#publisher markets

[authortoberecognized]

    WRITER’S FORUM

                    WEBSITES HELPFUL TO WRITERS This is a series of posts which, I think, will be beneficial to writers. But first, I would like to include my usual warning about using websites. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH. Whenever you check a website you are, in my opinion and I talk from experience, being put on a list for sale. So, expect the possibility of being bombarded by…

[fantastic-nonsense]

comic sales are down because the industry is inaccessible and expensive, not because piracy exists

Higher piracy rates are what happens when you make buying comics expensive, difficult, platform-dependent, and inherently exclusionary while pretending trades and digital don't count as sales.

if any single comic book company decided to be a competent publishing company for even a year comic piracy rates would plummet

[wordpressvip]

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The idea. 😏

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[night-market-if]

Holy fucking hell guys! My daughter just self published her own book at 17! She did it all on her own, didn't even tell me she was doing it, and surprised me with it today.

Go support her! Support her over me. I am so fucking proud of this girl.

Buy here

Romance? https://a.co/d/jfwi81f

[obstinaterixatrix]

here are all the recs I posted for femslash february 2024...! each individual rec post can be found in my femslash feb recs tag. I actually thought I wasn't going to be able to do this because work got super chaotic, but in the end I couldn't bear to skip out on a leap year. that's a whole extra day for yuri.

last year I focused on official releases, so this year I wanted to focus on series that aren't technically officially available (plus a french-japanese film). fan translations are always a dicey for artists/translators/publishers/etc because obviously they need to get paid... but yuri's already such an overlooked genre that—in an official capacity—we end up with a couple drops from what's already a pretty small pool. I read hana to hoshi about a decade ago, and I keep submitting it to the seven seas survey for licensure! and yet!! no dice. and even when there are official releases, sometimes they just... disappear!? wish you were gone was licensed and then taken down, so for a while the only way to read it (if you missed out on buying it) was the fan translation. I think it's important to support artists and official releases, and also, to appreciate the thankless endeavor(/crime) of scanlation.

hope yall find something you like!

[haridraws]

big publisher: we think your work has broad appeal, we don’t only want to market it to LGBT readers

me, standing next to a home-made 40 foot sign that reads "YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE QUEER TO READ MY BOOKS, BUT IT HELPS 😘": yeah I think we’re on the same page here

[shikiswife]

BOOK BOOK BOOK!

I finally published! Share everywhere, with everyone, leave a review ❤️

Part 1 of 5, it takes place in a fleshed out fantasy world, but my focus with writing will always be on the people walking through it. It's about their experiences in the situations I put them in, forcing them to learn about themselves and grow. Three different MC's that experience the world's in VERY different ways lmao.

And don't let the age category fool you, that's a publisher's mistake, it's 18+. This story is filled with 25yo+ adults dealing with adult issues, and I write explicit. Even if it's not the focus, violence is had 👌

[sarnai4]

Athena: Ares, have you had a candy called Warheads?

Ares (suspiciously): Are you messing with me right now?

Athena: I'm being completely serious.

Ares (equally shocked and overjoyed): Really?!!

Athena (makes a bag appear): Try one.

Ares (eats it): So sour. You have to be courageous to eat these... I love them! (Devious) I bet I can eat more than you can.

Athena: I didn't necessarily tell you about them to start an eating competition.

Ares (downs another handful): Tastes like victory!

Athena:...(makes a bag appear for herself) That's what you think!

[valtsv]

sorry if you’ve read this before and i just haven’t seen you post about it, but the book “hell followed with us” by andrew joseph white seems right up your alley

i need some kind of faq with a section where i explain that i consider andrew joseph white to be a poor writer except when it comes to describing excesses of body horror and gore because people keep suggesting hell followed with us to me and i'm sorry but his books are not good. aside from the vivid descriptions mentioned above they're incredibly devoid of compelling narratives, fleshed out characters or immersive worldbuilding. the guy can come up with some amazing concepts for a story, but his ability to execute them is consistently disappointing. i'm glad he's making money and having fun pursuing his creative passions but his stuff just does not appeal to me at all and frankly makes a hater out of me.

[bvckbiter]

sometimes i think about how badly rr fumbled pjo not just on the literary level but on the business level

[federer7]

Italian market, Mulberry Street, New York. Between 1900 and 1910

Photo by Detroit Publishing Company,

[aplpaca]

i think the popularity of anime means that books could get so much weirder and do fine if publishers werent fucking cowards like. one of the most popular recent animes has a main character who fused with his demon dog and now his head and arms turn into fucking chainsaws. soul eater was fucking huge and just look it it. the grim reapers son has 2 guns that are a pair of shapeshifting sisters and thats only a tiny fraction of whats going on in that series. we need more of this energy in english-language sff books. im begging major publishing to Get Weirder

[cherryblossomsatsea]

Can’t stop thinking about modern!Rilla who starts a skincare brand with Una Meredith and they 100% make it to the top.

(Bonus points for Persis Ford marketing them all the way to the moon!)

[night-market-if]

Chapter Three

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[finelythreadedsky]

how is there a novel retelling of the descent of inanna by olga tokarczuk published in 2006 in polish and it HASN'T been translated into any other languages

[novlr]

Social media strategies for writers

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