Port Yonder Press

Port Yonder Press is looking to expand our fiction line (SeaBeast Books) with young adult and adult fantasy and speculative novels from 50,000 to 100,000 words.

We want to see: daring worlds of invention and imagination; grand adventures and life-or-death stakes; amazing creatures and amazing humans; things new and old combined in fresh and fantastic ways; tales of times long past and tales of the supernatural in our midst today. We want the subtle and the epic. We want to see what we’ve never seen before. We want characters we can live and grow with and plots that make us rethink reality and what it means to be human.

We don’t want tales of buxom amazons or blatant sex. We don’t mind being scared but we’d rather have some horror with our fantasy, not the other way around. We don’t mind tasteful battle violence, but we don’t like gore for gore’s sake. We don’t mind magic, but we don’t like when both good and bad magic are occultish. We don’t like preachy; we’d rather experience what you have to say through the story. We’ll look at Steampunk, and we love genre hybrids, but we don’t want stories that could be more easily classified as science fiction than fantasy. If you have a story that’s been done before and done well, you will have to wow us with your originality.

We like stories by writers like: J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, Madeleine L’Engle, Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Ursula K. LeGuin, George R.R. Martin, Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Kostova, Jill Williamson, Audrey Niffenegger, Stephen Lawhead, Terry Goodkind, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ted Dekker, Christopher Paolini, Bram Stoker, Frank Peretti, Gregory Maguire, Bill Myers, Terry Pratchett, Mark Andrew Olsen, Stephanie Meyer, Joss Whedon, and Steven Moffat, to name a few. In short, we like fantasy of all kinds, and would love to see your original story making its way up there with the greats.

We understand that an epic work of genius can’t always be told in 100K words or less. If your novel is over 100K and you would still like to submit to us, please do one of the following: tell us how you’re already cutting it down and your projected finished word count of under 100K, OR tell us how you can restructure the story to work as two 60-80K length novels.

Above all, we want good writing and good stories. Make us laugh and make us cry and make us understand life just a little bit better.

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Literary agent and novelist Terry Burns gives us a somewhat autobiographical look at his life in this collection of short stories and poems. Grab a cup of coffee and find a spot near the fire; you're sure to enjoy Terry's mix of gentle story-telling and personal faith. First in the Sagebrush Collection.

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Endorsements for "On the Road Home" 


From Jerry B. Jenkins, Author & Owner, Christian Writers Guild:  Terry Burns writes with a grace and wit not often seen these days. Settle in and enjoy his evocative fiction and poetry.


J. M. Hochstetler, Author of the American Patriot Series says, Reading a Terry Burns novel is like sitting around a campfire out on the trail under a sky full of moon and stars, listening to tales shared by the cowpokes in their soft, unhurried drawl.


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Maggie's QUOTE OF THE MONTH:

 

Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

~Ray Bradbury

 

 

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Visit other small presses:

 

Splashdown Books

 

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Marcher Lord Press

 

(Link to MLP's 2010 Christy Award winner Jill Williamson's

To Darkness Fled, speculative fiction novel)

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Port Yonder Books - general interest books, crossover, secular or Christian, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, unclassified or experimental

SeaBeast Books - fantasy, sci-fi, speculative fiction (Christian)

SharksFinn Books - books for youth and young adults (Christian)

SkySail Books - literary, select non-fiction, poetry, and experimental (Christian)


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Across the Bay

A foghorn-blast spans the distance

Just across the bay,

But for all my reach, that ship could be

A million miles away.

And though the warm beach sand surrounds—

The lapping waves refresh—

My heart will sail aboard that ship

To better shores than this.

To ports unknown and islands far

I’ll gladly find my way,

For the million miles of distance

Are just across the bay!

Across the bay, aboard the ship

That sails for ports unseen—

Across the world to lands beyond

And lands within my dream.

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