General Submissions are NOW OPEN!

That special time of the year is here again, Submission Season! We're kicking things off a little early this year and extending the window from October 1st to November 30th. So if you're a writer with a manuscript ready to submit to us, this is your chance. We only ask that you make sure to...

Submissions: What we’re REALLY looking for

22 days left until Mirror World’s submission season begins again! We’ll be accepting submissions between October 1st and November 30th, 2021. So if you’re a writer and you would like to submit to us, this may be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. And yes, you could just check the submission guidelines on our website...

Let the countdown to submissions season begin!

30 days. That’s how long you have to get your submission package ready. That’s right, we’re opening our general submissions period early this year. We’ll be accepting queries from October 1st through November 30th, 2021, so if you’ve got a manuscript you think might be a good fit for us, now’s the time to start...

M|W’s Mid-Summer Update

Hello Readers!  It’s mid-summer and as usual we’re in the thick of things. As you may have seen, we’ve just revealed the cover for our next children’s picture book Tabitha Won’t Sleep by David McLain and Felix Eddy which is now available for pre-order from Mirror World, Amazon, and elsewhere.   Tabitha Won’t Sleep is a...

That overwhelmed feeling…

I don’t know about you, but this happens to me quite often. As a writer myself and as the owner of a small press, I often have a lot on my plate (especially in and around submission season!). I’m kind of in that place right now, so I thought I could offer some advice based...

My Journey to Publication – J.A. Dowsett

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...

Rita Monette’s Road to Publication

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...

Guest Post: Laurence Raphael Brothers’ Journey to publication

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...

Guest Post: Sharon Ledwith’s Journey to Publication

The journey to publication wasn’t easy for me. In fact, it took me a great deal of time and effort to get to where I am now. So, let’s go back in time to 1995 when I got bitten by the writing bug during a Planning Your Novel workshop I attended for fun at the...

A Journey to Publication – Guest Post by Karen McCreedy

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ~ Stephen King. It's submission season here at Mirror World Publishing, so we've asked some of our authors to share their publishing journeys with you to give some insight into the submission process....