Story Submissions

[pasithea]

Woo... I submitted two stories today. Scary scary. Of course, only one was mine but honestly, I think it's a lot more unnerving to submit for someone else because you become painfully aware that any ignorance or poor grammar you express in the cover letter reflects on them. Other than that, totally different genres and destinations, so there's no weird competition. Still. Big step for me. It's way easier to sit back and complain about not being famous than to actually try to take steps to remedy that.

Submissions, it turns out, are a surprising amount of hassle. One which involves spreadsheets and other unpleasant things. I'm now running OpenOffice on the Mac. Whee!

Anyhow. Lots to do and little time to do it. Night.

Comments

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Submitting a story always feels to me like stepping off a cliff, and holding up a tiny little sign that says "help," Wiley E. Coyote style.

But you gotta do it. I've had 18 sales this year.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Wow. Congrats! That's pretty impressive! I used to write a lot but kind of laid it aside for a while to focus on art and animation. I've never really made any effort to market my work though. Mostly because I felt too amateur in all but writing.

So, of course, when I went to seriously consider trying to get this story published, I was suddenly painfully aware of how amateur it was. The number of grammatical errors were simply astounding. I seem to have an affinity for using present tense in a passive voice when writing past-tense action. The story was good but the writing was rather weak.

Anyhow. The real work comes in keeping a flow of work going. Can't just send out one and wait. :)

Do you have anything published somewhere I might be able to read it? I'm curious now. :)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

I have a website: http://www.angelsparrow.com

The linked covers take you to my publishers' sites.
(no cover or no link means the story isn't available yet)

There are samples of everything and a free story as well.

My first heterosexual romance comes out next week.