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作       者:Douglas Smith

出  版  社:Spiral Path Books

出版时间:2016-11-01

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Take your first step to becoming a professional short fiction writer—Buy this book! In an engaging and conversational style, award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches you how to market and sell short stories—and much, much more. Even experienced writers will find value here as Smith takes you from your first sale to using your stories to build a writing career. CONTENTS: The Fundamentals: The different types of writers. The benefits of short fiction. Rights and licensing. Selling Your Stories: Knowing when it's ready. Choosing markets. Submitting stories. Avoiding mistakes. How editors select stories. Dealing with rejections. When to give up on a story. After a Sale: Contracts. Working with editors. What your first sale means. Dealing with reviews. A Writer's Magic Bakery: Selling reprints. Foreign markets. Audio markets. Selling a collection. The indie option. Becoming Established: Leveraging your stories. Discoverability and promotion. Career progression in short fiction. With an introduction by multi-award winning writer and editor, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. "We short story writers have needed a book like this for decades. ... It’s spectacular." —Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Award-winning Author & Editor “If you are the least bit interested in having a career as a fiction writer then I can tell you what to read: Douglas Smith’s Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction. From now on this is my go-to book for all things related to starting and maintaining my fiction writing career.” —Filip Wiltgren, The Guide to a Professional Writing Career
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Title Page

Copyright Page

Introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

About This Book (and How to Use It)

Section I — Setting a Foundation: The Fundamentals

Chapter 1. Why Are You Writing?: Deciding on the Writing Career You Want

Chapter 2. Why Short Fiction?: Its Benefits to a Writing Career

Chapter 3. Why You Never “Sell” a Story: Rights and Licensing

Section II — Selling Short: How to Market Your Stories

Chapter 4. How Do I Know It’s Ready?: Submission Fear & Arrogance

Chapter 5. Where to First?: A Strategy for Choosing Short Fiction Markets

Chapter 6. Where to Look: Finding Short Fiction Markets

Chapter 7. Markets, Markets Everywhere: Selecting the Right Market

Chapter 8. Dear Editor: How to Submit Short Fiction

Chapter 9. The No-Nos: What Not to Do When Submitting Fiction

Chapter 10. The Numbers Game: What to Do after You’ve Submitted a Story

Chapter 11. Behind the Curtain: How an Editor Chooses (or Rejects) a Story

Chapter 12. Oh God, They Hate Me: Dealing with Rejections

Chapter 13. Drawing the Line: When to Stop Submitting a Story

Section III — You’ve Sold a Story: Contracts, Editing, and Reality

Chapter 14. Sign Here: What to Look (Out) for in Short Fiction Contracts

Chapter 15. I Love Your Story. Now Change It: Working with an Editor

Chapter 16. But You Bought My Last Story: What a First Sale Really Means

Chapter 17. They Said WHAT?!?: Dealing with Reviews

Chapter 18. Let the Band Ring Out and the Banners Fly: Promotion (or Not)

Section IV — The Magic Bakery: How to Leverage Your Stories

Chapter 19. Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: A Writer’s Magic Bakery

Chapter 20. This Story First Appeared In...: Selling Reprints

Chapter 21. Bonjour / Hola / Ciao: Selling Foreign Language Rights

Chapter 22. Curling Up with a Good Podcast: Selling Audio Rights

Chapter 23. More Options for Your Backlist: Collections

Chapter 24. A Brave New World: The Indie Option for Short Fiction

Section V — Is That All There Is?: Thoughts for Established Writers

Chapter 25. Cool Stuff That Might Happen: Awards, Best of Anthologies, Movies

Chapter 26. Bands and Banners Revisited: Promotion for Established Authors

Chapter 27. Where Do We Go from Here?: Career Progression in Short Fiction

Chapter 28. So Long and Thanks for All the Fish: Parting Thoughts

About the Author

Other Works by Douglas Smith

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Impossibilia

The Wolf At The End Of The World

Index

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