Uncategorized #publishpath – This week’s submissions (07/11/2020)
July 11, 2020 admin

No more delays. I have a list of places to submit to this week. I have a basic cover letter. I know my manuscript is formatted correctly. All I have to do is go on Submitable and pay a couple of bucks to submit my work. This is going to be easy! Let’s do the Harvard Review first. Wait… what? I literally just checked this earlier in the week. I could have swore they said… No matter. People change their minds. And there have been several notices on the Harvard Review website talking about the increasing adjustments they’ve had to…

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Uncategorized #PublishPath – Step Eight: Actually send it OUT. Maybe.
April 27, 2020 admin

So I wrote a cover letter. I wrote a cover letter for my first choice publication. Then I copied that draft into an email, put the publisher’s email address in the ‘to’ box, and attached a copy of my story to it. I was ready to intentionally, and with malice aforethought, actually hit send. When I was a young kid, I got to go on a class trip to Europe. We ended up in some medieval town, and we climbed to the top of a historic tower and when I tried to climb down I almost fell off. To this day,…

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Uncategorized #PublishPath – Step Seven: Inevitably mess something up.
April 20, 2020 admin

Well, writer’s block can hit you at any time, and it ran me over like a MAC truck this week. This #publishpath entry should have been about reviewing my written cover letter and the problems most people have when sending their short fiction out for the first time. But between a family emergency and dealing with the issues surrounding the quarantine, I find myself still working on that cover letter 30 minutes before my deadline. I’m going to have to leave the house for some essential errands, and I know I’ll be away from my computer all day today. So…

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Uncategorized #PublishPath – Step Six: Writing the query letter
April 13, 2020 admin

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 my short story. Wait… what am I going to say to those publishers? Is querying for short fiction more difficult than querying for novels? Or agents? I know how things used to work back in the day, but have they changed in 2020? Well, after…

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