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Apply to Publish on Story Metro

A licensed home for clean ebooks and audiobooks. We review every application personally — usually within 3 business days.

~3 minutes · We only ask for what we need to make a decision.

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AAbout you

Optional. Defaults to your real name.

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BYour work

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Books Published *

Self- or trad-published, both count.

One link per line — Amazon, Goodreads, your publisher's page, etc.

Average Rating Across Your Top 3 Books *

Honest answers help us help you.

CYour audience

This helps us plan your launch — it is a tiebreaker, not a bar. Your content standard and the book itself decide the application. A small following has never cost an author a spot, and promoting Story Metro is never required.

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Follower / Subscriber Count *

On your primary platform.

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Email Newsletter Subscribers (optional)

Optional. A newsletter tells us a lot about how your readers stay with you.

DContent standard + agreements

All Ages
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Clean
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Mature Clean
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Not Allowed
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  • No swearing or blasphemy
  • Mild exclamations only (e.g., "oh my gosh," "heck," "dang," "geeze," "holy cow")
  • Mild non-swear vulgarities (e.g., "crap," "pissed," "freaking") do not count as swearing
  • Up to 10 mild swears in total (the mildest common curse words)
  • Religious exclamations (the Lord's name as an exclamation) count as mild swears
  • Cut-off or self-censored swear words count as mild swears
  • More than 10 mild swears in total
  • Any use of bodily swear words (crude terms for body parts or bodily functions) or crude insults
  • 30 or more swears in total, at any level
  • Any use of the f-word, including cut-off or self-censored forms
  • Racial, ethnic, or identity-based slurs