Did this ever get solved for you? I am having the same issue and im getting frustrated. It has been far longer that 1 sims week, and im having the same issue with my writer. She is able to publish her books, but cannot publish to literary digest because she can only release one a week. It is not working. I have no mods. I deleted the the mailbox and put a new one there, and Ive given it much longer than a week to see if i just wasnt waiting long enough.
The Sims TeamI really appreciate it, but I kept playing the same save file and we moved to a new lot and after that the issue seemed to have resolved itself. When I moved my author sim to a new lot, the issue with submitting work to the literary digest not refreshing started working again too. I think it had something to do with the lot I downloaded from the gallery because a lot of weird glitches Ive never seen before went away when I left the lot!
