Built by a writer who got tired of losing track.

I've been writing and submitting work to literary publications for years. For most of that time, I tracked everything the same way most writers do — a spreadsheet, a notebook, a general sense of dread that I'd forgotten something.

At some point I submitted a piece to a journal, forgot I'd done it, and submitted the same piece somewhere else while the first journal still had it. Then the second journal accepted it. Then I had to send the most embarrassing email of my writing life.

That's when I started building Byline.

The idea was simple: one place to see every submission I had out in the world, with real-time status updates from publications that were on the platform. No more checking email threads. No more wondering if something was still active or quietly rejected. And if something got accepted, everything else would update automatically — no awkward retractions.

What I didn't expect was how useful the other side would be. Publications are drowning in submissions managed through email inboxes and Google Forms. Byline gives them a clean intake portal where they can accept, hold, or pass with a single click — and writers are notified the moment they decide.

Byline is a small, independent product. It's not backed by a literary conglomerate or built to extract money from writers. Writers are free to start and always will be. Publications pay because they get real value — a submission process that actually works.

If you have feedback, run into something broken, or just want to say hello — I'm genuinely reachable at hello@bylinepro.com.