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Considerations Before Venturing into the Self-Publishing Jungle

As the number of stories I publish increases, I’m beginning to think about ways to further market them.  Traditionally, authors either sold them as reprints to other publications (e.g., anthologies) or collected into a single volume and sold them to a … Continue reading

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Three Sales for Three Monsters

I’ve collected several rejections over the last several weeks, but three members of my Hopefull Monsters writing group have sold stories: • D.J. Cockburn sold “Seeking Kailash” to Stupefying Stories.   • Richard Zwicker’s “The Reopened Cask” will appear in Whortleberry … Continue reading

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Must be the Season

Tracie McBride, our Hopefull Monster down under, has had a run of sales recently and commented that it “must be the season for acceptances”.  I guess she was right.  The day after she said that, I sold “The Last Horse” to Aoife’s … Continue reading

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No Fish For Me

I submitted a story to an upcoming anthology called Fish, to be published by Dagan Books (the same publisher who is producing IN SITU with my story “Hoodoo”).  My story didn’t make the cut, which is always disappointing, but I saw the table of … Continue reading

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Fiction and Advertising

Tracie McBride, a fellow member of the Hopefull Monsters writing group, posted a fascinating blog entry about lies and advertising.  She elegantly ties pending legislation in Australia that would to limit the way cigarettes can be packaged back to fiction … Continue reading

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