I can find places to pay to have it published, then it is up to me to publicize it. I live in a very small town, so there are no local sources to sell it if I do that. I feel that if I do that I will have wasted alot of money. I have a full time job, so getting out of town is also out of the question.
2007-01-26 17:37:40 · 6 answers · asked by Heather L 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Waste money
ie: spending my own money publishing
get out of town
ie: going to a bigger town where I could try to get some publicity
Funny that short stories aren't published any more. I have a collection of just over 500 books. I have a book collector software. I just sorted my collection by story type, and found that I have over 70 books that have at least 3 stories in one book. And sorting these by publish date all of them have been published within the last 12 years, so in the last year.
2007-01-26 18:08:29 · update #1
Websites might publish a short story. You can at least list yourself as published if the site has an editorial board.
But short stories just don't make much money unless you really market it. Tuesdays With Maury (or is it Morry)?, for example. Young Adult Fiction is also often shorter than other stories.
While I respect the art of short stories, have you considered creating a novel out of it?
2007-01-26 22:58:55 · answer #1 · answered by i8pikachu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you should give up.
Enter them into writing competitions and send to magazines. Try to find a literary agent. You will have more luck with this if you can include a list of published magazine pieces and completions won. Do a search on the Internet for writing competitions enter all you can that seam reputable.
2007-01-26 18:04:30 · answer #2 · answered by mixie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep your full time job. There is NO MARKET for compilations of short stories. That went out a long time ago. I don't know what else you are talking about (getting out of town and wasting money), but trust me when I tell you that there is no market for what you are proposing. And aside from a few very literary magazines, they gave up the short story genre years (and in some cases decades) ago.
2007-01-26 17:56:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2017-02-17 16:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can try by sending your stories to magazines
2007-01-26 17:44:27 · answer #5 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