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A writing platform built for writer discovery
CityPixels is a writer discovery and story-publishing platform that connects fiction and nonfiction to real places.
Publish stories, build an author profile, and give readers more ways to find your work through city bookshelves, genres, and shared interests. Create a home for your writing alongside the websites, booksellers, and reader communities you already use.
For emerging writers, established authors, serial storytellers, and nonfiction writers.
YOUR WORK, YOUR PRESENCE
Publish fiction and nonfiction. Keep your rights.
Share short stories, articles, and serialized fiction. Your writer profile brings together your biography, published work, books, and official links. Story Trails let readers follow connected installments.
Room beyond a real-world setting
Beyond the Map provides a discovery home for fiction outside real-city settings. Paid National Articles placement supports eligible nonfiction with or without a genuine city connection.
Browse Beyond the Map →You retain ownership of your writing. Publication is subject to the writer terms and content standards.
MORE WAYS TO FIND A WRITER
Build discovery around your work
CityPixels combines place, genre, author profiles, and reading interests. Readers can browse directly instead of relying on a social feed as their only route to a story.
Author discovery
Explore the writer directory, hometown authors, and city and genre shelves.
Meet CityPixels writers →Reading and reviews
Readers can follow writers, save reading, and choose what to share in their Personal Library. The Review Network offers reader reviews and reviewer portfolios.
Explore the Review Network →Charts and fresh discoveries
CityPixels 40, Rising Cities, and fresh-work sections give readers additional ways to explore published writing.
Find your next read →Analytics for your next move
Free writers receive basic author analytics and city activity. Paid Market Signals add aggregated demand information and saved opportunity alerts.
Compare writer tools →Discovery tools provide opportunities to be found; they do not guarantee rankings, readers, sales, or income.
DON’T REPLACE YOUR WRITING INCOME. STACK IT.
Keep your writing opportunities in your hands
Link readers to your own work and existing income channels. Paid plans add tools to advertise eligible sponsorship opportunities, manage inquiries, and record mutually signed sponsorship acknowledgments.
You negotiate directly and keep 100% of what your sponsors pay you. Sponsor payments are arranged directly. Both parties sign, and CityPixels verifies the acknowledgment before activation uses a shared sponsorship credit. A membership does not supply a sponsor or guarantee payment.
Explore sponsorship opportunitiesCREATE TOGETHER, WITH PERMISSION
Invite readers into an Authorized World
Offer your supporters a place to create inside your world—and give trusted community members the tools to help you run it.
Pro and Studio writers can host Authorized Worlds, subject to activation and rights requirements. Approve non-canon participant projects within your rules and appoint temporary moderators. Verified free accounts can participate with the host’s approval. World postings cannot be sponsored.
Explore Authorized WorldsSTART FREE. EXPAND WHEN YOU’RE READY.
What is free, and what do paid plans add?
Free membership
One pen name, a writer profile, books and stories, city-connected nonfiction, basic analytics, and a Personal Library with privacy controls.
Writer Plus
Up to 3 pen names total, National Articles placement, sponsorship tools, Market Signals, unlimited saved author notes, and monthly Diamonds.
Writer Pro
Everything in Plus, up to 5 pen names total, higher monthly allowances, and Authorized Worlds hosting with 15 active participant places.
Writer Studio
Everything in Pro, up to 10 pen names total, higher monthly allowances, and Authorized Worlds hosting with 30 active participant places.
Pen names have separate public profiles and workspaces while sharing one account membership and Diamond wallet. Participant places do not reset monthly.
See current prices and full plan benefitsQuestions about publishing on CityPixels
Can I publish stories for free?
Yes. Free membership includes story publishing, an author profile, books, and city-connected nonfiction. Paid plans add tools and expanded discovery options.
Can an article appear locally and nationally?
Yes. Eligible paid-plan nonfiction can appear on National Articles while keeping a genuine city connection. A sponsor is not required for national placement.
Does CityPixels replace my author website or other platforms?
You can use CityPixels alongside them. Link your profile to your official website and connect readers to your own work. You decide what writing to publish here, subject to the publishing terms.
Can I write under more than one pen name?
Free includes one pen name. Plus, Pro, and Studio support totals of 3, 5, and 10 respectively, including the original name. Each name has its own writer presence.
ABOUT CITYPIXELS
We side-eyed the industry. Then changed the playbook.
CityPixels was founded by Jason Neil and is operated by Fallen House Media LLC. Our official Guides explain how to use CityPixels; writers publish their own work through their writer tools.
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