Indie Publishing

EVEN MORE TIME KISSED MOMENTS Is Here!

/ Fantasy Romance, New Release, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Tracy Cooper-Posey

What happens when a ten-year anniversary edition becomes something more? While revisiting the Kiss Across Time series for a special collector release, Tracy Cooper-Posey found herself reflecting not just on the books, but on time itself, storytelling, survival, and the strange roads that lead writers to create the stories readers love. Kiss Across Memories is part memoir, part publishing notebook, and part behind-the-scenes look at one of Tracy’s longest-running series.

The Slow Squeeze: Why It Might Be Time to Reconsider Barnes & Noble

/ Tracy Cooper-Posey

Barnes & Noble didn’t send a warning shot—they sent a deadline. Raise your paperback prices to $14.99 by May 14th, or your books are gone. For indie authors working in short fiction or maintaining deep backlists, that’s not a tweak. It’s a hard stop. And it’s only the latest move in a pattern that’s quietly reshaping who—and what—belongs on the platform. The question isn’t whether these changes are fair. It’s whether your publishing strategy can survive them.

Why We Don’t Chase Trends at Stories Rule Press

/ Mark Posey

Trends come and go. One month it’s a trope, a cover style, or a subgenre everyone is chasing; six months later, the industry has already sprinted off after the next shiny object like a Labrador with three tennis balls and no self-control. At Stories Rule Press, we’ve made a different choice. We pay attention to the market, but we don’t build our catalogue around trends. We start with the story—and whether it’s the kind of world a reader can disappear into and want to return to years later.

Meanwhile, Back at Stories Rule Press…

/ Cameron Cooper, Fantasy, Mark Posey, Non-Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Taylen Carver, Tracy Cooper-Posey

The first quarter of the year has disappeared in a blur of drafts, edits, releases and looming deadlines—business as usual at Stories Rule Press. Mark is deep into the next Thomas Billings thriller, Tracy is preparing new fiction and nonfiction releases, Taylen is starting an all-new fantasy series, and Cameron has another big-concept science fiction novel on the horizon. Different genres, different voices, same mission: story comes first. Always.

It’s Not About the Authors. It’s About the Stories.

/ Mark Posey

What if the best story you’ll read next isn’t by the author you already know?

That’s the thinking behind a new direction at Stories Rule Press. Instead of focusing only on individual authors, we’re starting to build collections around something bigger: the kinds of stories readers love to fall into.

If you love thrillers, romance, fantasy, suspense—or any story that keeps you reading long past your bedtime—you may be missing books you’d love simply because you haven’t met the other writers behind them yet.

That’s about to change.

Before You Send Your Manuscript to an Editor

/ Author Services, Editing, Mark Posey

Typing “The End” feels like the finish line—but it’s actually the start of the next phase. Before you send your manuscript to an editor, there’s important work to do first. Let the story rest, read it again with fresh eyes, fix the obvious issues, and understand what type of editing your book really needs. The more polished your manuscript is before it reaches an editor, the more valuable—and effective—the editing process will be.

Meeting Readers at Live Markets

/ Mark Posey

One of the unexpected joys of running Stories Rule Press has nothing to do with computers, algorithms, or online stores. It’s the live markets. Standing behind a table of books and talking with readers face-to-face changes everything. Conversations happen, stories get discovered, and suddenly the solitary work of writing becomes something wonderfully human.

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