Write for Us

Hart Publishing USA writes about books and the trade that produces them: how a manuscript
becomes a book, what each step costs, and who actually makes money along the way. Our readers
are writers deciding how to publish, small presses working out their numbers, and people who
simply want to know how the industry works. They want the practical version, not the romantic one.

We are selective. We would rather run one article that answers a real question than five that
circle it. If you know this trade from the inside — as an author, an editor, a printer, an agent
or a bookseller — we would like to hear from you.

Topics We Accept

• traditional publishing: submissions, agents, advances and contracts
• self-publishing platforms, print costs and distribution
• the economics of a book, from print run to royalty statement
• editing, proofreading and production, described by people who do it
• rights, licensing and territory deals
• ISBNs, metadata and why they decide whether a book is found
• bookselling, libraries and academic distribution
• book marketing that is not just “post about it on social media”
• writing craft, where it connects to actually getting published
• essays and essay writing, from structure to placing them
• book writing: outlines, drafts, and finishing what you started
• authors on their own process, told concretely
• digital publishing: ebooks, audiobooks and subscription platforms
• the business of running a small press

What We Will Not Run

• articles written to place a link, with the subject chosen afterwards
• unedited AI output — edited and fact-checked is fine, raw is not
• pieces about a service where the author does not say it is theirs
• anything padded to reach a word count