I developed a soft spot for McSweeney's Internet Tendency when I first heard about the site when I was living in Brooklyn in the early 2000s. At that time McSweeney's had a small store that featured things like taxidermy and a book about how to care for your miniature...
I often see people asking where to submit satire or humor pieces to and I have a complicated series of lists to try and keep track of different markets (and there are more popping up all the time). But I've also put together a few lists of market ideas that I try to...
I enjoy reading people's stories of how they got their literary agents. I liked reading them before I got my agent and now that I have one I am still pretty interested in what seems like a semi-mysterious process. So I am now adding my own contribution... The TLDR...
It’s that time of year where I like to take stock of where I got/failed to get writing-wise. This is my third annual report of this nature, and you can check out last year’s report here. So, first the stats. My numbers actually look somewhat similar to last year. Here...
I like reading other writers’ submission stats, so I started tracking mine last year when I started submitting more regularly again. Last year I only submitted for the second half of the year, but this year I had a full year’s worth of numbers to look at. I freelance...
I love this post that Lola Akinmade Åkerström put together breaking down her stats for freelancing in 2015, and was inspired to write my own version of a year end writing review. I started writing and submitting again in the summer of 2015 after a long break from it...