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I know a lot of editors probably don't agree, but I am so sick of seeing editors make their edits based on a ton of old rules that we don't follow in every day speech anymore. Editing a YA right now (it's so good, can't wait for this one), & the author has an intro note about
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SUBMISSIONS OPEN for our unthemed quarterly anthology coming in autumn! We accept work in all written genres (no visual art for quarterly anthologies) ✨ don’t forget to check the guidelines on our website before submitting
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We are looking for horror submissions for a new anthology! All categories welcome (fiction, poetry, cnf, visual, hybrid, w/e) Deadline is January 1st, don’t forget to read guidelines & put horror in your subject line so it doesn’t get lost
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reminder because we just had someone pull a submission for this reason - EIC
@emily_perkovich
is a SxWer as are more than a few of our authors & masthead. We are pro SxWers. If you aren't we may not be the best fit for your work.
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Querencia Press is partnering with Chloe Maria Winstanley as editor & curator on an anthology to benefit Palestinian refugees. Profits from this anthology will be donated to
@UNRWA
which provides assistance and protection for Palestinian refugees ✨ link in bio
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This was my response to someone who has chatted with me a few times and asked if I could take their work because they are neurodivergent & querying is hard. I’m sharing this because it was a hard, uncomfortable conversation I’d to love to avoid anyone having to have.
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I don’t care if it means you won’t submit to us or won’t read us. I will NEVER be publishing besties just to make them feel good. We are looking for quality work from marginalized people that gets passed up to pay fair royalties to & give fair chances.
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about rules and more about the flow. Is it natural? Are the run-ons distracting or hard to read through? Is the slang so colloquial that it can't be parsed? If not, why are we sucking the life out of stories? I just wish we'd move away from this grammar police expectation.
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I just finished proofing our summer anthology, and I would like to be able to add a few more fiction and cnf pieces. So, if you’ve got something looking for a home (we take reprints also), send it today or tomorrow, get a response right away!
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Hey. Not elaborating. But. If you don’t support a free Palestine, you can click that unfollow any time now, and in the meantime keep your name out of our submission queue. 🥰
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like passive voice or improper grammar/too many contractions. people. don't. speak. like. that. anymore. It is ok to say wanna instead of want to in dialogue or have your YA character think that she literally wants to die of embarrassment. I feel like editors need to worry less
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Unthemed quarterly submissions are open for Autumn! We take all written genres for our quarterly anthologies, and submissions can be sent through Submittable ✨ link in bio—please read submission guidelines. Deadline September 1st
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Hi, Querencia friends! I am in a pretty rough spot emotionally this past week that I don’t see letting up in the next few days. Please be patient with me. I’m even slower than usual. xx em
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Btw—we are fee free, open year round for MS, & alternate between 2 anthology call outs. We have a 50/50 traditional royalty split MS, and we are working up to being able to pay contributors. You prob shouldn’t eat McDonald’s but submitting to us won’t stop you from it either.
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Querencia is open for submissions to our unthemed quarterly anthology! Make sure to read our submission guidelines on the website ✨
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For anyone wondering if the rage is misplaced regarding the fact that we’re STILL being called the R word—this is my sweet autistic 14 year old and my 9 year old with clinical, chronic anxiety. As a person, this behavior is disgusting. But as a mother, I’m also furious.
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Submissions are open for our unthemed quarterly anthology coming winter 2024! We accept work in all written genres (no visual art for the quarterly anthologies) ✨ please check out guidelines on our website before submitting—anthology guidelines are on the last 1/2 of the page
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arterial language. Keeping that in mind, it feels important to also keep their voice authentic. I am being so gentle with things like run-ons & incomplete thoughts, but I can't stop thinking about how some of the reviews for our fiction titles have had complaints about things
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I am about to send out like ten-ish MS acceptances. We have around 20 titles in editing right now. For the most part we operate with one editor & occasionally a volunteer. All this to say, I want to work with you, but I am a slow, saddish little spoonie, please don't forget <3
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Just checked inventory—we sold 142 books and gave away 8. I know everyone’s sale goal is different, but pretty happy with this 💗 thank you all for supporting our authors 🤗
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I’ve done this before, but I think it’s important for financial transparency to indie authors (especially poets)—if you have books published, how much on avg do you make per book? If not, how much do/did you think an indie author makes per book?
