiece. Four themes, five typefaces, paginated or scrolling. It reads like a paperback because that's what you came for.
Chapter 14
A Smell of Wet Wool and Pine-Tar
She opened the cover and the room fell away — the oil lamp, the draught under the door, the sound of rain against the glass. All of it folded politely into the margins, as if the book had taught the world to make room.
By the second paragraph she understood, in the distant way one understands a family resemblance, that the cartographer was already in trouble.
- Four reader themes
Light, sepia, dark, and night — each tuned for the time of day you'll actually read in.
- Five reading typefaces
Literata, Merriweather, Lora, Source Sans 3, Lexend. Per-novel settings, persisted automatically.
- Scroll or page-by-page
Some novels read better one page at a time. The reader supports both, with a keyboard you can drive without looking.
- Bookmarks with notes
Mark a passage, leave yourself a sentence about it. Your annotations are private by default.
Free to read · Optional coins
Free to read. Coins are how you go further.
Ex Libris · How coins work
Earn them as you read. Buy them only if you want more.
Joining Tellura is free. Most of the library is free. Coins are an optional currency you earn by showing up — or buy if you want to support the writers you love.
- Earn coins by showing up — daily logins, reader streaks, contests.
- Spend them on premium chapters from authors you follow.
- Or buy a small bundle if you want to support the writers you love.
Questions
Quick answers before you join.
The Salon
Pull up a chair.
Our Discord is where early authors and readers compare notes — a quiet room, not a firehose. Drop in to lurk, ask questions, or share what you're reading.
Join on DiscordOpen invitation. No Tellura account required.