Hello Rebels, welcome to episode 99 of The Rebel Author Podcast. Today, I’m talking to Matty Dalrymple all about how to write and sell more short fiction.
In this episode we cover:
- Defining short fiction
- How much story do you need for short fiction?
- How to do more with your short fiction
- Mistakes writers make with short fiction
- Quirky ideas for your short fiction
This week’s question is: how do you use short fiction in your writing business?
Recommendation of the week is:
The Anatomy of Prose: The Senses Course: Discount Code: rebelvacay15
Matty’s The Short Tack Book
Links I mentioned are:
Find out more about Matty on:
The Indy Author YouTube channel
Episode I did with Matty on Side Characters
Example of Short Fiction Promotion: Ann Kinnear Suspense Short ALL DEATHS ENDURE
Rebel of the Week is: Shirish Deshpande
If you’d like to be a Rebel of the week please do send in your story, it can be any kind of rebellion. You can email your rebel story to rebelauthorpodcast@gmail.com or instagram me @sachablackauthor
Huge thank you and welcome to: Kirstin Bussey, Maggie Menane, L.K. Latham, Paisleykaat, and Claire L. Fishback. A big thank you to my existing patrons. If you’d like to support the show, and get early access to all the episodes as well as bonus content you can from as little as $2 a month by visiting: www.patreon.com/sachablack
At some point in the podcast—not sure if I heard this correctly—I thought I heard Matty say she was selling up to 50 or a hundred copies of a short story at a buck a piece. Now that’s 50–100 short stories more than I have ever sold, but it still seems like a rather low return on the marketing effort. I’ve done a bit of research into what fiction magazines (literary and otherwise) pay, and a reputable mag like Clarksworld will pay 10 cents/word, so that would be 500 yankee dollars for a 5,000 word story. Now, you may say that it’s tough to get a story accepted in Clarksworld, but if you do, then the self-publishing income potential would have to exceed what Clarksworld or similar would pay you before you stepped away form the traditional route.