We live in a digital world, and with that comes the digital publisher. Enter Kirkdale Press.

Here’s a link to submission form and below is their press release. Check them out.

Writers wanted: Kirkdale Press seeking star-bound Christian authors

Rising digital publisher now accepting Christian fiction, non-fiction submissions

BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 22, 2012 — Coming off its recent launch, Kirkdale Press is looking to bolster its all-star lineup by sounding a call for the next best-selling Christian fiction and non-fiction authors. Established and up-and-coming authors alike can submit queries for completed manuscripts, which Kirkdale Press is now accepting and reviewing for ebook publication. Kirkdale builds on Logos Bible Software’s 20 years of experience as the world’s leading publisher of electronic Christian resources and Bible study tools.

“I had no idea how to market my work … but Kirkdale does,” said Naomi Dathan, author of Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go, published by Kirkdale Press. “Now my book is being read all over the place, and I love it.”

Kirkdale Press prides itself on setting the industry standard for strong publisher-author relationships.

“We truly care about our authors,” said Kirkdale Press Manager Ryan Rotz. “And it shows as we guide them through the publishing process and give them the marketing skills necessary to build a following in the digital world.”

Published Kirkdale authors — from National Day of Prayer Task Force Vice Chair John Bornschein, who penned The Front Line, to fiction writer Lucie Ulrich — note walking away with a customized, one-of-a-kind experience.

“From acquisition, to editing, to publicity, every person I worked with was wonderful,” said Ulrich, author of Broken Vessels, a recently published title by Kirkdale Press. “As a new author, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but all of my questions and concerns were addressed, and I was given a great deal of encouragement.”

Kirkdale offers unique state-of-the-art features, such as tagged Bible references that allow users to click them and instantly read Scripture passages within their ebooks. When read via the dynamic Vyrso ereader app, Kirkdale titles can be integrated with the powerful and expansive Bible study tools and resources of Logos 4, which gives readers the ability to search through thousands of ebooks in seconds. Kirkdale books are also available through Kindle, Nook and other ereaders.

Kirkdale Press is a new digital publishing imprint from Logos Bible Software. Publishing new voices in Christian living and fiction, Kirkdale Press builds on Logos’ 20 years of leadership in electronic Christian resources. Kirkdale ebooks are available through Vyrso, the Christian ereader app from Logos, as well as through Kindle, Nook and other ereaders.

Logos is the leading provider of multilingual tools and resources for Bible study on Macs, PCs and mobile devices. Logos has served pastors, scholars and everyone who wants to study the Bible since 1992, partnering with 150 publishers to offer more than 23,000 Christian ebooks to users in 210 countries.

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Have a short story you’d like to publish? Don’t know where to find a short story publisher?

You need a copy of the 2012 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market to help you publish your short story.

This version of the Writer’s Market Guide by Adria Haley is tailored to novel and short story authors. It contains over 1,500 listings of editors and agents, as well as many articles on topics like submission guidelines, style, voice, and dialogue.

Here’s a preview that I found so you can see how the entries are listed (Click the pic for a higher resolution image). Enjoy!

Advice to First-Time Authors

Since I am yet to be published, I would consider myself in this category, and definitely needing some advice.  Who better to get it from than Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson publishing.

Here is an excerpt from a post on his blog (which I strongly recommend you follow) There is a link at the end for the remainder of the article.

As you might imagine, I receive a lot of email from would-be authors who are trying to get published. Because I make my email address public, it’s pretty easy to get to me.

However, by the time I hear from people, they are usually frustrated. They can’t get anyone in the book publishing world to respond, and they are convinced that they have a killer-idea. “If only someone would just read my manuscript,” they plead.

The problem is that most publishers will not review unsolicited proposals or manuscripts. I personally receive hundreds every year; our staff receives thousands. We simply don’t have the resources to review these. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.

So as an author, what do you do? Here’s what I recommend:…

You can also follow Michael Hyatt on Twitter as: MichaelHyatt

I stood on the dock and cast my line for at least the three hundredth time. Hours had past since my last bite and I’d almost lost interest in catching anything. It wasn’t bad to clean my limit of small mouth bass, but to clean just one sounded like work. My mind drifted to the novel I’d been working on for several years but could never quite find the time to write.

As I reeled in the line for the last time, I worked the bait with a slight jig. I felt a tug on the line. It wasn’t the staccato twitch of a nibble, but the slow easy pull of thick weeds. That’s where the monsters are. I saw my “weed fish” slowly surface and creep toward me like a stalking sea dinosaur. Something in it glimmered as the high sun reflected off it. I removed the inanimate beast from my line and extracted a small lamp from its belly. I wiped it clean of sea slime to see if it had any worth, and out came a genie!

“I will grant you one wish!” he proclaimed.

Not one to be without speech or opinion, I answered without hesitation, “I have a book I’ve been working on for years. I wish I could write like the pros!”

“Your wish is my command.” Smoke poured from his hands until it engulfed the entire dock. A hurricane force wind blew me backward. When the smoke cleared I found myself sitting at the desk in my office.

“That’s it? I’m a pro now?” I dried my wet hands on my jeans then placed them on the keyboard of my laptop and began to type. “The sun scorched Ernest through his sweat drenched shirt.” I paused, surprised at how freely the line came to me, then placed my fingers back on the keys.

Nothing.

I glared at the genie. “What’s the problem? I thought you were powerful. Where are the words? Why are they not coming to me?” I stood in disgust and headed for the door but was stopped short by a tug on my leg. I looked down. My leg was shackled to the desk.

“What’s this about? Am I a prisoner in my own home?”

“You wished to write like a pro, and you will. However, there is no magic that can accomplish this. You are bound to this desk every day until you have written for two hours. Only then will your shackles be loosed. Any time you stop writing, the will the clock will stop until all of the required time has been spent writing. And so it will be until you are, as you say, a “pro.”