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The banner for our AWP booth came today, & I feel pure joy 🥰
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Y’all. Today, my mother in law, who buys all Querencia’s titles, informed me that she doesn’t leave you all reviews because sometimes she just really doesn’t understand poems. So just know you have one extremely loyal fan when publishing with us.
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Please do not message editors asking them to take your work just because you’ve talked a few times. This is so uncomfortable and would create wild amounts of inequality in an industry already rife with nepotism.
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some extra info to counter some misinfo just touted - we are fee free, we pay a 50/50 royalty split, we donate around 30% of the royalties that come to us because we match author donations, we give free ARCs, we pay for all marketing & contests, & our financials are front facing
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Querencia accepts all genres for MS! Check out our website for submission guidelines before submitting! We get a large number of submissions and will no longer be reading subs that do not follow our guidelines ✨ link in bio
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Our mission statement says we want you to shout, & every now and then this means we get a sub from an old straight white dude actually yelling at us about how no one accepts his extremely conservative or conspiracy based ideas 🥴
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Querencia would be happy to read through any of the withdrawals in current projects and rehome any that work with our roster. PLEASE JUST MENTION
@nakedcatlitmag
in your subject line, so I know what I’m reading.
We're so sorry that we can't follow through on our previous EICs' commitments at present but my thoughts on options for these authors are as follows:
1. Withdraw & submit elsewhere (can give reccs)
2. Withdraw & resubmit when we're back on our feet
3. Self pub & we can promote!
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Unthemed quarterly submissions are open for Summer! We take all written genres for our quarterly anthologies, and submissions can be sent through Submittable ✨ link in bio—please read submission guidelines. Deadline June 1st
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Feeling defeated today - found out we had a title with a very high return rate, so we are not going to be receiving another payment from our distributors until April - would reeeeeally appreciate reviews and sales more than ever this year to quickly make up that balance 🙏
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Our Winter Anthology is out today! This unthemed collection features 46 contributors across poetry, fiction, cnf, & hybrid work. Themes vary widely, and as with all of our titles, this should be read with care ✨ link in bio!
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Don’t forget to come see us at booth 1445! 🌈
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Hey, all—I am going to be taking a short mental health break. I will probably still do a few check ins when I am feeling up to it, but I’m experiencing some pretty bad CPTSD panic attacks the past few days. Thank you all for your patience and support 🫶🏼
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We are very excited to announce our first horror anthology, it always finds me—this full color collection features visual art and writing from 39 contributors! ✨ link in bio
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Our literal NAME means 'safespace' hope that helps.
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reminder that our authors make almost double in royalties when you order directly through us (Payhip) vs through retailers that we have to give a discount to, and they make 70% of their ebook sales, so don't feel bad buying digital
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As a publisher, one thing I would share that I did not think about as an author before—as much as wait times for acceptances/publication suck, it’s very important to look at the track record & if that wait time is due to quality, keep reminding yourself be patient.
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One of the things about reading subs that stresses me the most is when a chapbook has tons of great pieces but is all over the place with no through way. Pro tip—be as intentional w/ your chaps as your full lengths. Don’t just give all the leftovers a little place to hangout.
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We are looking for Palestinian & Jewish authors who are not afraid to use the word genocide & are dedicated to freedom for all not some to write for our blog. We are accepting anonymous subs. Comments are off in this post to help create safety for the community.
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I just want y’all to know that editing is so scary for me every time. Because some people get that I want to make your work better, but some really don’t. & that means I never know if you’re going to be like let’s discuss why I don’t want this change or “no. they’re my words.”
