CHAPTER24

Publishing Your Work

In This Chapter

  • Doing more research
  • Writing more queries
  • Getting turned down
  • Don’t give up!

In Chapter 23, we looked at finding the best agents and publishers for your work. In this chapter, I expand on the publishing part a bit more.

Everyone’s experiences with publishing are different. There’s no magic formula to getting your creative writing published, but some basic guidelines should help you along the way.

Submitting to Publishers

Before you approach a publisher, you usually need to have written at least part of the book or the entire story/poem/essay you’d like to get published. Most publishers have certain ...

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