FOR READERS
Follow the stories that pull you in
Discover Fresh Pixels, follow authors and cities, enter Story Trails, use Pixel Pins, and shape a private Pixel Stream.
READERS • WRITERS • CITIES
Discover stories. Build worlds. Put yours on the map.
City Pixels connects readers with city-linked stories, writers, Story Trails, and bookshelves across the United States. Explore the places that shape the stories, follow the voices you care about, or add your own work to the map.
Readers
Follow stories and build a Pixel Stream
Writers
Create discovery points around real places
Cities
Many stories, one approved annual claim
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Read it. Write it. Find where it lives.
City Pixels gives readers and writers different ways into the same connected map.
FOR WRITERS
Turn places into discovery points
Build an author profile, add books, publish city-connected stories, and organize serialized work into Story Trails.
FOR CITY SPONSORS
Put your business on the City Pixels map
Sponsor one available city for a year and give your business, organization, project, or brand a featured place on that city’s page.
READER TOOLS
Build a reading journey that remembers what matters to you.
Your Pixel Passport keeps private reading activity together. Pixel Pins save individual stories. Follows shape your Pixel Stream. Pixel Pings bring meaningful updates back to you.
WRITER DISCOVERY
Your work can begin with a place.
A city connection gives readers another way to find a story. Writers can create a public profile, add approved books, publish standalone work, and build numbered Story Trails—all through the same City Pixels account.
- 1 Create a free reader account.
- 2 Add an author profile using your name or pen name.
- 3 Add books, stories, cities, genres, and Story Trails.
- 4 Reach readers through map and discovery connections.
THE CONNECTED MAP
Stories live somewhere.
Open a city to find its bookshelf, published stories, writers, Story Trails, and annual claim information. A city can keep growing as new voices connect their work to it.
CITY CLAIMS
Choose a city. Put your name behind it.
City Claims give one approved business, creator, organization, or project a featured annual placement on an available city page.