After 28 years of teaching writing, having evaluated over a 1,000 manuscripts, and having had 16 myself published by traditional publishers, I have found that ‘what you need’ can be distilled down to four main points.
My protagonist, Kenora Tedesco, is not your typical Toronto private investigator. She’s mixed-race and has always identified as Black.
I’ve been on all sides of the anthology fence, as a story submitter, a publisher, editor, and judge. I’ve felt the thrill of acceptance and the disappointment of rejection
My novel’s title is now on a t-shirt being sold by The Wild Bunch film festival in Arizona.
This is not an occurrence I could have imagined two years ago, when I self-published my Canadian historical mystery.
It’s not easy being a new writer. There’s almost too much information out there.
Publishing is a tough business and breaking into publishing is harder than ever.
Over the last eighteen months, and especially in the past six, the course of my life has drastically changed.