r/PubTips
PubTips: A Traditional Publishing Writing Community
Founded October 2016 · Public — anyone can post
PubTips is the go-to place for trade/traditional publishing news and professional AMAs with authors, agents, editors, publicists, etc. We offer query critiques and answer writing and publishing questions with a focus on the traditional publishing market.
Members
96,566
97K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
23.6
from the last 100 posts, spanning 4.2 days
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
—
not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
—
not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 28
sampled Oct 28
Distinct posters
100%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 18 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Sep 18 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
Similar by content
Communities that discuss what r/PubTips discusses.
A place to discuss just about everything in the world of indie books. *Not* a place for self-promotion.
A place for authors, old and new, to learn and share what they know about book promotion and marketing. This is also a safe place to post your book promotions in moderation.
All are welcome at r/writers: fiction writers, nonfiction writers, bloggers and more! Get critique on your work, share resources, ask questions and help fellow writers.
A place by and for freelance writers of all kinds to discuss and share every facet of freelance writing.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/PubTips — frequently asked
How many members does r/PubTips have?
r/PubTips has 96,566 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 18. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/PubTips growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/PubTips yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 18; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/PubTips?
Around 23.6 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 4.2 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/PubTips created?
r/PubTips was founded in October 2016 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/PubTips?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 100% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 28. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/PubTips?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/PubTips yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/PubTips for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/PubTips into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/PubTips's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/PubTips's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
Read-only · Human-in-the-loop
Prowlo never posts for you
More free Prowlo tools
Subreddit Finder
Find subreddits by describing your product
Similar Subreddits
Discover related communities
Top Subreddits
The biggest communities we track
Reddit Search Builder
Operators, users, flair and dates
AI Writing Checker
Spot the tells before you post
Comment Humanizer
Make AI comments sound human
Reddit MCP Server
Give your AI agent Reddit access