The Splendor and Sorrow of Small Press Publishing
To most would-be authors, there are only two routes to publication - get an agent and go for a big publisher or self-publish. But there...
Andrew Johnston
- May 31
- 1 min
Acceptances and Rejections for May '21
Continuing from previous months, here's the rundown of my successes and failures for May. Short Fiction This month, I made 7 submissions...
Andrew Johnston
- May 5
- 1 min
A Crisis of Harmony: Seek Not Conflict, Cause No Harm
So Henry Kissinger has emerged from his perch in the deeper shadows of history to remark upon our current situation with China: Former ...
Andrew Johnston
- Apr 30
- 1 min
Acceptances and Rejections for April '21
Continuing from previous months, here's the rundown of my successes and failures for April. Short Fiction This month, I made 7...
Andrew Johnston
- Apr 20
- 6 min
The Fail-Graceful Method: On Writing a Salvageable Novel
The publishing world is not a friendly place. I hope I've impressed this upon you by now - this is an insular, name-driven world where...
Andrew Johnston
- Apr 1
- 2 min
Acceptances and Rejections for March '21
Continuing from previous months, here's the rundown of my successes and failures for March. Short Fiction This month, I made 17...
Andrew Johnston
- Mar 24
- 3 min
Pro-Paying Flash Markets for 2021
It seems like I went and forgot that this is a writing site, didn't I? Let's fix that. My opinion on flash fiction has changed quite a...
Andrew Johnston
- Mar 11
- 3 min
A Crisis of Harmony: King Know-it-All
This is a post that began with an SCMP article on Chinese-made Donald Trump kitsch that they are still selling in China. This creates a...
Andrew Johnston
- Mar 5
- 4 min
A Crisis of Harmony: One Month Out
Watch the video version of this post: It's been about a month since I finished editing A Crisis of Harmony and around three weeks since...
Andrew Johnston
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Acceptances and Rejections for February '21
Continuing from previous months, here's the rundown of my successes and failures for February. Short Fiction This month, I made 21...
Andrew Johnston
- Feb 9
- 2 min
A Crisis of Harmony: The Fear Game
Not an hour ago, I opened a stream from Bloomberg expecting to see news on a report from the WTO. Instead, I was treated to an eyeful of...
Andrew Johnston
- Jan 31
- 1 min
Acceptances and Rejections for January '21
Continuing from previous months, here's the rundown of my successes and failures for January. Short Fiction This month, I made 13...
Andrew Johnston
- Jan 29
- 2 min
A Crisis of Harmony: The Root
Let's talk about China for just a moment - the first of many moments to come, I'm guessing. You see, Americans don't exactly like the...
Andrew Johnston
- Jan 1
- 6 min
National Novel Writing Decade
Each year, thousands upon thousands of people set out to fulfill a dream and write a novel. They read how-to articles, listen to...
Andrew Johnston
- Dec 29, 2020
- 1 min
Acceptances and Rejections for December
Continuing from previous months, here's the rundown of my successes and failures for December. Short Fiction This month, I made 6...
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