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My older son is addicted to Korean books! my daughter is addicted to One Piece and collecting something like 200 books in the series.

Apparently Publishers Marketplace is the bee-all-and-end-all of the US market, but it costs, and I already pay for Querytracker (which I love because the paid version offers stats which helps me who to query and who might respond - I can manage...

Thanks for starting this thread @Lakeland Waffler . I was thinking it would be good to have a thread that's encouraging and supportive for those who are submitting. I'm about to wade into that lake in the next week or two, and am girding my loins...

The whole Royal Road, Inkitt, Webnovel brigade is increasingly becoming a predatory minefield. There was a recent hoo-ha on RR with a publisher called Shadowlight Press snapping up authors and plying them with contracts that included clauses...

It gets easier, I promise : ) you just know.

Yes it was Seldayne. I expanded it and entered it into the Curtis Brown Discovery thing. I think contests are a great way to hone your skills. At least you know you actually get read. That Crimebits piece also got long long listed in the...

Good idea. I would like a thread on contests and submissions. I used to get a steady supply from another writing group that I no longer belong to. It cost about 60.00 a month and I decided Litopia was far better value. The one thing I think we...

+1 for Authors Publish, they also do a free ebook walking you through the process of lit mag submissions if it's something you've never done before (which I hadn't, and was intimidated by). Have now had a handful of poems published which feels...

My fave resource for lit mag opportunities is Authors Publish Magazine They only list places that are free to submit to. I follow a few good lit mag resources on Substack too. I'll hunt out some links later if anyone wants them.

I've really got into the Lit Mag scene in the last six months, not just submitting, but reading too. There are wide and varied opportunities out there. The rewards may be smaller scale, but they're within closer reach than in book publishing.

When I first joined Litopia, I expected much more talk of submissions and publishing possibilities. It's a direction I'd like to see it go in. Why aren't more of us submitting to literary websites, local magazines, or themed publications? Indeed...

It’s so hard though, when you’ve put your all into it and it’s something you absolutely believe in. That sounds like such an interesting experiment Rachel. I’ll look forward to hearing your thoughts. In the meantime, I’m guessing we’ve all...

Okay ... I acknowledge that this thread had "Agents" in its title, but our work has to be about submissions of every sort. Our biggest task is reminding ourselves that we are far more than just a book. We have to get our stuff out there.

There are obviously people still getting picked up by agents and sold to publishers so it's possible, but think like an agent. Do you actually have something you can stand on a street corner and flog? In a way the trad market is doing you a...