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Freelancing
A freelancer is a professional who offers their services for a fee, but who is not a full-time-only employee of a publishing company. Many have supplementary training in the areas that they’re working in. Hiring a freelancer to help with your writing may be a beneficial course of action, based on number of factors. First…
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What Happens After I Submit My Novel?
Oh gosh! You completed your novel. You submitted it to an agent. You followed the Submission Guidelines to the letter. What happens next? This depends a lot on the process of the agent in question. As will the response time. But we’ll be general here. When an agent receives a manuscript they’ll read it. They’ll…
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What Happens After I Submit My Short Story?
You finished your story. You submitted your story! Now what happens? Each market handles submissions differently. You can probably find information about your particular market’s process via their website. But, let’s be general. For most submissions, your story will enter the Slush Pile. The Slush Pile is the accumulation of all the submissions a market…
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National Suicide Prevention Day
I wasn’t aware that it was National Suicide Prevention Day. Frankly, I wasn’t aware that it existed. It isn’t part of my personal calendar, until one of my favorite authors did something brave and shared. College was rough. I was poor when i shouldn’t have been. I was unable to pay bills, eat food. There…
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Microfiction, “Rustwisdom”
Earlier this year, I was fortunate to publish a story “Rustsong” at The Future Fire. They are currently in the middle of their Ten Year Anniversary. As part of this, former contributors were invited to submit an addendum to their TFF pieces, set ten years after their story. Mine went live today. Rustwisdom was inspired…
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When Will I Get Paid (Long Fiction)
We have discussed this in a previous entry (How Much Will I Get Paid? (Long Fiction)) in general terms. We have discussed that an Advance is issued by a publisher against an author’s royalties and that additional money won’t be paid out until the Advance has been Paid Out. We’ve discussed that all of this…
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What Kinds of Awards Exist?
In writing, as with many fields, there are a number of awards that can be won. In fact, there are many, many awards. We will not create an exhaustive list. However, here are several, discussed in brief, and linked appropriately. Some have strange or specific guidelines, or other sorts of requirements which are detailed in…
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What Kind of Professional Organizations Exist?
As you may gather, with a group of people, generally organizations follow. There are a number of organizations available to writers of different genres. Some of these organizations have membership requirements, while others do not. Rather than summarizing or creating an exhaustive list, please find a number of these organizations below, as well as links…
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What is a Convention?
WorldCon? Sasquan? Loncon 4? What are these things? They’re Conventions. A convention is a large gathering of people in a particular location to celebrate, discuss, and promote all things Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Writing, or whatever the convention is about. Some of them are small. Some of them are large. They are often named after their location.…
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How Much Will I Get Paid (Long Fiction)
You SOLD YOUR STORY! That’s super exciting! Your novel was sold! And now the Business begins (sidenote: the business began the minute you sent your novel out for submission). In this area your Agent will be invaluable. They act (as we discuss in other topics) as your advocate, to ensure that you are working out…
Sean R. Robinson 