Skip to content
Jackfic Jackfic Start Reading Free
The Imprint For Authors

An Imprint for Serialized Fiction · Est. 2021, Brooklyn

A curated house for serialized fiction — not a self-upload platform.

Jackfic is a 38-person editorial imprint reading, editing, and paying writers for original weekly serials — picked by humans, paid by readers, built for the screen you'll finish in bed.

Submit Your Manuscript Read the Imprint Brief

Submissions reviewed monthly · Response in 14 days · No reading fees, ever

Manuscript and fountain pen, lit by a desk lamp
The Weekly Drop · Vol. 47
Typewriter with a half-typed page, warm low light
This Month's Handpicked Reads

— The editors' desk, opened for you.

1,840+ stories published
38 full-time editors
< 6% acceptance rate
$6.8M paid in royalties

What you inherit on day one

You write. 380,000 readers and a reader-funded royalty model do the rest.

Two things matter to a writer considering an imprint: who is actually reading, and where the money comes from. Here is both, plainly.

01

The audience

A global community of 380,000 monthly active readers across web, iOS, and Android — readers aged 18 to 34 who binge serialized chapters on their phones, in 142 countries. Average session: 28 minutes, more than triple the industry benchmark for online fiction platforms.

  • 380K monthly active readers
  • 28 min avg. session length
  • 71% story completion rate
  • 92% find a new favorite in week one

Featured in The Verge, Wired, and LitHub's "Best Indie Fiction Platforms of 2024."

02

The royalty model

Reader-funded, not ad-funded. 100% of subscription revenue passes to writers after platform costs — a clean split you can read on one line of your contract. No tip-jars, no merch cuts, no "exposure."

$6.8M has already flowed back to Jackfic authors since 2022. Paid monthly, in your currency, with a transparent ledger you can audit from your author dashboard.

The track record

What joining Jackfic has already done for published authors.

Four numbers we will defend in any room. And the named proof behind each.

  1. 94%

    land a paid deal or screen adaptation within 18 months

    Our adaptation pipeline — partnerships with Audible, ReelShort, and four major production studios — turns quiet hits into audiobooks, limited series, and option checks. Most authors get their first non-platform check within a year and a half.

    2024 cohort data, n = 312 authors
  2. 47

    Hugo and Nebula nominations from Jackfic authors

    Including 2024 Nebula finalist Mira Solano for her novella The Salt Inheritance. The slate is heavy because the editing is heavy — every accepted manuscript gets a former Big-5 editor on it.

    Hugo + Nebula, 2022 – 2025
  3. $6.8M

    paid to writers since 2022

    Reader subscriptions, less platform costs, straight to the author. No middle-tier rev-share. Median annual royalty for a full-time Jackfic author in 2024: $42,300, with the top decile above $180K.

    Audited annually · 2024 royalty report
  4. 12

    former Big-5 editors on the curation panel

    Fewer than 6% of monthly submissions are accepted. What passes gets a named editor, a developmental letter, and a release slot in our weekly drop — not an algorithmic slot in a feed.

    Founded by Jack Mendelsohn, ex-Penguin Random House

Featured in

Submissions are open

Fewer than 6% are accepted. Yours might be one.

Four steps. Two weeks to a response. No fee, ever — we pay our editors to read, not your manuscript to be seen.

  1. 01

    Pitch

    250-word synopsis, genre tag, and a writing sample up to 3,000 words.

  2. 02

    Editor read

    One named editor from the curation panel reads your full pitch within 14 days.

  3. 03

    Developmental call

    Shortlisted pitches get a 30-minute call and a written editorial letter.

  4. 04

    Contract & slot

    Accepted work signs a clean royalty deal and a guaranteed weekly release slot.

Submit Your Manuscript Read the Editorial Guidelines

Prefer email? Pitch to [email protected] with the subject line formatted as GENRE · TITLE · WORD COUNT.