Rogue Animal

The rising stars of nov­els and com­ics can find a wel­com­ing haven on the Rogue An­imal as the website’s main goal is to pro­mote writers of tra­di­tional nov­els, short stor­ies and graphic nov­els. Even if the web­site was cre­ated last year in 2019, it has gathered a hand­ful of prom­ising writers. The on­line lib­rary has three main cat­egor­ies for com­ics, books and ma­ture con­tent. The own­ers’ de­sire is to gather a vari­ety of genres and con­cepts, like hor­ror, Sci Fi, fantasy, mys­tery, com­edy, po­etry, ac­tion, drama, ro­mance both straight and LGBTQ. They are cur­rently en­cour­aging cre­at­ors to sub­mit their good qual­ity pieces of work. 

The website’s first page is a little cluttered. How­ever, as the vis­itor starts brows­ing the vari­ous cat­egor­ies, he can get a bet­ter grip of the avail­able con­tent. There are over 30 au­thors in the ded­ic­ated list page, but the down­side is that their names are not as­so­ci­ated with the works they have cre­ated. In or­der to of­fer ad­di­tional con­tent to the read­ers, the web­site Rogue An­imal of­fers a blog, a forum, the Hid­den Gems talk show and the on­line magazine Rogue Reader. The forum can be ac­cessed only if the reader cre­ates an ac­count, whereas the blog is more of an an­nounce­ment area. Ac­cess­ing the talk show can be done from an ex­ternal link and the magazine Rogue Reader has only two is­sues, but it is a prom­ising beginning.

In terms of ac­cess­ib­il­ity, Rogue An­imal of­fers av­er­age read­ing ex­per­i­ence on desktops and has ma­jor prob­lems on mo­bile devices. Be­cause they use the Wix PDF, the books are al­most in­ac­cess­ible on smart­phones and tab­lets. This is a bug known to the own­ers and they are try­ing to find a solu­tion for it. 

All in all, the cradle that Mi­chael and Joe have cre­ated at Rogue An­imal has great po­ten­tial of de­vel­op­ment. As it cur­rently is a web­site in its in­fancy, the chances are that they will de­velop fur­ther, of­fer­ing pleas­ur­able read­ing ex­per­i­ence and a chance for new writers to reach their audience.