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Editor's Pick : Current Obsessions

4/11/2022

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Here’s another Editor’s Pick blog post, where we ask each of our team a question and everyone sees what they can come up with for an answer.
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This time we asked: What are you currently obsessing over? 


(And this could be any media—books, movies, tv shows, magazines, podcasts—that they’re reading or watching and want to share.)

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The Fantasy Writer's Punk List

2/21/2022

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This is a repost from one of our Editor's blogs at megannkammerman.com. Originally posted in 2020, they wanted to share it on Starwhale Books, and we thought it would be a fun addition to our blog and a good way to showcase all of the different types of speculative fiction stories. 

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punk genres: from magicpunk to steampunk to piratepunk
...and everypunk in between

I recently started world-building for a new story idea (I know— bad when I'm supposed to be in the middle of revising my current project) but in trying to figure out the level of technology and feeling of my new world I got lost in google searches about the different punk genres. 

So I decided to make a master list. Mostly for me, but also because I needed a subject for my (very very late) monthly blog post. (Seriously, it’s becoming a bi-yearly blog post at the rate I’m going). 

So punk genres.

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Editor's Pick: Best Reads of 2020

1/1/2021

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This last year may have been crazy, but all of the extra time gave us the opportunity to read a whole ton of new and amazing books (many of which have become our favorites of all time). It's a bit late, but we wanted to do a blog recommending the absolute best we read. 

​Here goes. 

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Self-Publishing Checklist: Publish Your Book!

9/18/2020

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Welcome to the third and final post of our series, summarizing our Self-Publishing Checklists. This one will cover all the steps to submit your manuscript to your POD service, and get your book officially published! If you missed it, here's the first in our series, which covers all of your publishing prep work and here's the second, covering building your files and choosing your Print-on-Demand service. 

We’ve put together this guide to help authors through the process of self-publishing. Our goal is to give you a framework to hopefully make the task of publishing your book seem just a little less daunting. Remember that this isn’t meant to be the only way to get a book published, and won’t include all of the information you will need (that would be difficult to list in one place). However, where it’s lacking, we’ve included links to outside websites and blog posts that we’ve found helpful.

​we wish you luck on your publishing journey!


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Self-Publishing Checklist: Amazon VS IngramSpark

9/11/2020

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Welcome to the second of our series of blog posts, summarizing our Self-Publishing Checklists. This one will cover building your manuscript files and choosing which Print-on-Demand services you want to publish with. If you missed it, here's the first in our series, which covers all of your publishing prep work. 

We’ve put together this guide to help authors through the process of self-publishing. Our goal is to give you a framework to hopefully make the task of publishing your book seem just a little less daunting. Remember that this isn’t meant to be the only way to get a book published, and won’t include all of the information you will need (that would be difficult to list in one place). However, where it’s lacking, we’ve included links to outside websites and blog posts that we’ve found helpful.

​we wish you luck on your publishing journey!


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Self-Publishing Checklist: Pre-Publishing Prep

9/10/2020

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This will be the first of a series of blog posts, summarizing our Self-Publishing Checklists. This one will cover all of your pre-publishing prep work, starting with getting your ISBNs and finishing with your title page. ​We’ve put together this guide to help authors through the process of self-publishing. Our goal is to give you a framework to hopefully make the task of publishing your book seem just a little less daunting.

Remember that this isn’t meant to be the only way to get a book published, and won’t include all of the information you will need (that would be difficult to list in one place). However, where it’s lacking, we’ve included links to outside websites and blog posts that we’ve found helpful.
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we wish you luck on your publishing journey!


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Different Types of Publishing Houses

6/8/2020

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In the beginning, writing a book feels like the hard part. But once you have the book written, after years of rewriting and revising and editing, after you finally feel like you're ready to get it printed and to be done and for other people to finally read it, that's when the hard part really starts. 

It used to be that there was only one way to get your book published. You format your manuscript and print it out, then send it by snail mail to a dozen different publishers, crossing your fingers, and hoping that at least one of them likes it enough to accept.

But a lot has changed since then. For one, I don't think anyone uses snail mail anymore. But there are also many other ways to get your book printed and published. This blog is a quick summary of our knowledge and research on the subject of the types of publishing houses.

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Editor's Pick: Current Favorite Book

4/4/2020

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Editor’s Pick is a blog series where we ask our team of editors, designers, and artists a question once in a while. Usually something along the lines of what is your favorite book, author, piece of writing advice, form of art or expression, or anything that we think would be fun to know. All of us have very different tastes, so it's always interesting to see what we come up with. 
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This week’s question is: What is your current favorite book you've read? 
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(Current because its too hard for us all to pick an absolute favorite book. There's just too many.) 

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Bellow of the Beast: Question & Answer

3/12/2020

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"​​A boy. A bunny. Dandelion puffs. And a beast that just needs someone to hear him."
Bellow of the Beast is a children's book illustrated by Kristann Kammerman and written by Kristann and Megann Kammerman. It's about a young boy who journeys deep into a cave, where he meets a beast with a fierce hello. 

For our first ever blog post, we're going to do a little question and answer with the authors of the book, to learn a bit about their story, process, and future goals.

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