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Welcome to 2021, Mirror World Fans! Now that we're all collectively emerging out of the darkness that was 2020, let's kick off 2021 right. And the best way to do that is to list what we have to look forward to. We've got a great line up of new releases starting in March with the... Continue Reading →
Sometimes the thing you want is right in front of you. Since I started freelancing I realized that the key to me staying a freelancer was finding my niche. Niches are important. Trying to do everything more often than not leads to doing nothing. But what would that niche be? My ultimate goal was to... Continue Reading →
Every year we prepare for submission season like we’re preparing for a storm. We clear our schedules, gather supplies and helpers, wrap up any projects we have on the go, and get ready for the flood of manuscripts to pour in. This year was no exception. What was different about this year, however, was the... Continue Reading →
It’s no secret that this year has sucked in general. For us, it’s been a year of reduced sales and a year where we’ve greatly missed all the fun events we used to take part in. We’ve been lucky to be able to transition a few of these to take place online, but it just... Continue Reading →
This month I've asked a number of our authors to share their writing and publishing journeys with you, so I thought I should also share my own. The story of how Mirror World Publishing came to be is fairly well known at this point, so I've decided instead to write about my publishing dream and... Continue Reading →
Writing has been something I’ve been doing since the age of six. After many years of practice on my own—including writing short stories in elementary school that I would read at the local Literary Guild events (on school time!), writing plays in high school, and scripts in university at Ryerson’s Radio and Television Arts Program—I... Continue Reading →
Back in May, Murandy and I we just finishing up Fatestorm (a novella we plan to include in the Far, Far Away Anthology) when we got word of a writing contest called Zombie Pirate Writing Week. Run by Zombie Pirate Publishing, the concept behind the contest was to plan, write, and edit a novelette of... Continue Reading →
My Road to PublicationBy Rita Monette When I first began writing this post, I thought my writing journey began the day I retired, March 1, 2006, when I got the idea to write a children’s book as something fun to do in my retirement. And so, I enrolled in my first writing class, “Writing for... Continue Reading →
I started writing rather idly in 2012 and was lucky enough to be accepted into the Viable Paradise workshop in 2013. I finished a first novel in 2014 and sold my first short story in 2015. Since then I’ve sold around 35 short stories to magazines ranging from Nature to the New Haven Review. That... Continue Reading →
My first MA, in Creative Writing, led me to a supportive network of other writers, including fellow participants in Clockhouse London Writers and the Middleoak Writing Group. The course also led directly to my two novels, Spellhaven and Ghosts and Exiles, which I am thrilled to have published by Mirror World.Some people would think that... Continue Reading →
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