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on days when i do not feel capable of work, i have been going through my giant list of pubs/presses/zines/journals & deleting the defunct & while I am sad to see so many closed, it does make me feel good that we are coming up on our second birthday <3 thank you all
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The Querencia family is sad to announce the passing of Eve Ott, author of Proof of the Sun. She was lovely to work with & we are proud to have been able to share a story that she kept to herself for so long.
The 2nd & 3rd slides contain the obituary sent to us by the family 🖤
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got a really...strange reply to a rejection, so I just want to share with y'all that if I had the capacity I would publish prob 75% of subs, but considering we had 300 subs in the last 30 days, it is just not possible which means A LOT of work I love has to be rejected :/
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SURPRISE! Going to do a very quick open call across all anthology genres (not manuscripts). Send us anything you have been trying to place, from now until Christmas, & I will do my very best to find a place for it in our current anthologies! Especially interested in weird stuff🩷
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If you want a digital copy of any of our titles to add to your Sealey Challenge, but can’t afford it, let us know so we can get you one free of charge ✨✨✨ we just want you to read more poetry 🥰
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I am posting 3 non-editor volunteer positions in this thread. If you are interested, comment on the opportunity you're connecting with :)
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Very excited to announce the most difficult choice I make all year, Querencia’s Pushcart Nominations—
@wong_keon
@_rayehendrix
@talbot_heindl
Elsa Valmidiano, Chimen Georgette Kouri & Cheryl Tan
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We sent out an email to all of our authors today. And omg, y’all! Between in process & already published, we have way over 100 authors not even counting anthology contributors! When did this happen?!
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We are open for Not Ghosts, But Spirits Volume V submissions! We accept any work from the women’s and LGBTQIAP+ communities for this anthology series. We will be donating all proceeds from this volume to
@project_q_
✨detailed guidelines are on our website
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looking at the 2023 year to date, we need to sell around 100 units/month to do better for our authors this year than we did last. Thank you all for helping us to have such a high goal to aspire for this year <3
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Our Summer Anthology is out today! This unthemed collection features 44 contributors across poetry, fiction, cnf, & hybrid work. Themes vary widely, and as with all of our titles, this should be read with care ✨ link in bio!
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As promised, transparent financial information on where we ended out 2023—after business costs we came in at -$6170.44
🤞🏼here’s hoping that 2024 is the year we turn a profit!
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This was a lengthy project but all of our titles are now available directly through Querencia (still adding hardcovers). Buying through us means authors make more on royalties and our ebooks are $2 instead of the $3 Amazon charges
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We finally gave in and paid for Submittable! After April we will not be taking emailed subs & prefer you start using Submittable now. (We will still be responding to everything that has already been emailed.)
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Orders are super low this month 😬would a free Querencia sticker with your order motivate any of you? 🫠 I’m sorry. I’m bad at marketing with negative money & don’t know what to do to make sure we end this royalty period on a high note 🥴
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I just realized that I worked in a customer facing job for so long that I don't just smile when I answer phone calls. I smile when I answer emails. Like it's going to convey a more friendly tone 🥲
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We are open for Not Ghosts, But Spirits Volume IV submissions! We will be donating all proceeds from this volume to
@crossroadsabq
The tentative deadline is November 1st, but we may move that if we get too many or not enough submissions. ✨link in bio
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It feels strange updating socials w/ things like this, but I want to make sure Querencia is consistently transparent. My husband’s grandmother just passed from Covid today after a horrible night, & my grandmother is also hospitalized right now. Please be patient w/ my absence 🫶🏼
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Hi, I know 1 of you hates transparency updates, but just popping in to say that I am interminably behind on every.single.project we have going on right now. Pleeease don’t send me checkins or ask for receipt confirmation right now. I won’t be mad if you do, but will be slower.
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Thanks so much to anyone who bought a copy of Not Ghosts But Spirits III—we were able to donate just under $340 to
@TransLawCenter
thanks to y’all!
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rejecting a really great submission packet (from another EIC, nonetheless) that did not follow submission guidelines is not what I wanted to do tonight...