“Wow. It sounds more like a prison sentence.”

“It was your wish. The good news is that once you are a pro, you will write four to six hours a day with no shackles. If I were you, I’d start writing.”

And with that, he vanished.

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I am writing a novel, which is more work than anything I have ever done before. This short story was written when I realized what it would take to be a successful author. I hope you enjoyed it, and know that anything worth doing takes work. There is no easy way, even when you love it.

Author (and friend) Christopher Hopper has released his White Lion Chronicles on ebook! I loved this coming of age story which follows a group of youths chosen to protect their kingdom from impending doom from an evil they never knew existed.  Though written for the young adult audience, the writing and story were on par with any adult Christian fiction you would pick up. I found several spiritual truths along the way, and the presentation was impeccable.

All three books are available, so there’s no waiting a year for the next installment. I for one will be re-reading them on my Kindle.  A few links:

Christopher’s blog, Buy Kindle version, Buy at Smashwords

I got this email today, so I thought I’d share!!

Hello all,

I just want to let everyone know that, at long last, Scrivener 1.0 is now available for Microsoft Windows.

## 1. Scrivener 1.0 for Windows now available ##

It’s been a long time coming, but the wait is over – Scrivener 1.0 for Windows is now officially out of beta and available for download and purchase. You can find the product page here:

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php?platform=win

A Scrivener for Windows licence costs a mere $40 (or $35 for students and educators). There’s also a 30-day free trial available. (The trial runs for 30 days of actual use, not calendar days, so were you only to use it twice a week, it would in effect last for fifteen weeks. There are no hoops to jump through to get the trial, either – you can just click on the download link, install it and start using it.)

No one appreciates prolix newsletters from software companies, so I’ll keep this uncharacteristically pithy – I won’t go into a sales pitch because I’m guessing that if you’ve signed up for this newsletter then you already know what Scrivener is and will hopefully still be interested enough to go check it out. If it’s been so long since you signed up that you’ve forgotten, then please do check out the product page linked above, where you’ll find a wealth of information and screenshots. I do, however, have to say that Lee, the Windows developer, has done an amazing job. I first started developing the Mac version nearly eight years ago, for my own writing, and I’m overjoyed to see it shining and sparkling in all its 1.0 glory on the Windows platform. I hope you will be too.

And yet, as proud as we are of Scrivener for Windows, this is just the beginning – there’s lots more to come, with lots of free 1.x updates in the works (we’ll only charge for major updates, such as from 1.x to 2.0).

So – we hope you like it. We hope Scrivener will prove to be your tool of choice for your own writing, and we look forward to seeing some bestsellers make their way out of the Windows version over the next few years just as they have out of the Mac version (not that Scrivener will make you a bestseller, of course, but we do enjoy basking in reflected glory).

Please allow me to thank everyone who has shown such interest in a Windows version of Scrivener, either by signing up to this newsletter or by writing to us, and an especially big thank you to the hundreds of beta testers who have helped us refine the code and fix bugs over the past year.

If you have any questions, please drop us a line on support@literatureandlatte.com or sales@literatureandlatte.com, or visit the lively community forums at http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum.

The talent we have the hardest time recognizing is our own.

I love to read and I love to write, but no matter how hard I try when I write, I always feel like my ideas and words are mediocre at best, and every one else is a brilliant literary savant.

I frequent Jon Acuff’s blog, made famous by his comical and witty book “Stuff Christians Like” (my review here) and more recently “Quitter” (great book!), and I was blown away by a recent post titled “The talent we have the hardest time recognizing is our own.“

He posted a video by a guy named Derek Sivers which sums it up pretty well.

Derek asks at the end of the short video, and I would like your thoughts as well, “What’s a talent you have that you’ve downplayed?”

Mine is writing.

Part of being a published author is not only writing a great novel, but writing something a publisher wants to sell.  I recently participated in a Thomas Nelson survey and it ended up being an insider peek into what publishers are looking for.

It starts with the obvious demographic questions, and moves on to great multiple choice questions that show them what types of books you like.  In doing so, it showed me just how specific some of the criteria are.  Other than genre, it asks about preference on series books, if you like authors that are only genre specific or if you like them to write across multiple genres.  It made me realize there are a lot of people out there writing, and publishers are looking for the ones that fit exactly.

I get no compensation for you taking the survey, but I encourage you to do so as it may help you in the development of your novel or other writing.  Plus you get entered into a drawing for $10,000.  Who couldn’t use that?

Click the here (or the image) to go to the survey.

 

For all of you first time novel writers out there, or maybe you’ve written a few but never published, the Christian Writer’s Guild “Operation First Novel” entry deadline is September 1!  It comes with a $20,000 prize PLUS a publishing contract for the book with Worthy!

The downer here is that you must be a member to enter, and that comes with $99 price tag (one year membership).  The have quite a few perks that come with that, and it works out to just under $9 a month.  You’ll have to check it out to see if it’s worth it.

Click the banner to go to the contest rules and entry information.

If you know of any other legit contests, let me know and I’ll post them.

I added a few more publishers to the List of Christian Publishers page.  If you know of any not on the list, please email me and I will add them.  it doesn’t matter if they are a giant in the industry or a new small publishing house; if they are accepting unsolicited manuscripts or you have to use an agent, all are welcome.

Also, I added a section for short stories.  There is only one in the category, so I could use a few leads there.

Here are the newbies on the list:

Accepting unsolicited manuscripts:

Charisma House (Several Imprints)

Meriwether Publishing (Theatre related books and plays)

Hensley Publishing (Publish Bible Studies)

Judson Press

Short Stories:

Guideposts

Magazines:

Christianity Today

Agent/manuscript submission service required:

NavPress