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Operational Update (August 16, 2024)

This is an update for authors, readers, and book buyers in regard to Main Street Rag operations.

Submissions:

We are currently not using Submittable for book submissions. All are done directly, but author must read the guidelines to see if they qualify to have their book read for free. The criteria is on the Submissions Guidelines Page.

Title Warehousing:

Most titles run their course over a period of 3 years. In the past we have purged our back list by offering them to authors at a closeout price. This price only applies to copies already in print. With the exception of a few titles that remain active, Main Street Rag Publishing Company will be closing out on all books published prior to January 1, 2020.

The offer will only last until November 15, 2024, so any author who would like to buyout our closeout copies, should contact us immediately: editormsr@outlook.com

Shipping Address:

The Main Street Rag shipping address will be changing January 1, 2025. When we have established the new mailing address, it will be posted on the website first. Please note that the PO BOX address we were using was closed January 1, 2024.

BOOKSTORE ORDERS:

We do not take phone orders. All orders must be made in writing. Email is the most efficient way: editormsr@outlook.com

Any questions or concerns regarding these or any other matters need to be sent to: editormsr@outlook.com

Main Street Rag Publishing Company has been publishing our print magazine, The Main Street Rag, uninterrupted since 1996. Among its features are poetry, short fiction, photography, essays, interviews, reviews, and commentary. Subscription information is available on the Submissions page and can be placed online at: Subscriptions. Current and back issue information–including who appears in each issue–can now be found at The MSR Online Bookstore on the back and current issues page. Our magazine is financed through subscriptions, direct sales and shelf sales. We receive no money in the form of grants or public funds. Reader support is important and necessary.

Main Street Rag Publishing Company publishes books under the following labels:

Main Street Rag (poetry)
Mint Hill Books (fiction)
Pure Heart Press (self-publishing)

All of our books are available through the Main Street Rag Online Bookstore where readers/buyers can search by genre, title, and author name. All sales from the Main Street Rag Online Bookstore are conveniently and securely processed by PayPal.

Those seeking book publication can find several pages on the informational side of our website, www.MainStreetRag.com, which describe what we publish, how we select it and when we are open for submissions.

Links to Submission Guidelines

Magazine
Book Publishing
Anthologies

The Main Street Rag Poetry Award is an annual full-length poetry book contest sponsored by Main Street Rag and one of the ways we select the poetry manuscripts we publish. Details are available on the Contest page.

We hope you enjoy your visit to Main Street Rag. Even more, we hope you like what you see enough to subscribe to our literary magazine or sample a copy of one of our many books. There is nothing like the smell and feel of paper pulp.

Sincerely,

M. Scott Douglass
Publisher/Managing Editor
Main Street Rag

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