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Creating a Successful Author Patreon

By Aliya Hall Outside of book sales and contest prizes, it can be challenging for authors to bring in income for their creative writing skills. Fortunately, there’s a handful of websites where fans can directly pay authors for their creative goods, all while authors grow their reader base. Patreon is one of the best options…
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Magination Press: Now Accepting Manuscript Queries

UPDATED  January 19th 2023: They appear to no longer be accepting submissions. There are no longer any guidelines on their website. Magination Press is the children’s book imprint of the American Psychological Association. As a publisher they focus on sharing mental health expertise and psychological knowledge. The books they publish include bestsellers and much-loved family…
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Magma Poetry: Now Seeking Submissions

Magma is an established and respected online and print journal, publishing poetry from emerging authors alongside established voices. They’ve showcased work by Seamus Heaney, Alice Oswald, Mark Doty, and Gillian Clarke, among other well-known poets. Every issue of Magma is curated by a different group of editors. They have a rotating editorial staff, and they…
Issue Four Hundred Forty Two Literary Journals Poetry

Small Press versus Big House: How Does a Thoughtful, Ambitious Author Decide?

By JoAnneh Nagler I remember the week it happened. I was writing my first book,  was two-thirds of the way through it, and I suddenly lost my nerve.  Or, more accurately, I got angry—pissed off, actually. I had the suddenly-occurring realization that I could spend all this time writing my beloved book, and it was…
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Feedback Request! Frequently Asked Questions

We are just now putting together a FAQ section for the Authors Publish website. We’ve been around for almost nine years and some questions we’ve answered hundreds of times over the years, so we already know to include them, but if there are any questions you’ve been contemplating over the years or are just now…
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Steerforth Press: Now Accepting Manuscript Queries

Steerforth Press was launched in 1993, with a catalog featuring a “Manifesto for a New Press” which stated “Our interests fall into no category, no field, no niche; our tests of a book’s worth are whether it has been written well, is intended to engage the full attention of the reader, and has something new…
Issue Four Hundred Forty One Manuscript Publishers Non Fiction

Gigantic Sequins: Now Seeking Submissions

Gigantic Sequins is a black and white print journal. They were started in Brooklyn, and are currently primarily based in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, with outposts throughout the US in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, & more. They are highly respected and have a low acceptance rate. They publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, as well as art…
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Bringing Your Characters to Life Through the “Five Whys”

By Sarina Byron Writing is a skill that brings all of life together. It is a skill where we pour all of our experiences, observations, hopes and beliefs into creating a story and characters that we hope will outlive us. We can all conjure up an imaginary person but how do we bring that imaginary…
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woolgathering: Now Seeking Submissions

Updated November 4th 2021 4 pm: Their website is currently down due to too many visitors. Please do not visit the link at this time. woolgathering is a new journal established in 2021 and based in the Philippines.  Their goal is to publish new and established writers from around the world. They publish art, prose,…
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5 Paying Literary Markets to Submit to in November 2021

These markets pay for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Most are open for submissions now; one is scheduled to open for submissions later this month.   Escape Artists: PodCastle and Cast of Wonders Apart from their CatsCast submission call (which closes in 2022), two magazines in the Escape Artists suite are open/will open submissions…
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Case Study: How Claudette on the Keys Got Published

By Joanne Culley  The story I’d been working on had gone through multiple evolutions, from a strictly factual account, to a blend of fact and fiction, until it had reached the point where I was calling it a novel. The story was loosely based on the lives of my grandparents, a two-piano four-hands team who…
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Making the Jump: Transitioning to Writing for Children

By Rumbidzai Whena They say no matter how grown up we are, we will always be kids inside. So when I was offered a book contract for writing children’s books, it seemed easy; all I had to do was reach inside and think like my inner kid, right? Wrong. Staring at a blank screen made…
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Hydra Publications: Now Accepting Manuscript Queries

Updated January 2025: They are closed to submissions at this time. Hydra Publications is based in Indiana, and should not be confused with Random House’s Hydra imprint, or Hydra House, a Pacific Northwest based publisher of speculative fiction. Hydra Publications started out publishing a wide variety of genres, but now publish mainly speculative fiction, with…
Fantasy Issue Four Hundred Thirty Nine Manuscript Publishers Romance Science Fiction

Flash Fiction Magazine: Now Accepting Submissions

Flash Fiction Magazine publishes one piece of flash per day of the year. They are always open to submissions. Their general submissions are free, but they also have a contest. The deadline for the contest is whenever they reach 130 submissions, and it does cost $30  to enter, but everyone who enters will get extensive…
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How to Choose Publications for Your Poetry

By Trish Hopkinson You’ve written and revised your poetry and now you have some finished work you’d like to share with an audience. To help yourself focus on the types of markets you’d like to be published in, ask yourself what’s most important to you. Consider the following and rate each by importance. If they…
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