Cynics take heart (and heed): A Cup of Comfort is a legitimate opportunity to publish high-quality creative nonfiction stories in a best-selling book series, published by Adams Media Corporation. Although stories are submitted on spec, entrants pay NO fees. Of the 1000-2000 stories submitted for each volume (four published per year), only 50 to 60 make it into the book. Only about 90% of submissions received are publishable, by our standards. Authors whose stories are published in A Cup of Comfort books retain serial rights, enabling them to resell their stories to magazines, as well as other rights, such as film and live performance. In fact, after having their stories spotted in A Cup of Comfort, several authors have since sold their stories to TV producers and to magazines. A few have also been able to sell other stories and books that they had been unable to sell previously.

Some people write and publish their work in publications that are read by hundreds of thousands, or millions, of readers, such as in A Cup of Comfort. Others talk about writing and dream of publishing. Which are you?