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Our In Print
Last month my newsletter article was about taking the next steps from writing a story to entering a contest, to finding a place to submit your work out there in the publishing world. What is the next step beyond the submissions? What if your work isn't accepted? Put your work in print and sell it in places like Amazon and tons of other publishing platforms.
Is it worth the effort? You'd have to ask the authors right here on WDC that have their work In Print. In Print is a page where WDC authors can list their published books for our community to see.
To list your published book, click My Account in the left column, then click My In Print. You can manage all the books and settings on that page. You will need your ASIN (Amazon.com Standard Item Number) from the book to complete the listing.
I understand many members write just for the joy of telling the story and have no interest in much more. Give it some positive thought, perhaps you might find others who enjoy your characters and are willing to drop a little change to read more. Even if it only earns you enough for a cup of coffee, why not? Chances are small that a publisher will find your story here without a little help from you. Carve out an hour a month to dedicate to submissions and publishing, and see how it goes.
And as always, Write On.
This month's question: Do you have a little time to spend on submissions and publishing? Why or why not?
Answer below  Editors love feedback! 
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Quote Prompt for June 2023:
"A million dreams are keeping me awake."
-- Pasek & Paul, from The Greatest Showman
Excerpt: The humans wandered around the body, or what little remained of it. Crimson puddles, darkening as time passed, and stark white protrusions of ivory bone littered the forest floor. They wouldn’t find the killer if I could help it. A Hunger wasn’t something any human should trifle with. Hell, I didn't particularly want to trifle with it. The evidence of why lay splattered across the woodland, decorating surrounding trees in a macabre abstract painting.
Excerpt: Looking down at the man bound tightly to the stretcher Mortuary Technician Veniamin Gushchin thought Poor bastard, no matter what he did no man deserves a death like this. He was however very careful not to let any emotion show on his face. The men who had ordered that GRU Colonel Oleg Penkovsky be cremated alive were, he felt, quite capable of ordering his own death. So he was careful to show no dissent or hindrance as he adjusted the controls of the incinerator. He had been instructed to set it to it's coolest setting, so as to prolong Penkovsky's suffering. They were even filming it. Evil Swine! Gushchin thought.
Excerpt: He stepped out of the truck, dusty boots hitting the parched red earth. The young man’s sweat-soaked Akubra shaded his dirt-ingrained, but handsome face. Reg Scribbs leaned back on the vehicle and lit a cigarette. He scanned the horizon from left to right taking in what appeared at first glance to be nothing but a moonscape. But rusted out vehicles lay abandoned where they’d broken down, perhaps even many years ago.
The arid, barren landscape, sparse vegetation and red sand dunes surrounding the small town gave him a sense of security. Surely no one would track him down here.
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Excerpt: Al Weber didn’t want to come back from the dead. “Hey. I just got here”, he told the angel pushing him from the front of Heaven’s famed golden gate.
One gentle flutter of the angel’s wings and Al fell back toward Earth through the hole appearing in a nearby cloud. He shot down like a heavy stone, reliving every minute of his life into his twenties when he landed with a jarring thump.
“Holy, er, cow. I’m young again.”
Excerpt: If only the wodewose Prince Barivel chased, with his spear couched at the ready, was his father. He rode hard across the lea after two of the blue-tusked hairy monstrosities, the harvest sun hot on his back. “Whooo!” Kill or be killed, a ridere never retreats from an enemy.
Excerpt: Men of cautious temper have no place upon the open sea. Without remorse, she will haul any forsaken soul downward into a crushing, dark abyss, while cannonade and cutlass lurk beyond every horizon. Lieutenant Wilkes bellowed, and all starboard batteries belched fire and iron into the stolen merchant vessel. Those vile curs offered a retort of similar ferocity. Remorseless metal screamed into the Falchion, sundering wood, flesh, and bone.
Excerpt: Palvon stood in front of six Young Ones in the large living room of his residence. “It all started by accident. One day everyone on Thiak was normal, and the next most of the adults over twenty were dead. All because of an airborne illness that spread over Thiak in one day.”
Excerpt: Somewhere, in a cabin near one of Devil’s Kitchen trails...
Frank jerked awake, listening... There it goes again! He slipped out of bed and edged his way down a small hallway toward the front room. He peeked around the corner, an intruder was rummaging through his papers with his back towards him. Frank slid his foot forward another small step —
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This month's question: Do you have a little time to spend on submissions and publishing? Why or why not?
Answer below Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Action/Adventure Newsletter (May 10, 2023)" question: Do you have publishing goals?
Do you write to suit a current popular publication genre ?
TheBusmanPoet  : No to both questions.
Khola Mousethyme  : I dream sometimes of being published someday. I write mostly for myself though so I never write for popularity.
oldgreywolf scribbles : NO2. If you're one of the lucky 2% who receive a letter from the editor instead of a pink slip, that means they want to publish your work, but you need to fix something, first. DO IT. Fix whatever it is, send it back in with an explanation, and get published.
Ghelatlishol : Perhaps someday! Right now, just trying to find my voice and see what comes out ;) But yeah, been reading a lot of P. Cornwell & Koontz right now so the thriller/mystery genre is starting to kick in...we'll see!
Leslie Loo : I'm still working on my book of three years. I'm struggling right now. I want to someday get it published.
Dawn Embers  : My goals still include getting published. Have been on this site since 2005 and haven't gotten there yet. However, I write the stories I want to write and go from there.
N.A Miller : by 55... Publish a collection of such works. have a long way to go editing my material and getting capital to get a ghost editor... so I have time to spare.
Bob : I write what I like. If some agent or publisher comes upon some of my work and like it, so much the better.
elephantsealer : My number one goal is to be published. I did self-published a book of poetry... However, I would really like to be published, possibly by a publisher...
T.Hovy : Have published poems in English and Malayalam in Amazon, as baby steps
The goal is to have a good volume response (2k buyers) to a publication and good feedback so that I can improve.
I don't go by popular genre as am only a casual writer and engineer by profession. Hope to do my passion in a much more professional way this year.
kriselda: I'm probably going to end up self-publishing, which I'm fine with. I'm only on my first book, but I didn't pick the genre because of its popularity (Paranormal/Urban Fantasy) but because it's what fits the story I have in mind. If I actually get this first book done and published, I have another story in mind that could go either Paranormal/Urban Fantasy or possibly Historical Fiction/Fantasy depending on how I decide to do it.
Bearclaw : Every writer's goal is to be published. I write what I have always written about, not conforming to the current trends. Though my goal is to be published, I do not write for fame and fortune for very few of us ever achieve that. I have stories to tell and I want them to be appreciated by those that like that Genre.
Scarypotato-doing bettertoday : I do want to get published before I die. I also would like to write a novel but seem to be stuck in short story mode. My goal is to find a magazine or publication, submit my work and possibly see it in a collection in a library one day. Maybe it’s foolish but I’m a little bit of a dreamer.
Finder101 : I only want to write...and write. If I do that just allowing my thoughts to run free...a collection will appear...and perhaps its universality will appeal.. but oh, the publishing process....ugh
s : I have achieved every publishing goal except one - to make a living from writing. I have been trad published all the way, and have a large portgolio, so now to make some real freakin' money.
Monty  : No publishing goals at present.
Gaby ~ Keeper Of The Realm  : I have yet to submit anything to a publisher, but then again I've never written so much until now. I also don't write with a publisher in mind. I write for myself, what I like.
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