Launch Your Writing Career with the Snowball Strategy
Writer shares her personal publishing strategy
Welcome to our weekly column offering perspectives on lit mag publishing, with contributions from readers, writers and editors around the world.
I’ve received hundreds, maybe thousands, of rejections from literary magazines, but when it came to publishing my chapbooks and poetry collection—I had a wonderful, surprising experience. Both my chapbooks were accepted by the first presses I sent them to. Zero rejections. Later, after only a month of submitting my poetry collection, I received two rejections and three offers of publication. What was going on? How was that possible?