Is your story like mine? Have you published in top journals, won prestigious emerging writer awards, gone to top MFA programs, spent years writing a great book–done everything that everyone has ever told you to do to get published–and still, have yet to sell your first manuscript?

The cream doesn’t always rise to the top. Lists are shortening. The number of annual literary debuts is paltry. Advances are shrinking to the levels of coffee money.

Thousands of GREAT manuscripts are falling through the cracks.

7.13 Books is a press trying to do its part to save a few literary gems.

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7.13 Books is committed to making beautiful works of literature and offering a publishing experience that’s respectful to and even reverent of first-time authors.

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We are open now to submissions for publication in 2019. We are only looking for writers who have not yet published a book of literary fiction. I’m especially looking for female and LGBTQ voices. My tastes lean toward (but are not limited to) the genre-bending, the fabulists, as well as literary comedies.

“Wet,” an excerpt from Alex Behr’s PLANET GRIM is up at Nailed Magazine

“My husband breaks a slat of the bed I grew up in. It’s a mahogany sleigh bed from the 1800s. The headboard is stained with handprint ghosts from our son’s dreams.”