Two sessions, individual workshops. Course is pre-recorded, followed by live Q&A with the Instructor:
Playing the Short Game #1: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction
This workshop will give you critical advice on how to sell your short stories to professional markets and to build a career as a short fiction writer. Topics covered include:
- Rights and licensing for short fiction
- A strategy for selecting your target markets
- Finding short fiction markets
- Selecting the right market
- Submitting short fiction to a market
- What not to do when submitting
- What to do after submitting
Playing the Short Game #2: You Sold a Story! Contracts, Editing, & Reality
This 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. 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