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@DiaryofaSickGrl
That “just not right” feeling that is easier to explain as tired or sad but really is your whole body failing you in too many ways to enumerate.
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We had some distribution issues on this one & metadata hasn’t updated with retailers yet, but while you’re waiting, you can preorder directly from Querencia! Release is January 31st, & this will be available everywhere just like all of our other titles ✨ link in bio
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Y’all. Two tables is so much set up. Come hang out with us at
@printersrowfest
We’re right at the Polk entrance!
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FYI—I am still reading the rehome books, but feel free to also submit other places. I’ve accepted a few, but am a little full at the moment. Also have tried texting Arthur but appears my phone is blocked 🥲
OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
IN SUMMARY:
- We’re rebranding/relaunching
- Separating ourselves from the commitments of our formers EiCs
- Projects under present management unaffected
- Organising fundraiser scheme to support affected authors
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Just giving a transparency update—my pain has been pretty intolerable, so I spent the majority of today at appointments to make tmrw & next week more tolerable. So got no work done today, in hopes of better focus moving forward 🫶🏼
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Preorder for our Spring Anthology is live! This unthemed collection features 44 contributors across poetry, fiction, cnf, & hybrid work. Themes vary widely, and as with all of our titles, this should be read with care ✨ link in bio! Available May 31st
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We started a Slack channel for our authors to have a community off social media & an easier way to reach us & each other. I didn't know how it was going to go over, but so far it has already been great & I would highly recommend this to other publishers.
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We had so much fun meeting you all at Printers Row! Thank you to everyone who stopped by 🥰 next month we’ll be in NJ doing the same ✨
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Also, we are poor and work under a deficit so if you can afford a tip jar sub, it’ll make us suuuuuper happy to receive
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Welcome 3 new admin team members, who have already been hard at work helping us get organized behind the scenes.
@storyofariya
has been working on our inventory queries
@jilly_stardust
as an addiitonal blog curator &
@najknows
is reading MS subs. Big thanks & welcome to all 3 💗
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I said fuckit and added all the titles to the sale. So everything is 15% off until August 1st
Had a hard time deciding to participate in 🌈 pride, which is why we’re late. I decided to end in July because that felt like a happy way to make sure no one forgets that June is a way to observe our happiness, love, & joy w/ special attention, not the only time we matter.
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I just opened submittable submissions for adding readers to our team! the guidelines are listed on submittable, but I have added a screengrab here - alt text won't fit, so please visit submittable if you need that
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This is deplorable. Give us your untraditional bios, stories, cover letters, and skip the erasure by cis-het white poet laureates who should know better.
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Pssssst 👀
We are looking for horror submissions for a new anthology! All categories welcome (fiction, poetry, cnf, visual, hybrid, w/e) Deadline is January 1st, don’t forget to read guidelines & put horror in your subject line so it doesn’t get lost
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UPDATE-We are not going to be accepting any manuscript submissions in December; my hope is to catch up some of the titles we already have in our acceptance pile & devote more time to preparing for taxes—
We will reopen in January & still take anthology subs through December.
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So I am looking at how many MS subs we have right now, & we are going to need to close in November & December again this year to have any hope of getting responses below 9 months. This is a soft announcement, but will post again in October as a reminder.
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Our first horror anthology is out today! Grab your copy at the link in the bio!
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gutter rainbows is now available for preorder! This collection of poetry by
@apoetlibrarian
works with the language of minerals and rocks to tell a story of the relationship between women & geological trauma, along with the sediment of betrayal that lingers in our foundation.
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We’re extra excited to announce that our first rehomed collection, Of Elderberry, Fire, & Fables by
@bybridgettev
is now available for preorder and includes new work, as well! This collection has witchy, cottage core vibes centering on relationships ✨ link in bio
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Hey, friends! We did this a few months ago, & I was really happy w/ the volunteers that ended up chipping in! Looking for a few people that would be up to some admin projects (uploading docs, data input, querying bookstores) & social media help! DM or email if interested!
