Well, I’ve achieved one of my goals for the year: submit 60 short stories to anthologies and magazines.

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   September 23, 2016

   Karen Woodward

   Congrats!

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   September 23, 2016

   Samantha Dunaway Bryant

   I’m terrible about keeping my stuff in submission. Finding appropriate markets, formatting and reformatting to their specifications, and tracking . . .it all takes so much time. And I’d rather be writing new things.

   All that is to say that I’m impressed by your efforts and inspired to try to do better on that front myself. Getting your work out there is a huge piece of the puzzle we call writing life.

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   September 23, 2016

   Mike Reeves-McMillan

   I use The Submission Grinder (thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com) to find markets and for tracking. I seldom have to reformat stuff, except to remove my name if it’s a blind sub. Most places that anyone professional would want to submit to are looking for standard manuscript format.

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   September 23, 2016

   Kenny Chaffin

   So how many sales (I. E. For $$)? How many accepted? I assume some subs were the same story… not all new stories/submissions.

   In any case congrats. I get very sick of the submission/rejection game.

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   September 23, 2016

   Mike Reeves-McMillan

   Three sales so far this year, which is down on last year’s 8. I”m submitting more ambitiously, to more prestigious markets, is probably part of the difference.

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