Publishing

We’d all love for writing to be just that, but in the current climate we have to be marketers, accountants, publicity agents, lawyers, copy writers, graphics designers, editors, community moderators… I’m sure there are a dozen other hats authors wear on the reg.

So you’ve written a short story (or maybe a poem or essay) and you’d like to see it published; how do you go about submitting it to literary journals? This post plans on walking you through finding and choosing the right journal(s) for you, what simultaneous submissions are, submission guidelines and industry standards for when pieces are missing, the difference between a cover letter and a query letter, and finally, reasons you may want to track your submissions and how.