They only sell eBooks on their website, but print versions are available on other sites. They have good distribution and are available at most mainstream UK booksellers.

The covers of their work are well designed and genre appropriate.

They ask that all submissions be made via email and include the following:

• A one page synopsis
• Two to three sample chapters, or better yet the completed manuscript
• Your CV outlining your writing experience

To learn their submission email address, go here.

Emily Harstone is the author of many popular books, including The Authors Publish Guide to Manuscript Submissions, Submit, Publish, Repeat, and The 2022 Guide to Manuscript Publishers.

She regularly teaches three acclaimed courses on writing and publishing at The Writer’s Workshop at Authors Publish. You can follow her on Facebook here.

At The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts they believe, “that something very small can add up to something very big, as in the compressed moment of the big bang.” They’re looking for small writing that makes a big impact. The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts and Matter Press are closely tied to fashfiction.net; all are edited by Randall Brown.

They Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is published weekly, but the journal isn’t always open to submissions. Right now they’re open through June 15, and submitting authors can expect a response within five days. They accept around 2% of the submissions they receive.

Authors of shortform fiction, creative nonfiction, and prose poetry may submit one piece, 600 words or fewer. Please note that The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts does not accept poetry with line breaks.

Authors may submit one piece in each category at a time.   Fiction and fictional prose poems form one category, while nonfiction and creative nonfictional prose poetry are together in another category. Authors should wait to receive a response before sending another submission, and should only submit up to three pieces in each category per reading period.

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts accepts submissions online, not via email or by post. They accept simultaneous submissions but ask that authors withdraw work published elsewhere. They do not accept previously published work, including writing published on blogs and other personal websites.

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts only accepts submissions that follow the guidelines they’ve posted online. Please read these guidelines in full before submitting.

If you would like to learn more or submit to The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, please visit their website here.

Bio: Ella Peary is the pen name for an author, editor, creative writing mentor, and submission consultant. Over the past five years, she’s written hundreds of articles for Authors Publish, and she’s also served as a copywriter and copy editor for a wide range of organizations and individuals. She is the author of The Quick Start Guide to Flash Fiction. She occasionally teaches a course on flash fiction. You can contact her at ellapeary@gmail.com.

In my mid-thirties, shortly before my son was born, I sold two essays to national magazines and thought my writing career had finally been launched. Then, postpartum depression and relationship issues struck, and while wrestling with those challenges, I didn’t write creatively for years. In my jobs in nonprofit publicity and communications, I produced advertising copy and edited others’ work, but felt as though I’d lost my own writing impulse.

A move to rural New England and a new job as houseparent for developmentally disabled adults changed that. I loved the peace and beauty of my environment and my hands-on work with people, but I was itching for some intellectual and creative stimulation. On a whim, I decided to start a book blog.

Becoming part of the large, diverse, and talented book blogging community turned out to be one of the best moves I ever made. And unexpectedly, it helped my writing, too. I started to consider myself a writer again, and eventually to submit essays and poems to online and print publications. Last year, I completed a book that is currently in development with a small independent publisher. I’m certain that without my years of blogging, I would never have made it to this point.

Here are some of the ways that blogging helped me, and maybe can help you too.

1. Establish a writing habit

If you tend to procrastinate and think you’ll get around to writing someday but never do, setting the intention to blog regularly can counteract that. The schedule is up to you, but if you establish one or more days per week when you usually post something, it becomes a habit that doesn’t take so much energy to continue, and ideas generate themselves in the in between times. It’s something I look forward to instead of being a chore.

2. Generate content

Although some journals won’t consider material published on a personal blog, some still do. This year I looked back at my past posts and submitted one nearly unchanged to an online journal, which promptly accepted it and asked for more. You could also revise and rework a short post into a longer piece, or look back at your past posts as a kind of pre-writing step that you can mine for material.

3. Practice your craft

I started out mainly writing book reviews, and although at first it was challenging for me to present a book effectively without resorting to plot summary, I enjoyed the challenge and got better at it. I’ve since published book reviews elsewhere using that experience. Repeated practice in any kind of form can be beneficial, in addition to practicing writing in general.

4. Be your own publisher

A blog is essentially a form of self-publishing. It introduces you to the amazing freedom and autonomy that self-publishing brings, as well as the need to reach out and make your presence felt if you want anybody to read your stuff. There’s the opportunity to add useful tech knowledge to your toolkit, along with marketing skills.

5. Connect with a community of writers

This brings me to the next benefit. When I started blogging, I thought I could press “Post” and be immediately inundated with adoring readers, but no. I had to go out and visit other blogs, comment and interact with them, and get people interested in me and what I had to say. Taking this not as a mere marketing ploy, but as an opportunity to sincerely appreciate and express interest in other writers, I ended up with a multitude of new creative friendships that are mutually rewarding.

6. Get feedback and encouragement from readers

One of the best things about blogging, in my opinion, is the opportunity for immediate response. It’s heartening to engage with readers and know that your words are actually being received. Yes, trolling and spam are dangers, but my own experience with comments has been overwhelmingly positive. At a time when I was discouraged that my poetry submissions were all being rejected, I posted some of my poems on my blog and was encouraged by the heartwarming reaction. Some of those poems have since been published elsewhere.

7. Establish a platform and an audience

Taking all of this together, with a blog you have an opportunity to create the all-important author platform and audience, considered necessary these days if you want to publish in a more conventional format. If you blog about something you are sincerely passionate about — books, for me, but for you it may be cooking, travel, sports, or anything else you love — that passion will both make the work a pleasure and attract readers who sense that energy.

If you simply love to write, blogging can be an excellent way to bring your writing to the world, and to enter into a world of new and fruitful connections. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have.

Bio: Lory Widmer Hess has published writing in Parabola, Interweave Knits, the Ruminate blog, Amethyst Review, and elsewhere. Last November, during an Authors Publish course, she drafted a book now in development with a small independent publisher. She lives with her family in Switzerland and blogs at enterenchanted.com.