From an award-winning short story writer! It’s tough in the trenches. Or maybe you haven’t started out yet. This book is designed to demystify the process of selling short fiction for these markets and keep you from giving up. It can help you find your way from despair to hope. It can increase your chances of success.

And it’s packed with a load of deep insights into the speculative short story markets for the UK and US (science fiction, fantasy, horror and so on).

Here’s just a sample of the Table of Contents:

Part 1: Getting Started
– Terms you really need to know
– A few comforting words
– The Three Guiding Principles
– Why it might not be your fault
– What you might need to change
– Story Writing
– Character creation for short stories
– Crafting short stories with style
– Writing outside your own experience
– Prose

Part 2: The nuts and bolts of submitting your story
– Identifying venues for submissions
– “Qualification”
– But how do you decide which venue should you pick?
– Manuscript preparation
– Reprints / Simultaneous submissions / Multiple submissions
– Example cover letter and bio
– Pressing the button – submission time
– The mechanics
– Submission checklist
– Rejection
– Acceptance
– Contracts & payments
– The editing process

Part 3: Useful stuff
– Resources for writers that you’ll really need

.. and many more key pieces of information.

Specification:

65 page PDF for download, file size 795KB.

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Selling Your Speculative Fiction Short Story