#310 Indie-credible with BookTrib

This week, we’re running a takeover in collaboration with our friends over at BookTrib. BookTrib.com is a news source for people who want to stay on top of what’s happening in the book world and discover new and emerging writers. It’s also a marketing engine for authors and publishers seeking to reach new readers. The winner of this week’s contest will receive the usual $250 prize, plus personal feedback from the good folks at BookTrib. (Your story may even be featured on their website!) Here’s the team:

BookTrib is honored to partner with Reedsy to present this week’s Prompts contest! At BookTrib, we love indie everything: indie bookstores, indie presses, indie authors, indie readers. So what better way to celebrate what we in the U.S. mark as Independence Day than with writing prompts that are all about the indie spirit?

In creating the prompts below, we aimed to capture concepts such as freedom of expression, do-it-yourself gumption, and bootstrap success — without being too thematically restrictive. We asked ourselves: What’s special about the indie publishing world? What sort of people are a part of it? And most importantly: How can we translate the indie spirit into great storytelling?

We hope you have fun exploring these prompts in your writing. Submissions can be in any genre, so feel free to adapt them to fit the time and place of the story you want to tell.