extrusion publishing

No respect for a press that doesn’t protect its list.

fee for fee

Literary presses trading permission fees.

file upload complete

They don’t curate, they don’t edit: Presses that will publish almost anything because print-on-demand technology demands so little of the publisher…just a good pdf file to upload.

for you and your mom

Print litmags typically give you two contributor copies, because they know you’ll want to keep a copy and that your mom will want to read your work too.

small steps

You like to think that the pages of the literary magazine you’ve published in are small steps toward notice and attention.

editorial light

The light went out on literature when editors were forced out of publishing by the profit motive or forsook their sacred duty to become cheerleaders.

by the line

The editors of the haiku magazine decided to pay their contributors—by the line.

stand in

These days it may be worth it to hire a model for your author photo.

fee for fee

Are the major presses just trading permission fees back and forth?

not the least of it

Most of what you’ve written has never been published; that’s as it should be.

typo byproduct

If you haven’t suffered a bad typo, you’ve not published enough. To a publisher: If you haven't let slip an egregious typo, you're not publishing enough.

lifeless list

A publisher overly proud of a big list of insignificant titles.