Words From The Forge.

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Featured titles appear in the showcase above with the cover, a written review, your name, and a direct link to buy the book from wherever you sell it. Iron Quill takes no cut of your sales and does not ask for rights to your work.

Selected writers are invited onto Sips & Scripts to talk about the work and read from it. The written review happens regardless — the episode is an addition, never a replacement.

A review may point out what did not work. If a book is not a fit for this audience, it is declined privately rather than published negatively. Reviews are never bought, and no payment, purchase, or anthology participation influences whether a book is featured or what the review says.

Poetry, devotionals, short prose, essays, and full-length fiction or non-fiction. Faith-based work is the heart of it. Work that is not explicitly faith-based is welcome as long as it is clean. Self-published and small-press titles are the point — you do not need a publisher to be considered.

No explicit sexual content, no graphic violence written for its own sake, and no pervasive profanity. Difficult subjects — grief, addiction, abuse, doubt, war — are welcome and handled seriously. The standard is about how something is written, not what it is about.

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Digital is preferred, and not for our convenience: a file costs you nothing to send and gets read sooner. If your work only exists in print, that is completely fine and it will be read the same way.

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