When you’re querying your short fiction you’re going to get rejected. A lot. Stephen King once famously mounted a railroad spike on his childhood bedroom wall when he started submitting short stories as a teen. Each rejection letter King received got impaled on the spike. After a while, the weight of the paper was so…
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#PublishPath – Step Four: Read every publication on your rough list. (2/2)
I’m continuing my quest to find a publication that might actually welcome the submission of my 6000 word horror/literary short story. Let’s see how the next batch will hold up. The Iowa Review – https://iowareview.org/ What type of fiction do they normally publish? – No clue, paywall Do they publish authors who write like me? –…
#PublishPath – Step Four: Read every publication on your rough list. (1/2)
It’s one thing to get a list of excellent publications that are accepting stories with your theme and word count. It’s another thing altogether to find a publication that might actually like your submission. In order to determine which magazines on my list fall into that second category, there’s only one thing to do: actually…
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Ohio is going to have two weeks of Shelter In Place, starting at midnight tonight and I need to get several things taken care of before that happens. The next step in my #publishpath series will go up late Tuesday or early Wednesday. We’ll go back to the regular Monday updates next week.