Is your writing out in the world? Ready to try submitting this month? Is your website or blog looking for contributors? Please let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll share it here. @@@ Will You Submit in March 2026? You’re looking for places to submit your writing? Will any of these work
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Winter 2026 ~~ Marketing Advice and Tools
Do you have marketing advice to share that will be useful to authors? Is your advice clear and inexpensive for a writer to use? Do you have something original to share? Please query telling us briefly what you’d like to share and what your background is. Please use the contact box towards the bottom
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Winter 2026 Hooked on Books
107 Days Written by Kamala Harris ISBN #: 978-1668211656 Simon & Schuster (September 23, 2025) Unique Circumstances Make History What does it take to make history? What are the joys and disappointments of running for office? You can experience Kamala Harris’s short, intense journey during 2024, day by day, in107 Days. Her political memoir records
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Interviews — Winter 2026
“One of the best rewards of reading fiction, whether set in the present or the past, is to renew our faith in humanity, which we truly need at the present moment.” ~~H. Lee Barnes People Write in Paragraphs and Speak in Sentences I thought I was done with WW II books until I read H.
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Winter 2026 ~~ Writing Advice
Writing Towards an Ending Sometimes it’s easier to write if you know how the story ends. Other times it’s easier to write when you know what will happen. Pick an ending line from the list below. (These are collected from a variety of sources and different ones will resonate with different writers.) If you were
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2025 Flash Prose Winners
The Contest Winners Are Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linkedin Writer Advice had to make some tough choices to select this year’s winners of our Flash Prose Contest. You’ll find we’re sharing all kinds of stories. The winners are listed below along with the dates when their pieces will appear. The first piece is
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What is Flash Memoir? Everybody has great stories to tell. What’s yours? A flash memoir shows readers how you (the narrator) experienced and reacted to a turning point in your life. Write about something that changed the way you viewed yourself or your world. Show what happened and how it affected you. Invite us into your
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Fall 2025 ~~ Contests, Markets, and Publishing Ideas
Where do you submit your writing? Thank you to AuthorsPublish.com for sharing these opportunities. Plott Hound This is a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry starring animals. Deadline: 15 December 2025 Length: 1,000-5,000 words (prefer 3,000-4,000 words) for fiction, up to 5 poems, 1,000-2,500 words for essay Pay: $0.08/word for stories, $50 for poetry, $100 for
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Fall 2025 ~~ Hooked on Books
When publishers send us books, we read and review, always looking for what will appeal to readers. What genres do you like to read? Are you a book reviewer? Let us know. Please contact us using the box at the bottom of the home page. Thanks! The Blonde Who Came In From The Cold Written
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Fall 2025 ~~ Writing Advice
End of 2025 Writing Prompts Start with an element of a picture below that appeals to you. Add what you need to turn it into a story. Share below if you’re courageous and/or confident or if you want to hear what we love in the writing. OR combine all three photos into one
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