Fiction or non-fiction manuscripts
New guidelines May 2024
Aliconia Publishing is interested in manuscripts of any genre. Length will vary by concept but will determine whether it is eligible for physical print options.
We are currently open to all queries.
If your manuscript is completed, send a query letter to admin@aliconiapublishing.com containing the following information:
- Your name (and pseudonym if used)
- Number of 1.15 spaced, 12-pt Times New Roman A5 pages and word count
- Title and book synopsis
- First 10 pages
If interested, we will request a chapter outline and information on any visual elements included in the manuscript before entering negotiations for publication. Aliconia Publishing retains the right to edit and reformat any accepted manuscript as appropriate for the intended format. The expectations will be laid out during the negotiations for publication.
Aliconia Publishing retains the right to reject any query sent without all requested information provided to the reviewer’s satisfaction. Aliconia Publishing is under no obligation to respond to a query or to accept a manuscript for publication.
Currently seeking submissions for online magazine!
GenTales is where genealogy meets history. We are currently seeking stories about your family tree. (Updated August 28, 2025)
Qualifications:
- Sign up on the Medium site as a writer.
- Follow the GenTales publication.
- Read the GenTales submission information.
- Submit a well written and sourced story that is either a personal slant on history that notes in some form your relationship to the subject or your experiences in carrying out lineage research.
How it works: Once you are signed up for Medium and follow the publication, you can add a completed draft or published article to GenTales for addition to the magazine. You will also be eligible for Medium Editor curation and distribution.
The Medium publications help group articles by subject matter to make them easier for readers to find and follow them. You are under no obligation to publish every article in GenTales, nor are you under any obligation to publish only genealogy topics.
Be sure to read the Policies on the Medium site. You will own your work and can remove it at any time. You will have direct access to all of your article stats via your writer dashboard. The GenTales editor will do a cursory look through your article for any major issues prior to publication but will not change the content. If your article is not acceptable, you will be notified and allowed to resubmit. The benefit of publishing with GenTales is that followers of the magazine will be alerted to your article being published, and Aliconia promotes the articles published in the magazine.
You do not need to be a paid Medium subscriber to submit articles, though they now require you be one to earn through their Partner Program. You can promote your articles any way you wish. If you put it behind a paywall as part of the Partner Program, you will have a friend link that you can share to allow select people beyond the paywall to read your articles that you can use to your discretion.
Enroll in their Partner Program to be eligible for earnings (all earnings will be paid directly from Medium to you, so even if Aliconia stops publishing GenTales, writers will continue to have the opportunity to earn from their writing and to continue adding articles to other parts of the site). Your earnings on your article are all yours and deposited directly to you by Medium (via Stripe, they have instructions when you register).