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Welcome to the Epona Muse Publishing Show.

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This show is released monthly with updates on

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our open submission calls, new book releases, and

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more.

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Stay tuned and visit our website at publishing

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.eponaauthorsolutions.com or eponamuse.com to learn more

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about our open submission calls and our books.

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And now this month's show.

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Hello and welcome to the Epona Muse Publishing

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News for October 2026.

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So as you can see, we have a

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new background on the Zoom video, and that

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is our logo.

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So welcome!

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We are glad to have you on our

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official Epona Muse Publishing News show.

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I want to remind everybody right off the

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top that our Cozy Fantasy Anthology, Gouda &

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Cozy, will have its submissions closing on October

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31st.

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You still have plenty of time to submit.

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We are still actively looking for stories.

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We would prefer these stories be, of course,

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100% human written, approximately 2,000 to

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10,000 words, and a cozy fantasy story

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featuring cheese.

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What you do with that, I would love

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to read, so please don't self-reject or

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self-censor your stories.

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Please send your stories, and all guidelines as

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well as our submission form is on our

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website at eponamuse.com or publishing.eponaauthorsolutions.com.

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We are a royalty paying publisher.

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There are never any fees to publish in

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one of our anthologies.

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We are also reading for novellas, and please

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check the word count on our submissions page.

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I've had a few questions about that.

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We're looking for 10,000 to 15,000

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words, all the way up to about 30

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,000 words.

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I know that's a little bit shorter than

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where some places cite novella length, so we're

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looking for novellas, speculative fiction, and we would

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love to read your stories featuring queer or

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disabled or neurodivergent characters.

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If you want to submit normative speculative fiction,

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you're welcome to do that as well.

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We do not discriminate here at Epona Muse

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Publishing, but we definitely want to be a

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place where you can publish your novella length

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speculative fiction work, especially if it has queer,

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disability, or chronic illness themes.

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We have a nonfiction anthology for the neurodivergent

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connection with animals.

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That deadline is November 30th, and then we

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have a charity anthology featuring wild magic, or

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I'm sorry, wild weather or magical weather stories.

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That again, we're looking for more fantasy here

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rather than science fiction, but send us what

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you got.

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If it's wild, if it's weather, if it's

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got some speculative fiction element, we want to

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read that, and that deadline is December 31st.

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We also have a newsletter on our website.

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I encourage you to sign up for the

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newsletter.

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We will be issuing our first edition here

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before the end of the year, probably listing

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those 2027 submission calls.

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Our goal is to have something happening every

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month, so I want to encourage you to

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pay attention to our Epona Muse Publishing news,

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as well as please pay attention to our

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newsletter, because we are constantly looking for stories,

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constantly looking to put out great books of

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fiction.

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As a gentle reminder, our fantasy anthology, Horses

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are Magic, has been published and available wherever

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you can pick up your books, and it's

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also available in libraries.

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I certainly encourage you to pick up a

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copy.

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I also encourage you to pick up a

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copy of our non-fiction anthology, Neurodivergent Grief,

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volume one.

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We are hoping to put out a volume

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two at some point in the future, so

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if you have an essay you'd like to

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send for that, please do reach out.

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Thank you so much.

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We hope to see you for next month,

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and please stay tuned at publishing.eponaauthorsolutions.com.

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Thank you.

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