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Just some info for everyone. We aren’t making money out here. We just love literature. Please respect everyone on our team (& let’s be real, this is true of the majority of small presses).
Don’t worry y’all. The men have spoken. I’m actually the dick. Should’ve just given all the men what they want for free.
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Reviews have gone down a bit recently, so just a reminder to everyone that 1 reviews are extremely important to indie authors & 2 we send free review PDFs & EPUBs to anyone who requests one (or you can join our review team on our website).
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hoping to have at least 30 more sales this month to meet the goal of 100 units each month this year! Share your favorite Querencia title on socials, buy discounted titles on Bookshop, or use the discount code FIRSTPURCHASE on our Payhip store for 10% off!
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Reminder to check out our submission guidelines! We have been getting a lot of questions, emails, DMs that are all answered on this page—our formatting guides are lax, but there is a lot of other info here.
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We are going to be releasing this very soon along with several other
@nakedcatlitmag
rehomes—if we open a gofundme/kickstarter situation would you all donate &/or share like crazy to cover some of these old preorders for folks?
So even when it is finally published (already signed with a new press), I feel like it will not be successful because of the lack of commitment, communication, and honesty by Naked Cat. Devon and John with the new team have been doing above and beyond to fix these mistakes.
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Sales have been pretty slow the last two months (for a lot of small publishers) 😬 we still have 15% off of all our titles for a few more days, and our authors would definitely appreciate the love <3
Had a hard time deciding to participate in 🌈 pride, which is why we’re late. I decided to end in July because that felt like a happy way to make sure no one forgets that June is a way to observe our happiness, love, & joy w/ special attention, not the only time we matter.
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Also. Going to open a callout right now for your most “r3t4rded”, queer, disabled, mentally unstable work. No clue what we’re going to call it. But thanks to this guy, we’re making something. Tell us about all your societal handicaps. Send it if you’ve got it.
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hiiiii, ok, transparency info that I did not realize needed to be shared before now--gross payout is based off the entire sales amount, net is based off of what is leftover after all the deductions are made (taxes, printing, shipping, etc), we pay 50/50 of NET sales.
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We are looking for visual art, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid work for Volume 2 of our Women, Queer, Trans, & Enby series! Sales from this volume will be donated to Classroom of Compassion ✨Submission Guidelines in bio!
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hi, friends - i thought it might be interesting to folks to see how much is going on behind the scenes here (aside from anthologies) at any given time. if you hate it. i'll never do it again. but here is our 'in process' spreadsheet, sans authors, jic they wanna surprise y'all
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Feeling a tad bit frustrated, so sharing to curtail it happening in the future—I am very lax w/ formatting & amenable to unique formatting, especially w/ MS. But if I send you an anthology proof, please don’t reformat it. The anthologies are all formatted for consistency.
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Some huge editing advice that I didn't get until I started editing other's work—sometimes the best word choice is the normal and ubiquitous one, not the creative one that only you can think of. Don't forget your reader has to be able to understand/see what you are implying.
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Sharing this as a reminder to y’all to not work with them
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Cheryl Tan’s chapbook, goddess, is now available for preorder! This poetry, built upon Buddhist and Christian imagery, is Tan’s love letter to queer teenagehood. ✨ link in bio
Cover by the author
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speaking of hating rejections, please read submissions guidelines before you submit anywhere. I just had to reject 3 different authors for submissions that were 2-5k over our anthology word count max. I do sometimes take work that goes slightly over, but not thousands...
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Since it does not seem we will ever be given access to our previous account, we made a new one. Be our friend here👉👈
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Today I got sooo much done. Started to feel burnt out & was like, well let me check what’s left on the list, maybe I just deserve a nice break. All of it was left. I did a ton of tasks as they came up that were not on today’s must do list. 🙃
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Querencia is excited to announce our first workshop, facilitated by our journal editor & Querencia author,
@shiloniziolek
✨ this generative 2 hour workshop is $25 and fee free to all refugees. ✨ link in bio
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