Anthology Invites

Like I did last week, I'm rerunning this piece from 2006 (with minor edits) to get it into Wordpress.

For a long time, invitation-only anthologies were my Holy Grail, a goal only one step below actually selling a novel to a major publisher.  I drove myself a little loopy trying to crack the invite market, and thought I'd share those experiences for anyone trying to do the same.

The first invite-only anthology I got in to was Turn the Other Chick. I had seen a note on Esther Friesner's website t...