I\u2019ve always fielded a lot of questions from authors over my forty-plus year career. As my writing interests have changed, the questions have changed. When I was writing articles for magazines, hopeful freelancers wanted to know how to break in. As my published books began to stack up, folks wanted to know more about publishing and marketing.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll never forget a man I ran into at Toastmaster function. He knew I wrote regularly for The Toastmaster Magazine<\/em> and he wanted some insider tips. He\u2019d written an article for them and it had been rejected. He wanted to know why.<\/p>\n I invited him to send his article to me. After a quick glance, I told him that one reason might be that they publish how-to and informational pieces and this was strictly a personal experience article. I suggested he read the magazine more carefully and change his article to conform. I assured him he just might have a chance.<\/p>\n At the next Toastmasters event, the same man came up to me and said he had an article he wanted published in The Toastmaster<\/em> and asked how he might get the editors to accept it. Come to find out, it\u2019s the same article he showed me months earlier. When I asked him if he\u2019d made the changes I suggested, he said no\u2014he wanted to have it published just the way it was and he asked me again if I could help him get it accepted.<\/p>\n I have responded to hundreds, if not thousands of such questions and my responses have helped many, many authors\u2014but certainly not those who didn\u2019t care to listen or to make any changes.<\/p>\n Since I started writing fiction, I get a whole array of very different questions. I\u2019ll share some of them along with my responses in subsequent blogs over this long weekend. In the meantime, if you have any questions related to writing, publishing, book marketing, please send them to my personal email PLFry620@yahoo. While I accept comments here at my blogsite and I have filters in place. I have to respond to a mathematical question before I can log onto my own site, for heaven’s sake. Despite this, I get hundreds of spam comments every week, which often make it nearly impossible to locate and even recognize legitimate comments. I have to tell you there are products I will never buy again because of their relentless spamming which clogs my system and does no good except to annoy me and turn me off to their products, since they never go live. I’m the only one who sees them. RayBan, Uggs, and all of you others who try to hitchhike on my site–you’re wasting your time here. Now I must go and delete 304 of them. Sigh!!!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve always fielded a lot of questions from authors over my forty-plus year career. As my writing interests have changed, the questions have changed. When I was writing articles for magazines, hopeful freelancers wanted to know how to break in. As my published books began to stack up, folks wanted to know more about publishing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t