Writing Prompt: Bedroom

When I am writing a novel I am constantly trying to get better acquainted with the characters that populate it. Often I will do writing prompts that help me get to know my characters better. These writing exercises never make it into the manuscript, but they help improve the overall quality of the manuscript. Choose…

Get Featured by Authors Publish Magazine

Here’s your chance to get featured by us. We have been posting quotes written by our readers on our Facebook page. Many of these quotes are insightful, some are funny, and some are clever. All of the quotes were written by readers of Authors Publish who frequent our Facebook page. This time we are making…

Writing Prompt: Time Traveler

The writing prompt today is simple. There are no catches, no hitches, no hidden rules. Set a timer for twenty minutes and start writing about your main character, a time traveler. Your main character does not need to travel in time during the story itself, but the face that he or she can travel in…

Pledge of the Month

Is writing a first draft of novel in a month too much of a commitment for you? Our pledge puts the emphasis on writing one page every day in November. Are you up for that challenge?

Radar: Open To Submissions

Radar  is a brand new electronic journal started by two established editors, Dara-Lyn Shrager and Rachel Marie Patterson. They previously ran the respected literary journal Four Way Review and have been readers on several manuscript contests. Radar exclusively publishes poetry and it will be released quarterly. The first issue will be released in January 2014….

Lantern: Open To Submissions

Lantern is an online arts journal that really takes advantage of being an electronic publication. They publish beautiful art work, they are easy to navigate, esthetically pleasing, and they take advantage of the freedom of space, by publishing a wide variety of work including videos. Lantern publishes a great deal of visual art as well…

Writing Prompt: Ghost

In preparation for Halloween the prompt this week is to write a ghost story. We don’t want traditional ghost stories here. We don’t want you to retell the ghost story that your cousin told you around the campfire in ninth grade. Your ghost story must include five of the following ten words: Marriage, lake, cellphone,…

Inspirational Quote of the Week

Dancing With Bear: Open to Manuscripts

Dancing with Bear is a print and e-book publisher that publishes exclusively Christian manuscripts. They publish books for adults but they also have a children’s line.  They are currently open to submissions in all categories and are eager to receive quality work. Dancing with Bear is run by an author. They know what it is…

Inspirational Quote of the Week

Writing Prompt: Absurd Superpower

As a child I often imagined myself or my characters with superpowers ranging from invisibility to wings. Now that I am an adult I like to play with superpowers that are more unusual, perhaps even deeply impractical. Today’s writing prompt is to write for fifteen minutes about a human being that has a strange ability….

Page & Spine: Open To Submissions

Page & Spine is an online literary journal that focuses on publishing the work of emerging authors. They accept poems, limericks, micro flash fiction (under 150 words), flash fiction (up to 1,000 words), short stories, articles, essays, and poems. Page & Spine pays their writers. Authors of short stories are paid a minimum of twenty…

Inspirational Quote of The Week

Scott Manfredo is one of our many readers who submitted a quote. Even though my work has been published in many places I still identify with what Scott Manfredo wrote. I write to survive, not to make a living. I write for the love of it, first and foremost. All writers regardless of publication status…

Writing Prompt: New Space

In 2010 I wrote for an entire month in a museum. Not in a coffee shop or a comfy chair at home, but in an awkward crowded busy museum. Sometimes I wrote standing up. Other times I found an awkward bench to sit on. No matter where I was, art surrounded me. So did a…

Absey & Company (Book Publisher): Open To Submissions

Updated DEC 10, 2019. They are no longer in business. Strangely one of their few working web pages is their submission page. Do not submit to them Absey & Company is currently looking for full length manuscripts to publish. Absey & Company has published many award winning books in the last decade. They are an…