September 26, 2024
As some of our readers know, Authors Publish has been based in Canada for the last seven years, though I am a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. Every year now on September 30th, Canada honors National Truth and Reconciliation Day, as a federal holiday. The day honors the lost children and survivors…
July 4, 2024
A few months ago we announced that we were moving away from releasing weekly reviews of manuscript publishers. You can learn more about this here. Since then, we have worked out a new publishing schedule. Because we are trying to be as transparent as possible as a company, I’m sharing it below. It also might…
June 13, 2024
I was a reader long before I was a writer. As a child I fell in love with books like The Balloon Tree, A Wrinkle in Time and Ramona Quimby, Age 8. That love of books has never left me. When I was a teenager I remember being shocked by the fact that most of…
September 28, 2023
As some of our readers know, Authors Publish has been based in Canada for the last six years, though I am a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. Every year now on September 30th, Canada honors National Truth and Reconciliation Day, as a federal holiday. The day honors the lost children and survivors…
April 6, 2023
Jacob Jans and I got married twelve years ago, and on our first anniversary we talked about how we would never ever work together. About six months later, Jacob needed help launching a Facebook page for Freedom With Writing, which was relatively new at the time. He kept complaining about how he could not get…
March 30, 2023
To be clear, I’m not a tech expert, or a science writer. I am in no way an expert in terms of chatbots and AI. So, if you are hoping to read an article written by an expert in this field, this is not the article for you. I’m writing this article from my perspective,…
January 26, 2023
In April 2023, Authors Publish will turn 10. When I founded Authors Publish way back in 2013, I was still figuring a lot of things out. I was adjuncting at universities and was severely underpaid, but also deeply frustrated with how little resources there were out there for authors who couldn’t pay to attend classes…
September 8, 2022
I was a reader long before I was a writer. As a child, I fell in love with books like The Balloon Tree, A Wrinkle in Time, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8. That love of books has never left me. When I was a teenager I remember being shocked by the fact that most of…
September 30, 2021
As some of our readers know, Authors Publish has been based in Canada for the last four years, though I am a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. Today, for the first time, Canada honors National Truth and Reconciliation Day, as a federal holiday. The day honors the lost children and survivors of…
March 22, 2021
I was a reader long before I was a writer. As a child, I fell in love with books like The Balloon Tree, A Wrinkle in Time, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8. That love of books has never left me. When I was a teenager I remember being shocked by the fact that most of…
January 28, 2021
Dear Subscribers, Today I am sending the 400th issue of Authors Publish Magazine. I first started Authors Publish eight years ago. Our first issue went out to 12 subscribers. This issue will be received by over 160,000 people. When I first started submitting to literary journals over a decade ago, a lot of the websites…
November 19, 2020
Someone told me about NaNoWriMo for the first time when I was 19. I had never heard of a writing challenge before, but the idea of there being a National Novel Writing Month, where writers attempted to complete a manuscript in just one month, was very exciting to me. I really liked the idea of…
September 28, 2020
Earlier this month we made an announcement of a new fund for literary journals. You can learn all about this fund here. We selected the recipient of the fund using a random number generator. We are happy to announce that Yellow Arrow Journal is the first receipt of our fund and will receive 150 (US)…
August 20, 2020
Journal of the Plague Year was started in 2020, by Susan Zakin, a top environmental journalist, as a way of interacting with the altered situation. Many of the journalistic contributors to the website are well known. Their tagline is “100 percent DIY by real reporters (plus poets, musicians, essayists, and the occasional fiction writer)”. The…
August 18, 2020
Since the Coronovirus pandemic started, a lot of literary journals have been under more stress than ever. Academic journals lost organizers and funding, and a number of wonderful journals went under, for financial reasons, or logistical restraints. Many journals switched over to charging fees for submissions and the ones that remained fee-free were slammed with…