Writers Wanted!

Pen to Paper is a new publishing house, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

We publish all genres, from new and experienced writers.

We encourage our authors to get out into the community, with book signings, author visits, and volunteering at their local writing society's. The best promoter of a book, will always be the author.

Times are changing quickly, books need to keep up.

Reading, whether it be an actual book in your hand - excitedly turning each page as your mind is captivated by the story in your hands. Or even reading a story on a screen - your mind flowing with the page scroll. Either one of those actions is all still reading, whether you are a classic book reader or enjoy sitting in front of a screen.

The story is still the same! The characters still come to life and bring with them the feelings of excitement, anticipation, sadness, fear or love. All the emotions aroused from reading a good book.

Jo-Anne Sieppert, director of Pen to Paper, runs a local writing group where writers come together and discuss their work, complete writing activities, critique each others writing and encourage creativity.

Pen to Paper's writing group is a safe and friendly environment for writers to spend time with like minded people.

We encourage all our local authors to take part in the writing group.

The 'job' of being a writer 

Being a writer isn't an easy job! You spend hours sitting, thinking, doubting, and often your mind is just as blank as the page you are staring at.

When you finally write something, you spend more time rewriting, editing, rewriting again then convincing yourself that what you have written is no good - and that nobody would ever want to read it - than you spend actually writing. 

If you finally do finish your story, poetry, picture book, etc., and you haven't beaten yourself up too badly with all that self doubt, you begin the long and painful search for a publisher.

Half of the publishers you find won't accept unsolicited query letters. A majority of the remaining publishers don't publish the genre you've written.

Then those few remaining publishers want you to only submit to them while they have you wait for three months for your rejection letter. This letter tells you how much they liked your idea, it just wasn't for them. 

Missing the link from "those remaining publishers" to "but not other job..."

But no other job lets you keep your head in the clouds, and day dream all day.