After all my talk about researching publishers, there’s one detail I’ve forgotten to add to my ‘Filigree’s Rule’ cautions: at some point, we have to pick a publisher, get together a submission, and hit ‘send’ or drop a box in the post. Otherwise, we’re hobby writers, which is not a bad thing. But it generally doesn’t pay.
I’m disobeying my own rules by sending a short story to an anthology call from a publisher so new they don’t have any books out yet, and they don’t even launch for two months.
Why?
I can afford to drop this particular story into publisher limbo, if need be.
The publisher* in question, while new, has principals with excellent and applicable publishing experience, a fairly solid grasp of the fundamentals, and enough capital to open strongly. Every great publisher has started out on the same rung. We’ll see if this one falls or flies.
- I’ll share the name later, when they open.