Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction (2nd Edition)
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Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction (2nd Edition)

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eBook - ePub

Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction (2nd Edition)

About this book

Fully revised and current, this second edition addresses every change in the short fiction landscape since the classic original edition came out a decade ago. "Doug has gone through this new volume carefully, updating every possible detail. That makes the second edition as indispensable to the short fiction writer as the first." — Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author and editor ~~~ Take your first step to becoming a professional short fiction writer—Buy this book! In an engaging and conversational style, multi-award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches how to market and sell short stories—and much, much more. Even experienced writers will find value here as Smith takes you from your first sale to using your stories to build a writing career. Topics include: The Fundamentals: The different types of writers. The benefits of short fiction. Rights and licensing. Selling Your Stories: Knowing when it's ready. Choosing markets. Submitting stories. Avoiding mistakes. How editors select stories. Dealing with rejections. When to give up on a story. After a Sale: Contracts. Working with editors. What your first sale means. Dealing with reviews. A Writer's Magic Bakery: Selling reprints. Foreign markets. Audio markets. Selling a collection. The indie option. Becoming Established: Leveraging your stories. Discoverability and promotion. Career progression in short fiction. ~~~ Douglas Smith is the ideal person to write this book. His stories have appeared in thirty-seven countries and twenty-six languages. He has three acclaimed collections and has won five awards—three for his short fiction alone. "Lots of writers write good books on craft. Few have the experience to write good books on the publishing business. Doug is one of those few, and this book shows it." — Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author and editor "Douglas Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres." —Robert J. Sawyer, multi-award-winning author

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Table of contents

  1. Book Description
  2. Praise
  3. Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  6. What’s New in This 2nd Edition
  7. About This Book (And How to Use It)
  8. SECTION I. SETTING A FOUNDATION
  9. SECTION II. SELLING SHORT
  10. SECTION III. YOU’VE SOLD A STORY
  11. SECTION IV. THE MAGIC BAKERY
  12. SECTION V. IS THAT ALL THERE IS?
  13. A REQUEST
  14. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  15. ALSO BY DOUGLAS SMITH
  16. CHIMERASCOPE
  17. IMPOSSIBILIA
  18. THE HOLLOW BOYS
  19. THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD
  20. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  21. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  22. Index