Articles by Caitlin Jans

Truth and Reconciliation Day – September 30th

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…
Issue Five Hundred Ninety One

Our New Publishing Schedule

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…
Issue Five Hundred Seventy Nine Letter from the Editor

How to Read Like a Published Author

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…
Issue Five Hundred Seventy Six

Truth and Reconciliation Day – September 30th

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…
Issue Five Hundred Thirty Nine

Authors Publish Turns Ten

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…
Issue Five Hundred Fourteen Letter from the Editor

The Current State of Writing and AI

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,…
Issue Five Hundred Thirteen

An Anniversary Approaches: Calls for Blurbs and Suggestions

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…
Issue Five Hundred Four

How to Read Like a Published Author

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…
Issue Four Hundred Eighty Four

Truth and Reconciliation Day – September 30th

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…
Issue Four Hundred Thirty Five Letter from the Editor

How to Read Like a Published Author

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…
Special Feature

Letter from the Editor

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…
Issue Four Hundred

The Importance of Writing Challenges

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…
Issue Three Hundred Ninety One Special Feature

The Authors Publish Fund for Literary Journals Selects First Recipient

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)…
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Journal of The Plague Year: Now Seeking Submissions

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…
Creative Non Fiction Issue Three Hundred Seventy Eight Literary Journals

The Authors Publish Fund for Literary Journals

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…
Issue Three Hundred Eighty One Issue Three Hundred Eighty Three Special Feature

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