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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.
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.
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.
Volumes, chapters, glossaries, drafts. The structure of a novel is a first-class citizen — not a workaround for a blog.
Four themes, five fonts, scroll or page-by-page. Designed by people who read paperbacks on the train, not for ad inventory.
Premium chapters, subscriptions, tips. A simple coin economy that lets readers support the authors they finish — without selling them.
Title, synopsis, cover, and your first chapter. A moderator reviews submissions to keep the catalog focused.
A markdown editor, a glossary, and a private dashboard. Schedule chapters, mark them as premium, or keep the whole novel free.
Coin tips, premium chapters, and subscription tiers — paid out monthly. You own your text, you own your audience.
Genres, staff picks, and a featured row that changes weekly. Editors curate; the algorithm helps but doesn't decide.
Your library remembers where you left off. Follow an author and the next chapter shows up where it should — not as a notification.
Light, sepia, dark, or night. Literata, Merriweather, Lora, Source Sans, Lexend. Your settings travel with the book.
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.
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.
Light, sepia, dark, and night — each tuned for the time of day you'll actually read in.
Literata, Merriweather, Lora, Source Sans 3, Lexend. Per-novel settings, persisted automatically.
Some novels read better one page at a time. The reader supports both, with a keyboard you can drive without looking.
Mark a passage, leave yourself a sentence about it. Your annotations are private by default.
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.
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.