88 Writing Contests in February 2026 - No entry fees This February there are more than seven dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes ra...

Erica Verrillo’s list of 88 writing contests - no entry fee. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2026/01/87-w... #Author #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #BookSky #IndieAuthor #WritersNetwork #WritingContests #EricaVerrillo

52 Writing Contests in November 2025 - No entry fees This November there are more than four dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes ran...

Free writing competitions in November, list complied by Erica Verrillo. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/10/52-w... #Author #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #BookSky #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #WritingCompetitions #EricaVerrillo

42 Writing Contests in August 2025 - No entry fees This August there are more than three dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes rang...

Free writing contests in August compiled by Erica Verrillo. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/07/36-w... #WritingContests #Writing #Author #Writer #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #BookSky #EricaVerrillo #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished

61 Writing Contests in June 2025 - No entry fees This June there are more than five dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes range f...

Erica Verrillo’s list of June writing competitions ~ no fees. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/05/56-w... #Author #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCompetitions #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #EricaVerrillo

77 Free Writing Contests in March 2025 - No entry fees This March there are more than six dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes range f...

Erica Verrillo has compiled 77 free writing contests for March. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/02/77-f... #Author #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritingCompetitions #Writing #BluueSky #BookSky #WriteSky #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #EricaVerrillo

The Skinny on Virtual Book Tours Updated 12/7/24 What is a virtual book tour? A  virtual book tour (aka blog tour) consists of lining up a series of bloggers to re...

The nuts and bolts of a book tour from Erica Verrillo. Brilliant links to genre bloggers. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-... #Authors #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #BookTour #BlueSky #BookSky #BookBloggers #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #EricaVerrillo

57 Writing Contests in December 2024 - No entry fees This December there are more than four dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes ran...

December writing competitions complied by Erica Verrillo. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2024/11/49-w... #Author #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritingCompetitions #BlueSky #BookSky #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #EricaVerrillo

80 Calls for Submissions in December 2024 - Paying markets This December there are more than six dozen calls for submissions. All of these are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. As alwa...

Erica Verrillo’s post on paying markets for writers, calls for submission in December. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2024/11/80-c... #Author #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #EricaVerrillo #BlueSky #BookSky #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #CallsForSubmission

Erica Verrillo has joined us on BlueSky. She is a prolific blogger and posts valuable resources and opportunities for authors. I have posted many of those on my feed. A very warm welcome. #EricaVerrillo #Author #Writers #Writing #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks

Mega-List of Book Reviewers Accepting Self-Published Authors From Worth 1000 website Updated 11/2/24 Below is a list of online book reviewers who accept self-published books. I've gleaned these rev...

Mega list of book reviewers complied by Erica Verrillo. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2015/01/fant... #Author #Writers #Writing #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersNetwork #BookReviewers #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #LiteraryCommunity #EricaVerrillo

Hugh Howey: Why the Decision to Not Self-Publish is "Fatal" Should you self-publish? The answer, according to Hugh Howey, is a resounding YES!! In fact, he says you'd have to be crazy not to. In...

Self publishing? Is it a no brainer? Erica Verrillo’s post with caveats on some of the data. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2014/02/hugh... #Author #Writer #EricaVerrillo #SelfPublishing #BlueSky #BookSky #WritersNetwork #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished

Anatomy of an Amazon Bestseller The received wisdom of self-publishing is to place your book everywhere, and in all formats. I did that (mostly). And it didn’t work. Thi...

Insight on KDP Select programme from Erica Verrillo. Interesting reply to a comment. Erica had sent out a thousand press releases. publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2013/03/anat... #Author #Writers #BlueSky #BookSky #KDPSelect #WritingCommunity #SelfPublished #IndieAuthor #EricaVerrillo #WritingAndBooks