5 Red Flags to Avoid When Querying Small Publishers
If you don’t have an agent to vet your potential small publishers, here are five tips to save you some headaches—and…
Top 10 Fantasy Book Covers of 2019
Maybe you can judge a book by the cover. These are our favourites from 2019.
12 Books to Gift Your Friends for Christmas
Which books should you get (or add to your own Christmas list), you ask? We're here to help with some ideas.
Ahoy, we’ve signed a new author!
Krakens, beware! There's a new pirate on board our ship. We've signed fantasy author Shelly Campbell.
The Mythmakers' Guild
Our Facebook Writer’s community, called The Mythmakers’ Guild, is for aspiring sci-fi and fantasy authors to encourage each other and get advice from the professional writers and editors in the group. Visit our Communities page for more information.
Podcasts & Audio Publishing
Our podcast, The Wayfarer’s Guide to Worldbuilding is a tool to help writers, DMs, and creatives build better worlds. Each episode explores one facet of worldbuilding and gives practical advice on how to make these elements realistic.
About Us
We are a small press that publishes science fiction, fantasy, and select nonfiction. We’re passionate about bringing undervalued voices to the printed page, those who have amazing stories to tell. And we love unique worldbuilding.
How We're Different
We act like a traditional publisher, committed to the editing, design, and marketing for our books, but with the advantages of a small press. We are able to give our writers loving attention and encourage aspiring authors to learn and grow through our communities.
Check out this guest post from our proofreader, and learn what words to avoid to sharpen your prose.
Three Ways to Avoid Vague Writing | Mythos & Ink
www.mythosink.com
To improve your writing, eliminate vague words."Be careful when your villain has a disability, as there are some tired, harmful tropes associated with these characters and it’s best to avoid them. Here are some tips on what to consider."
4 Tropes to Avoid When Your Villain has a Disability | Mythos & Ink
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When your villain struggles with a medical condition, here are some tips on what to avoid and what to do instead.So you've written a book. Now what? Read publishing tips from Mythos & Ink, including how to write disabled characters and promote gender equality. mailchi.mp/7872c2aaec1e/publishingtips
"There are a few traps that writers can fall into when creating characters with disabilities that do a disservice to these minorities."
How to Craft Characters with Disabilities | Mythos & Ink
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Contrary to popular practice, you do not need to write a book that entirely revolves around an illness or disability in order to include those characters.
Who is the best-written character that you hate?
Check out this guest post from our proofreader, @AMellenWrites, and learn what words to avoid to sharpen your prose. #writing #editing https://www.mythosink.com/three-ways-to-avoid-vague-writing/
Amplify the voices of 10 women and keep it going (please) 🤗
10 women in publishing who are superheroes:
@AnneTibbets
@AlixEHarrow
@_armedwithabook
@AMellenWrites
@itsbrightonrose
@Sarah_Nicolas
@thekiralynne
@AvalinahsBooks
@LizLim
@JustCaytlin https://twitter.com/SpeakUp_MHA/status/1229839962327015424
How to write a book:
1. Get idea.
2. Sit down.
3. Open laptop.
4. Find mood music.
5. No, not that song.
6. Not quite.
7. That one might work.
8. Found it!
9. Okay, I’m ready.
10. Whoops, out of time.
Which books are on your "must read" list for 2020?