No. 1
What is Dear Sydney?
Dear Sydney originated on the website Wattpad, where the story was uploaded a chapter at a time every Sunday and Wednesday, with a brief hiatus between Parts 1 & 2. The first chapter of Dear Sydney was published on April 24th, 2016 and the last was uploaded on August 15th, 2016. It was placed on the Wattpad Featured List in the Teen Fiction category in August of 2016 and won a Watty Award for Visual Storytelling in November of 2016.
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No. 2
What is Dear Sydney about?
Dear Sydney centers around the relationship between two school-assigned pen pals and their communication through both letters and social media. They both have to face general problems that are brought on by high school, between failed relationships, cyberbullying, new loves, backstabbing friends, and much more. The story is unique in the fact that it is told through the social media posts from the characters' perspectives, and through the letters that the two pen pals send to each other. The official summary can be found on the "About" page.
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No. 3
Isn't Dear Sydney just an online book?
Dear Sydney started out on Wattpad, an online site for writing and reading books. After becoming Featured on the site and winning a Watty Award, Dear Sydney began to be edited and is now self-published in print through CreateSpace.
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THE CHARACTERS
SYDNEY PORTERA HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR LIVING IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, SYDNEY WAS JUST BROKEN UP WITH OVER A TEXT MESSAGE...FROM A TWO-YEAR-LONG RELATIONSHIP. HER NEW PEN PAL KNOWS JUST HOW TO CHEER HER UP...IF ONLY HE DIDN'T LIVE 3,000 MILES AWAY. LEARN MORE ABOUT SYDNEY AND THE SACRAMENTO WORLD HERE, AND FOLLOW SYDNEY ON TWITTER HERE.
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CONNOR HALLA JUNIOR AT A HIGH SCHOOL IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, CONNOR JUST GOT OUT OF HIS OWN RELATIONSHIP... WHERE HE WAS CHEATED ON. HE FINDS SOLACE IN HIS NEW PEN PAL FROM A SCHOOL-ASSIGNED PROJECT, BUT FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO RELATE TO SOMEONE WHO LIVES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. LEARN MORE ABOUT CONNOR AND THE RICHMOND WORLD HERE, AND FOLLOW CONNOR ON TWITTER HERE.
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OVER 1 MILLION READS
Fan-made trailers, covers, and more were created for Dear Sydney along the way on Wattpad, and tens of thousands have voted for and commented on the book. But the most exciting part of the experience was Dear Sydney reaching 1,000,000 reads on Wattpad on Sunday, February 12th, 2017, less than ten months after its original publication on the site.
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