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Publishing Resources | Mid-Continent Public Library

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Find lists of publishing resources for local authors and certificate students.

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One of the best databases for finding literary journals, magazines, and publishers accepting submissions.

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This complete list of nearly 1,000 literary magazines and journals includes details on editorial focus, submission guidelines, reading periods, and more. Find the right

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Free weekly publishing opportunities, contests, and calls for submissions for writers.

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Our courses feature in-depth curriculums and extensive personal feedback on your writing. Our instructors are highly accomplished, and care deeply for all of their students.

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Tracks literary magazines, independent presses, writing contests, and submission calls.

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Deadline: Year-round

Palooka is an international literary magazine. For over a decade we've featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from around the world. We're ...

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NewPages.com features literary magazines, indie publishing, creative writing programs, writing events, submission opportunities, and more.

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Search open submissions for journals, anthologies, grants, and contests.

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Book Reviews, Bestselling Books & Publishing Business News | Publishers Weekly

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Thoughtful literary commentary, essays, and book culture discussions.

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Lit Hub is a central place for writers, publishers, books, bookstores, librarians, and readers to congregate and celebrate books and literary culture.

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This is an introductory guide on how to self-publish and choose the right services or approach based on your needs and budget. It is regularly updated.

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Start Here: How to Self-Publish Your Book | Jane Friedman

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This is an introductory guide to the major self-publishing options available to authors today, and how to choose the right service for you.

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KC Book Beat, Independence. 2,297 likes · 281 talking about this. KC Book Beat is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to celebrating and promoting the vibrant literary community of Kansas City. We connect…

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Indie Author Magazine offers insights, tips, and inspiration to help you succeed in your writing journey and business.

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Stay current on self-publishing trends, author rights, marketing strategies, and industry changes impacting indie authors.

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Publishing, marketing, AI, direct sales, and long-term author business strategies.

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... where you will find resources to help you write, publish and market your book, as well as make a living with your writing.
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where you will find resources to help you write, publish and market your book, as well as make a living with your writing. I'm Joanna Penn, Award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. I'm a podcaster, international speaker, and award-winning creative entrepreneur.

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Learn what actually works in book marketing, reader acquisition, and promotion.

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Marketing and Amazon optimization strategies for self-published authors.

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It starts with an idea. Your idea becomes a story. Whether your story entertains, inspires, educates, instructs, travels, or grounds you, Lulu has the publishing solutions to help you publish, print, and prosper.

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Online Self-Publishing Book & Ebook Company | Lulu

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Sell ebooks directly from your website and build reader relationships.

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A Kansas City literary center offering workshops, readings, networking opportunities, and support for writers at every stage of their careers.

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Missouri's statewide organization for writers, offering conferences, contests, networking opportunities, workshops, and professional development.

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Connect with authors across Kansas through workshops, retreats, contests, book festivals, and statewide literary programs.

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Shelf Awareness was born out of a need to provide a range of people in the industry--booksellers, librarians, book buyers at nontraditional stores, members of the media, marketers, salespeople, publishers and others--with essential information for their businesses, including news about titles coming out now, titles getting buzz in the media, authors on major shows, movie tie-ins, sleepers, news about the business, tips on how to sell, etc.

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by J. Courtney Sullivan

J. Courtney Sullivan's Friends and Strangers is set in a college town in upstate New York and centers on a pair of Brooklynites who have just relocated with their baby, whose care they entrust part-time to a college student.

The novel's perspective is evenly split between new mom Elisabeth Ronson and college senior Samantha O'Connell, who attends the nearby all-women's school. Sam is Elisabeth's salvation: she provides childcare three days a week, giving Elisabeth, a journalist and an author, time to
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by Jessica Barry

Jessica Barry's heart-pounding Don't Turn Around begins at midnight, with a young woman, Cait, waiting in a beat-up Jeep outside "a McMansion" in Lubbock, Tex. The engine is idling, ready for a quick getaway. The house remains quiet, though, and Cait is getting nervous. She can wait for only a few more minutes, since she's under strict orders to avoid attracting attention. Almost at the last minute, a stranger comes out of the house, jumps into the Jeep, and the two women are off, on a 322-mile trip to Albuquerque,
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by A.E. Ali, illus. by Rahele Jomepour Bell

Gorgeously inviting illustrations and a joyful theme will likely make Our Favorite Day of the Year kindergarten classrooms' favorite book of the year.

Four boys--Musa, Moisés, Mo and Kevin--start kindergarten as strangers sitting at the same table, but by sharing their respective cultures, they become best friends. For show-and-tell throughout the year, students take turns telling their classmates about their favorite day of the year, including pronunciations, special foods and their familial or cultural
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Thursday, July 2, 2020
KCRW's Bookworm: Scott Spencer, author of An Ocean Without a Shore: A Novel (Ecco, $27.99, 9780062851628).

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Fresh Air: Dr. Danielle Ofri, author of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error (Beacon Press, $26.95, 9780807037881).

Good Morning America: Dr. Jill Biden, author of Joey: The Story of Joe Biden (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman, $19.99, 9781534480537).

Monday, June 29, 2020
Today Show: Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning: A Novel (Knopf, $25.95, 9780525658696).

Thursday, June 25, 2020
KCRW's Bookworm: Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half: A Novel (Riverhead, $27, 9780525536291).

Wednesday, June 24, 2020
The View: John Bolton, author of The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir (Simon & Schuster, $32.50, 9781982148034).

Late Night with Seth Meyers: Mike Birbiglia, author of The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad (Grand Central, $28, 9781538701515).

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Self-Publishing News Podcast

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Self-Publishing News Podcast - The Alliance Independent Authors

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The Self-Publishing News podcast is sponsored by PublishMe

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The official blog of Writer Beware® shines a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers, industry news, and commentary. Writer Beware® is sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.

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Shining a small, bright light in a wilderness of writing scams