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Navigating the Editing Landscape:When and How to Choose the Right Editor. And the Right Type of Edit

Choosing an editor is a little like choosing the right builder. You want someone who is professional, reliable, yet friendly. Someone you fe

Time to Get Real About Publishing. When Do You Need an Editor? How to Choose the Right One.

And how to get the best from them. Many misconceptions exist regarding the role of editors in the publishing process – particularly their...

How Do Litmags and Journals Affect Your Publication Strategy?

Why bother with litmags? And how can a strategy, or lack of, help or hinder your goals as a fiction writer?

Why Don’t Literary Journals Pay?

And How Does it Affect Your Publication Strategy? I wasn’t sure what to write about his month, but the subject of litmags and journals...

A Submissions Package - What and Why.

Most writers would recognise the idea of a submissions package as something to send to an agent or publisher once they have finished...

Stay Organised: How to Track and Tailor Your Subs List

Organise your story subs in one easily managed central location and nurture a list of markets specific to your tastes and style.

Writers: Stay Organised!

Why should a writer keep track of story submissions? Some obvious and some not-so-obvious reasons to do so.

Insider View: Assessing a Story Submission

The other day I came across an interesting thread on Twitter in regards to how editors decide on which stories to accept and which ones...

Please, Make Something Happen!

Have something happen in your story. Seems obvious, yes? And yet, we receive so many stories at the mag where this is not the case. There&#3