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…
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#PublishPath – Step Five: Tiering and scheduling your submissions
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…
#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…