What it takes to get published by Weasel Press
Someone asked me the other day what it would take for Weasel Press to publish their work. I don’t think I’ve ever written a post on Weasel Press on this topic, so here it goes. Honestly, it’s up to the writer to do their own research on a publisher. Weasel Press has our own sense of what we look for and we try to give an idea in our submission guidelines. Every press is going to tell you they want your best, and that’s true with us too, but don’t be afraid of imperfections. You’re never going to get it perfect. We like to see the flaws in a writer. It makes the real. It makes them human. And that’s what we look it; what it takes to really be human. The human condition.
We want people to submit the work they’re nervous about, or the work they’re embarrassed by. It’s real, it’s genuine. And it’s that writing that really makes a difference to us. Each writer that we have accepted into our press has offered up something that sits at the core of themselves. They’ve offered up their philosophy, their viewpoint, their analysis of this funny thing called life. It’s different than literary fiction. Literary fiction isn’t as raw as what we’ve been putting out. There’s some fine tuning going on in lit fiction. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not our thing.
What we don’t need are assholes. We don’t need people with a large ego. It’s not welcome here. Be confident in yourself, you’re fucking beautiful, but never be full of yourself. Big-ass egos are acidic to our community and to our core thought process. Weasel Press publishes the honest folk. The folks who know their dedication and understand that we’re all probably not going to make a shit ton of cash doing this. Publishing isn’t a money maker. It may be for some people playing into the popular feeds of larger markets, but it’s not for us. We break even most times.
We don’t restrict ourselves to genres because what we look for can be portrayed in all of them. There are things we don’t accept and we have a listing of what we don’t want at our website. Furry Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, General Fiction, it all can portray the core of human nature. It can all be real if a writer takes time to really analyze it.
Every person is going to tell you to buy their book. That’s the business of it all. But I truly believe that folks should review a Weasel Press release before submitting their work. If you don’t want to buy a book that’s fine. We offer magazines for free through ISSUU, and they give you a really good view of the press as a whole. If you do buy a book I’ll love you forever. Our authors are really one of a kind and we couldn’t make it without them and our readers out there. Although our projects are vastly different, we seem to share similar views here and there. We share the importance of being real; of really understanding what we want to do with our art. And we’re not afraid of it.
If you’re submitting to Weasel Press and even our sister project Red Ferret Press, be bold, be confident and be real. One thing to note right now is that Weasel Press is not accepting unsolicited manuscripts at that time. We have a lot of projects going on at the moment and just cannot give any time to unsolicited projects as we would love to. We will reach out to authors if we feel we are capable to. Red Ferret Press, our erotic extension, is seeking unsolicited manuscripts. The same goes for Red Ferret Press. Be real with your art. Send us something different, get a little kinky with it. Don’t send us a 50shades knock off. Send us something that really resembles you as a person and as an artist. We love that.
So I suppose you have it. Do some research before sending us your project. And always, if you have any questions or would like to discuss something, just shoot me an email. We’re really nice people.
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