Teen Vogue and Wattpad Books launch I Saw the Signs, a year-long astrology-inspired romance series with daily chapter drops

Key Takeaways

• Teen Vogue and Wattpad Books have launched I Saw the Signs, an original romance fiction series written by Wattpad favourites Tay Marley, Ariana Godoy, E.M. Wilson and Anna Todd.

• The series is made up of three astrology-inspired short stories, beginning with Tay Marley's Under the Northern Stars, which started publishing on 19 October 2026.

• New chapters arrive daily on teenvogue.com and in Teen Vogue's flagship newsletter, borrowing the serialised, chapter by chapter rhythm that Wattpad readers know well.

• Ariana Godoy's Read To Me follows in February 2027, with Star-Crossed Rivals by Anna Todd and E.M. Wilson arriving in spring 2027.

Teen Vogue and Wattpad Books have launched I Saw the Signs, a year long fiction partnership bringing serialised romance from some of Wattpad’s most read writers to Teen Vogue’s audience, alongside the magazine’s coverage of fashion, culture and politics. The series consists of three original romance short stories inspired by astrology, written by Tay Marley, Ariana Godoy, E.M. Wilson and Anna Todd, and each story pairs its lovers with a fated, star-led storyline that explains the title. The first instalment, Tay Marley's Under the Northern Stars, began rolling out on 19 October 2026, and its chapters are published one day at a time instead of arriving as a single finished piece.

The release schedule brings Wattpad’s familiar chapter by chapter format to Teen Vogue’s website and flagship newsletter, giving readers a new instalment to return to each day. The astrology theme connects the stories throughout the year, creating a recognisable series that can develop with each new release.

The partnership also taps into the popularity of romance among young women on BookTok, while drawing on writers who first built their audiences on Wattpad, where readers were following love stories on their phones long before the recent boom.

The schedule for I Saw the Signs runs from autumn 2026 into the following spring, so each story has room to build an audience before the next one begins. Under the Northern Stars by Tay Marley comes first and follows a couple named Leo and Gemma, after which Ariana Godoy's Read To Me, a story about Kathy and Raven, is due in February 2027, while Star-Crossed Rivals, co-written by Anna Todd with E.M. Wilson around a couple named Tor and Aries, is planned for spring 2027 to close the year-long run.

Wattpad Books brings authors from After and Through My Window to Teen Vogue's I Saw the Signs

Wattpad's own publishing arm is a relatively recent development, as the platform announced the launch of Wattpad Books in January 2019, when it had around 70 million users who collectively spent 22 billion minutes a month on its site and app. Tay Marley was part of that very first list, since her novel The QB Bad Boy & Me had gathered 26.3 million reads on Wattpad before being chosen as one of the six debut titles, and her return as the opening author of I Saw the Signs connects the new series to the imprint's origins. Anna Todd has an even longer history with the platform, having started writing After on her phone in 2013 as fan fiction inspired by One Direction, which went on to become Wattpad's most-read series with more than two billion reads, earn a deal with Gallery Books in 2014 and reach cinemas as a feature film in April 2019. The imprint has grown alongside writers like these, since Wattpad said at the 2019 launch that it had already turned nearly 1,000 stories into books through its publishing partnerships and was planning 18 titles for its 2020 list.

Ariana Godoy adds an international dimension, as the Venezuelan-American author began writing on Wattpad in 2014 and saw her novel Through My Window, which has gathered 386 million reads, adapted into a trilogy of films from Netflix and WEBTOON Productions. She has since written 20 web novels in English and Spanish and was named on Variety's Storytellers to Watch list for 2025, which makes her one of the clearest examples of a Wattpad writer whose audience crosses languages and formats.

Romance has become one of the most commercially important categories for publishers and brands alike, and that appetite reaches well beyond bookshops into marketing that borrows the language and look of the genre. The trend has already inspired brand work far outside publishing, such as Fireball hiding two mini bottles of whisky inside a steamy romance novel, which tapped into the romantasy boom on BookTok to sell its new Torch'd Vanilla flavour to readers aged 21 and over. Teen Vogue's approach is closer to the source, since the magazine is publishing the fiction itself and commissioning it from writers whose careers were built chapter by chapter in front of their readers, so the partnership sells nothing more than the next instalment. By spacing the three stories across the best part of a year, Teen Vogue and Wattpad Books have built a long-running editorial franchise instead of a single launch moment, and the daily release model means the series can grow its readership one chapter at a time.