Blogging is a great way to express yourself and a fantastic way to share information with others.
It's a way to tell your story your way. It lets you establish your voice in communities you care about and connect with new people. You become a b...

Make webbooks a part of the experience you offer your readers. WriterShelf makes it as easy as it gets.

Book sales have arrived. You can now sell your books on WriterShelf. Selling books on WriterShelf is simple and you are in control.

If you’re getting started as a writer and are looking for place to expand, you've found a home.

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but a compelling presentation makes for a terrific start to bringing readers into your fold.
First Impressions Matter
Readers judge how deep they want to dive into a work by the title and first paragraph. C...

WriterShelf is a writer's platform that lets you share your ideas using pen names. It's also a reader’s destination where you can discover the work of others and engage in authentic conversations.
The Value of Pen Names
Pen names give you the ...

Start with privacy
Pen names open new doors for sharing your thoughts and stories in the way that best suits you.  From funny to pointed to carefully unassuming, the options are endless. WriterShelf gives you them all.

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Writer...

“A pen name is a writer’s best friend.”
  

“While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.”
Nicholson Baker

As a Writer
WriterShelf is a unique...

Whether they come from yourself or others, expectations can be oppressive. The chance to escape from existing patterns is the perfect way to inject new energy into your writing. That's what pen names offer. 
A change in perspective lets you exe...

We’re working to make WriterShelf a complete and modern platform for writers and readers.

Beyond privacy, WriterShelf offers unique and practical advantages when for sharing messages with the world.
In everyday life, we adjust our voice to fit the particular situation we’re in. We speak differently with friends, family and workmates...

WriterShelf is a unique hybrid blogging / forum solution for writers or groups to publish content and develop an engaged audience. Combining the best of both worlds, WriterShelf's unique features offer a simplified path for setting up an online ho...

Looking to understand how WriterShelf works? Here's a tour. See how to get started, set up your pen names and start publishing.

WriterShelf is an open platform for anyone to write their views and opinions.
We don’t review articles before they are published. We believe free expression deserves freedom, so we believe the best response to bad ideas is good ideas, and feedb...

When you’re comfortable with how others see you, it’s easier to share. Likewise, when you have confidence that the people you interact with you are real, it’s easier to create genuine relationships.
Natural Privacy
Remember the last time you r...

WriterShelf is a writing platform designed around privacy protections.  Because your privacy is protected, you enjoy greater freedom to present your thoughts, knowledge and stories.
Your blog is leaking your privacy
When you blog, you reveal a...

Pen Names
How many pen names can I have?

You can have as many pen names as you like.  Just one if you want.  WriterShelf does not have a set limit on the number of pen names you create.

Are there pen names I can’t use?

Pen names are pr...

WriterShelf is the brainchild of Anthony Hu and Dwight Jurling, with a good deal of help from their friends. Anthony and Dwight originally joined forces at Ulead Systems, the first software company to gain a listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. A...

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and WriterShelf. They govern your use of WriterShelf. By using WriterShelf, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree to any of the Terms, you can’t use WriterShelf.
We can change these Terms a...

WriterShelf is a writer’s platform that lets you publish using pen names. From experimenting with new voices to building your own community, WriterShelf is a place to share and interact safely and with confidence.
Create a Community (or Several...

People are private animals
We are all multidimensional individuals. “Who are you?” is an impossible question for anyone to answer fully, so our answers are always partial. When asked, we keep parts of our selves to ourselves.
We expose differe...

Privacy is important. We respect yours and are careful with your data.
General information
This policy sets out our privacy practices and explains how we handle the information we collect when you visit and use our site.
What we may collect
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Approved Access is a flexible system able to serve many different types of writers. Join to discuss and find out how it can help your writing endeavor.

Stay up to speed. Stay connected. 
The WriterShelf Digest – delivered as a daily or weekly email – provides an easy overview of the latest WriterShelf content as well as up-to-date information on activity around your articles. The Digest is des...

Using multiple pen names has a long tradition among writers. But the digital age has made it harder to create and present work under different names.
Platforms like Facebook and Wordpress let you create a single persona and expect you to produc...

Welcome to WriterShelf!
As much as we love Scrivinor, we figured now would be a good time to update our brand and take on a new name. We're delighted to introduce you to WriterShelf.
We think our new name is easier to pronounce and remember. W...

WriterShelf gives you the freedom to share your true feelings. It’s a level playing field where you can provide your two cents and tell others what you think.
It lets you be yourself.

Pen names have long served as a shield for those speaking...

For as long as there have been books, there have been authors who write under pen names.  For some it was a way to stay out of trouble.  For others, it was a way to stir some up!
Robinson Crusoe was just one of the many pen names of Daniel Foe....

Not many of us write kiss-and-tell memoirs.  But we all just might have the impulse. Life is full of stories and sharing those stories is something we seem bred to do.  Maybe your storytelling is mainly around the water-cooler, the dinner table ...

According to the dictionary, privacy is “the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.” WriterShelf brings the privacy of pen names to blogging and social media. That makes it easier for you to be yoursel...