By N. M. Cedeño We’ll start with assessments: I started 2022 with the goal of getting short stories published. In aid of that goal, I set...

By N. M. Cedeño The fact that the victim in my upcoming story entitled “Merry Library Murder” is a librarian is not a sign of hidden...

By N.M. Cedeño People like to ask writers, do you ever use details from your life in your writing? Answer: Sometimes. It depends on what...

By N.M. Cedeño How long does it take to hear back from editors with acceptances or rejections of short stories? That depends on a number...

by N. M. Cedeño Many writers find motivation in challenging themselves in various ways. Some attempt to write a novel length manuscript...

By N. M. Cedeño Many of the stories I write aren’t accepted the first time I submit them for publication. The majority have to be...

by N. M. Cedeño Although I may veer off into other areas, my reading pile usually comprises two main categories of books: mysteries and...

So what if I wasn’t born in the 1960s? I can do research! In 2020, I came across a call for submissions for mystery short stories to be...

by N. M. Cedeño For writers, setting and meeting goals can be done in a variety of ways. Some people count words produced in a given...

By N.M. Cedeño A number of the stories sitting in files on my computer were written years ago, some over ten years ago, and have never...

By N. M. Cedeño Previously, I wrote a post covering some of the basic rules for submitting short stories to anthologies, magazines, and...

by Kathy Waller “Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them....

By N. M. Cedeño If you don’t read short fiction, 2020 is the year to start. Busy, stressed, out of time, out of energy? Then short...

Do you enjoy books that make a chill dance down your spine by invoking the otherworldly or the supernatural? As a teen, I read all of my...

Sometimes, as an author I am asked where I get ideas for my short stories. I get my inspiration from books and articles I read, places I...

The basic steps to submitting fiction manuscripts to magazines, anthologies, and contests are as follows: STEP 1: Find calls for...