A heatwave and slow summer schedules have delayed the arrival of the next week's featured interview. While we wait, here's another so here's another gold nugget mined from my Five Easy Questions series. Listen to Claire Zulkey, a prolific writer and freelancing guru, as she explains how to publish stories without spamming editors with a shotgun-style mass mailing:
"Of course it helps to write good things but a whole stack of great pieces isn't necessarily going to get you into the New Yorker. My advice is to keep plugging away at submitting--WITHOUT seeming like you're going about a shotgun approach.
"If, say, you really like author John Doe and see that he publishes a lot on McSweeney's, Google him and see where else he has published. Perhaps he's also published at X literary journal and Y humor writing website.
"You might have a better shot getting something published by those guys, and in the meantime, you'll know that McSweeney's has a history of publishing people who have also published in those spots.
"Just be sure, always, that you know what you're pitching to and why."
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