Imagine your favourite characters pulled into a universe almost exactly like their own, except in this one, instead of English, they speak German, Italian, Spanish. This is a brave new world where stories are being opened up to a [...]
What’s a day like for a lesbian fiction publisher? Headache-shaped! And also rewarding. Ylva’s CEO, Astrid Ohletz, reveals what she’s learned since she got into publishing. Tell us five important, funny, or unusual things about yourself. When I [...]
It never occurred to me I could be an author. Even though I was a journalist for decades, I just assumed I wasn’t good enough to be in that mystical creative writers’ club. Then one day a fanfiction I [...]
Before you submit your manuscript to a publisher or a literary agent, make sure you read the submission guidelines and follow them to the letter. Many acquisition editors and agents that are faced with stacks of submissions every day [...]
One of the reasons why publishers reject manuscripts is that authors did not read—or chose to ignore—the submission guidelines. Most publishers have a specific focus and a specific format in which they want to receive submissions, usually described in [...]
In our first year of business, we received more than a dozen manuscripts. We had to reject ninety percent of them—mostly for the same reasons. Here are the top twelve reasons manuscripts are rejected: The author is telling instead [...]
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