Workshop #2 on marketing & selling short fiction
This Sunday, Sept 22 at 4pm EDT, I'll be teaching the second in my series of three online workshops on how to market and sell short fiction, based on my PLAYING THE SHORT GAME writer's guide.
A wealth of courses and books exist to teach you how to write stories. But what happens when you’ve finished writing? Do you know how to sell what you’ve written? Do you know what happens after you sell a story and how to handle all the steps?
These workshops are offered via SFWA President Cat Rambo's "Rambo Academy." The first workshop focused on how to get your first story sale, including understanding rights and licensing, how to decide where to submit (and where not to), finding markets, how to submit (and what not to do), and more.
This second workshop takes a writer from when they learn an editor wants to buy their story to after it's published and the reviews start coming. Trust me, it's worth it for the discussion of contracts alone.
Topics include:
- Understanding how editors and slush piles work
- Why editors choose or reject stories
- What to look (and look out) for in short fiction contracts, and how to ask for changes
- How to work with an editor during the editing process for your story
- How to handle rejections and reviews
- How much promotion is reasonable when you sell a story
- Cool things that might happen: Awards, best of anthologies,…and even movies
Registration information on workshop #1 as well as full details on the workshop series can be found here on Cat's blog.
