Hello Writers and Editors Time management is important. It also gets talked about a lot. But… a lot of that talk is really the same stuff regurgitated. S.M.A.R.T. Goals, using your calendar… Let’s look at things a little differently.Time management is really conflict management. What conflicts? Well, there are goal conflicts and calendar conflicts (I

An Update On Sally Port Magazine Sally Port Magazine’s July 2025 issue had marvelous stories from inspiring authors. It also had some tech problems, things that irritated our readers and us. The back-end software we chose had great promise. It gave us features we really wanted. But… It turns out there are issues with customer

2026 themes still open and new themes for 2027 Hello dear authors,We’re down to three themes accepting stories, so it’s time to announce the new themes. Remember, a theme is more a guideline than a rule. What matters is that your story fits with the theme in some way (putting the theme in the title

Wow… Just wow… Hello dear readers! Two things have come up that we’re dealing with:The FMP blog desperately needs an overhaul.We’ve had a massive influx of submissions over at Sally Port Magazine. So, here’s what’s happening. We’ll be putting the FMP blog on hiatus for a few months to get things cleaned up and we’re