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(less)Ī place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. I'll just swear by writing a lot, submitting a lot, and rolling with the rejections until they turn into acceptances. Some people swear by a stint slush reading at magazines, and others swear by attending one of the genre workshops (Clarion being the gold standard, but there are other shorter/more affordable ones such as Viable Paradise and the one at the University of Kansas). That sounds glib, but I used to start stories all the time and then abandon them. Finish stories, then finish more stories. In my opinion, the only way to get published is to write, write, write and submit, submit, submit.

Things went fast once they got rolling in 2012, but I had lots of stories under my belt by then.

On the other hand, I'd been submitting stories to magazines since I was fourteen, with a break when I was playing music full time. My first pro sale was to Daily Science Fiction, and then several months later things took off with pro sales to Strange Horizons, Asimov's, etc. On paper, my breakthrough into short fiction was on the fast side, if you're just looking at stories published. I'm not sure there's much to my 'how did you get published' story beyond saying that I wrote a story somebody wanted to publish. Sarah Pinsker Hi Joseph, Thanks for asking! I'm not sure there's much to my 'how did you get published' story beyond saying that I wrote a story somebody wanted to p …more Hi Joseph,

Two truths and a lie by sarah pinsker