16 November 2015
In this essay, I will attempt to tell you everything I've learned about submitting and publishing in literary magazines. Here's the first thing: When you publish a book of stories that were published in literary magazines, you have to pitch essays like this one. Here's the second thing: "Write what you know" is horrible advice for fiction writing, but really good advice for essay-to-promote-a-book writing. And pretty much the only thing I know about is literary magazines.