Well, I promised you I was going to Caithy Weaver this post, and show you each step of sending out the next two queries. Here’s how that went: Monday, May 18th 6:29 – With only 30 minutes of writing time left before I have to grab breakfast and take out the trash, I decide to…
I’m feeling pretty confident right now! I know where I’m sending my work, when I’m sending my work, and I’ve got detailed instructions on how to get the manuscript from Point A to Point B. Now all I have to do is figure out what I’m going to say to each publisher when I query…
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…
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…