Blurb April Flash Sale!

Blurb.com is hosting a flash sale from April 21-23, which means that you and grab a copy of ABCs of Whump or Hurt and Comfort for 20% off! Just enter the code FLASHAPRIL at check out!

ABCs of Whump

Hurt and Comfort

The WPP Library Challenge

If I know one thing about whumpers, it's that they love libraries! And you know what libraries need? More whumpy books. I have a personal goal to get at least one WPP book in one library in every US state in 2024, and I thought it would be fun to make it a group challenge!

We're starting with a blank map. If you request that your local library purchase a WPP book, send in an ask with the state, the book, and whether you requested a paperback or ebook. I'll update the map accordingly. And if you library does make a purchase, let me know too! At the end of the year hopefully we'll have a beautiful, color-coded map of the United States of Whump.

ISBN Numbers:

Hurt and Comfort Paperback:  978-1-959330-00-4 Ebook: 978-1-959330-01-1 Once Upon a Blade Paperback: 978-1-959330-05-9 Ebook: 978-1-959330-04-2 Bloodbag Paperback: 978-1-959330-07-3 Ebook: 978-1-959330-06-6 Cry of Fangs Paperback: 978-1-959330-03-5 Ebook: 978-1-959330-02-8

I'm sorry if this has already been answered somewhere, but what's your policy for accepting/rejecting stories that have already appeared on Tumblr?

We'll accept stories that have appeared on Tumblr as long as they aren't fan fiction. And we don't require exclusivity, so if you submit a story to us that you've posted to Tumblr you don't have to take it off your blog.

hi! new follower here. have you ever thought about doing a comics anthology/including comics in your books before? i do write occasionally, but it’d be awesome to see and participate in a whumpy comic collection! :O

Welcome! I would love to have a comics anthology/comics in our books, and am actually in the process of setting something up. An announcement will go live in a couple of days!

My artwork for the ABCs of Whump zine, by @thewhumpyprintingpress! Feat. Damon/Star from The Greatest Show on Earth.

The zine is amazing, you can get your copy here.

my piece for @thewhumpyprintingpress ABCs of Whump zine!! Z for Zipties 💖 (get ur copy here 👀)

this was my first experience working on a zine project, i had a blast & learned a whole lot 🥰

I keep forgetting to post it lol but here's my piece for @thewhumpyprintingpress 's ABCs Of Whump zine - N for Nails. go check out the zine to see all the other amazing artists' entries!

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Behold!!!! The piece that got delayed by my surprise visit to death prevention jail end of last year!

This is my submission to @thewhumpyprintingpress's ABCs of Whump zine!!! It's available for purchase, go check it out :)

I was so excited to participate, and it was such a pleasure :) This piece took a while, and it is right on the edge of my current capabilities as an artist, but it was incredibly fun and rewarding to work on, I'm very proud of how it turned out <3

Featured is my mer shifter boi Pete from my fav project Shifting Phases :) I love him very much and could not resist another oppourtunity to have a work featuring him published.

(I had to scrunch it significantly to get Tumblr to take it ^-^')

My piece for the ABCs of Whump zine @thewhumpyprintingpress My letter was T for Torture ! If you want to acquire this very whumpy zine, there are physical and digital copies still available. Make sure to visit The Whumpy Printing Press Tumblr for more informations

A is for Anaesthesia - my art and letter page in the Whump ABCs (@thewhumpyprintingpress)

The art I drew for this was of my ocs Kyle Kindall after an incident, and Yuuki Takahashi trying to offer what soothing and comfort he can - in spite of the fact that neither of them like hospitals.

The Whumpy Printing Press has now published the Whump ABCs zine (from 2nd April 2024), if anyone happens to be interested in it!

Happy publication day for the ABC of Whump zine by @thewhumpyprintingpress ! This is X is for X Ray!

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Happy Release Day to ABCs of Whump!

ABCs of Whump is out now! You can grab a copy of the ebook or paperback in our ko-fi shop. The physical zine is also available on blurb.com.

Thank you to all of the artists who contributed to this zine, and thank you especially to @befuddled-calico-whump for being an awesome co-editor!

Here's a bit of shameless self-promotion! This is the first full-length novel in my Of Vampires and Men series, which is a grimdark-adjacent fantasy set in a world where vampires are the dominant species.

Cry of Fangs is Out Now!

Cry of Fangs, Of Vampires and Men Book 1, has officially been released into the wild! You can grab a copy from your preferred retailer, or directly from me on ko-fi.

Last day for print preorders!

Just a reminder that today is the last day to preorder your print copy of the ABCs of Whump zine!

Preorder here

Would you mind identifying which publication rights you’re seeking in your submission calls? Thank you!

Absolutely! I added them to our pinned post, individual submission calls, and the submission form itself.

For all of our submission calls, we ask for nonexclusive, worldwide, English language publication rights for ebook and paperback. Copyright and all other rights remain with the author.

Z is for Zip-Ties, and these colors are from @whumpsical's ziptastic piece!

Only a couple more days to preorder ABCs of Whump!

I think self-publishing is great! The biggest difference between self-publishing and working with a vanity press is that with self-publishing you get to keep all your rights and royalties. When you self-publish, you do have to pay money out of pocket for things like cover arts and edits, but you are paying for services. Once that service is delivered, your business is complete and whoever you contracted with to provide that service doesn't get any royalties from the sale of your book.

When you self-publish your book you are the publisher. There are benefits to that (i.e. more freedom, higher royalty percentage) but the downside is that you have to fund everything yourself, not to mention figure out how to publish and market a book.

When your book is published through a vanity press, they are the publisher. Often, your book will be published with typos, poor formatting, a bad cover, and will be priced astronomically high (I've seen a vanity press ebook priced at $30. For a single novel). And with a vanity press, you often have to give up a ton of your rights, even including copyright. So besides being out money, you also have a badly produced book and little to no legal avenue to get your rights back.

(As an aside, serialized fiction apps have been gaining in popularity in the self-publishing community. READ THE FINE PRINT before you publish on a platform. Some of them ask for exclusive irrevocable rights, which basically mean that to post your story on their platform you have to give them the sole right in perpetuity to publish your work. Which means that if you wanted to self-publish your story as a book, you couldn't do that. You also couldn't publish it with a traditional publisher. Check out this article from Writer Beware for more info).

TLDR, self-publishing is a good option, but however you decide to publish review all contracts/terms and conditions carefully.

This is a friendly reminder to never, ever publish your book with a publishing company that charges you to publish with them. That is a vanity press, which makes money by preying on authors. They charge you for editing, formatting, cover art, and more. With most of these companies, you will never seen a cent of any royalties made from sale of your book. A legitimate publishing company only makes money when you make money, they will never charge you to publish with them. If a company approaches you and says "Hey, we'll publish your book, just pay us X amount of money," tell them to go fuck themself and block them.