r/PubTips↗
PubTips: A Traditional Publishing Writing Community
PubTips is the go-to place for trade/traditional publishing news and professional AMAs with authors, agents, editors, publicists, etc. We offer query critiques and answer writing and publishing questions with a focus on the traditional publishing market.
99k subscribers1,123 posts / mo in Sep 2026740 authors / mosince 2016
r/PubTips has 99k members (+26% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,123 posts a month from 740 people. Top topics: Querying and Agents, Querying and Agents and Book Marketing.
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Topics and brands on r/PubTips
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Querying and Agents23%
- Querying and Agents11%
- Book Marketing2.3%
- Self-Publishing1.1%
- Daily Writing Goals0.6%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- Publishers Marketplace
- Manuscript Wish List (#MSWL)
- Diabolical Plots
- Duotrope
- Bookshop
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