Explore the forefront of independent publishing. From novels and zines to academic texts, this category celebrates the written word in all its forms.
Creator Tips
Publicity is a tricky thing. How do you get a reporter’s attention without being annoying? How do you encourage positive coverage in the press? Where do you even start?
The Creative Download
Reflecting on 2023 and Anticipating 2024's Breakthroughs in Publishing.
Creator Tips
How to Win over Librarians and Broaden the Reach of your Work.
Newsroom
Crowdfund for your book with Kickstarter. Give backers their audiobook reward with Findaway Voices by Spotify.
Creator Tips
Tips and tricks for each element of your campaign, from choosing your funding goal to lining up creative rewards.
Creator Tips
Here's why the author's record-smashing Kickstarter campaign performed so phenomenally well.
Creator Tips
Thinking of creating a photobook or art book? Here's our advice on handling budgets, printing, distribution, and more.
Comics
Make good art, establish an online home base, be a generous community member, and more tips for growing an engaged following for your work.
Creator Tips
Over the last several weeks, we hosted a series of small workshops for creators of color and marginalized genders in the UK, in collaboration with gal-dem magazine. Here, we open up some of the insights and advice from those sessions to all.
Publishing
A step-by-step guide for writers who want to see their work in print.
Publishing
Ideas, examples, and advice for launching a publication, sustaining a newsroom, funding a podcast, and more.
Creator Tips
Margot Atwell shares how she budgeted to publish her Kickstarter-funded ode to roller derby. In 2014, I had been running my roller derby website, Derbylife.com, for three years when I started to realize I couldn’t do it forever. After a lot of agonizing, I decided to focus on
