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Tag: Small Press
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Small Presses Should Champion Seasoned Romance
Romance readers over 40 are buying books but skipping sex scenes that don't reflect their lives. Small presses can fill this market gap with midlife intimacy.
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Selling Your Trauma-Adjacent Fiction with Care
A content note prepares the right reader without giving away your plot, and it lets your book be brave without blindsiding the people you wrote it for.
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Romance vs. Women’s Fiction
Romance centers on a love story with a happy ending. Women’s fiction follows a heroine’s personal journey. Learn how they differ and overlap.
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It’s Never Too Late to Publish Your Story
A lot of writers tell me they feel like they’ve missed their chance. Maybe you’re in your sixties, finally dusting off the poems you wrote while raising a family. Or you’ve been journaling through decades of life experience, only to hear that publishing is “too complicated” or “too late.” That’s not true. Some of the...
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Small Presses Are Quietly Changing Everything
Traditional publishing makes a lot of writers feel like they’re doing it wrong. Maybe you wrote a novel in your fifties, or kept poems in a drawer for twenty years. You’d like to be seen, to have your words read. And now, you’re hearing that unless you have an MFA, a huge social following, or...