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Q: How do I get published?

A: The short answer is: with a lot of luck and a damned good story. The long answer is ... longer.

Writing professionally isn’t for the faint-hearted. Publishing, while part of the entertainment industry, is a business. The purpose of business is to make money, not make your dreams of being a published author come true. If an editor doesn’t believe your work is capable of generating sufficient income they won’t buy it. Brutal, but true.

Basically, it’s a crap shoot. Every year, editors gamble that their latest discovery is going to hit the bestseller lists and shoot the author into the stratosphere. Sometimes these gambles pay off, but mostly they don’t. At the end of the day, all opinions about writing are subjective. Don’t forget that several agents passed on JK Rowling before she was accepted and went on to make publishing history. Every agent that turned her down was a competent professional who didn’t, for whatever reason, connect with her work. Are they kicking themselves now? You bet. Were they wrong to turn her down? In hindsight, oh yeah. But at the end of the day, they could only be guided by what worked for them. The same is true throughout the publishing industry. To get your story into print, all you need is one agent and/or editor who connects with your work and is willing to take that gamble. But that, I’m sorry to say, is completely out of your control. You can’t make somebody like your work. They either will, or they won’t.

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