Devotion In The Open Air: Within the pages of Devotion In The Open Air you’ll find eighteen stories written by women of color from all walks of life that embrace the beauty in the everyday with speculative tales to bring you out of the fast-paced chaos of real life, immersing you in something much moreContinue reading “Our Anthology Is Almost Here”
Category Archives: Publishing Process
Some Competitions For Writers You Should Try For
As of December 2020, still 95% of books published traditionally were by white authors. That is a pretty shocking statistic to hear in 2021 but the truth is that unless a publishing house has BIPOC people on staff, chances are they aren’t even glancing at authors who are people of color. Isn’t that shocking?! Isn’tContinue reading “Some Competitions For Writers You Should Try For”
Things To Know About Self Publishing
Self-publishing comes with a lot of steps, although it can be extremely rewarding and beneficial. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of some of those steps along with some links to resources. Buying Your ISBN and Copyright What is an ISBN? It is the number used to identify your book from all the trillions of booksContinue reading “Things To Know About Self Publishing”
Check Out Our Bookshop Page
What is Bookshop.org? Well, you may be wondering what Bookshop.org is. Basically, it is an online bookstore that helps support small bookstores and businesses. A lot of them are doing their best to stay afloat while competing with stores such as Barnes & Noble, BAM and Amazon. Many of these businesses are BIPOC owned asContinue reading “Check Out Our Bookshop Page”
Looking To Publish? Here Are Some Places To Check Out!
That being said, it takes a lot of time and patience to research journals and small presses. So, we did that for you! Take a look at the presses (separated by genre) and who knows, that goal of publication may be closer than you realized!
A Couple Cool Publishing Tips
We’re all writers here! We all enjoy writing and hope that one day someone out in the world will read what we have written and fall in love with it, right? Well, that being the case, how can someone read what you’ve written if you never publish it? Here in our Circle, our goal isContinue reading “A Couple Cool Publishing Tips”
How To Build Your Perfect Character
Character building is important for every style of writing, not just fiction writing. If you are writing historical nonfiction, you must portray the characters well enough so that your reader doesn’t put your work down and even if you’re writing your own memoir, you have to make those you write about be relatable, interesting andContinue reading “How To Build Your Perfect Character”
Women of Color Publishers
Want to know a few publishing companies that are owned by women of color?
Writing Prompts
Even the best authors sometimes use prompts to help motivate them and get their creative juices flowing. A writing prompt is simply a topic around which you write. It can be a word or sentence, a paragraph or picture. It may even be an item. The purpose of a prompt is to inspire you toContinue reading “Writing Prompts”
Ten Need to Know Facts About ISBNs and Barcodes
Many first time authors aren’t always in the know when it comes to barcodes and ISBNs. I suggest that every author familiarize themselves, especially if they are deciding to self-publish and are using a self-publishing service for the first time. You don’t want to be caught unawares, nor do you want to be scammed. SoContinue reading “Ten Need to Know Facts About ISBNs and Barcodes”
Women of Color Writers Circle 