Top 10 Publishing Posts of 2017

In January, I usually take a look at my posts from the previous year, just to see what struck a chord with my readers. As usual, the most popular posts were free writing contests and calls for submissions. These often made it into the tens of thousands of views. (I didn't include them here. It would have made for a repetitive list.)

Some posts were a lot more popular than I had anticipated. The post about writers who published their first novels after the age of 40, for example, got over 4,000 views. (I didn't expect that, but it seems there are a lot of older writers out there. I, of course, am one of them. Hence the post.)

What was also interesting was the fact that for all of these posts, the number of views topped my most popular posts from last year by 400%. In spite of the self-publishing boom, lots of people are interested in getting traditionally published.

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TOP 10 POSTS OF 2017

#10 Getting Your Self-Published Book Into Libraries (4013 views)

#9 15 Famous Authors Who Were Published After 40 (4118 views)

#8 12 Agents Representing Short Story Collections (4282 views)

#7 An Insider's View of the Publishing Business (4338 views)

#6 4 New Literary Agencies Seeking Clients (4628 views)

#5 2 New Literary Agents Actively Seeking Fiction, Memoir, Pop Culture & more (4707 views)

#4 13 Paying Markets for Flash Fiction (5136 views)

#3 27 Great Websites for Writers (6531 views)

#2 17 Publishers Accepting Unagented Short Story Collections (8385 views)
And my top post was (drum roll) ...

#1 11 Agents Seeking Literary Fiction NOW (11,277 views)