Today, I submitted a story to a magazine. The deadline is November 30th, so chances are I won’t hear from them until early December. Still, it’s quite exciting: this is my first submission. Anything could happen. (Chance are nothing will, but it could.)
I’m using Duotrope to track the submission and share the results and waiting times with other writers.
Today, I attended a workshop on how to write the perfect submission by Nicola Morgan. She wrote the book on submissions (Write to be Published). To date I haven’t bought the book but there’s still time.
The workshop was a quick summary of the main points that you should keep in mind when submitting a proposal to an agent or a publisher. It was quite inspiring. Yes, there’s an aspect of luck in whether you get pubished or not: you need to have the right book and send it to the right publisher at the right time. Do that, and all is good. Unless, of course, your submission letter is so terrible that no one looks at your excerpt, of course.
I learned a lot today and am write a submissin letter for my NaNoWriMo effort for the practice of it. It might help clarify what I wrote.