publishing
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Being an Indie Publisher
Indie presses always have a bit of an uphill battle. Both lauded as fresh, new, exciting, a place for new ideas and authors and disparaged as out there, cheap, poor quality, a place for weird shit and authors. They are, of course, all those things Read more
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Lessons Learned, Part 2, The Story of Lady
I posted a little last week about what I learned on the path to publishing my first novel and I wanted to expand on one of the lessons that I really struggled with and how I wasn’t able to achieve my goal until I learned it. For a long time I burned myself out trying Read more
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An Author by any other name…
Pen Names : I never have been able to contain myself into one space, one world, one idea or one genre. I want to write what I want to write whether it’s an epic saga or a quick dark jab to the heart, but I want to be considerate to the people who graciously allow… Read more
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Lots of News on the Way
They say when it rains it pours but my goodness. Read more
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Time to try something new
Speculation Publications has concluded it’s first year, fifth release, and fifth anniversary of the collection of utter speculation. It came with some exciting announcement about what is to come for our small press (Like our first novella series and our last book of the year, YULE). We also did our first convention at Creatures Crimes Read more
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Interview with Suburban Life Magazine for 2023 Super Women
Hey look, it’s me! I had a chat with William Donahue about where speculation pub is going, where it has been and whether my co-editors River and Susan are so short or I am so tall. Check out the full article at Suburban Life Magazine Read more
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Are there too many aspiring writers for you to succeed?
When you start looking into the writing community, one of the first things you might think is, “Oh cool. Lots of people who get my struggle.” The second thing might be “Oh Crap, If there are this many people trying to make it, what are the odds that I will?” It’s easy to get overwhelmed Read more
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Every writer sings a sad sad song
You know what sucks? Rejection. You know what else sucks? Rejection never actually stops sucking. And the third suck? You never stop getting rejected in one way or another. This is true in life, but it is particularly true in artistic endeavors. I got two rejections last week. And they both sucked. They weren’t my Read more
LC W. Allingham 