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06/24/2025

After taking a look at the cover design lesson, check out this video I made showing you what my cover research for How to Outline a Book: Fiction (2nd edition) looks like. You don't by any means need this video in order to understand or execute what's shown in the lesson on cover design about cover research, but this can serve as an additional example.

https://youtu.be/9VoBpENVLDo

After taking a look at the cover design lesson, check out this video I made showing you what my cover research for How to Outline a Book: Fiction (2nd edition)

06/19/2025

If you are a short story writer, dust off your latest piece or fashion something new for this contest (check out sites like AtlantaWrites.com or StoryADay.org for prompts!).

Apprentices, check out your discount page for codes to use on your entry form if you plan on competing this year.

INFO ABOUT THE ANNUAL WRITERWERX UNIVERSITY SHORT STORY CONTEST: 2025

Contest Opens: July 1st, 2025

Contest closes: August 31st, 2025

Winners announced: October / November of 2025.

Entry Fee: $15 per short story.

The Short Story Contest (SSC) is open to any writer over the age of 18. Writers are asked to submit a short story of 5,000 words or less in any genre, fiction or nonfiction. Writers are welcome to submit as many stories as they like.

Prizes

FIRST PLACE

$150 USD paid via PayPal.

$1,500 in editorial services credits.

Short story shared across our social media profiles.

Short story shared on our blog.

Short story shared with both our free and paid subscribers.

Contest opens July 1st! Submit your entry of 5,000 words or less in any genre. .

06/19/2025

"The body horror & the gore in this novel is WILD!" Amazon

Sapphira Gail is dead.

What’s worse, she’s in Pandemonia, cast down to the worst part of this hellscape by a terrifying, mercurial goddess who determines the fate of every being. Sapphira knows she doesn't belong in Pandemonia. So she plans to escape, confront the goddess, and return across the veil, back to the land of the living, to find the person responsible for her death.

But the journey is treacherous — Sapphira must travel the Path of the Damned, following it through every part of Pandemonia to make it to the goddess's seat of power. Along the way, she meets an irritable yet caring vampire whose touch soothes Sapphira’s broken heart, a charismatic werewolf nursing a betrayal similar to Sapphira’s, and a melancholic demon determined to get her freedom by any means necessary.

Though she recruits them as allies on her quest for retribution, this is Pandemonia after all — can any of them truly be trusted?

“The body horror & the gore in this novel is WILD!”

06/12/2025

"Networking for Writers is going to be a valuable asset on your bookshelf if you are an introverted writer who has habitually struggled with being more present in the writing world..." —WeCanPub.com

A new book breakdown lesson is available for Apprentices on 'Networking for Writers' by Linda Ruggeri!

https://wecanpub.com/networking-for-writers-by-linda-ruggeri-book-breakdown/

06/08/2025

Are you setting yourself up to be victimized? These tips can help!

05/31/2025

: Stop scrolling, stop making excuses, go enter your poems at WinItWrite.com, keep being awesome.

05/31/2025

Just enter already! 😂

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05/30/2025

Luckily, you have 2 days left. WinItWrite.com

05/27/2025

Chuck Holmes was the 2nd winner of our annual poetry contest. Will you be the 7th?

Enter before May 31st, 2025 at WinItWrite.com!

05/27/2025

Tag a talented you think could win it all this year and take home the gold like Really Charlie podcast Madi Fiely LaTosha the Author and our other winners have in previous years!

WinItWrite.com

05/24/2025

Poets: 8 Days Left to Enter!DEADLINE: May 31st, 2025.

Make your poetry work for you!
There are just 8 days left to enter the 2025 poetry contest for your chance to win cash, prizes, and accolades (not to mention a sense of pride and accomplishment!).
Last year's winner, Madi Fiely, even leveraged her win into the publication of her first book of poetry, Deceiving Isn't It? in honor of her late grandmother. How cool is that?
And that could be you. But you can't win if you don't enter so get that first step out of the way.
Enter on the contests page.
All English-language poems of up to 100 words are welcome. You're competing with poets from all over the world, so just be sure to bring your A game!
Head to the contests page and enter before the deadline on May 31st, 2025! Madi Fiely turned her win into her first published book of poetry. Will you do the same?

Publishing news, tips, and services for newbie indie authors who want to self-publish their first book!