SDO Originals
You own your story.
Every right, every market, every format. Publish original novels on SkyDemonOrder. Free to start, no application required.
How it works
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Create your project in Loom
Loom is your author dashboard. Spin up a project, set its title, blurb, and cover.
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Write and publish chapters
Draft in the in-app editor and ship chapters when they're ready.
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Build your readership
Readers discover, follow, and respond to your work as you publish.
First writing competition
Win up to $500. Entries open October 5, 2026 and close April 30, 2027.
Plus a two-month homepage banner and winner badges. Enter any original novel you own, whenever you started it. One entry per author, switchable until entries close, and it is judged on what you have published by that date. Start writing now: everything you publish before October 5 already counts.
- 1st
- $500
- 2nd
- $250
- 3rd
- $100
What you earn today
Nothing, and we would rather say so plainly than imply otherwise. There are no author earnings on SDO Originals today. Direct payments for Originals authors are the next thing we are building and they are launching soon, but we are not putting a date on it until it is ready.
So here is the honest pitch for publishing here in the meantime.
- 100% of your rights
- Every right, every market, every format stays yours. Publishing here transfers nothing, and you can walk away with your story whenever you want.
- Free hosting
- No fees, no application, and no revenue share taken out of a revenue that does not exist yet.
- Readers already here
- SkyDemonOrder has an audience reading every day. Your first chapter lands in front of it instead of an empty room.
- Competition prizes
- The first writing competition opens for entries on October 5, 2026, and its $500 / $250 / $100 prize pool is real money paid to three authors.
Read before you publish
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Competition rules
The complete ruleset for the first writing competition: the timeline, the prizes, the published-word floor, who can enter, and how winners are chosen.
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Content guidelines
One rulebook for every SDO Original: writing with AI, what is never allowed, how Mature work is classified, and where else you may publish.
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Getting started
The walkthrough, from a fresh account to a chapter readers can open: creating your project, writing chapters, publishing them, and getting a cover approved.
Frequently asked questions
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A home for authors to publish their own original novels on SkyDemonOrder. We host your work; you keep every right.
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You do, 100%. Publishing on SDO Originals doesn't transfer any IP, copyright, or publishing rights. You can take your story anywhere, translate it, or walk away with it whenever you want.
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Click 'Start writing' and you'll land in your Loom dashboard. From there you can create your first project, write chapters, and publish.
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No. Anyone with a verified account can write on SDO Originals. No invite or application needed.
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Our first writing competition opens for entries on October 5, 2026 and closes on April 30, 2027, with winners announced in May 2027. Prizes are $500 / $250 / $100, plus a two-month homepage banner and winner badges. Any original novel you own can be entered, whatever date you started it, so words you publish before October 5 already count. The competition rules page is the complete ruleset.
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There are no author earnings on SDO Originals today. Direct payments for Originals authors are the next thing we are building and they are launching soon, but we are not putting a date on it until it is ready. Until then, what publishing here gives you is 100% of your rights, free hosting, readers who are already here, and the competition prize pool.
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Yes. Only your competition entry, limited to one per author, has to stay exclusive to SkyDemonOrder, and only until entries close on April 30, 2027. After that you can keep it here or take it elsewhere. All your other stories can be crossposted anywhere you like, with no strings.
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The prose readers read has to be written by you. That applies to every SDO Original, not only to competition entries. AI is fine for editing, proofreading and brainstorming; it is not fine for generating the chapters themselves. We do not run automated AI detection: suspected violations are read and reviewed by the SDO editorial team.
Your readers are already here.