Today I was told yet again that I should write a handbook to explain to my Italian colleagues how to sell stories to foreign magazines and anthologies – especially English-language magazines in my case.

I had to explain that such a handbook would be pretty short – so short, in fact, that I can publish it here in its entirety…
- write a story
- mail it to a magazine
- if they buy it, cash in the cheque
- if they don’t buy it, send it to another magazine
- in both cases, start writing another story as soon as you’ve mailed the first
And that’s it, really.
But a lot of people want to know “The Secret”.
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