#publishing options

I’ve begun releasing Cherry Picker on Kindle Vella. I’ve done a bit of research and this looks like a good option to get my work out into the world quickly, but also serializes it, sort of like TV show episodes. I’ve been able to schedule each new chapter to release weekly on Sunday’s, so the story will come out on a consistent weekly basis. Kindle Vella allows chapters of 600-5,000 words to be…

P*issed with Vella, P*ssed with Amazon

Grrr, really ticked off!Amazon offers what it claims is a “brand new way” to tell a story, serialized so readers can read “episode” by episode, paying as they go after the first three episodes. Except that Vella is not not-so-new. Creatives can sell their material on WordPress. They can also serialize their creations on such platforms as Patreon and Radish. There might be others I don’t know…

My Publishing Choice: Vella

Dream on, Writer, Dream on. This is what I dream of, a balcony somewhere in Italy or the South of France, made possible by my royalties. Well, at least I have a balcony, even if it’s far from those places. Deciding on how to publish my novel was a tough choice. Sure, I’d like the prestige of having a major, or even a not-so-major, traditional publishing house buy the rights to my book and pay…

Finished Writing My Novel. Now What?

With a Bit of Info from an Agent How to get my story to readers now that it’s finished? What do you do with a book you’ve finished writing and are hoping to get published?  You can go the traditional route and submit your manuscript to literary agents or directly to the few publishers who accept unagented submissions. You can pay a vanity press to publish your book. Or you can go the…

Getting published is one of the top woes writers face. My novel, A Home for an Exile’s Heart, is ready to be published Writing the book is hard enough. Getting it published is no picnic, either. There are so many writerly woes it’s hard to pick just one. Attempting to get published. Most book publishers require writers to have an agent. It can take months, if not years to get an agent. There…

As a writer who’s putting the finishing touches on her debut manuscript and is currently in the “oh shit, I have to figure out how to publish this” stage, I’m looking at publishing houses that want LGBTQ+ genre fic. And I found a pretty neat list of some publishers who specialize in LGBTQ+ (and some PoC) content right here;

Published To Death’s List Of LGBTQ+ Oriented Publishers!

Personally, I’m intrigued by Sapphire and Regal Crest. Keep in mind that if any of these publishers look appealing to you, you should research them more thoroughly on your own time, and take a very close eye to the submission guidelines. Many are smaller publishers. This means that they don’t accept works that are being submitted to multiple publishers, because they can’t afford to put resources towards an author who might pull at the last minute because they caught a deal at another publishing house instead.

Why Do You Want to See Your Book Published?

bookstore image: Rigor Textual

If you want to be a writer, this is kind of a writing golden age.

Gone are the days of typewriters (remember those?) and paper and envelop submissions. Thanks to word processing software, writing apps like Scrivener and Ulysses, editing apps like Hemingway and Grammarly, and electronic submissions, we are spoiled unlike…