i did it!!!! i published a book!!!!!

[quillpunk]

i've spent the summer participating in a writing challenge: the Inkfort Press Publishing Derby. the gist: fully write, edit and publish a book in <4 months. it's a anon challenge, so you can't share anything on main; you're assigned a premade cover and pen name, and then you just go go go! (limited to 100 participants)

(i'm fairly sure i mentioned this at some point, but that's the gist of it)

and i did it!!!!

my book, along with dozens of others, are live! it's still in the anon period (i believe till the end of October) so i can't tell you which one's mine. but! here's a list of all of them!! (lots of fantasy, scifi, adventures, etc.)

https://2025pubderby.carrd.co/

so cool!!! i have a book in there somewhere!!!! :blobcatblush:

Comments

[quillpunk]

this is my first published book!

every time i finish a book, i always look at it and go 'this is trash i can't possibly make people pay for this!' and put it in the trunk, and *i need to stop doing that.*

this challenge was the kick and community i definitely needed to actually get passed that and publish anyway.

while my book isn't everything i wanted it to be (the severe time-limit naturally meant i couldn't edit/fix everything i wanted) i still love the characters and world, and am extremely proud of myself for not only getting so far! but also for finishing! and publishing!

(you only get to keep the premade cover if you published by deadline, otherwise rights revert to the cover designer. and i love my cover, so i gave it everything i had and then some!)

[yourlibrarian]

Congratulations, how exciting!

[quillpunk]

Thank you! It is! So! Exciting! (And nerve-wracking, lol)

[shipperslist]

So cool! There are so many gorgeous covers. Were you assigned the titles as well or only the cover art?

[quillpunk]

Thank you! I agree: they're so cool! <3

And pen names, titles and art were all assigned by the organizers!

[senmut]

Congratulations!

[quillpunk]

Thank you!

[muccamukk]

That's so exciting! Those all look great!

[mistressofmuses]

Congratulations! :D

[ursula]

Wow, that's intense! Congratulations!

[cornerofmadness]

congrats that's great

[profiterole_reads]

That's awesome! Congrats!

There's definitely one of these that's been promoted on Bluesky, but I didn't pay attention if it was under the pen name or not.

[baskfell_records]

Congratulations!

[tropicsbear]

Congrats!!!

[southernmedicine]

Tremendous accomplishment, congratulations!

[out_there]

Congratulations! Well done.

[axolotls]

Congrats!!